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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12718, 13 August 1919, Page 4

HERE AND THERE.

Mr J. A Casey, who won the pionship of New Zealand, at the live! pigeon shoot, just concluded at Hast-i mgs, and who. having won the Ballistite! at the same meeting, for the third ' time, carries off that coveted tropbv i ™® c p i nth ‘\ u accident, when motoring! mu from the Mest Coast to take parti iL 1 --T-V Pent - 1 - ( l 11 ( ? ays tlie Hawke's 1 Mhn (T oJn bui J e/ ' ) * n a collision ati - -n„at Aa he receiverd injuries re- ‘ suiting in a broken rib and some dam- i Jge to his left hand, but he plnckilv: continued on his way. arriving in HartJ mgs the day before the contest In vito! " Ga . thor > "toll it broken rib and a more ! han l thi * Sort?ooTcf a', IS. miserably i B isthl o d r TS ’i erner ging with the ; with tht V UP i f ° r c ee F s ’ and crowned! ,a " re,s of the

In England, # the police have been i ° .? n instructions to put into more* ~-tive operation the law against the ' f.Mll i4i V \ hs . con nection it is roum dnn "K .the plague of LonHe.uiie wrote in his diarv “ Even children were obliged to smoko I r iSWri’-f 1 Tom i Teoman beadle, sav t a J.® «• schoolboy at Eton ™ b -h every morning, and that he was never whipped so much in his life asl n, e morning for not. smoking ” z formal t TOcntlv "T 1 ™ of M* Xrded letcntlj, v hen a military officer and land bv ™°n travelled New Zea•adwav ; ; m ! er ! ea reamer tried to get nev to t f r kC Q S 4 .9 complete their jour- - StaW : i hj Soutlifsavs the Auckland in aettino- i,; Th + e - w Ce *; had no trouble denth bm 1 S his bonafides evi2ln\'f lg C l earl r established, bur when it came to the Jadv, the diifi autW ?lme t nCed - d id'the railway authorities know she was his wife? inis was quite courteously and pleasantv explained to the officer, who was adi isod to g° to tne ship and get a certificate from someone in authority to °ip d; „ to Say that th ? lad J travelling m hit* company was his wife. This lone the demands of the regulations uould he met, and the ticket issued. It s a hit thick, but I suppose thereto nothing else for it,”‘said the officer as he went off, evidently with the totenment 0t P rocunn S the required docile

u 1 F*™ 1 * 5 A nd halfpennies will probahh be issued from the Melbourne Mint in the course of the next few fffi- i \ F °r 501116 time P the Mint officials have been working on the question of design and other details. As a 16 f ldt i Spec - lmeil r °~ tlle proposed new coins, hearing the figure of the kookaburia as a distinctive Australian bird on one side will shortly be submitted f . 10 Treasury officials for approval. It is considered that the introduction of these coins will be justified by their lightness and hardness as compared with the present coppers.” The design and make will ensure that there is no clanger of confounding them with the silver coins, a. risk which does not seem to trouble anyone in the case of nickel coins or the Continental countries. Laud speculation is the moat profitbusiness of this country, and the Waikato is the happy hunting grotmd of the. speculator (states the ‘ Wairarapa Daily Times”). One dairy farmer, from a northern district, purchased a farm in the Waikato at £-10 P6r acre sold it for £6B, and now, after holding sixteen farms in a little over two years, is worth over £40,000. l>ut Waikato dairy farm values have shown m general increases in values unrecorded in this country. In one case a man who bought at £6 10s an ncrc nvG years ago has refused to sell at an acre. Here is another instance: A property which fifteen years ago sold at £3 3s an acre is now worth £63, a price the owngr recently refused. One fine Waikato dairy‘farm was recently sold with possession in August, and while the new owner was waiting for possession he turned it over at a profit of £7OOO. Dried milk has been responsible for some of the phenomenal increases of Waikato dairying land, and the fortunes which have com© to the lucky farmer-speculators, hut the climate is a great factor in the relatively high values, even if the topdressing cosrt is greater than mom southerly fanners have to reckon with. One of the. most curious of the innumerable varieties of fans among the Japanese is the iron war fan. This was invented in the eleventh century for the use pf military commanders, either for direction of their soldiers or as a shield for defence. It was made of leather or iron-

The salaries of British air.shin commanders are placed at £IOOO each a year, and that of their navigating officers at £750.

The war has been responsible for many extraordinary happenings, and one with most unusual featurcscropped up in Wellington during last week (sava the “Dominion s '). In short-, a-habv has recently arrived from England and its parents cannot he traced. Whilst in England a certain member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force married, and the soldier returned to France. On his arrival hack in England lie found he was a happy father, and subsequently the child was placed in an orphanage during the time the soldier and his wife were travelling. At a later date the soldier was intoniied at short notice that he was to proceed to New Zealand, and he and his wife proceeded on the voyage without the child. On arrival here they communicated with the Home authorities, asking them- to forward the child by the next boat. This was accordingly arranged, and the infant in arms dulyarrived in Wellington recently m charge of a “ Digger.’’ The latter expected to he met by the mother and father of the child, but his anticipations were not realised. He at onco communicated with the responsible authorities, who are. now anxious to locate the parents of the child. Something colossal in the way of a “family tree” has been raised by Mrs Radnall, of Tarnagulla. Victoria*, and her descendants. Mrs Radnall has 12 children, 64 grandchildren and 38 great grandchildren alive and healthy at the present time. She arrived in Melbourne from England in 1848, was married the same year, and recently celebrated the ninetieth anniversary of her birthday. Credits of £5,000,060 each have been granted by Canada to the Governments of Rumania, Greece and Belgium in order to facilitate trade between the Dominion and those countries. The advances are for a term of five years, and will he made at the rate of 54 per cent. They must he made use of before December 31 next, and purchases made under them are to be effected through the Canadian mission in London. The Matin ” states that among the Australian delegates at- St Germain is a technical expert, Herr Schumaker, who in 1914 was President of the Tribunal at Trent. The journal adds: “ On account of the thousands of political arrests and convictions for which iie was responsible he was in great favour at the Habsburg Court. He personally pronounced 50 sentences against the newspaper which was managed by -the heroic deputy. Signor Battisti, who was later taken prisoner and hanged. Schuraaker highly approved of the condemnation of Signor Battisti. After the battle of Vittorio-Veneto, when the Italian troops entered Trent, the population tried to get hold of the two most detested men in the town to lynch them. These two men, who were Schumaker and the governor, were saved from popular vengeance by the intervention of the Italian gendarmes. For Chronic Chest Complaints, t w.unls’ Great Pewiermint Cure.