TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11055, 22 August 1907, Page 6

TOWN EDITION

The mail for South close. 1 - at 7.30 this evening. Alzen is the name given te a new metal, wliich is composed to two parts of aluminium and one of zinc. It is said to equal cast-iron m streng..i, but is much more elastic. Alzen is ' superior because at does not rust as easily as does iron, and it takes a high polisti. "Besides being very strong, this new metal is capable of lilf-o-ut the mcst delicate 'lines and figures of, form m casting. *" "Nearly every thief or vagrant," said a detective giving evidence at tlie Supreme Court, at .Christchurch last week, '-carries a coupon book of photographic enlargements or something else." The statement was evoked when an accused person pleaded his coupon book as evidence: of an honest attemnt at work. The same man was described by another detective as a "confirmed vagrant," and he wes-ul-timately sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labor. A recent visitor t 0 Levin says : —The people up here are Very progressive, and to hear the. successful candidates for municipal honors addressing the electoi'3 a few weeks ago, one would easily have imagined he was m San Francisco, or some other large centre. They are going m for municipal gas works, high water pressure, and drainage. Tho whole plaoe within a radius of four miles does not contain more than nirie hundred people, but they aro thoroughly impressed with their end of the earth ; and, despite it all, the land is simply rotten mould six inches deep, then a foot of clay on top of slungle. For gastronomic feats the Australian black apparently holds a world's record. At any rate, the Rev., P. W. Fairclough, who lectured at Wellington on the subject of this aboriginal wns williHg to concede the point. Like Mother Earth, the Australian black was biggest at tlie Equator," he said. "The part which . works grows," continued Sir Fairclough. "There is an elasticity about him quite unconstricted by buttons and other inventions, and you would* be surprised at the food he can put away." He gave the experience of an Australian explorer, who, with his black "boy." wad nearly starved when exploring the Australian Bight. However, they fortunately shot a kangaroo, and the black boy found a dead penguin. The black, generously making up for his albstinence, ate one and. 'a half pounds of horse: steak, then the. liver, lights, and hindquarters of the kangaroo, followed by the kangaroo skin. Finally he burned the feathers from the penguin's skin and consumed that. Having lighted a small fire, he lay down to sleep the sound sleep of an easy digestion.