NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1924, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

An Klthain soft ponds lirm lias keen trouiilcd hy visitations from rats. The diet they principally favoured was trouser buttons. They did no injury to the cloth, hut had :i preat appetite tor buttons, which, heinp made of casein, were digestible. 'Jraps set with huttous for bait proved deadly.— “Ar-as”. "The linker is not merely the servant, lie is the slave of the public,” remarked a witness before tho Arbitration Court, Wellington. “What public demands they have to supply. ’I hoy ask for fresh bread, and then arises the question of night baking.”

“I smoke .something like ten cigarettes a day, and each time l take a match from this holder f will he reminded of the returned soldiers of Christ-hurt h,” said L.od dellieoe. in at Vv-.ov h d-in- a. •. re.-e-nlati' n t.f a greenstone luateh-lndiler. made to him at the ex-service, men’s farewell.

The last shipment of honey for the season, consisting :.T HH* eases, was despatched from Waiigam i lor J.oudoL hy the Tail. a. Tie honey was drawn from the sin roumlin- distriil of Wanganui, ami as far away as Jdlt!i:im. A total of 1M!0 eases of honey have been exported from Wanpan. i ibis season, the fiist shipment of approximately 7UH eases being sent to the Home market .some three or four months ago.

Celestials are entering into many walks id' life in New Zealand, and are now | eiielvatln- into the building trade. ' A few days ago a Chinaman appiicd for entrance to the Carpenter's I'nion in Dunedin, hut he has not yet been ollieially received. 'I he applicant hails I font Hiiruia. and has kTciciiccs of which any New Zealander might- h_> 1 loud.

“Von don’t .suggest the man was malingering I .suppose," a medical witness was asked by Air Justice Eraser at the Arbitration Court. Wellington, during the heating of a compensation ease. “Well 1 am not sure that lie has ever shown enough intelligence to malinger.” was the reply. “Von arc a refreshing witness,” 11 is lliiuuir remarked. as tile- medko stepped from the witness box.

A protest against the provision in the Mai hours Act, w hereby the (Jovornment is exempted from payment of wharfage and stoiage on goods which it imports was loutained in a remit ] rest .ileil by Na; ier to tho conference of the lintlmur Hoards' Association, hast year, said the chairman, .Mr H. .Mil -hell, tlte Wellington llarh'.nir Hoard had paid a special tax in iliis way of I'KUIHO. Th'.s was not fair as the i eople who were heiielitiu- hy the-e ini; nidations wew avoiding the taxation on then, whili was being .-.houlde.e.l in to the Marhour Hoards. Th" remit on I ein- ] lit to the meeting. was carried.

Deference to the enormous amount of goods impicled into New Zealand )er medium el’ parcels | ost was made hy .Mr .1. (!. Darkness (Wellington) at the llaiTuur Hoard's Confeiem e. r i he less to Harbour Hoards in being un;,me to 11. Meet wharfage on such goods was, he said, very considerable. In I!i2g’. .■’('“.(lull panels wine brought iu.

el.d ibis year, at the funnel rate of increase, the limn' er would lie not le.-s than ■'IO.MGII. He moved that mer-e!i:imli-e |er |:tr. e! I os| should pay her-oiir dues. Tin- ehuirmaii. .Mr (l. .Mill liell. viid that the Wellington ]l;irlii ii j r Heaid iiae.l list UIIILO on dues 1.-'-l veer hy thi- Cleans. The mol ion was carried.

Wla-ii a inaii was charged in the Foil,,- Coni". Wanganui, with nllowiiig hi, li-ii- to w.inoh-i-. it was explained Dial the niitlil-l! had ooiv one -eve. -,:i!

il wa-. a dillieillt mallei' lo keep it in a | addork. The defendant intimated tliat he was endeavouring to distil ,e of the horse. “I imagine that if ihi- ease i, report, d in full il will red net- the hoi's,-', selling value." jocularly remarked Mr Hailon. S.M.. “you ll.nl heiti r s.-e that the, name of the d fi-atlanl i- s-uppres'sed. Mr l-'ear." I I.anghter. i Alter the fuels of lilts ease had hi-en lieanl. 11 i v Wol sliip <lis-nii-sed the information, adding a word of advice to the d -fondant to the effect that he had lel lor got the horse :> long wav from Wanganui if In- do- - red to .-ell it.

