NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1923, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Bank o( : Ireland lms received C220:5 anonymously as conscience money. It is described as part of the money stolen on February 115th, 1922. The Provincial Bank at Sligo has received £BOO, part of the money stolen on the same occasion.

The winter is undoubtedly a hard one (says the “Hawke’s Bay Tribune”), as is shown by the number of native birds to be seen competing with sparrows, blackbirds, and chaffinches, especially in those districts where there are trees affording them shelter.

.Vs is usual m seasons when there is a severe snow (reports the “31at a lira Knsign”). the keas are coming down from the mountain tops in great numbers and working havoc among the already weakened flocks. Ihe settlers are much concerned about the ravages of this bird, which is appealing in numbers large enough to cause substantial losses.

"The insane have no stigma branding them in Mohammedan countries, because of a passage in the Koran: ■•(live not unto those who are of weak understanding the substance which Hod hath appointed you to preserve lor iliem ; but maintain them thereout and •lathe them and speak kindly to them.' In this matter we may get enlightenment from the lurk.” —Inspector-CJen-oral of .Mental Defectives in his annual report.

The number of animals at the Aliceland Zoo lias boon increased by the advent of two bear cubs, which wcie •horii there recently (says the ‘.\c.. Zealand Herald”). The mother I era is very jealous of her offspring, ami for this reason no one is allowed near her cage, except one keeper who takes her food once or twice a day. Cases are known of bears having destroyed their cubs if they are disturbed too much, and it is intended to give this bear every chance to rear the cubs.

Motor-ears driven by vandals are evidently tint to a most extracrdiiuuy tlse in the One 1 roe Hill district (icporis the Auckland “Star”). At » recent meeting of the District Board the engineer, 31 r .1. Dawson, reported that recently unite a number of street name-plates in the Wapiti area had been torn up from the ground, posts and all. evidently the destructive vandals had placed a rope to the posts and hitched the other end on a motorcar. for the posts were snapped oil j level with the ground, tearing the asphalt away, lie thought that motorcars had I-eel I used, as tracks vcie visible the following morning. It "as decided to refer the matter to the police to take action. The use of •motor-ears a- "sit turnout" places during dances is a practice which motorists heiicvc should be discouraged in (iishorm* (says the local "Times”;. I.a-t week a car was left outside the City llall while its owner attended a dance, but he contends that the lights were switched on. When a policeman came along, however, the lights were out. and the owner was accordinglv charged in the Court next morning. 31r H 'Vauchop appeared for him. and alleged the piacticc of “sifting out" on the part ol loving ..rallies. a> the cuu-o of th" car o" liar's trouble. 31 r Wain-Imp explained that -Itch a couple bad apparently u-ed the c'ir. but before doing so bad ol necessary to switch oil' the inside light, thereby also hintin': cut i c headlight'. Wlicii they left the car. they omitted to switch the lights on again. and hence the absence of lights "hell the policeman came.

Western Samoa is kept in constant touch with the outside world m the matter of infectious di-ea-c, bv mean- ,,! weekly wireless me-sage.- tv. in New /calami, giving existing • or.dil ions, m so lav a- the. arc known, in New Zcu bin!. Anstvaiia ami the various i-land group- of the South Laciiic. In these weekly messages is abo included any inlunn:'t ion ot immediate value to S.imoa contained in it " fortninhUs health nhslr..ets cabled from London. The »><- ,*!■., : ,r,, also forwarded every month l n 1 steamer. This up-to-date know I dge of renditions cxi-ting those . unlit l ies wall which Salima m in i onimunii a; ton ! ad b‘d sa <•- guv id against the ie.t rodu.-t : on ,1 epidemic diseases. A vicious elephant rushed the ting master of Whin's ' iretts, Mr -I. N. C,::.ke. during a performanv" in Brisl.au • recently. -Mi Cooke said lie had a p,, in iment of t void'le. and told his ;l s "si; u: to remain clo-o ai hand iust;..u| ,iing lo ihe far cm! of the ring, a- na - Ins ( u-luiu. "The clepliv'i; s'lilek in - with hi- trunk. ’ he said, "and a- I fell tie kicked me rep ■ ,!: 11 v. wit h !he result 1 hat i p.tiue.l Mifiicicm linm eiiluiu to roll cluar o! hi- !<■ .... but not I "fore he bad let i bimark i.i me. But ior this I should now !:a\ ■■ I cell a bat tefiul Ilia -s oi pulp, 1 r l!;e boast weigh- nearly lour ton-." Air Cooke was severely bruised about the body, especially on ill" leg-. Hi.- left ear is hu-cr:,led beyond ivcogniliii'i. The ,1- lih:tlit was shot next: morning. A record of 93 convictions was prodili ed against an olfcndcr at tin* \\ ol-lil'gton-.Magist rate’s Couii recc-ntlv. doscpli doliuston. wiiv«' record it was. malic his !)!i!i. entrance into n (lock oil ti cliarge of drunkenness and ol stealing four pairs of woollen socks valued at 5s Id. the property ol James Smith. Ltd. On the charge ol drunkenness a tine of 5s was imposed, in default 21 hours' imprisonment: and on the cliarge of theft, to which a plea cl guilt V was entered, one numth’s hard labour was given the accuse'l, Why Air L. AI. 1-iit. A1.1’.. v• . rspats was told at the A.Af.C ..A. :u Vi cllington recently when a story was related of a man who said he bad no linm for Air l-itt, a - lie put on to t min u ‘‘swank.” ‘‘lit what way. ' came the quew. “tth he wear- ■-pal-.'' "But ! don’t- wear -pats .'or swank.” -aid Air pitt. "I wear them heeatr-e I have cold feet.” ‘‘Wind some ptopie obi'ioii-ly Utcnl to make tit un ically y ell, e.c.-rued ut" Rev .1. AV. Kemp at the A m klan.i Tabcrnavle. in speaking u:t ‘'S'Oiritua. Pleali.ig” was a ‘‘jolly good square incal.” Althotigii some people suiiei.'cd trot a overrating—ami he could cat “like a tanner” when necessary—many move suelirod from not eating enough. A little girl living at 'iVthury I.Glnu-cestcr-hire) owns a .iacudaw wnirli escort- her home from Mina:, every day. The bird leaves the house every day at mid-day. (lies across the town to the school, and waits oui.-ide until its young mi-tress comes.

