Items from Everywhere.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XV, Issue 231, 25 November 1912, Page 4

Items from Everywhere.

0 The death is reported in a pa at Talioraite, near Dannevirke, of a Maori woman 1.20 years of age, named Atouata'Wharekiri. The Timarii Jlorough Council have been for some, time collecting information regarding trams and buses. At present'they .seem to look favourably on steam buses. On.; of the Mast AJ'riean gi;ilit snails at the "Wellington Zoo lias laid an egg for the first time. The snail is 7in"loiig, and Ihe egg is as large <ts thai of a sparrow. About 10,000 people were present on AYednesday afternoon at the eoronionv of opening Auckland's new posh oll'ice . The Prime Minister said he had been assured by an eminent postal authority that the new post other; was exeelleul iu every way, ami was belter even than the post olliee in ■Washington. According to the Argus (Melbourne) the gold production of Australia and New Zealand for the. ten months ended .'Hsf Oetober shows an approximate total of -2,187,881; line ounces, against 2, PVmJI 1 line ounces for the corresponding period of last year, or a. decrease of 217,72 ounces. The largest individual decrease is that of Kii.'.):■!:? ounces in .New Zealand.

"The talk one sometimes hears aboiu New South Wales turning a ,old shoulder to New Zealanders is j„-i so much rubbish," said Mr 11. V. Allen to a Wellington Post reporter. 1 met many New Zealanders when i was in Sydney, am! there was not one who was not in a good position. In fact, New Zealanders are welcomed iu Sydney. They were looked upon as reliable men, and can easily make good." In vindicating the Ulsterman agair.st the charge of having no sense of humour, the'Rev. A. Sims told a story at the'sixth annual banquet of the Ulster Association in Sydney last week. There were two Ulster butchers in competition, one of whom exhibited his "very best" sausages at 8d per lb against the other's "good" ones at 6d. The former retaliated with the announcement that his sausages "as supplied to the King" would be sold at Kid per lb, whereupon his rival posted a ticket on his wares reading, "God Save the King."

The Rev. A. Don, referring in the 'Outlook - to Chines* in New Zealand, states that the balance of population is now heavily in favour of the North Island. At the census 18 months ago, the figures were:-South Island 1,133, North Island 1,497. "I estimate them now as:--South Island 1,025, North Island 1,4.i0. These numbers will become more and more disproportionate. Another important fact is that the great majority of those in the south are ever, and of those in the north under, 'lO years of age." Mr William L. Te-el nieier, the uat-

urali-i and jouruali-l whose death London is reported, made a spec

-I tidy of variation in animals, wor ing for many years with Darwi lie also proved the homing factd

of pigeons, and worked with tl late Miss P.. Oineiod on the destrii live iniluenoe of the sparrow. I was formerly Dmis lecturer to ll Zoological Society, contributed to b Kiiovidopaedia lirilauiiiea, was oil t si ail' of The Lield I'or about lif

\ears, and wrote more than 11 eon.-coiiiive weekly leaders Tor T iiurrii. as well as books ', n bii and horse-.

A coiiijiauy wa- formed with capital running into something lif CoO.diK), to establish an automat bakery in Lrisbanc. A huge fa torv, '(> r bakery, is lieing erecle with glass fronts, so that the pu

the whole process

operation. When Mr Allen was i Melbourne a company was forim outside the bakers to establish similar concern, but the bakers i the Victorian capital are now con Inning 1 o co-operate the whole trai and dispense with the ordinary skil ed labour as we know i t in th country.' I'nder the automatic sy; loin bread can be made by unskillc men. In Adelaide already an auti malic bakery is in existence. A well-known merchant stated..l a Southland News representative th; within a. few years the price < firewood would rise to double wlu il is at present. ' He vouchsafed ; his reason for the statement tl. increase of deforestation by saw-mil and the long distances the woo will have to he carted. Pirewoe which is at present being sold ;

27s a cord could fifteen yea'rs ago have been purchased at only 13s. Bushmen might be hard of limb, but their hearts are occasionally ten-,l,-r, if a recent happening can be regarded as a criterion, says the Dimnevirke Lvouiug News. Some weeks ago a worker at. the mill Ml Tiratu accidentally had a legbroken, and was sent into the Dannevirke Hospital. His males were subsequently • inspired to help lighten his burden as best they could, with the result that six cords of the best firewood are now reposing in the injured man's yard iu the town, having been cut by the men in die.ii' .spare time and forwarded absolutely free of cost to tin; receiver. The balance of a subscription taken up for payment, of carting was handed to Ihe injured man's wife. Practical help of this kind should go much further towards making for the unity of labour than all the raucous ravings of the "tied Keels." and their industrial relations. A scientific expedition under the leadership of the Academician, Bernardski, has just set. out from Russia for the Ferghana Mountains, situate to the north of the Pamir, in Turkestan. Th« object of the expedition is to discover tiie deposits of a certain new- metal said to be found there, ajnd to inquire into its properties. The new metal is described as a kind of paste of very ' considerable specific weight. In contact with acid it creates an intense cold without the formation of any gas. Another property; ascribed,to it, is thai of causing "any substance rth)ch conies into contact with it to fosii .i qji tain amount of weight. The piory'ities of ihis exljaouliijary metal ore too remarkable to admit of acceptance until -corroborative tcstii h ''ci.' ■>" * 4*''* < % L)'^