There me live ivniarkahle examples of longevity recorded iu re: cut doin' net ices at Dunedin, throe of the.-.,- be-

ing nonagenarians, one an octogenarian. and amither a septuagenarian (says mi e.xi h.-iiige). Mr Henry Cameron. of Dunedin, Mrs Jane Irvine, of Koslvn. mid Mr At.drew (icnrgo Seotl, of ISroa-.I Hay. were e:r-h aged Ml’ years, and Mr James (itegory. of Malania, and Mr John l-'revv. of Dunedin, were aged M 7 and 7H years respectively. Their total ages amounted to l-H veins, making the average a little over S'! years surely a iv.-ord liial has not • ic-t-n ex, ceded for '-ome t.iute. AH: Andrew Scott was a veiy well known ideniily. liaviug settled in Hmad Hav close on dll year, ago. He Icavv'S a widow and nno son.

T he qiie-tiun , ( the utility or futility nf il'ininiiiig lights on nioti.-r-cars was to. c-hed up, o during the healing of an aci.ani lor damages at the .Magi Linle'.s Conn at Auckland (-tales nil exchange:. Mr |-'. K. Hunt. 5.. M.. u-liimked. “I am not sure that this dimming of lights i.s any good. I have held three iuqne.sLs on people who uoti.d he alive to-day it . the cars had head light.,.”

The pleasure of having four sons in diii'erout representative l’ugby teams, and three a: lively engaged on Sjaturdny, is enjoyed l,v Mr F. H. l!o----biiliard (says the ‘■Ashburton Guardian"). Alan llohilliatd was on the water a.s a New Zealand iepresentative All Black. Neel was with the Canterbury iepr,-.s;iiialive team again-t (Jingo j Ja;k distinguished Linitelf as an Ashlmrton County rejire-.-c-ntative against J’eninsuln. and Guy played in the liial game for the seleetien of pu-imary .schools’ representatives on the shovvgrenmts.

The instiai t of the pet red that frequents our sea-shores is remarkable (remarks the •‘Xortli Otago Times"'). A i lou.gliiiig mateh at Thipakaio, which W'u , being behl throe or four miles from the loach, bad hardly eeinmeiitc-d when a mtmhef of these birds appeared upon tho scene in search of grubs ami worms.

One rauicul.tr feature of iho now Tnmaki (DaiiiiL-virko) factory is the whey vat and drains, constructed of beautiful polished ijiles. The vat' (says an exchange), i.s like a huge tank constructed below floor level, and is capable of holding about OCOO gallons. firing 5P feet- long. 4J feet wide, and H feet deep, Tt is the largest of its kind in the Dominion.

Even the auctioneers have caught the lootball disease (remarks the Wanganui ‘Chronicle”). The other flay 15 “All Black" lambs were sold at Addington. “Champions of the world!” yelled the persuasive knight of ' the hammer. They were sold at a really good price.

Hubert. Constable, a mechanic, of Kiltan St reel, Ikittaiseh, ivas fined CIO with £.j os casts at the South-Wextern l'ulice Court fur brutal• treatment of his <l l i 1 <l l cmi. Scale of the evidence {riven by the children was that he lashed his lourteen-ye ir old sun to the table, thrashed him with a licit, and rubbed salt on the wounds; held his ld-vear c-Id bay by the heels and swung him round the room. Ids head I. :i in pi l i;.t the Hour; struck his eight-year-old girl, blacking both her eyes. It was stated that arrangements would be made to remove the children from Constable’s care, 'When a letter came before the- 'Wanganui County Council, asking it to support the daylight saving proposal, a farmer member remarked (rep,arts the “Herald”): ‘‘lt is about all we tan save nowadays.’’

"The English eggs are absolutely the dirtiest eggs that ! saw marketed in I. uidoii.” said Mr .1. 11. -Merritt in the course i [ an address to poultry tanners in Onmuru (stale-, ike "Xurth Otago Times"). Mr .Merritt -ai l that he lbor.uiit m thing e mid l e in nv humiliating to the English people engaged bi tin* industry than to svo the Dutch and Dullish products realising 1(1 or oil pel dozen mart- in the winter time than the English egg.

An Auckland resident owning several seaside buiigahii's r.iently received from the council (barges lor water used. Eor (He bouse "exies.s” exceeding £d. for another “oxic-s” exceeding The house owner (relates the "Star") decided to inspect the water meters. One was a foot below firm ground. bad no dial, and resembled n 'thing but nkl irons, not having h-eu ononed. or seen, for some years. The second was nearly oft, deep under growing plants, was in fair order, but recorded a minimum (|ttiin tity ol water (oii-umed. Ibe je-i* dent and bouse owner are inquiring upon what basis water (-barges are assessed.