NEWS BY MALL.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1925, Page 4

NEWS BY MALL.

- "ONOAH’S AI!K .MAh LONDON, May 17. Two robins, displacing the rightful toy inhabitants of a child’s Noah's Ark at St. James’s House, South Leigh, near Witney. Oxford, made their nest therein. Before making ihe nest the robin and his mate moved the 60 cr 00 woodon animals from the ark and placed them in various parts of the disused nursery, and the hen bird laid .six eggs. Yesterday the ruck bird was sitting on the eggs- the fourth day in succession. The owner of the house. Miss 7). Watson, hopes that there will soon ho a fa mil v cl noisy robins to reign where wooden toys on: e held sway. The choice of such a nest ing-|da: e is the more remarkable because the only access to the room is through a ,-mall hole in. one v indow. and the door ol (he room had been baked. Ihe birds always make their entrance and exit hv the hole. Many of the wooden animals belonging to the ark. although light, are nearly as big as the birds, but they have been Mattered about, tic- floor, or moved to high* window-ledges, and other s'lrpri- dig places. .MOTOR MOWKILS’ DKIIBY. LONDON, May 11. In their anxiety to prove that they have made the perfect motor law nniower 26 zealous manufacturers who entered machines in the lawn-mowers' Derby, orgaiii-cd by the Royal Horticultural Soeictv and run yesterday cr. pped many acres of Regent's Dark

well that it resembled a huge howling green. It was -ialed that the cricket grounds v.eie used "hv kind permission of lI.M. Cilice of Works.” Several spectators wanted to lenow whether they could kindly permit their lawns to he used for a preliminary heat for next year’s test. To the onlookers’ dismay tl'.cr-' was no lining up of the machines. no thrilling effort to get. nearest the rails, tin popular victory hv half a grass-bin or so. The machines pottered out of the paddock one |,v one and (usually began to crop an allotted square. In the paddock, a grassy hillock, were people who would concede that the smallest engine, one of It horse power loci nippiness; hut give them that. I o h.n. one for la-tine; power and ill) hesitation at the Dost. Many of the compel it >rs had to walk I. -liinil their machines. Solin' could sprawl cii ceulertahlo -rats. One young man in light summer attire looked so much at ease a- to suggest that motor lawn-mowing might one day supersede horse-riding in Hyde Park.