LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Patea Mail, Volume XLIII, 7 November 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

You can get it clicaper at Stewart’sA Try I). .Tunes, Egmonl Sireel, .for plumbing ami tinsmilhing repairs. Telephone 111." Messrs liennett & Harding will offer si>c sacks of good Algerian oats williont reserve tomorrow. .M.emliers of llie I’alea Choral Society are reminded that a jiraetiee will he held in the Druids’ Hall to-night, rammencing ai /..Id p.m. A lull attendance is requested. Lord Mewl on. who lias returned from Berlin, says the numlier of reported British prisoners who cannot he traced has been reduced from ;’.(iii(l, nt which it stood after the Armistice, to less than Cut), and there is every prospect that, before long it may be brought down to negligible ligures.

Only about N 3 out of every 1000 elephants iii India can pass the tests for courage, which are put. to them before they arc used in elephant hunting.

Ruder the heading, “Impressions of a Great Piiig'W, ’’ the London Echo gives high praise to .Miss Rosina Hacklean, the New Zealand singer, who has made a name and j>l;n ,■ fur herself in London as a. hauling artiste.

The German National Assembly adopted by lL’3 votes to 117 a motion by the woman deputy, Prau Agues (Independent Socialist), according to which members of any families that have at any time ruled in Germany may not be elected Imperial Presidenl. Paten may consider itself fortunate in tke matter of the recent gale. Heyoitd a few hailstones and a. strong wind, nothing much was felt of (ho •siont>, whilst the rain did an enormous amount of good, the grass in sandy places being quite dried up. Jn the v. airarapa il is reported that the gale was the fiercest for many years.

A waterspout which burst about Tobermory, Argyllshire, on a recent night, spread a shower of herrings over the lowa and part of the Pound of Mull. They fell in heaps on pavements and roofs. Tim galls were quickly eating them up, and later these were assisted by hens, ducks, and cats. People were awakened by the screaming seabirds.

Mho invented sweetmeats and confect binary Diving deep into the siory of the ancients, an English winter has come to tiie conclusion that some, if not all, of the credit must go the Noah. He it was who first hit upon (he idea of boiling down the standi of the wheat, and (lie juice of the grape. The result was a paste, said to be the original of our present day Turkish ‘Delight.’

A North Pea pilot who arrived at Leal reports having seen a sea-lion a.deep oa (lie Goodwin Panda. This v- as apparently “ P.i Hi kin, ’ ’ Hie sub-mariae-Imal ing sea-lion, which escaped from Plioreliam harbour. It is believed to be making its home on Hie Goodwins here there is abundance of fish and /cod sleeping accommodation when the '•do is low. A reward of £IOO awaits its captor.

A certain amount of re-organisation is proposed by the Health Department, i’he number of Health Districts is to ne increased from four to eight, including one with headquarters at Wanganui. 'l’llis district, to lie known as Hie U'angnnni Health District, will be under Hie charge of a medical officer stationed at Wanganui, and will lake in Taranaki, Stratford, Hawcra, Patca, Wanganui, and Palmerston North.

‘‘ Prance, Britain, and Spain have mapped mil. a far-reaching plan lo get :a closer loach with Spanish America, while ,at the same time developing their respective possessions in NorthWestern Africa,’’ states the Export Animal of Canada. “The plan is for V; tunnel under the Straits of Gibraltar, a railway from the Spanish side through Morocco to Dakar, and from thence a line of steamshijis to Rio de ■ laniero, thus cutting the sea passage ny two thirds.’'

in an election address in Invercargill, the Bov. .T. K. Arelior, a Labour candidate, made a few pertinent remarks, among which was the following: lie did not want to hurl the feelings of an}' of his church people, hut there was only one lit name for some church people to-day, and that was “wowser”. A decent man—he did not care what ids personal attitude towards religion was —neM'r called a genuine Christian a wowser. It was the spurious Christian he called a wowser, and there was no other suitable name for him. And there were some church people whom Jesus, if he were hero, would call scribes, pharisees and hypocrites—they strained at the gnat of totalise tor speculation and swallowed the camel of land speculation.

John Shell, believed to be the oldest human being’ in the world, has just celebrated his Id Ist birthday, lie is staying at an hotel in Lexington (Kentucky), whither he had gone from his home in the country to see a circus, says the “New York Sun.” He is described as about oft. din. high and weighing Ul stem'. His only impaired faculty is his hearing. He sees well ami his mind is alert. lie receives hundreds of people daily. The “Sun” says that his skin is stretched over his lace like that of a mummy. His hands are long and knotted, (he veins standing out all over them. The old man is reported to have said that ho wants to live until the end of this month, so that he can vote Republican at he elections, as lie has done since the party was formed. His daughter is !>7.