BREEZES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 September 1933, Page 4

BREEZES

The Man Worth While. It’s easy enough to be pleasant When you’re having the best of the strife, But the man Avortli while is the man who can smile When he’s licked 3 and 1 by his wife. *** * ■ That’s Different. / A negro Avas telling his minister that he had “got religion.” “Dat’s fine, brothah; but is you sure you is going to. lay aside sin?” asked the minister. “Yessuli! Ah’s done it already.” ‘ ‘ An ’ is you gw r ine to pay up all yoh. debts? ” 1 “Wait a minute, pahson! You ain’t' talkin’ religion now—you is talkin' bizzness! ” * * * * The Wrong Bird! It was avcll after midnight when lie crept silently into the hall and proceeded to mount the stairs. But, alas! his wife was waiting for him. “John,” she said, from the top of the stairs, ‘ ‘ what _do you mean by coming home at this hour?” “Well, my dear,” said the poor man, timidly, “young Jones is getting married next week, and there was a dinner at the club, Which was followed by the usual larks.” “II’m!” she sniffed contemptuously. “I know all about that. But you seem to have got your words mixed. You mean the usual swallows, not the larks, don’t you?” * * » Harnessing the Danube. Engineers of Jugoslavia and Rouniania are preparing £7,00u,000 plans for harnessing the romantic waters of the Blue Danube. The schemes provide for two of the most powerful generating stations in Europe, capable of'generating the equivalent of 748,000 horsepower. The site of the works would be at Orsova, where the river passes through the crags known as the ‘ 1 Iron Gates, ’ ’ at its narrowest and swiftest. Locks would be built enabling vessels of vastly greater tonnage than the present limit to pass up the Danube. Observers point out that if the plans are adopted by the Roumanian and Jugoslavian Governments, an opportunity will be provided for British contractors, who are highly skilled in this particular kind of enterprise. * * * * Vicar Fined.

A vicar who “tanned” a boy when he called on him with a view to becoming a Boy Scout, was fined £2 at Birmingham, England, recently.’* The punishment was said to be for the breaking by the boy of a Sunday school window two years ago. The vicar was the Rev. C. Harold Tye, of St. John’s Church, Perry Barr, Birmingham, and he was summoned for assault by Stanley Troth, aged 11, the son of a tramway car conductor. It was alleged that after asking the boy if he would like to become a scout, Mr Tye took him to the scouts ’ hut. There he reprimanded him for breaking the window, and told him to remot e his coat, shoes and trousers. Troth alleged that Mr Tye said: “I think I can make you a good Scout,” put him across his knee, and thrashed him with his hand. He cried with pain, and Mr Tye applied boracic acid and water-. ——• Mr Tye said he hit the boy to do him good. The tanning he gave was a prelude to work in the Scouts. * * * * Our Poor Quality Wool.

The principal thing that is amiss with our AA r ool does not lie in the hands of our sheep breeders. If it did, one would not see such large shipments of selected rams leaAdng this Dominion for other lands. The principal trouble lies in the fact that to a very large extent our flocks to-day mostly consist of old eAves, bought and sold for the sole purpose of the fat lamb trade, and many of these old eAVes should have been in the slaughterhouse years ago. These Avorn-out eAves do not hoav cut the class of avool they did when two, four and six-toothed sheep. Hence the hairy class of avool complained of. Years ago a good proportion of our flocks Avere wethers, maiden eAves and hoggets—all young sheep. Anyone possessed of couimonsense must realise that while the above conditions rule Ave must expect to produce second-grade avool. ; * * * *

Prospects for Ambergris. Ambergris of fine grey quality is reported to be realising £2 per ounce in London, Avhich shoAVS that manufacturers are noiv gaining on their stocks and prices should advance again (states the Steiyart Island correspondent..-of. . the “Southland Daily NeAvs”). Apparently the synthetic ambergris manufactured in America does not yet take the place of the natural product for use m finer grade scents, soaps,_ champagne, etc. Stewart Island eA T idently has made a name for itself with ambergris as a New Zealand bank manager recently on holiday in Paris noticed a window of a big perfumery company with “Stervart Island Ambergris printed in gold letters on the pane. New Zealand, and Stewart Island in particular, must furnish the most steady supply of ambergris for European markets, due to the fact of its waters harbouring the > sperm whale, which is tfte only species from Avlnch ambergris comes. Locally quite a large quantity of ambergris is held by fishermen Avho have been Avaiting a favourable market.