NEWS AND NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17465, 27 July 1928, Page 5

NEWS AND NOTES.

FROM MANY SOURCES. The opening of the new supper room in connection with the Nowstead Hall, will be celebrated by a grand concert and dance on Friday, August 3. First-aid methods were tried by firemen to restore a bull terrier after a fire at Fuiwood, Sheffield, but the dog died of asphyxiation. The Wanganui City Council has decided to call for applications for the position of city valuer at a salary of £350 per annum. It 13 understood that an Angora rabbit club Is to be formed in Wanganui. The fur of the Angora is very 'much in demand at present, and there Is a good number of breeders in Wanganui. The new chapel at Woodford House will be dedicated by the Bishop of Waiapu on Saturday, July 28. A motor coach with a party from Tottington, Lancashire, fell into a field near Ingleton, Yorkshire, and four men were seriously injured.

A majority of the unions forming the British Federation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades have agreed to accept the employers’ offer of a wages advance of 3s a week.

Charles Farrow, company secretary, was remanded on bail at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, on a charge of obtaining £IOOO by fraud from Mrs Hirst, wife of a wine and spirit dealer in the borough.

Eight persons were injured when members of the Rumanian National Peasants’ Party attempted to make a demonstration hostile to General Avarescu. the former Prime Minister, in the streets of Bucharest.

A resident of Warner’s Bay, Sydney, is blessed with thirteen children. Last week superstition regarding the supposed unlucky number worried him, and he adopted a fourteenth. Now everything in the cottage is lovely.

A Wanganui resident who returned this week irom the South Island stated that rabbits were scarce in the south. “I didn’t see one rabbit between Nelson and Invercargill. They seem to have been cleaned up very considerably,” he said. High prices were being paid for skins.

“I don’t suppose the court would believe it,- but when 1 was thrown out I saw tho car in the air above me, and thought, ‘That’s the end of me when she comes down,' but she fell about a foot away from me,” said a witness giving ovidcnco at an Inquest recently.

"Wo should add a clause to the prayers wo say every night, ‘God save tho South Island and sink the North Island for twenty-four hours,’ ” declared Mr W. B. Jones at a meeting of tho Tirnaru-St. Andrews Farmers’ Union during a discussion on Massey College and Lincoln College, in course of which North island ,v. South Island arguments cropped up.

In a lecture at the Australian Museum on “Ensign Barralier’s Attempt to Cross the Bluo Mountains” in 1802, Mr R. H. Cambago said tho explorer, referring to tho aborigines of the Plcton district, wrote: “I heard thorn repeat the word 'Coo-ee,’ shouling with all their strength.” The lecturer thought this was one of the earliest references to the now famous call.

“Two out of every three men carry the third man on their backs,” was tho opinion expressed by a Wanganui business man. “And what adds to tho trouble of those who do not shirk work is that if they happen to let that third man fall thq first people he abuses are those who carried him along.”

The opinion that all money payable on maintenance orders should be paid into the court, where proper records were kept, and not to solicitors’ offices, was expressed strongly by Mr A. M. Mowlem, S.M., in the Napier Police Court in the course of the hearing of a case in which a defendant was charged with being in arrears under a maintenance order and no' record of the arrears appeared on the court records. •

A good deal of feeling was expressed by some of the Wanganui City Council employees at being overlooked for increases in salaries, and they contend that the promises have not been fulfilled. Two members intimated their intention to take their departure as soon as other openings could bo found. a They stated that they had no intention of giving their ability for underpayment.

“My client is a lady," said counsc. in a debt case at the court at Wanganui “and an arrangement has been made to pay instalments of £2 per month, and I ask, under tho circumstances, that tho case be adjourned sine die.” “I don’t like to uppear to yield to that argument,” replied the magistrate, “but under the circumstances I will make the adjournment,”

Sir Harry Lauder unveiled two windows eroded by him in St. John’s United Frco Church, Dunoon, Argyllshire, to the memory of Lady Lauder and Captain John Lauder, ids son. On ono of tho windows aro the figures of a woman and n knight in armour, symbolical of motherhood and chivalry, and on the other is tho representation of a pilgrim on his journey.

Peter, the IG-year-old son of Sir R. Burton Chadwick, ALP., sailed steerage from Southampton in . tho Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Australia to take up farming in Canada. This was so that he might learn Lo “rough it,” as ills father did in windjammers in his boyho-od. Tho boy was accompanied by his cousin, Basil Woodburn, aged 164.