NEWS AND NOTES

Grey River Argus, 13 April 1911, Page 8

NEWS AND NOTES

The settlers of the Teremackau settlement are making .a big effort to have, (the, Payne Gully. Road "'.extended to the settlement Two petitions to be presented ,to . the Public Works Department respectively are in circulation -and being 1 extensively signed. The desired road would ibe a boon to

the settlers, and would, cut off several miles of a journey.. , .

The revenue on the Westland rail-'v ways for the four, weeks ending 4th Barch was £11,787, and the expenditure £6,549. ..'... \

Or Tanner, the famous fasting" man, celebrated his 81st ibirthday in. New York by beginning, a, fast. >vhichi he . will endeavour to continue for eighty consecutive days.. Dr Tanner says he will live to foe 100, and. then get married. Since "he first began fasting, he sa3 r s, the practice has become quite fashionable, and he declares there is no "better way of fighting- the ißeef. Trust. . „ In the course of one 'his, speeches at Moturoa yesterday, the* Hon. T. MacKenzie, Minister for Agriculture, announced that the Government intends to establish an excellent herd of Ayrshire cattle — a splendid strain of dairy cattle — at the Moiimohaki State. .Farm. . It is not generally known that any person "who has purchased a railway return ticket and does not use the ■return half can obtain for a refund of its value on application to the stationmaster, and the refund is made from the head office. A New Plymouth paper, complains that it costs the Taranaki" 'Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, about £100 a year for travelling expenses for members, while the ibusiness takes about an hour or so a month to transact and might easily 'be done by the chairman and secretary A lady -who resides in Auckland goldfields town sent one of her dresses to the wash last week. After it had been . taken out of the copper she recollected thaj; she had placed a £5 note in one of her pockets The note was recovered and found jthat the number and some of the colouring remained. It is understood that the bank which issued the note will honor it.. „. .. It is not generally known, , says the Dominion, that .a; special mail train, from Auckland to Wellington, costs the postal Department os per mile, and Friday's little "speed up" means a debit of £105 10s (423 -miles) against the mail-handling department. ' , . - ' u Dick" Arnst, champion sculler of the World, is ill in (bed. at his quarters at the Bayview Hotel,vGladesville (says the Sydney. Sun, of March 28th.) His health, as been, failing slowly for .about ten days, .and on Saturday about mid-day he; collapsed. It was subsequently .discovered that on top of igastritis t>lood-poi- ' soning had developed from a scratch, on oneof his insteps. The champion is now progressing £ avouraibly. In any scheme of agricultural immigrants there always lurks the obvious danger that. the immigrants- may in course of time, forsake the peaceful paths of the pastoralist for the greater excitements of city- life. — The Observer. . v -, ■■■-.■:■ ••; : rTEe. DunedinivStaro is -pretty out- v spoken with regard to. the plea, put forward by the Dunedin law students, who are still striving 1 .., t0, obtain, ex- . emption from the patriotic duties which the law imposes" upon them. Says the Star: "It is .necesary. to .tellthe Dunedin law .students .. -plainly that they , are setting .a ; sh6ckin^gly bad example to the rest pfvthe community. The ■wail about.. .overwork, is;, for the most part, sheer- humbug. .They can ifind time for dancing-, .flirting, skating, ■ week-ending., and r ibilliiards, and not" for military service." ; After stating' the case preW plainly^ ■and not much -tci the elevation of the ■students in the public opinion, the arI tide concludes : "Let the students put that in' their pipes!" ■ i Mr Massey is still 1 weeping- over our . land "systiem. His ; tears ' , drop : all about the DVminion.' l "i Let us wipe ;from his ! e3 r e the pafticuliaf 'tears oc- : casioned by the pain the native land question 'gives' him. The sense of the country is with the Government in their humane solicitude, for the natives. — iDannevirke Advocate.