LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19368, 27 July 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

I During the voyage of the steamer I Physa from Singapore to Lyttelton, via [Newcastle, the Chinese quartermaster I was lost overboard in a storm. I The foundation-stone of the Auckjltand War Memorial Museum now in icourse of erection in the Domain is to be laid by the Prime Minister (the Hon. IJ. G. Coates) on the, afternoon of Saturday, August .1. ! When the question of the Masterton * Borough Council’s letter re the eollccition of hospital fees was before the iWairarapa Hospital Board’s meeting In ;Masterton on Friday morning. Mr .1. IF. Thompson remarked: “What is bejiind this letter?’’ to which another member promptly replied: “Ignor- [ ancc! ’ j A 17-year-old boy. Hurry Burton, sustained severe injuries through being gored by a bull on the farm of his employer, Mr S. Rankin, of Otewa, near Otorohanga last Thursday. After rejceivitig medical attention he wtis admitted to the Waikato Hospital. He is suffering from severe shock and is in |a serious condition. Tikitere, Rotorua, that wonderful area, of thermal activity, has not been exempt from the changing condition everywhere apparent in the district. A f<w days ago the surluce of the, big pool at Holl 's Gate fell five feet, a new feature being the creation of another big boiling area adjacent. This cauldron of mud fand boiling water has not been subject to any change of level for many years. I 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 relading 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 “Alilly,” announced the councillor. i i In replying to the toast of the “DeI partment of Agriculture” at the | Farmers’ Union smoke concert at Westmere on Friday night. Mr J. W. Deem assured his hearers that the Department were always out to assist the farmers. In drawing attention to the value of top dressing he said that in his opinion this treatment was necessary in ; any class of land. Naturally, the poorer i quality of land required more attention I ihan the best of land. I Apparently the two men who made claim to the 50ft rorqual whale, which came ashore in the Tamaki River last Monday morning, fare experiencing difficulty in turning their find to advantage, for the work of cutting up the carcase has not yet been commenced, 'll hns been rumoured that the owners [have disclaimed all responsibility in [the matter. In less immedi'ate action is I taken, the whale will become a inuisance, and it is probable that it will be towed to sea and sunk. A Palmerston North railwayman of a .mechanical turn of mind has solved the bicycle lighting problem in a novel man tot. Out of scrap material he constructed a generator which derives its [motive power from the rclar wheel of the cycle. The magnet is the only part not constructed at home and the lum’inated segments of the armature were ■cut out of kerosene, tins. When the |cyclo is in motion the current generjated is sufficient to light an ordinary torch lamp. I Here are two gems from the latest (issue of that popular little weekly ’Humour: Gitinny is about to take young Tommy into St. Paul’s in London and is solemnly warning him at the entrance “not to sneeze'." Then there is the picture of an old lady in L gasfitter’s shop serenely asking the [shopman for “an indecent mantle One of those perverted ones.” Humour is -always full of the very best in the laughter line and. is on sale at all newsagents, price threepence. ! “Moving on” seems lately to have composed the life of the partv of Greek I gypsies who were recently in Auckland. Thev went there after having been ordered to leave the Masterton district land, not finding Auckland very hospitable, they embarked for Australia, .'whence thev originally came to New I Zealand. On the day they landed in I Sydney, July 8, thev attempted to pitch tents in a suburb,* La Perouse.. The police moved them on once again and lit is not recorded where they found I anchorage.

