GENERAL NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 1 June 1923, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS

One of the labours that Parliament will undertake this session Is the consolidation of the land laws. In the flush of the season thoPnhiatua Egg Circle was sending 500 dozen eggs weekly to Wellington. Monday, June 4, being tho King’s Birthday, will be observed as statutory bank holiday throughout the Dominion. The clerk of the Dannevirke County Council is a lady. Tho council at the annual meeting decided to increase kei salary as from April 1 to £OOI. “Abusing tbe referee from a position on the touch-line is about the last ■ thing we want.” —Mr J. PrendeviJle, at this week’s meeting ol the [\\ elhngton Rugby Football Union. The Wairarapa Returned Soldiers’ Association lias .so far received only five names of unemployed soldiers who are in need of assistance tiom the Poppy Day Fund. This compares very favourably with last year. “It was tbe only time all day that I saw tlie ball,” protested a wing three-quarter who appeared before the management committee oi tho W elling- j ton Rugby Football Union on a charge of indiscriminate kicking. | The 21st anniversary of the signing j of the Peace of Vereeniging, which terminated the South African A\ ar in I9OA, will be celebrated by the South , African veterans in all the chief cen- J tres of the Dominion on Sunday next, j June 3 (King’s Birthday): j “I am obviously mixed, a mixture* of Irish and Polynesian stock, and probably you are as much mixed as I am, although you may not know it.” —Dr Puck speaking at a gathering of the Wellington Rotary Club on Wednesday. “Mr Francis says that he sent me off the field for striking an opponent, and lie is a fair referee, so I must have struck an opponent, but 1 have no recollection of it.”—Letter from one man reported for liis conduct on the field to the Wellington Rugby Union. An old resident of the Manawatu district, over 80 years of age, drove his horse and gig from Fordell to Ohura last week. The distance is 80 miles, and the time occupied was under five day's. 1 The road over Mount Messenger he described at “a bit tough.” A report of an address given in Timaru yesterday by Mr W. J. Poison (Dominion President of the Farmers’ Union), on agricultural banking, is unavoidably held over, owing to lack of space. It will appear in to-morrow’s issue. “What happens when we have a good year?” asked Mr W. J. Poison at the Farmers’ Union conference in Wellington. “Our palms begin to itch and we go out and buy a new car or more land, or put money in some quasi- co-opera-tive concern and thus merely add more to our indebtedness.” The last wool sale of tbe season for Auckland will take place on June 2. The catalogue contains 2500 bales, including a few late clips and the tail end of other clips. The bulk of the wool is of good quality, and although the sale will not attract such a large bench of buyers as earlier sales, a good clearance is anticipated.

it “1 have found travelling a very 111- , ,r teresting lesson in geograpny,” remark- . 1_ ed Dr. Bickersteth aff the , East ana t West Missionary Exhibition at the \\ elliimton Town Hall on Wednesday alter-, n n oon. “I am not quite prepared to , d say,” he added, “that I could have le stood the test before I came to New L Zealand of saying where some of the -. it places I have visited here were to bo 1, round. I won’t go into details, but 1 d will admit that i did not know how, lc delightful is Timaru, or what a wondei- . :s ful place is the Hermitage at the footj ,y 0 f the cloud-piercer Mount Cook. j 1- “I was prevailed 011 to write a letter k for reproduction in the New Zealand n School Journal,’ ” remarked Lord Jelllcoe during his speech at the opening of Jellicoe Park, Onehunga. this S tek l received . letter from ~ Smith e Tclnnrl bov, who stated that he naa u i®en trying to read my message in the y Journal ’ but was not able to readmiy | 3- Jouinai, uu , liad sal d vo him 1., more Jf .J'fSdm. tofSl- ! k had done m the Journal. mark yesterdej if Wreferred to Denmark as a won- ' thoioLNew ftffifSiJS ifwaf only 6 about- the size of Wellmgfarmom'securedsSXblock' of land and worked it scientifically so as to get the maximum from it, bat in Ac Zealand the aim was to getas ' 3 ,V . block of land as possible and scll it e ‘ as nuicklv as possiole to the other fellow. Denmark aimed at making pro- ; ! fits from solid fanning, .while New | Zealand aimed at making . "ambling in land. The fact that Denmark was the richest country 111 the . world, per head of population, indicated which system was the better. J It is very seldom that a Chinaman ; appears before the Court on a chaigo of drunkenness. One was charged at the Wanganui Court and treated as a first offender (reports the local “HeI raid”). During the wet weather John e- evidently got tired of cultivating liis c- cabbage' patch and tried a little of the white man’s beverage, with the re- ; suit that it set his head spiunning, and : hi i ie lost his bearings and wandered , round unaided to tbe police station. Here he confronted Constable Stratton, | v t alK l the watch-house keeper, and the v constable in his best Scottish accent ; ld o-reeted John with “whaffor ” John ; struck up an argument, and it was , thought advisable to provide him with ; lod"in"s for the night, but in the ; v 1 morning some of his countrymen were ; " j round bright and early to bail him out. A good deer-stalking story comes ! from tlie Albury district. A Timaru . 1 stalker, wlio is a passably good snot- , with the rifle, went up with no lack, jof confidence and set out to “work j j a steep, bush-covered gully, bucldenly I S. j a deer sprang out of the scrub ten 1 1 yards ahead of him, and instead or nt i running away it turned round and j faced him-. It was a shot which even i- | a novice could scarcely miss, and tho stalker in question fired and hit. But of instead of immediately falling dead, !as it should have done, the deer showed a clean pair of heels, though there was evidence that it was “carrying some lead.” The stalker had plenty of ammunition, but instead of giving y. / the deer its quietus by another bullet , he “lost liis head” and sot out to chase ! the wounded beast. The animal beat j him to_ the nearest cover, which was j down the slopes of a precipice. Just j as it was disappearing the stalker ; 1° ' grabbed one of its hind legs and shouted “I’ve got. it; I’ve got it.” After a ’ brief struggle lie found that he had s > not. got it, and when liis breakfast of !1_ venison steak had finally disappeared P s the stalker put 021 bis thinking cap and j ll tried to think of some logical reason s for not having _ finished Ihe wounded " e animal oft by giving it a. second shot £ before it reached cover. 1