LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17803, 31 January 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki beekeepers who we\e hoping at the beginning of the season to have a bumper production season this year, are in for" the worst they have ever experienced.

A Napier resident who paid a visit to the gannety at Cape Kidnappers on a recent afternoon, states that he sighted more sharks during the course of the afternoon that he has ever seen before at one time.

So popular has the daylight limited express proved this summer that no date has been fixed for taking it off, and the Railway Department has no immediate intention of doing so. Mr. B. D. Chapman left for Auckland to-day to finalise the purchase of "The Gold Diggers of Broadway," and other pictures. He is also hoping to successfully negotiate for the purchase of "The Singing Fool," "The Desert Song," "Disraeli,"and "On With the Song," all notable talking pictures.

Lovers of music should study Mr. W. H. Richardson',s advertisement which explains that a La Gloria gramophone may be purchased on the extremely easy terms of 2/6 per week. Mr. Richardson has many fine models en show at his shop and will be pleased to demonstrate them to customers.

The little steamr Monica II which left Thames towing a large punt with machinery aboard on Saturday, January 18, arriyed safely at Wellington last evening,, the journey taking l 3 days. This is considered to be a very plucky feat, considering the: small vessel had to travel 530 miles on what possibly could be termed a rough journey.

By a recent mail Mr. A. L. Walker received a letter addressed "Monsieur le President du," Southland Anglers' Club, Invercargill,, Nouvelle-Zelande. The communication was anticipated to contain advice of a proposed visit from some prominent French angler, but its contents were advertising two special brands of champagne, "Royal Salmon" and "Royal Trout," bottled by an enthusiastic angler, M. Le Roy. Anglers'regret that France is too far away for a "Field Day." Without leaving a trace of his work, an eminent London surgeon performed a remarkable operation on the nose of a young Christehurch man who has just returned from a trip to England, says the Sun. Before he left New Zealand, this man underwent an tion on the bone of his nose, and while he was in London an examination by a specialist, who was a former New Zealander, disclosed that another operation was imperative. The surgeon repaired the nasal bone with a portion of the rib detached from the patient, and the success of'the grafting process was regarded among medical men as another triumph for modern surgical methods.

When a Morrinsville parent with pardonable pride rang up a. daughter at present staying in Auckland to congratulate her on passing the matriculation examination, she noticed that conversation from the other end ceased after the good news had been announced. Another member of the Auckland household ran to the rescue and explained that the successful candidate had not yet seen the newspapers, and on hearing the good news had dropped the receiver and burst into joyful tear's. > . '

A peculiar accident, which had a very serious aspect, occurred near a northern dairy factory recently. A Maori was cranking his car when it moved forward and slowly pushed him towards a barbed-wire fence, vfhere it' finally pinned him. Seeing the accident, some of the employees rushed to the unfortunate man's assistance, but he was so firmly pinned that jacks, had to'be requisitioned to release him. \The unfortunate victim was badly shaken, but, notwithstanding puts and abrasions, was able to drive away.

;;| The coloured supplement in' this peek's; issue of the "N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review," printed by the offset, press, is a superb example of iy& printer's art. The frontispiece of Joan' |tfarsh, the film star, takes on rievf beauty when illustrated by this Unique process and charm is also added to a. page of chic French fashions. The double centre pages contain the ltest news items from abroad, refloatihg the liner Celtic, wreck of the Moseley, world's largest lifeboat, Boickfast Abbey, and Chelsea Arts Ball. The meetings of the Wellington and Ashhurst-Pohangina racing clubs are well represented in many pages of illustrations and the trotting at the Te Aroha meeting also comes into a fair share of photographs.