NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1923, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

BEDS IX MOTOR-CARS. LONDON. Ads;. -1. Net since i lie win- bus tlu re boon such a large number of English aid over-.-ea- vistors to Edinburgh as at prosent. Hotel accommodation lias been taxed to its utmost limits. Olio lintel proprietor stated that every bedroom ill the bate! had been booked since the beginning of dune til. Ovt iber Ist., and in ois> - where lie bad been unable to send tourists to smaller hotels be bad advised those traveiling in motor-cars to proceed to such iesorts as Perth. Glcnengles, or the I rosThe motor tourist traffic has developed enormously. During the present season there lias been a constant stream .•I motor-coaches !rom all parts of r.n ;- kmd to Edinburgh . Those tourists a? a rl ,lo stav for one nr two nights m the , itv and there have to be added to the regular Mow of visitors requiring Hotel iiocommodation. Manv motorists touring Motlaml travel in hapv-go-lucky style, and when thev cannot get a bedroom in pk>; s like Edinburgh content themselves cult m meal at an hotel or restaurant and sleep in their cars. NEW AXIMAEA AND BIRD.--. LONDON. Aug. Id. Strange now birds and animals were described yesterday by Mr G. T-. Bates, the naturalist, who has spent more than 25 years in and about Cameroon, West Africa, and has returned with a collection of rare birds, specimens of which are now in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. ■•j have gone away sometimes into the forest with live or six ‘hoys,’ ” he told a Daily Mail reporter yesterday. “They enter into the spirit of collecting, and carry their cross-bows with them. "7 am returning to Alriea in a few weeks to find some more birds. 1 want t„ go back to the mountainous country where I was on my last trip. On that occasion 1 got specimens of birds which have never been seen in any collections, and T hope this time to get more. “The best bird I got was a Touracn, belonging to an African family like the cuckoo. It lias a long tail and brilliant metallic plumage. "I found the only known hairy frog, which has been christened at. the museum Ti'ieliobatraclois. I also found the biggest known frog.