SECOND EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16671, 26 February 1925, Page 9

SECOND EDITION.

Napier : To sail, nt 5 p.m., Palairn, for Gisborne. The outward launch lor passengers going to Napier by the Wainiii to-night has born fixed for 9 o’clock. Speaking of tho life of the dairy farmer, .Mr. R. McKern, M.P., said, at Masterton, “To pay his interest he lias to work up to 10 hours per day; then lie gets his wife to help, then he gets his children to work ’’ “and then he gets a motor-car,” piped up a. thinvoiced heckler in the audience. Additional particulars received by the police* with regard to the death ol the infant a Ruatoreu show that a. young married woman had been acting as waitress at. the hotel, but on Tuesday morning did not put in an appearance. The search for her revealed thoi dead infant. Thei woman was removed to the TV Ptiia hospital yesterday. The suggestion that Anzac Day should he observed on the nearest S-unday will he strenuously opposed by the Re turned Soldiers’ Association, states the president of the Auckland branch (Mi K W. Inder). The matter was discussed recently at a meeting of picture theatre managers and members of Parliament. Mr Inder maintained that if. is little enough to ask the public of New Zealand to give one day in the year to the remembrance of the sacrifices made !>v ihe couniiv’s voutli during the Great War.

A dog tax. collector received a surprise in the suburbs recently (states the Auckland Herald). _ In 'the course, of his rounds he inquired of two children, aged three, and five years, if they kept any dogs. They replied that they had two. The collector knocked at the door, hut was informed by the children’s mother that, no doge were kept. _ “Ihit your children said they had two, hc< protested. The entry of the youngsters at the moment clutching two bright ly-lmed wooden dogs m their arms and tcariuhy asking that their treasures he not taken away, explained (lie situation.

Over sixty Napier business premises were named in a report submitted to tlio Napier City Council, dealing with unsightly verandahs and shop frontages. The report was submitted by the building inspector, and it was stated that several injunctions commanding improvement had been served on the owners or occupants. The inspector asked what further stops should he taken. He stated that the verandahs generally were a disgrace to the city, and were in several eases dangerous to the public. An interesting point was that, two councillors were among the business men named on the “black list.” The report was referred to the roads and reserves committee.

A. complete survey of the coasts of New Zealand lias been contemplated by the Marine Department, but the Admiralty has stated that such a, survey would cost £50.0C9 a year for twenty years, therefore the idea, has been abandoned. In making a statement to this effect the Minister of Marine said the Dominion wanted developing, and so long as the Marine Department protected its main ports that was all that could lie hoped for at the present time. Instructions had been given for the erection of direction-finders in the main ports for the use of mariners in times of storm, and fog. Arrangements were also being made to ensure that the shipping companies equipped their coastal vessels with wireless apparatus.

An uncommon zeal for the precise determination of facts was shown bv the jury which heard the i’aeroa flax-swamp lire case in the Auckland Supreme Court. Twice, in the course of its deliberations on Thursday, it, returned to Court, and member after member put to the Judge questions as to points in the evidence upon which their recollection was not clear. This, however, in spite of the .weariness they might naturally have felt after three solid days on the jury benches (states the Herald). When at last the verdict was given, it was very definite, assessing damages even to an odd sd. Mr. Justice lleed 1 , in discharging the jurors, remarked that they had given close attention to the matter, which appeared to have caused- them a lot of trouble.

An instance of the risk taken by some people in forwarding money through the post without registering the enclosing package occurred at 'Wellington, when a citizen received in his morning mail an envelope bearing his name and containing a five-pound note. The covering letter made il dear, however, that the money was not intended for him, and he handed it to the authorities at the C.P.O. The letter was then compulsorily registered, and an endeavor is being made to locate the intended addressee. Failing I hat it will be re turned to the sender (states lhe Post). Cases such as this are not of infrequent occurrence, and in one case an unregistered letter containing a £2O note has been known to stray and get held up at the post office. Apropos of the recent cablegram anent the Australian alligator drawing a drinking horse into a river and drowning it, ‘ H.F.” sends the following story, told him by that veteran of the Maori wars, .Major-Genera! 11. G. Ilobley, who, prior to coming to New Zealand in 1860, served in Burundi for some years: “A .Burmese elephant drinking at a river was seized at the trunk by a crocodile, which endeavored to pull it into the river. The elephant resisted, and a second crocodile, observing the tug-of-war, joined in by seizing in its jaws the tail of the first reptile. The elephant whipped its tail round a tree at the back of it, and with feet well -planted and body drawn back, held its ground and strove fo release itself or pull Ihe monsters from the water. The crocodiles were then ougmeptod with others, and there was presented the spectacle of half a dozen water monsters si Tenuously back-paddling for a- hearty meal of elephant. .Info the sagacious brain of •Jumbo came a brilliant idea. His trunk was well fdied with water, and with tho utmost power he could command he made a- discharge into (he belly of tiro first crocodile, blowing it and the rest of them off.”—Dominion.