LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 18235, 8 July 1931, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“There’s a bright side to everything,” writes one of those optimists. And it was quite obvious to the listener that he was looking on the bright side, for he was well-dressed and smart. “How do you do it on your ten per cent, cut?” he was asked, and the answer was: “X got this suit two years ago from the man who regularly cleans and presses it.” And Ihe listener did not need to ask any questions. ITe knew that the solid tailoring and sound cleaning of that suit came from Jorgensen’s.*

Missing Girl Found. Miss Mulcahy, who has caused he people some anxiety through her disappearance- on Sunday, has been located in Auckland. The reason givei is that the girl decided to take ; holiday.

The Promise of Spring. Always the earliest tree in tli district to show signs of the comin; spring the almond tree in the southern end of Pollen Street is already ii bud and it looks as if it will not b long before it is a mass of blossom

Swimming the Channel. Those who imagine that swimming the English Channel tests the skill of a swimmer rather than the skill of the piloting will have some little difficulty to explain away the phenomenal speeds recorded. The world’s swimming record for a lile is approximately 24 minutes. The shortest distance across the Channel is 22 miles in a straight lino. But swimmers often cover 30 miles or more. The Channel has been swum in a few minutes over 11 hours. Even taking the distance- swum at 22 miles the speed works out faster than the world record for the mile.