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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15320, 16 September 1920, Page 6

One of the meat curtously Interesting subjects touched on by Mi*. p. K. Mao donald tn lecturing; on the Congo natives to the t?ni?ers|lty anthropology class m punedjn. wa» that of native drums (reports the QtaffO Pally Times). He had known a. drum, he. said, that could be heayd at a distance of 30 miles; The natives could send any ; message at all on them quite, readily. He had several specimens of them with Mm. One was a' little block of wood les\ than a tout long with a couple of square holes m it. On such a drum, he said, one of his boys could at any time call up the ship's copk.fqr instance, m, a village eight or. ten miles* away, and tell him when he would be wanted. The Belgians destroyed these drums with great thoroughness, uwcause the perfection of the signalling systenv tn which they were used always gave warning* of their rubber raids and enabled the natives to escape their clutches, * The Ashburton police last week arrested two brothers, Frank and Thomas Edward Hardwlck, aged 18 and 19 years respectively, on a -■, charge of stealing a xwoseatep motor-car at invercargill, valued at £350. At 10.30 a.m. senior-Sergeant was informed from Timaru that a motor-car answering to the descriptoin of one stolen from inyeroar&Ul oi* the night of August 30 had been seen passing threugh Timaru early that morning. Constable Bell was at once stationed on the Ashburton traffic bridge, and at 12.40 p.m. his attention was drawn to a car; m which were two boys, coming at an excessive speed. He attempted to stojn tbe car, but the occupants ignored his. warn*, ing,' and proceeded at the rate of fully 40 miles an hour through the main street. A taxi was suiqm^neQ. and gave chase. After travelling- about three mijes on tne Mjln B°HtU Pead < tfte Patrol *v the fleeing ca^ gave put, $nfl it was left standing o,n the side of the road, while the boys went to look for a fresh supply, m the meantime the police made their appearance, and on sighting them the boys made off towards promore. Constable punn, who followed up on his motorcycle, headed them otf, and eventually made the arrest fully three miles from where the cap was left standing. - The boys were brought into Ashburton, and lodged In the lock-up.