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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 752, 1 August 1922, Page 8

When a more or less musical rendering of •' Who Killed Cock Robin?" was heard bv residents near the New 111 mouth nosiuml on ia recent evening it w-as evident that the microbe of community singing had reached the hospital, and that the convalescent patients were joining- in an eveninghymn before “ lights out " was sounded. 'About 10.0,00 tons or limestone rock were brought down by a charge of 101 tons of gelignite explce c l at Portland, \\ haugarei. the other morning. It is believed the charge was the largest ever exploded in New Zealand, the j previous largest record being about six tons of gelignite. vYhen you’re speaking to a -Minister of the Crown," said Mr W. D. Hunt at the Council of Agriculture’s conference at Wellington, “he doesn’t think much of the speakers themselves. What he asks himself is, ‘What is behind those fellows?" ’’

The prosecution of Ur Liston at Auckland, stated the Rev. Howard Elliott in Napier the other night, was the first prosecution of a Roman Catholic bishop that had occurred for 200 years. “ It 1 had known a street in Martinborough had been called after me, I would have made it my .business to officially visit you long ago/' said Jellicoe, when speaking at Martinborough the other day. “The last campaign of the P.P.A. cost £6ooo—but it was worth it.” said the Rev. Howard Elliott at Napier. The Irish Free 'State postage stamps are ordinary British stamps with a Gaelic inscription.