General Cables

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 100, 1 September 1923, Page 2

General Cables

STRANGE NATIVE CUSTOMS. Sydney, August 31. At the Science Congress, Dr. Tilyard described the lire blight disease and its serious ravages among fruit trees in some parts of New Zealand. Professor Macmillan Brown contributed a further interesting paper regarding Easter Island. He humorously told how two animals had lieen introduced. One was the rat, which was so valuable that ftlic natives made it thflir currency, wliile the other was the fowl, which was introduced for the sake of its feathers, which were used as head dress. He could personally testify that the fowls consisted of nothing but skin and bones. The feathers of those fowls wore also considered extremely valuable, and the fowilhouso& wore the strongest places about, being fortified against thieves.

TRAGEDY AT THE CAP. Sydney, August 31. Another -tragedy has boon added to. the long list associated with the Gap at South Hoad. Ealy this morning a girl aroused the lighthouse keeper and stated that her companion, a boy named Ronald Kcntwell, aged sixteen, had jumped over the cliffs. She told a- story that lljhey wens) friends, and after attending a theatre last night the boy declared that ho was so troubled because he had been dismissed from employment that lie intended to thro u - himself over the Gap. She acc-mpmfed him, trying to dissuade him from Ins purpose, They spent so •.-era I hours in the vicinity of the cliffs, the hoy repeatedly trying to thow himself over. Finally the girl been mo exhausted by her struggle, and Kent well broke away and jumped down the cliff. His body was recovered in the sea.