The natives of Att ica are ciu ourngort to attend school by the alluring olier of a cow for every three years of study. As two cows enable the pnrelu.se ol n wife the inducement finds ready luvour. B.v the end of that time the fniits_i:d education are in evidence, stated Afi-s Owen, F.R.0.5.. at St Andrew’s Church. I’rdmerstou North.

All electrician, whose qualifications and practice are well known, in speaking to a representative of the Palmerston North “Times” of the prospects and possibilities of wireless development, said: “I am confident that within ten years we shall run an eleeirk motor on every farm without wires. Power will be broadcasted and even controlled as simply as we now transmit a concert.”

.Although the personnel ol the British Anuy and Navy is about 4(MfbO loss than in 1913-14, the annual cost to the country of these services is nearly £00,009,000 mere.

In cunnxtiou with the investigations into lead poisoning, tests have been made by arrangement with the Railway Department of a zinc compound a.s a substitute lor white lead. The result of the tests is so far in favour of the zinc compound, hut a further period is necessary before a conclusion tan ho reached. It is desired if possible to show that the substitute will he as 'lasting, of as good appearance, and as reasonable in cost a> paint containing ■white lead. No ease, of lead poisoning v.as reported last year, and only out the previous year throughout New Zealand.

Ivan Komarov and 10 oilier men have Leon arrested in Moscow on a charge el’ uiurdoiung during toe pas! iivn years no fewer than >i- men, all 'iiorsc-eer.lers. The allegation is that the victim, were hired to Komarov’s house under the protest that a deal in horsetlesh was to he completed, that they were given tea, and that, while Ihey were drinking it, their heads were haltered in with a sledge-hammer. Then ilieir bodies wore earrie.l to tiie river and thrown in the water. The police recently made a raid on the house, and found the In dy of a fresh victim winch had not been disposed of, blit the duel murderer fled, and was only captured after a chase. Ills eight-.venr-nhl son | told the police bow, when he asked Ins | father nhoul .some bloodstains, the fat Iter it;,!, him to a shed and hanged him, bis mot Iter only catling him down! jn-u in i iii:;'. Komarov, when arrested, is , aid io have made a confession and ■ lo have been ( vnhelly unmoved at th ■ accusation against him. n,i". •in; e nH aches lo a silver cross j ill !!,;• Citsbal;. if fl".> Gla-gow jj.jlice wliieii is valued at, a <|imner of a miilifr. i itil'ds. Nine hundred years old, it is supposed to have been stolen from a. rhntvb itt Italy. It '.ruts diseaveivd exposed for sale in ti broker’s shop • i Glasgow in November. 1020, a couple of years tilt r a similar cross disappear? ed from the Italian church. Koccntly a Glasgow police inspector look the cross to Italy for identification purposes and with a view to getting evidence i n commission in view of the ease (nming nil in l lie Glasgow Kherill Court shortly, as il is; claimed by the church in llnl.v am! by an Italian. The Italian wis r. c ptlv extradited from l.oudon, as he was alleged to have stolen the cross. AI the court be slated that lie recovered it from the ruins after an ea rl li'pinkc. The little trollies, so beloved of the small hoy. came in for strong condom-, mil ion from Mi flu dice Heidnnin in tin- Auckland Supreme Court recently (spy, t’e ‘‘New Zealand Herald”). When summing un in a mamdaiiglder case, in which the accused was a motor driye 1 . Ilis Hnnniir said lie wondered at tee "inhorli.: - os 00l stopping the use of ihe I robies (.11 the high roads. •Some day some iragetly will happen,*’ s c! ]!i llonooi'. “as sine as we sit here. T! c-e small hoys zig-zag about f ■ road, and run out from behind a car. and e motorist is in a constant ■ tar. (,!' worry lest, he run over one of iho-'o children." ts&xvexMaimMaracnttsnsam