TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13069, 8 May 1913, Page 6

TOWN EDITION.

Auckland : Arrived, at noon, Rosa- j mond, from Gisborne. \ During the present year five comets are expected to make their reappearanoe. Holmes' comet, which was last seen m 1892, will be the first to become j visible. Next month the Encke visitor will be seen. Others announced are Finlay's, De Vico-E. Swift's and Westphal's. The last-named has not been seen for j nearly sixty years, and is of unusual size. A new golf story comes, from . the j Lower Hutt, and it vtells of a '■■. surprising -shot;made *by v a .play ci" during' the \week- • end. The links : were ■ 'covered with patches of casual ' water, anu for this particular .shot , the 'ball 'lay m water arid mud amongst ruslies. It was an. uncomfortable lie to pkiy out of, for th& making of the stroke would splash the player with mud and water. Whereforo he shut his eyes and hit. When he opened his eyes again the ball had vanished, and it could not ue .found anywhere, until the striker discovered it m j the left-hand pocket of his own jacket. The house with the curtainless windows and branded with the "To-Let 1 / sign is proving almost a gold mine to a certain class of people j ust now m Christclnivch. There is something American m the celerity and calmness with which ! they carry out their nefarious work, and \ so far at least little has been ascertained j of their identity. The plan is a simple one ; the empty house is entered at a . time when the neighborhood is "silent ■ as the pathless desert,' 'and the criminals ' proceed to remove whatever may prove of the least possible value. Even if the \ house is listed as "Unfurnished" they j succeed m securing a good deal of booty, j In one case, for instance, the range was j »taken to pieces and made away with, as well as the handles and locks of the doors, the fastenings of the windows, a ' few odd pots and pans and several other I triftes that could be disposed cf without much difficulty. The thieves had also a certain sense of humor, for when tho owner re-entered the house she found written m white chalk on the mantelpiece the words: "You can have what's left." ! A "crusade of health" is to be undertaken m some 300 areas m the Mother Country, and a special attack will be made on the house fly. About 100 3 000 workers will distribute pamphlets and posters setting out pictorially the criminal career of the fly, and inviting the nation to join m a campaign against the pest m June. "Broadly speaking, we want to exterminate the house fly as a danger to mankind," said Dr. Fremantle, one of the leaders of the anti-fly army, recently, "but if you only run across them as often, say, as you see rooks m the country I think we might stop. We do not advocate the crude practice of crushing the fly on the window pane. It is unpleasant, and fosters a- sense of cruelty. We say : 'Kilithe fly,' by all means, but kill him by thousands at a time. Take away his food supplies and destroy his nest. Abolish the heap of garbage on which lie feeds — tea leaves, potato peelings, cabbage stalks, and so on — and never leave the dustbin uncovered. In short, give the fly nothing to eat." Dr. Fremantle states that the fly kills many hundreds of babies m Britain every year by carrying disease to their food, or even to their lips.