ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17923, 26 June 1930, Page 8

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

_ He'd go fishing! A French-Canadian lumberjack, when informed at Quebec that he had won the first prize of £30,000 in a sweepstake on the English • Derby, exclaimed: "I ween hunnert-forty-tousand tollars 1. By gar, ,1 go feesh wan week!"'

v A Wellington resident who takes an interest in horticulture reports that he was amazed to see a pohutukawa in bloom hear the roadside in Day's Ray last week. This tree, commonly known as the New Zealand Christmas tree; breaks into." blossom toward the end ) of .the year and blooms until mjid-February, according to locality, but horticulturist mentioned had never - before seen blossoms on at as late as June.

•'ls it fair for a man who has had 20 pheasants liberated on his pro-, perty prior to the . season 3 tto allow a sportsman to shoot over it on the first of May and kill the lot?" This wjas one of the questions raised at the recent meeting of the Te Aroha Acclimatisation Society. "Absolutely wrong," said the chairman. The first speaker then vouched lor the truth of the story.

German newspapers are fond of playung "April fool jokes" on their 'readers. This year one of them announced that the conductors of the smoking compartments of. the tramway cars were in future to sell tobacco, and published a . picture of a tramway conductor with an attractive tray, of cigarettes. Another o published ( a iong article full of highly technical v-terms about a processor at Odessa who had discovered the germ >of' love. A few years ago half Berlin swallowed a story of a visit of the Prince:of Wales, and did so all the more readily because it illustrated with pictures of the Prince •in naval uniform walking through the Brandenburg ■■ Gate and going to visit the President. .' ! . ' . T