NEWS AND NOTES

Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1923, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES

"I really do not think there are many of us George \\ asningtoii." remarked Mr Justice Reed amidst laughter. during a criminal trial in Wellington recently. A court ollii.ial al Kkctahmm ey pres—ed the opinion that less hu-iiei-s wa being done in the I'.ki'tabuna Magi I art e’s Court of lute than in any oilier court in tlie Dominion. “New Zealand pos-e.-se- sniuc ol the finest, scenery in the world." .-lilted Mr li. L. Wigley in the ceiirse oi hi- leetoi".* on .Mi.mil Cook at Palmerston North, “lull iiiifortiimitel.v it is not stillieioiitly advertised in otlmr counIriex" Jean (.blent ill. aged -15, nfdci'ed lnwil'i to throw lier-eli liiio 'be Seine Pari- -the couple were on the l aid'.- oi tlm river near Notre Dame. A d'-i"e-tive. dressing alter l aving i.ikmi a dip in tin* liver, overheard the mail say io the woman she mii-t pay the penalty for her infidelity. She I.licit m beg bis forgiveness, crying. “I don I vaid I" die." But the man was obdurate, and was about to throw her in when I In* detective seized him and bound him with a wet towel. “The whole 1 >v i- one '. ho call h" as ii- keen nn art a- on s*rie»u—: a- K"'T* nil crndieE and football a- no hi- studies. Snell a buy will * man not _ in tin* w ol'ld tind be a pcl'so a lily. Cm peculiarly *■! Lrili-b d-velnpim-nl imental nlorliie--. 11l all things a w id" education proiui--'- l Hat elm melon.— tir." —Profes.-ir Sir llerl.erl Jackson, ill opening the new science buddings at King's School, ( aulerburv. "Ii i.- ridiculous Ur two children such as von. having found yoiit'-elves mari'ied, in he onmiic.' hi r ■ ior a

parat mu order." said the Ma.ioroi Oldham in the local police court, to Edam | .unban. and his wife, v ho arc both under 17. The girl charged her husband with persistent cruelly since shortly alter their marriage las! December. She said they had one child. Ihe pail were told to go home and make up their differences. Chemically pure water is dangerous to drink, according to the declaration of a number of !• rem !i navy surgeons who have been making caroiul ime.-li-gations. Alter so much bits been said during the last decade about tec oauger of impure water, such a declaration sounds nine.‘-I piv, est‘ rae. ; .vet these French navy surgeons give logical reasons wl l v there i- danger in drinking chemically pur" water, 'to make v atei chemically pure it inis to he disiilicu. and the coin iniied use ol distilled water as a I leverage reduces tne strength of the physical organism (snvs 1 1 1 • ■ ‘‘ I : 1 11 Mall Gazette") heeaose. while it is live freiu all germ-, it contains nothing hut uxvgeti and hydrogen. I he mineral saltare left behind during the process ot distillation, and the mineral salts are really indispensable. “Mai new dress has liraown streps." That is what Mr •!. Y\ . Shaw. M.A.. heard a young woman say the other (lav. s,, lie told his audietieo at the ••Value of Education" meeting at Auckland. “Did you ever kcar anythin"' inure vulgar and ignorant: a-k----ed the speaker. There were seine people in New Zealand v.ho considered themselves as hearing the east ol Wide \ ere when they spoke in tins olien>ive mutilation of the Oxlord hieat. They thought themselves avluily siini.t. vet iheir mispronoiim muon ol the dqdiilnmgal sounds was much more ntfellsive than the dropping of tile "h bv the Cockney. This vulgar a tied alion was driving smile people to the opposite extreme, since they were at ran. that bv proper pronunciation t niielit be mistaken as belonging to the affected type. Unfortunately t.ieiv were academies in New Zealand wbo existed for the cole purpose of G’aclmig the voting to speak in an a.leitci ■‘ini. „er ' It the two fault - mentioned count 1, . eradieated New Zealand a; ». ‘ would speak the purest Enghs.i tu the ~ since we had no climatic dts.l • lilies conducive t' l a muni :U ' l ' olU 01 anv otiier peculiarity.