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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11871, 8 June 1909, Page 6

. Two hundred and twenty-two births were registefed m Christchurch . during May — a' monthly record; for the local ■'Hice. The Feilding Star makes grave charges >f foul play against three Kia Toa men m the match against Feilding on Saturtuy, and ciills for enquiry by the Rugby Onion into the tactics alleged to have jeen pursued. A baby's mail cart proved of great ?ervice m the removal of linen and jther articles at a Timaru -fire. After -■ieveral tiips the baby was mis!?ed. It .va.s at length aroused, smiling, from the jottom of the carriage, where it had 'iain while the salvage work was pro.•ceding. ■ "" . On the voyage of, the Ulimaroa from i Sydney to Wellington, a trial was made of the Fraser-J umeaux patent ship's course recorder. The function of the instrument is .to record, by means of «a tracing, any deviation from a course to which it had,, at the commencement of a voyage, been set. it is a very efficient jheck on the viligance or\otherwise of chose who have had the navigating of the vessel over any length of time, the least variation being traced. The instrument worked very satisfactorily on the Ulimaroa. It was kept m the clinrtrooni, neav the bridge. Mr Jumcaux, one of th'e --patentees, of the recorder, arrived by the vessel. The recorders have not yet been put upon .the market, the one on the Ulimaroa being only a model. \ very satisfactory trial of the same instrument was made on, a recent voyage of the Mokoin-, from Auckland to Sydney.

Apart from filial feeling, there is no once who more^ rejoices x m the happy prospects of the King's continued ongevity than, the ' heir Apparent (writes Mr tl. W. Lucy, m the Sydriey Morning Herald-). ' According to the .estimony of one who has long enjoyed jersonal, intimacy, the Prince of \Vales regards' with almost morbid apnreheniion the contingency of being called 'to . he. throne. A man of modest mien, reiring disposition, he finds, the ~calls of lis 'present secondary position as much sho "can conveniently, bear. One of he public duties he performs with exeptional success . is^ that of making peechea. Gifted with a clear, pleasant oice, free from the slightly German .ccent which, oddly enough, to this day narks the speech of his Royal father, .c recites a prepared oration with apjarent ease. But the effort bores him, md ho makes its occasion as infrequent is possible. It will be remembered how, vhen last year the president of the loyal Academy, lamenting growing blindness, privily epoke of the difficulties •f feading a succession of speeches denanded of him at •- the forthcoming >anquet,> H.R.H. cheerfully suggested . solution of the difficulty. "Let the peeches, including iw own, be cut ut," he said ; and tiMfche amazement f the world, the consternation of some irators to whom v , the occasion was a ield day, the thing was done. - ■ ■ '