I Smart work was done on board the (Union Company’s steamer Kaitoke in Auckland last ‘ week The freighter berthed at the Queen’s wharf and comnicnced cargo operations tit eight o’clock in the morning. Within the 'following twelve hours she discharged two thousand tons of bagged wheat from Geelong, and also loaded about SO tons of general cargo for southern ports. Six cranes were employed to hurry the job through. The Khitoke Iwas dispatched for Wellington thy same riisrht. ■ A ploughman employed on a Hatuma I (Hawke’s Bay) farm recently Had an 'unenviable experience. About four o’clock in the afternoon, while fixing a plough the horses jumped forward, with the, result that the ploughman become pinned down between the horses ’and the implement. With great presence of mind the unfortuate man igrasped the reins and kept the horses ’from moving any further. For two [hours the man hung on to the horses [with death threatening him if the horses moved a few inches. He was [found by a srtrrch party an hour after 'darkness set in. With reference to the published statement credited to Mr Forsyth that the only North Island ports to be used 'for loading dairy produce would be ■Wellington. New Flymouth and Auckland. Mr A. G. Bignoil, chairman of [the Harbour Foard, telegraphed to the secretary of the Board at Wellington asking for information as to whether [it was intended to discontinue loading dairy produce at. Wanganui. He re- ' reived a telegram as follows: “Think Mr Forsyth “ must have been misreported. No intention of cutting out i ’Wanganui.’’

If an increase in railway freights is made it will mean that Hawke’s Bay will have to pay £13,000 per year more, a great source of revenue for the Rail way Department. Two instalments of reparations payments have recently been received by New Zealand from Germany. They amount to £103,670 and have, been applied to the reduction of war debt. Ten hereditary chiefs of the Blackfeet, Blood and Pigeon Indians, Montana, have started a suit against the U.S. Government for 68,000,000 dollars for tribal lands which they allege have been wrongfully seized for Government purposes. According to a London cable, Sargent’s executors have discovered 331 pictures in a studio storeroom. Some are mainly water-colours and sketches painted in holiday mood. Others are beautiful landscapes. There was hysterical bidding during the first day’s . sale, the auction at Christies realising £146,000. Saturday last was the sixteenth anniversary of Al. Bioriot’s flight across the English Channel, a remarkable ! achievement then. He used a machine with a 25 h.p. engine, developing a speed of from 30 to 40 miles an hour. In these days there arc engines of 450 horse power. The business agents of the New Zealand Railway Department have just terminated a combined “drive” in; Alanawatu and Rangitikci to combat the carriage of wool and produce by i road. The stationmasters at Feilding ; and Marton have spent a fortnight on the job in their surrounding district, their special mission being the securing of wool freight. I Something like 300 objections to pro- J perty valuation in Hamilton are down , I for hearing by the Assessment Court, 1 | which sits in Hamilton next Friday, no I ; less than 150 being sponsored by the • local Chamber of Commerce, while one ( I individual solicitor had about 50 placed [ | in his hands (states an exchange). An I | effort, it is stated, will be made to get the Court to consider the question of further revaluation or of making a general cut. The first world’s championship but-, l ter competition, which will be held at ; 1 the coming Auckland winter exhibition, ; is creating intense and widespread in- 1 j terest in the dairying world. The entries, which closed on Wednesday, total , eighty-seven, of which forty-three are j from New Zealand factories. The fact I that over half the entries come from loverseas is striking evidence of the iin- ■ ' portancc attached to the competition , i by the leading butter producers of the ’ ■ world. | “There is no more stimulating or beneficial drink than a glass of warm i milk, in which has been stirred two dessertspoonfuls of honey,” said Air. D. S. 1 Robinson, the apiary instructor, in an i address delivered at the Blenheim Farm School (reports the Express). Again, from honey was made mead, the principal drink of our forefathers, lie , added. Vinegar, too, was easily made j from pure honey and water, while the . uses of beeswax were many and varied. ’ In one form the production of the honey bee was used by almost everyone daily, for it was the basis of all boot ; polishes. I Telephonic communication with the 1 South Island will be made possible in j i a more general way than is at. pre- , i sent the ease early in the New Year by , Ithe linking of the two islands with a I 1 telephonic cable which is being speci- I ■ ally made in England to the order of i the. New Zealand Government. The ■ I new cable, which will be some forty 1 miles in length, will be 1$ inches in I diameter, with heavier armour for the I parts that will lie in the rockier cur- | 1 rent-swept parts of the Strait. The cable will take off at Lyall Bay, and will land on the beach at Scddon, al ! route which is some six miles shorter | (than the Lyall Bay-White’s Bay line. I