LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 28 July 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is expected that an announcement regarding the appointment of the new bishop of Christchurch will be made in a few days. Yesterday a suspected case of infantile paralysis, a boy aged nine years, residing at St; Albans, Christchurch, wa* reported to the Health Department. The body of a man was found floating in Lyttelton Harbour yesterday afternoon, but has not yet been identified. Deceased was apparently 40 years old, with reddish hair aad a moustache. On each forearm was tattooed the figure of a woman, encircled by a serpent. The Foresters’ annual ball at Tinui will be held on Friday evening next in the Tinui Hall. Arrangements are well in hand and the function promises to be a great success. The following day the usual football match will take place in the afternoon. The competing teams will be entertained at the Tinui Hotel in the evening. A middle-aged man, William Lindegar, engaged in opossum hunting at Lake Waikaremoana, fell off his horse and was badly crushed. He lay from Saturday until Sunday afternoon before being discovered. He was carried eight miles over rough bush country and brought by car to the Wairoa Hospital. He was unconscious yesterday.

In his half-yearly report the librarian of the Canterbury Public Library states that 96,000 volumes have been issued from the circulating department, of which 73,000 were works of fiction. Second in demand were magazines, with an issue of 12,757, biography coming next with close upon 3000 issues, and history and travel followed with about 2500 volumes recorded.

Detectives raided the King’s billiard salooh in France street, Auckland, and arrested the proprietor, Harold James McNeill, and about 20 other young men for allegedly permitting and playing an unlawful game, “ Murrumbidgee. ” It is played with marbles in a box, the player getting the highest number thrown to him taking the pool, less a percentage for the keeper.

The taxi-meter has arrived in Auckland, and, judging by the returns of two weeks, it has come to stay. It would appear that it is building up a business that formerly was non-exis-tent. Rightly or wrongly, there has been a general fear of taxi charges. The taxi-meter removes this fear. The passenger sees precisely what he has to pay, and the scale is such that he doos not risk a “heart attack” as the minutes go by, unless, of course, ho is in the position of a man, who, with 2/3 in his pocket, requires 5/ worth.

Mr Frank Tate, one of the members of the Royal Commission on University Education is endowed with a delightful sense of humour. Professor Park was telling the commission of the very large amount of money spent by the students in Dunedin, and remarked that they were spending all the time. Mr Tate at once expressed surprise. “Judging by the notices I saw in front of some hotels to-day,” he said, “I thought they got things free.” “That,” said Professor Park, “is only one day in the year,” “Oh, I see!” remarked Mr Tate innocently-

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Sheep and lambs slaughtered at the Waingawa freezing works this season showed an increase of 30,432 compared with the 1924 season.

A correspondent on the East Coast writes complaining of the ravages of wjld dogs on Mataikona station, and states they are causing a good deal of uneasiness to sheepowners. Counsel at the Assessment Court at Hamilton said that at present there were 61 shops and 90 offices vacant in Hamilton, a situation not known in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Something like SOO objections to property valuation in Hamilton are down for hearing by the Assessment Court, no less than 150 being sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce, while one individual solicitor had about 50 placed in his hands (states an exchange). An. effort, it is stated, will be made to get the Court to consider the question of further revaluation or of making a general cut.

In view of the disastrous results of the collapse of the verandah during the procession of the Americans in Melbourne, the Christchurch City Council have decided to prepare against such an accident. The city engineer will inspect the verandahs on either side of the street through which the men will march and, where neebssary, will have them strengthened.

It is reported of a certain local body clerk that he was in trouble at a council meeting. He recommended the council to adopt a report “in toto” in lieu of reading a rather lengthy document through. “There is too much of this ’ere hototo,” declared a councillor. Later on, objection was taken to the clerk addressing a lady in correspondence, as Mlle. “I think it is sheer familiarity to call the lady ‘Milly,’ ” announced the councillor.

A Palmerston North railwayman of a mechanical turn of mind has solved the bicycle lighting problem in a novel manner. Out of scrap material he constructed a generator which derives its motive power from the rear wheel of the cycle. The magnet is the only part not constructed at home and the luminated segments of the armature were cut out of kerosene When the cycle is in motion the current generated is sufficient to light an ordinary torch lamp. One of the largest wild boar* ever shot in Wellington province has just met its fate from the rifle of Bussell Price (Akatarawa). The boar was a known character and has long been thought to be responsible for considerable losses among lambs. Time and again preparations have been made and a watch kept, but his cunning served him well till Price saw the huge brute leaving a flock with, a lamb in its’mouth and making towards the bush. He managed to draw a bead and kiDed the marauder.

Mr H. H. Conway, who has been connected with the China-Inland Mission for 30 years, and who was one of the fugitive sufferers in the Boxer Rising in 1900, is the principal speaker at Knox Hall to-night in a missionary lecture. He has an interest” ing story to tell of the successful missionary work in the province of Honan, of which Marshall Feng YuHsiang was in 1922 the Governor. Mr Conway is accompanied by Miss Grace McGregor and Messrs Sinclair Hamilton and H. L. Taylor, newly-accepted missionaries for the China-Inland Mission.

At the last meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital Board reference was made to several of the counties not paying the levies within 7 days of due date. The Mauriceville County Council inform us that their payments are always made at the first monthly meeting following the demand. The last meeting was held on June 13, the levy being due on May 31. It is suggested that if the Board could see their way to forward the demand at the commencement of the due month the payments would be made about a fortnight earlier than due date. The cause of the delay is due to the fact that the cotinty meetings take place monthly when all accounts are duly passed and paid.’

William Holding, an Invercargill man, gave a remarkable exhibition of strength at the Southland A. and P. Showgrounds on Saturday afternoon. In the presence of several interested spectators he held a Ford car, running in low gear, in eheek, with his teeth. The young man had just finished a hard game of football but he walked off the playing area and taking a rope with a prepared leather mouthpiece he attached it to the rear of a friend’s car. With another piece of rope he obtained purchase on a nearby post, and then commenced the test. First, he held the car with the right arm, and despite a buzzing engine and skidding wheels he kept it captive. That was nothing. He smiled as he justified his rather appropriate name. Then the car was backed into a fresh position where the ground was firmer and gripping the rope with his teeth, holding gave the signal to ■ take the strain. Again the engine buzzed anef the wheels spun uselessly as the clutch was let home. For six seconds William Holding’s teeth and neck fought a successful battle with the engine.

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At a price which works out at £345 per foot frontage, the freehold of the Queen’s Hotel in Christchurch has been sold to Mr J. T. Sutton who -intends is the very near future to pull down the existing wooden building and replace it with a largo modern residential hotel.

The Auckland City Council has decided to allow the men of the American fleet to use the city tramways free of charge while the vessels are at Auckland. When the matter was under discussion, it was suggested that an exception should be made in the case of two race days during the fortnight of the Fleet’s stay when unusually heavy crowds have to be carried to the courses, but it was finally agreed that there would be no restriction to the. concession. This reads like the tale of the ten little nigger boys. Fifteen players were selected to play for the 'Varsity second grade team at Rangiora on a recent Saturday. Seven attended at the Christchurch railway station and decided that seven were not a team, and s 6 the train went without them. At Addington, six 'Varsity players were on the platform and inspected the carriages on the arrival of the train. They decided that six players could not be called a team, and the train went on without them. At Papanui, two more players—seven and six and two make fifteen—poked their heads into the carriage windows, agreed that two players could not be considered a team, and the train went on without them. There is nothing like a university education, says the “Christchurch Sun.” It may not teach organisation, but tlje study of philosophy has its advantages.