NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1923, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

King Kabarega, cf Bunyoro, one of the provinces of the Uganda. Protectorate, on the east of Lake Albert, has been released, after being exiled from his country for a quarter of a from his country For a quarter oT a century. In his younger days he was a dogged opponent of British invasion of his country, and after several wars against authority and attempts on tho life of Sir Samuel Baker, he was deported to tho Seychelles, in the Indian Ocean. When lie left his country he had a family of more than 250 children and was succeeded !>v his fortieth son.

A cat figures in a story told in Mataura. A (lore business man recently retired, went north, and left his cat and a few shillings with one of the juniors of the establishment. The shillings were to pay for the cat’s food. At election time the owner cf the cat returned to town. He inquired of the junior the state of the cat fund, and expressed surprise that the exchequer had not been totally depleted. “Ob, the cat bus free meat this week,” was the reply. “I bet the butcher a week’s allowance of meat that Poppehvell would win the Mayoral election.”

Seeking municipal honours at Exeter Airs Alice Holmes James, a “housewives’ candidate,” issued an extraordinary election address. In her address she wrote: Every woman knoweth with myself, that a housekeeper giveth meat to her household, perceiveth that her merchandise is good, looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the hied of idleness. Children rise up and call her blessed, and her own work prnisoth her in the gates.

A smile passed around the room at a meeting of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce recently (states the “Waikato Times”), when a letter was received from the Prime Minister promising to place a certain recommendation by the chamber with reference to railways, before the Afiaister of Railways. The Premier is, at the present time, as a matter of fact, himself Alinister of that Department.

Farm students at Stratford were treated by the Agiictultnral Department’s instructor to a. discourse on indigestion. relates the “Post.” Tho instructor showed a specimen of rubber hosing, which originally was 21 leot long in seven different pieces, an inch or two inches thick, taken from ihe paunch of a four-year-old bullock iu perfect health and condition killed at the AYailara freezing works early in the year. .Many -people would hardly have believed such a thing was possible unless they bad seen it. Tie used this illustration to show how difficult it was to treat such, cases, not knowing the cause of the trouble.

A Wanganui business man tells a good story against himself in regard to a deal in potatoes with a southern broker (states an exchange.) Some little time hack he had arranged a deal with the broker for -111 tons of potatoes at a moderate figure. He managed to get 10 tons shipped, and a lew days before the Hoods sent for a further consignment. The rain had hardly commenced in Canterbury when lie received a telegram from the south from the broker, intimating that he was sorry he could mil forward further supplies a" the price, owing to .reps being ruiu-

S,o far there L no increase in the notification of cases of pneumonia as a result of the Hoods in the Dunedin district, and the unofficial phyisicians say that they are not finding anv uncommon prevalence of flm complaints that ordinarily come about as the result of such a visitation. It may however, be rattier early to say that the danger is past. One of oar practitioners, asked about this subject, gives the warning that, trouble may yet arise during the winter unless the dwellers in houses that were saturated take pains to thorough!v dry and air such re.-i-

'When firi'-tngiiies were being mo.ulised to deal with a fire outside ih<; gates of Paris recently tin example ol rod tape was all'orded. Everything entering the city is taxed-from a rabbit skin to a gallon of petrel—and the Customs officers charged with collecting the toll dues are always active. There was a call for Ihe engines to a fire near Afontrouge, but on arrival at the city to j,i d whim in site of the fire, Customs officers held the fireman tin to measure the petrol in the tanks, and nlso to tell them they could not enter Afontrouge without a special permit from the Mnvor. fa vnm Hie firemen protested, and the factory on arc.

(j have seen—this is not a vain, rnmeik-'d Commissioner Haggard m tue course of bis h'clure «» Korea |rive s“'m a Chinaman m Seoul tn.,i a liVe rat through which he drove a. nan. pinning it to a piece ol wood m’ lirxt operation was to poiir .vc.o- n over the animal roasting it a urn a t done, John sat down to one ol C- ” quots of his lif***

Th- Post aiul Telegraph Departmi nt have recently widened Hie rang or telephone toll communication and j s now possible fur most ot H . hm imUi exchanges to got connection > waelicallv any time of U-e day o. IKIV e been broimht down. I> tmcllt opportunity 1' '■ flu . ilit i oS to tho notice of the !»'>>> k ' ; "ho. for the most part are ’ tl,, nature of the services ohe.ul. U thev showed the same onterpr.se n> -- ear'd to publicity methods as t ..... . in modernising their laeiliHCs “ . would attract a great deal more h .-- - ncss. but in matters of pnbl.cuy H.i> ;l ,vas antiquated and unprogies.-n • as the other hidebound Government l><pnrtiner.ts.

The administration of the oath to a Chinaman provided Romo mM amnset at a bankruptcy meeting at -\e« Plymouth (relates the “’I imuu^‘ . v „”! o d Vows”). The solicitor who MV'', 0 on behalf of the Chinaman had -1 deeply into the requirements of Go •Vet, and informed the D.O.A. t . . methods recommended were the cutun,, off of a rooster’s head or I ' e of a saucer. The fault found th,»o methods was that one was co»««U d too inconvenient, wlule the o* too costly. The Chinaman rnM.. ih, appeal to. indicated that ..c .-id M rercn.ee in the matter a n^plud “What you like.” In the mtciesU nf economy and convenience, t.U •> ' £ th.' F) O A. produced n iuw-U i^ m pocket and lit it, the Chinaman Mo o extinguishing the flame 10 tell ‘‘tho whole truth. ’

“The Government, with its' Icmtorial system, is taking too great a toll of tho time of the young men ol community.” remarked the Rev. Hector Maclean, at the annual meetin,, held of the Dunedin Centre ot the St" John Ambulance Association (states a southern exchange). He had noticed in the report that the fact was deplored that there were not more voun< r men in the association’s classes. 'He did not blame the young men so much as the Government for this state of affairs. Mr Maclean suggested that young men should be exempted from military drill if they undertook to attend tire classes of tl.e association or ■of kindred societies, and said ie thought that a young man who was keen enough to attend such classes would he keen enough to make himself an efficient soldier if the time came. ...