MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1489, 7 November 1918, Page 39

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Though the New Zealand Ministry has received an intimation that in future cargo space on outward-bound vessels will be reserved for the carriage of wool, to the exclusion of general merchandise, no such direction has been received by the Commonwealth shipping authorities (stated the Melbourne Argus on 28th, September). At the present time the shipping of all classes of freight from Australian ports is governed by the British Government’s “priority list” system.

The newly-formed Anglers’ Club at Lumsden, Southland, lately held a field day for the Copper Trail which resulted in a very good catch. In all 192 beautiful fish were caught of a total weight of 2151 b. Mr. Ogilvy returned the best bag, his tally of 14 fish weighing 46 }£lb. Mr. J. Scott was second. He landed 13 fish weighing 371bs.

“Lloyd’s Register of Shipping” states that recent experiments with cast steel cables instead of cables of wrought iron have proved so successful that sanction has been given to their use. These cables are stronger than iron, of less weight, and can be made in a quarter,of the time. The United States Shipping Board has placed a contract for £200,000 for these new steel cables.

“Barbarism,” was the comment of Judge Lloyd Morgan at Carmarthen County Court, when he was informed that a pair of gloves and a pair of cuffs had been put in a dead man’s coffin. The witness said this was an old funeral custom in West Wales.

“I consider that a motor cycle on a road at night without a light is more dangerous than a motor car under similar conditions,” said Mr. F. V. Fraser, S.M., during the hearing of a case- at the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington. “ A motor car usually can be seen approaching, but a motor cycles has a habit of appearing on the scene when least expected.”

At the Gisborne Police Court a man was charged with driving a motor car round a corner at an excessive speed. Defendant said he was conversant with the requirements of the law, but had forgotten them when he was called to the hospital to see his son, who was dangerously ill. His Worship said it was found by the Supreme Court at Wellington that even the ambulance had to proceed in conformity with the law. Defendant was fined 10s, with costs.