NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20217, 19 September 1935, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

To-morrow in their Mart, Morton and Co. will sell on account of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, three splendid pianos, Singer sewing machines, stretchers, etc. The same firm will also sell a consignment of ladies,’ gents’, and children’s boots, shoes and slippers.

H. Allchui’ch and Co. advertise the sale of a large quantity of building material; also an electrically driven motor car lift which they are selling at their rooms, the Rialto, at 2 o'clock to-morrow. Fuller details will be seen in the auction columns. Everything is now on view at their yards.

Reference was made in a repox't to the Abyssinian crown jewels which the British captured at Magdala and afterwards restored. Magdala is a fortress of Abyssinia. It stands 120 miles from Gondar and 250 miles from Djibouti, on a plateau more than 9000 feet high. This plateau, less than a mile square and protected by precipices, was fortified by the Emperor Theodore. In 1860, having seized the British Consul and other foreigners, he carried them off to Magdala and. in spite of repeated requestes, refused to release them. An expedition was therefore fitted out under Sir Robert Napier, and, on April 13, 1868, the fortress was taken by storm and utterly destroyed. Napier was created Lord Napier of Magdala. The fortress was afterwards rebuilt, and is now a position of considerable strategic Importance.

A suggestion that the Mayor of Gisborixe, Mr D. W. Coleman, M.P., should pay his deputy £3 a week while the Mayor was absent in Wellington during the session of Parliament, was was made at a meeting of the Gisborne Borough Council. After Mr H. Holmes and Mr H. E. Maude had declined nomination as deputy-mayor, Mr H. de Costa was pi-oposed. He said he would accept the position willingly, but only on the condition that he be allowed by the Mayor £3 a week while the Mayor was in Wellington. If he did not spend the full amount allowed he would return the balance to the Mayor. The M'ayor said he would not consent to Mr de Ccsta’s proposal. There was no reason why the deputy-mayor should spend any of his private money because of his office. Mr Coleman added that he would be at most of the committee meetings, and all the council meetings, and that at the end of the year it wou.d be found that he had attended as many meetings as the others. After further discussion Mr Holmes consented to accept office as deputy-mayor, and he was appointed without opposition.

"The most cheering thing in connection with my recent visit to England,” said Mr W. E. Jackson, general manager of Gordon, Gotch and Company, who is visiting Wellington, “was to see at first hand to xvhat an astonishiixg degree England had recovered from the world depression and to note the splendid buoyancy which chai-actcrises the spirit of England generally. I do not think that was caused by the jubilee; rather was it the case that the jubilee gave all classes the opportunity to exhibit that spirit of optimism and loyalty which premeates the public at Home.”

What is man? Invercargill Rotarians heard from Miss Florence Saker, of California, an answer (says the “Southland Times”), which, if it did not flatter them, certainly intx'igued them. “How susceptible are men to flattery!” said Miss Saker. “What little tin gods they have been! But now the” are having to take a back seat and they don’t like it. How very irritable men can be in the home, where they always are when they are not wanted! How selfish they have been, and hew vain! But times are changing rapidly, and Women are proving that they can efficiently fill positions which men have regarded as sacrosanct to themselves.”

When Captain N. A. Rattray, of Waimate, toured through Great Britain x-ecently, he found that everywhere the integrity and imputation of New Zealand as a sound financial country stood high. In an interview on his return to Canterbury, he said that he was certain that New Zealand’s financial reputation had gained considerably in Britain through the Dominion having had a definite continuity of policy due to long years of conservative political control. Englishmen w«~e willing to trust New Zealand he said, and the general attitude in England about such domestic questions as New Zealand's high exchange rate was that it was the Dominion’s own business. Lx no case were New Zealanders blamed for putting up the exchange. New Zealand had an extraordinarily high standing in England. Captain Rattray said, and that reputation had been enchance by the splendid impression created there by the Dominion representatives at the •King’s jubilee, the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes) and the Minister for Finance (the Rt Hon J. G. Coates.)

Many stories are being told now in the Waitemata electorate, where much interest is being taken in political matters because of the decision of the sitting member, Mr Alex Harris, not to stand for the seat again, of the eai-ly days of the late Mr Massey’s connection with the electorate. When Mr Massey stood for the seat the electorate extended away north into the country districts, travelling over the bad roads was slow, and there was little or no communication between the different settlements. On the day before the contest Mr Massey was in the northern part of the district addressing meetings, and stayed there the day of the election rallying his forces. Next morning he was up very early making his way to Devonpoi-t so as to get news of the l'esult. As he got nearer to the more thickly-populated areas whei’e there was telephonic communication, he espied an old farmer with a bucket in his hand going to milk his cow, so he hailed him and asked him who got in. "I stayed up the whole of the bloomin’ night,” said the old man, “to see who got in, and I’ve just found out, and much to my disappointment, that that Massey got in.” Mr Massey put spurs to his horse, and told the story with much gxxsto when he arrived at Devonport. He said that was the first indication he had got that he had won the seat. It was very abrupt, but it was so decisive that no doubt was left in his mind as to the result.

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