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Southland Times, Issue 17877, 5 September 1918, Page 6

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NOTES AND NEWS. The barometer fell rapidly during the hours of darkness. Gore stock market showed an improved tone on Tuesday. Southland B.H.S. secured High Schools’ football tourney honours. America is manufacturing pianos numbering 300,000 annually. Some 145 members of Star Boating Club, Wellington, have become soldiers. The new West Coast coalfield is declared | to be of great magnitude. Canterbury touring Rugby team defeated Trenthum soldiers by 27 —12. A large hotel for the sole accommodation of Chinamen is to be built in Chicago. Indian and Chinese coolies in France can hear aeroplanes long before the British and give warning. I Mr Chas. M. Schwab, director of shipbuilding in the United States, will have under him more than 450,000 men. There are 4,500,000 horses engaged in this war. On the western front the losses have averaged 47,000 horses a month. Steps have been taken at the Lakes, with promise of wide support, to revive the game of cricket in Queenstown during the new season. It is reported that the late Mr W. Morrow, of Ashburton, bequeathed a portion of his estate to Dtr Barnardo’s Homes and the Methodist Orphanage in New Zealand. Heavy rain fell in the country districts of Canterbury' during the early part of the week, and it is stated that the moisture will retard the early sowing of spring wheat. Two thousand four’ hundred American college .students have been enrolled for work in shipyards for the duration of the war. A new gold coin, a 15-rupee piece, is now being issued to the public in India. The coin is of the same weight as the ‘overeign. There were 26,000 fewer male students because of the war in 30 of the large American universities in 1917 than there were in 191 G. In order to produce agricultural lime the Thames Valley Dairy Company proposes to manufacture that article from sea shells. The Auckland Land Board has granted a lease of the necessary land for three years, with right to an extension for 21 years. A fine seal on the Waihi beach where it had come up to bask in the sun. On learning that the taking of a seal is a breach of the Fisheries Act its captor returned the visitor to its native element. The Railway Department is being asked to grant permission to Lyttelton residents to walk through the tunnel when returning from Christchurch to the port after the trains have ceased running for the day. Out of 20 disputes before the conciliation commissioner during the last iwo months, 15 have been fully settled by means of conciliation councils, three have been partially settled, and only two remain to be remitted to the Arbitration Court. Private W. Cross, who returned from (ho war and brought a wife back with him, was entertained at a social last week at Birchv.ood, when the residents of the district presented him with a silver teapot. A wave of joy swept through the American forces in France when it was announced that they would be given an American tobacco ration, as French tobacco is not liked. j It is reported from New Plymouth that the iron smelting works at Moturoa, which were closed down for some months for reconstruction of the furnaces on improved ! lines, resumed last week, and they are now 1 turning out excellent grey iron of uniform i quality. Twenty-two accidents were reported to the Christchurch Tramway Board during ■ July, including ten collisions with other vehicles, and eight cases arising through the 1 practice of alighting from cars before”they have stopped. Mr J. E. McManus, formerly sec re tan,' to the General Labourers’ Union, and a reinrncd soldier, has been nominated for the position of organiser of the Agricultural and Pastoral Workers’ Association of New Zea- ; land. A sailer which recently arrived at Melbourne from a South American port has ton nationalities represented in its crew of 30. viz., three Brazilians, two Swiss, one Portuguese, five Britishers, an:! several Norwegians, Danes, and Swedes. An overturned milk pail and the sun s rays caused a fire which destroyed a home at'Overton (Pa.). The rays were deflected by the pail against the side of the building and the wood was thus ignited. Nearly three-quarters of a million women are now actively employed under the Ministry' of Munitions, and more than nine-tenths of the whole of the manufacture of shells is due to the labour of women.