NEWSY PARS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14611, 29 August 1913, Page 5

NEWSY PARS.

LOCAL £ND GENERAL "0. Jerusalem is the name of a lieutenant appearing in the last gazetted batch of defence appointments. Writing; from New Zealand, Captnir Lionel Hialscy, •R.N., expressed v. the High Commissioner for New Zea land, in London, his groat appreciation of 'the wide-spread 'kh.idn^'Ss which he received from all sectia is of the community in the Dominion. He stated that he could not adequate ly acknowledge all that had beon done to make his visit so successfah He was highly delighted with Jtaw Zealand and all that he saw ther.}. Evidently borough council! !;s ar^ not unanimously enamoured of the proposal that they shall eteeo their Mayor from amongst themselves says the 'Dunedih Star. Feeling on the matter was tested at a rece.it meeting of the Port Chalmers BviucL Council. The Mayor moved /that the council express by resoluti m their approval of the proposals that tie councillors elect, the mayor. It was Ksoon evident that difference rJ opia- . yon existed. The substance f'f *h? »r guments in favour of the ooul<:- IT>vs of electing the mayor was thti' by such means the councillors woui-J be* •assured, a. term of mayor it- which they were entitled in. virtue <;f s< rx'ee Tendered to the ratepay-jrs; s\< councillors. Against that vie-vir of the matter, it was urged *hnt a'thcisgh a councillor was no doubt entit'-'d to a term as mayor, it was no*, des'r able that a democratic evincible of the direct vote should be sacrificed in order to assure a eomeiPor a term as mayor. After ever;' o< ur.cillor had spoken, a> vote was taken, with the/ result that five councillors voted in favour of couns-ilbrs electing the mayor, and four councillors voted in favour of the present system of election 'by the people. H's Worship expressed disappoin'.<rn fit that this motion had not been carried by a greater majority. Of interest' to motorists. Clive , Birtles, a brother of Francis Birtlee, the' well known over-landing cyclist, left Sydney las* week! on a 1500 miles ride through to Hugiliendeai (Queensr land), where he will join his brother, and.then make an attempt to cycle through the little known country, across the top of the "Nbrthem Territory to Port Darwin. Clivle Birtles expects to take 30 days in reaching] Hughewden. His machine, a two-speed ''Universal,' was weighed before starting from Sydney and scaled 1191bs, the equipment consisting of a rifle, tent, blankets, cooking utensils, etc.. Although the rider weighed, in addition, !1541b5, Dunlop 1-Mn canvas lined tyres were desmed sufficient to carry that ungainly load across some of the wildest country in Australia. ■From 'London comes news that Mr J. A. E. Malone, the London member of the Williamson firm, and also for a long time associated with Mr George Edwavdes, has secured from Mr F'roh- . Mann the rights of "Peter Fan," and « will send out an English company to play the charming, fantasy in South Africa, Australia, and KW Zealand next season. MPeter Pan" did not ' draw well when it was formerly produced in Australia, but that was no doubt partib- due to the bad judgment displayed by someone in casting Miss l fittell IBrune for 'Peter. She was emphatically not the party for the part. Miss Lizetite Parker enabled New ZealanderH to realise much more fully the charm of the play. Examine the next 1912 penny that is handed t) you (soys the Daily Mail). If you sec a tiny "H" stamped | immediately in front of the date (thus H 1912) you will know that it is a Birmingham penny, one of the rare coins put into circulation in England thait has not been produced at the Ebypll Mint. It is- quit© genuine, and has-been issued "by authority." Such an extraordinary demand for 'bronze coins arose last year that the Mint could no'tf cope with it. In 1011 the Mint issued 240 tons of them ; last yeiaa 1 the issue ran to 60i6 tons —>an unprecedented issue, due to.the deduction of the insurance 4d from wages, tho increasing use of coppers in slot machines, and the copper harvest reaped in motor omnibuses and trami way cars. The Mint authorities were compelled to put <••."+■. a portion of the issue to contract at a private mint in Birminglumi, wlieve money for some C'f tho fmaTTer European countries lias occasionally h?ev. m».da 'Formerly this mini was /'known n« Helton's Mint, t^e t'"nv "H" on the nennies l>eincr retained f.s tlio init.'';v] IoM-,"r of tho oM ■firm. Tlip-.ro rv'.'i "p-i: ran - issues ,to be found Avith the small "H" stamped on them.