LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Patea Mail, Volume XLVIII, 17 February 1926, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

While’s have some important advertisements of bargains that arc offering at their sale in the Wanted Known columns of this issue.

A reminder is given of the swimming sports which take place opposite the Kailway ’Wharf at two o’clock this afternoon.

, P., Morrisgey and Co., auctioneers, notify in another column that they will hold a .sale, of the whole of Mrs. Holthani’s household furniture and effects in Bedford Street, on Wednesday, February 24.

Mrs. Charles Harris notifies in another column that she has taken over the Excelsior Boardinghouse, where she will bo pleased to meet old and now friends. Mrs. Harris was a member of the local hospital staff during - the influenza epidemic, when she did splendid work on behalf of those affected. She now trusts that with good cuisine and a moderate tariff to meet ’with a fair share of public support.

The early bird caught the bargain at a large sale of second-hand motorcars recently held at New Plymouth. The first car on the auction block was a fivc-seater Austin, 1914 model. "Are there any bids?" said the auctioneer. There were no bids, and he repeated the question. “A tenner," came a voice trom the crowd. The engine was ticking out - perfectly, yet no further bid was forthcoming and the car was knocked . down for £lO. The tyres alone ■were very nearly worth the money.

At the fast November accountancy examinations conducted by the ■ New Zealand University 163 students passed the first section book-keeping, 53 passed the book-keeping final, -and. 53 were successful with the auditing. Of the total number of passes registered nearly half 'were -secured by students of Hemingway's Correspondence Schools. The actual number of passes obtained by students of this well known -school is as follows: —Book-keeping, first stage, 68 or 41.7 per cent.; book-keeping final, 24 or 45.3 per cent ;'auditiug, 23 or 43.5 per cent.

At the Wanganui Police Station is a packing case piled to overflowing and the fact that it is what is known in official circles as the Outes file indicates tlie immense amount of work that teas put in by some of the best detectives in New Zealand in connection with the murder mystery which so seriously disturbed Wanganui a couple of years ago. Now that Detective uouricy lias retired from the police force it can be stated that he held certain views on the matter that were entirely at variance with those of his brother officers. Eight to the day that Detective Uouricy resigned he has never lot up on that particular case, and a couple of months ago he made an extended search in the King Country, with a result that at the moment cannot be disclosed. Detective Uourley is still confident that that particular mystery will be eventually solved.

It is ■understood that thh Alain Highways Boar!, will la iuuirc insist that where tar-seaied roads are being formed provision.' must be made for travellingstock at either side.

Messrs. Freeman It. Jackson and Go., Ltd., will hold a ram fair at the yards, Wanganui, on Tuesday, February 23. A large entry of good rams has. been received.

At a dinner given to the American .athletes, at Levin a speaker recorded with appreciation the fact that athletes from as far as Patea had competed at their sports meeting.

; This’ is, the last week of Gibson's sale. The balance of goods are now bcmg .offered at further reduced prices, without regard to cost.

“ Men who have been in the navy, and men of the mercantile marine, usually carry their paper money in their hats/’ said a nautical-'witness in the Supreme Court at Auckland. He also stated that the men carried silver in their boots, their socks, and all sorts of places.

, That clever weekly magazine “ Humour " averages in each issue 150 jokes, iifty-livc pictures, and three humourous , long stories. With the vviiole ’ world ot witticisms to draw from every item has a laugh in it. In fact this is one of the beat points about “ Humour/' it has no fill-up items.

An interesting .comparison of carrying capacities between motor ships and steam ships may be gauged from the coastal motor ship luaha. The Inaha has a carrying capacity of 270 tons ol cargo, which -is twice the amount that can be carried by a steamship her own size. The motor ship makes a great saving in stokehold space.

The matron of the local hospital desires To acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the following gifts to the institution: —Mrs. Fairwcathor, mushrooms and apples; Mrs. Tong, apples; Mr. Dickie, mushrooms; Mrs. Fraser, ilowers, vegetables, mushrooms; Mrs. Gibson, flowers; Mrs. Honeyficld, nowers; Mrs. Hemingway, flowers; Mrs. Dickie, flowers; Mrs. Smitheram, home-made bread; Mr. Jones (Wanganui), magazines; Mr. K. Willis, flounder.

The teacher was explaining to the cl|iss the meaning of the word “ rceup .erato. ’’ “ Now, Tommy, ’’ she said to one, a small boy, “ when your father has worked hard all day, he is tired and worn out, isn’t hel.” “ Yes, ma’am,” came the reply. “ Then, when night comes,” she went on, “ and his work ivj over for the day, what does he do?” “ Ah,” put in the youngster, “ that’s what mother wants to know. ”

Ohaidie-Chaplin during his visit" to London naturally took a groat interest in-.the city in which ho was born. In particular, he wandered much about the Fast End, and in Whitechapel he came across a little group of street boys evidently amused at something.. He stopped and found that one of them in a hard hitter hat and a cane was doing a Chaplin stunt.- Greatly interested, Charlie took the hat and cane from the boy and did his famous shuffle. The boys regarded him with little interest. “Y'aint so bad, guv’nor, ” said the Chaplin imitator, “ but, stroof, y’aint got the feet for it!”

One of the cleverest features of the irebruary issue of-" Aussie" is a full page of drawings by Percy Lindsay, which set out to faithfully portray the real Mfo of Norman Lindsay. In the light of the fierce controversies in English papers as to the propriety of some of Norman's drawings his brother's delineations will bo viewed with much interest. This is only one feature in a very fine issue, which contains over 50 humorous drawings, a host of humorous stories, and a fine collection of verse. The number also contains a very interesting article on the Turnbull Library by Johannes C. Andersen.

Mr. Zanc Grey, the novelist at present in New Zealand, in declining an invitation to address the members of a Palmerston Club, writes to the secretary as follows: “I regret 1 must decline your invitation to address your -club members. I have never done any public speaking, cither at home or abroad, my sole medium for reaching men being my lien. Por years it has been my desire to come to New Zealand, my interest having been stimulated by reports of the excellent fishing here and-the scenic beauty. No doubt the pictured fish stories you mention were part of the inspiration which has led me to see and test for myself the things of which I have read and been told by friends. I send my sinccrest greetings to the Citizens' Lunch Club, and all good wishes for its prosperity."