General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 6

General News

Loch Ness Monster. Ir. T. I‘. Hughson, a Taranaki busfc nian who has returned after iiin< ,|l ." ’ l in Great Britain and the Islands, believes he missed I < G,-' Loch Ness monster by one M’. Hughson said he was .told tad appeared” the day ; G’’”" bi- Extraordinary tales are •■'LU "" 4 t i l of the appearances of the \[ r Hughson said that 11 iuv :> > h.’iieved it was a myth enry steamer owners, "who wei“ cn u.in > roaring trade on the k>i‘h. it others believed as devoutly th:i: ii wa? genuine. One man swore to Mr. Hughson that he had seen the ino-isier ( i;i (; ]( . surface of the loch for 2U minutes. Confidence Trick. A particularly audacious confidence :ru k was played at the expense of a IbHorua resident, Air. A. Budd, when, a ‘ ell-dressed man, who represented him•‘lf as a detective from Hamilton coadueling a police investigation, succeeded in persuading Airs. Budd, in the absence of her husband, to hand oyer the books and cash takings belonging -.<• a Rotorua butchery firm for which Mr. Budd acts as accountant. The bogus detective removed, among other things, £1.5 in notes and cash and, saying that he was taking the money to the Rotorua police station for examination, disappeared. Private postage Stamps. Letters bearing novel stamps hav# recently been received by Air. R. P. Shine, of .Arcadia Road, Epsom, Auckland. The letters come from Christmas Island, which is situated just north of the equator. The island is leased by Central Pacific Cocoanut Plantations, Ltd., and mail is delivered there only about twice a year. The company runs a special mail boat service nt irregular intervals and for this it issues its own stamps and uses its own cancellation mark. The stamps are issued in denominations of five cents and lu cents. Both have the same design, showing a schooner off a palm-fringed beach, but there is a slight difference in the colours. The extent to which the island is “off the beaten track” is shown in that Air. [shine dispatched his request for letters ; bearing the company’s stamps on Febi ruary 2. He did not receive his reply i until last week. ■ Saddle Horses Imported. i Recognising that there is a dearth of ! goo-1 saddle horses in Now Zealand, I esp<’< ially in his own district, where ' h-irses are used as much as iu any I other part of the country. Air. R. K. i Murphy, of Poverty Bay, has imported la iw-< year old colt aud a. four-year-old [ware from America. The arrival of the.-e horses is considered to be import[ant in stock circles. About 30 years lago Mr. Murphy’s father imported a horse. Kingston, from John Woodford, of Mount Sterling, Kentucky. The two new importations, which are at Somes Island, Wellington Harbour, for the usual observation period, have been bred by John Woodford's son, Chenault, at the same ranch. The three horse.- are the only ones ever imported into the colonies. The horses belong to th,- American saddle gaited breed, a definite stud breed in the United States iof America. The foundation stock | came, from England, where they were | in the stud book.