General News.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18905, 21 January 1927, Page 10

General News.

The City Council's offices will be closed all day to-morrow on the occasion of the employees' annual picnic. John McLeod, engineer, of Lyttelton, has filed a petition in bankruptcy, and j a meeting of creditors %vill be held ou i January 27th, at 7.30 p.m. j Mushrooms have made their appearance in various paddocks in the Waimatc district, and a few baskets have been gathered. It is rather early in the year for these fungi to appear. The Petone Borough Council will at its nest meeting discuss in detail a scheme for providing a superannuation fund for its employees, and thus bring itself into line with the lafger municipalities of the Dominion. While Mr P. !'"■ Jones, of Christchurch, was in New York, there was a battle roval in Broadway between police and motor bandits, and the fight was | wed with revolvers and automatic pistols. One of the bandits was killed. Major-General R. Young, Commandant of New Zealand Military I'orces, in id a visit of inspection to the Medical Corps camp at the Addington Trotting Ground vesterday moinnig. The camp presented a neat, efficient appearance, and the work of the trainees met with keen approval. j An instance of ihe humid condition; prevailing in some of the' back portions of the Nelson district this year is the grass growing on tho backs of sheep (states the "Mail"). Some of theai, when mustered, have been as green as the fattening paddocks. Most children | have been taught at school to germinate seeds on pieces of wot flannel. Ex- j I aetly the .same proce&s gets on on the sheep's back. ! While k<i «;u v.: Gift Uir.:ed States, j Mr F. ft. Jones, of Christchurcl'., saw I no mum signs of reemployment than usual. People, ho said yesterday, did not upper.;- vo be in any way concerned j about unemployment, and if a man had nob got a job lie. bad to secure one quickly. The theatres and other ■places, of amusement were well filled, j and the shops iu New York were doing , almost as much business -s they could j copo with. \ warn: optimism .-oncerr.ing- u.e future of the trade of Britain \-o& expressed bv Mr L. B. Beale, His Majesty's Trade Commissioner in Now Zealand, in an address on "The Position ot Britain in World Trade," given to tho Auckland Chamber of Commerce. He declared that Britain still led as the workshop of the world. Despite the effects of the war and tho coal strike last vear, her trade was increasing and .past* historv had shown her to be capabio of emerging triumphantly from overy crisis.---Press Service. Matters relating to the New Zealand College of Agriculture will be discussed at a meeting, to be held shortly, of tho ' special committee set up by the confer- | ence of Canterbury members of Parliament, representatives of the Ganter- ' bury A. and P. Association, and other I A. "and P. Associations, and of mem- . bora of the Board of Governors of Lincoln College, held on November 24th. 1 The principal matter for discussion will i bo tho question of approaching the rei contly constituted New Zealand Agricultural College Council regarding the • decisions arrived at by the November 3 conference. t Two young ladies, one of whom was a visitor from Christchurch, had an un--9 pleasant experience at Little River • on Saturday last. They wore walking 7 over a paddock when a Jersey bull caught sight of them, and immediately e gave chase. They sprinted to a tree * and climbed it, the bull, which was s hard behind them, pawing up the earth * in its rage at being baffled. After a while the animal, evidently growing e tired of waiting, disappeared, and the it ladies descended from their uncomfort- . able perch. The bull was not yet done '" with, however, and suddenly reappeare ing again, chased them. Fortunatelj n the paddock was situated on a slope, and when the infuriated animal charged them they were able to dodge hirr successfully several times. In thai manner they eventually got out of th< danger zone without a scratch. It ii understood . that the bull was subse quently killed. The extraordinary growth of gras! this year is causing owners of lawm to work like slaves, pushing the lawi mower. Why be content to do this ,i when machinery will do it for you? Wi . are agents for tho "Shanks," the bes [r English motor mower, and will gladl; or - send a machine and demonstrate i lie without obligation. Mason Strothcre n . and Co., Ltd. _ ~~*