LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15960, 26 October 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The indications are for variable and moderate breezes, but northerly moderate to strong prevailing. The weather appears, likely to be cloudy and unsettled, with scattered showers. Barometer little movement. Seas moderate; tides good.

Dr. Gray of Thames notifies that, he will visit Puriri regularly on Tuesdays and may be consulted at Ids room at Puriri Post Office betiween the hours of 10.30 and 12.30. Mrs T. B. Mason, the wife of an obscure public school teacher in a little remote country school in New South Wales has (says a Sydney correspondent) just given birth to her twenty third child. With more women of Mrs Mason’s type there world certainly be less talk of migration. Mrs Mason has not allowed her children t.o monopolise her life, much as the litlile army of them suggests the idea, for slut js one of the keenest lawn tennis players iri the district iri which she lives, and one of the brightest and happiest women there also.

Mr. P. McLeod Purvis, of Pirjnoa,, the head shepherd rtf the Whatarangi station, had a thrilling experience last week while going round the sheep (says the Wairarapa Times). Ho noticed a huge boar chasing a lamb, and immediately set in pursuit. Dismounting and tying up his horse he stalked to a ciose range and fired and wounded the boar. The pig, although badly wounded, turned on Mr. Purvis, and before a second shot could be fired he was knocked down, the rifle exploded, the bullet entered the right foot below the instep, causing a nasty wound. A Palmerston North school teacher referred to two “howlers" which had occured in essay writing by the younger pupils at one of the local schools recently (says the Standard) The subject of the essays concerned impessions gamed on a first visit to the zoo and one child wrote: “The first animals I saw 'were the bears and the lions and my aunt and cousins were also there." Another pupil displayed a pretty though unconscious wit when he wrote : “The first thing I saw was the keeper feeding the lions with “roar” (raw) meat.”

A little girl fell off a tram window on the Kiccarton Road, one ctav last week, and miraculously escaped injury. The child, which was accompanied by its mother, stood on the seat and leaned out from the open window. The tram Avas travelling at a smart pace, and suddenly the child over-balanced and dissap peared. The mother frantically signalled for the tram to be stopped, and Avhen that was done she went back for the child. To the relief an .1 astonishment of all concerned the girl ‘was little the Avorse. A slight; graze on one cheek AA r a»s ad that could he seen to shoAV that ?lie had passed through such a dangerous experience.

This week’s issue of the a N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic .Review” reaches a high standard of merit that is not likely to be eclipsed in any part of the Southern Hemisphere. Racing occupies a prominent position the opening of the trotting season being marked by the snapshots taken at 'the Auckland Trottin Club’s meeting on Saturday, striking views of principle races in progress being obtained. The Wellington Racing Club’s fixture at Trentham is depicted in a well selected series and the \vaikato Hunt Club’s meeting at 'Claudelands is also pictorially reviewed in a comprehensive manner. A page devoted to the Randwick Spring Carnival snows some striking contests and indicates the interest taken in that notable gathering. The paper is now on sale at all stationers and booksellers. The imagination of the 'Samoans has been impressed by the happenings to an extraordinary cocoanut tree near Savaii, Mr. J.J. Dougali informed Lyttelton Times reporter This particular tree had three crowns—ordinarily cocoanut trees have only ono crown, and sometimes but rarely, two. In the days of the three Powers, the Samoans named each of the three crowns; on© the Samoan Government, the second the German Government, and the third lb© British Government. A year or two before the Great War the Samoan Government head was blown off. and during the war the German Government head was blown off. The British Government bead still stands. This is regarded by the Samoans as symbolic of British power and of the supremacy of the British people. “How sweet's a springtime morn!” —Anon. But wlmts more annoying than to <’()>’trnel: a spring chill? Don’t risk a rough or cold. Keep Baxter’s Lung Preserver always by you. “Baxter's” ensures promnt and lasting relief from the most chronic bronchial, throat, and chest complaints. It fid V>,,VS n o-ono'-OUS-S^ 0 '! bottle at chemists and stores: or. better still, get the family size at 4s Gd.