NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1923, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

At a football match at Pahiatua an amusing incident happened. On a line out a player in the Bush team, secured the leather, was swung completely round, and then dashed brilliantly for his own goal line, some 40 yards distant, lie had travelled some o', yards in tins fashion, who'll the referee, equally astounded with the onlookers, so far forgot himself as to deem it a ease for the whistle. Realising immediately, however, that ihe mistake was his, he promptly awarded a free kick to Hawke’s Bay.

A Wanganui lady recently sent to relatives in the Old Land a price ’i" for beef published by a local butch :i> firm (states an exchange). By ’art mail she received a London price hst, giving the following pricesßillet beef 2s Bd, rump steak 2s B<l, sirloin Is 11s, ribs Is lid, top side Is Bd. Ilrnk is, stewing steak Is !kl, gravy feel Is Id, brisket Rid.

A return prepared by the registiai (Mr R. O’Shea in connection with the representation of Auckland l nitetsity at the British Empire Exhibition ufxi year, strikingly illustrates the increased prestige of the northern seat (A learning (states the “Mar’). In 1912 Auckland Cuiversify had hut 510 students. 1n,1922 the number had more than doubled, reaching the total of 1045. There were only 10 men graduates in 1912; lasi year there were 42. It is peculiar, however, that only nine women students graduated in 1922, whereas the same number took their degrees a decade ago. Educational experts consider that: great as has keen the growth of Auckland University in the past decade it "as as nothing to the advances that will have been made in every direction by 1932.

Conspicuous for a beautiful tnr c-oat was the occupant who sat: in solitary state in a dross circle seal at llis .Majesty's Theatre, Dunedin, last Saturday night, lending car to .lean Gerard's memorable playing of an old Hebrew chant—a model of absorbed appreciation. The sympathy of the audience ('says the “Otago Daily Times’’), was not upon the side of tlio usher who at the close of the item, literally bundled the listener out <>i the auditorium to the accompaniment of a protest no louder than the finest pianissimo of the artist's 'cello. No whisper of scandal has been raised, but who shall say that a cat lias no soul for music?