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Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1926, Page 3

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Australia & N.Z. Cablo Association.) MUSICIAN DEAD. SYDNEY, Sept. 3. Obituary.—Algernon Undo, pianist and musician, aged sixty-four. A COMING FLY. (Received this day at 0.0 a.m.'. SYDNEY, Sept. 3. Ft is stated the Italian aviator f)e Pinedo has altered his plans for a world llight cabled on 7th June. Instead of flying west will'd across the Atlantic to America he. will circle Africa and then fly across Iraq, Persia, India and Australia, to New Zealand then via East Indies, China, Japan, Kuril© Islands, Aleutian Islands, North and South America across the Atlantic to Spain, thence to Italy. WRIT FOR. DAMAGES. SYDNEY, Sept. 3. As Mr Bruce was entering Port Adelaide Town Hall, prior to embarking on tho steamer Moollhn for London, a private detective acting on behalf of a firm of solicitors served upon him a writ, understood to he for £SOOO sterling in connection with a claim for damages for alleged slander, instituted hy Searle, secretary of the Sydney branch of the witersiders union. N.S.W. -HARVEST. SYDNEY. August 20. While it is rather early to venture in estimate of the coming harvest in Vow South Wales, the Agricultural Department is of the opinion, assuming that the spring weather is favourable. that the 11)20-27 harvest should yield at least 40,000,000 bushels of wheat. There is every possibility, however, that these figures will he exceeded. A factor pointing to a good yield is that, apart from generally, good germination and excellent growfc 1 of the crops, the subsoil has been thoroughly saturated with moisture, and that no heavy demand was made on the fertility of the soil last season, owing to so many iig'it eropfc. The soil is therefore regarded as being in a fit condition for heavy yields. Ihe outlook generally is very bright. The thing that strikes one in the country districts in New South Wales is the phenomenal growth of feed everywhere. In the western portion if the State this is especially noticeable. Everywhere there is a veritable riot of herbage. With the illimitable expanse of rich feed in the far west one cannot help contrasting the fact. that across the border, in Queensland, tho ravages of drought, are making themselves felt. Though the Upper Hunter the herbage has been so phenomenal in its growth as to he not without anxifcty to dairymen and farmers. 10/ses, due to "lioven” and other causes being rather severe. SPECIAL COURT. SYDNEY, August 17. The Chief Secretary for New South Wales. Air Lazzarim, is favourable to a “Cafeteria” Traffic Court, according to the N.R.M.A.. which, in conjunction with other motoring bodies, recently had a heart-to-heart talk with the Minister on the. subject of motorists' grievances. A!r Tnzzarmi has announced that Traffic Superintendent Turbet has sii i mitted a report showing that during one mouth nearly 11.000 cases wei ? handled in n special bureau in Detroit, while ('SOO went throng'', the court in the ordinary way. Both the Superintendent and Minister agree that Sydney could introduce the innovation with all-round advantage. “ I see no reason why motorists, who mostly are respectable citizens, should be obliged to wait around with t>e flotsam and jetsam that crowd into the courts,” says Air Lazzarini. “Just bow far the Minister for Justice is prepared t„ go in the matter of establishing a Special Traffic Court 1 am unable to say at the moment.” he added. " hut shall immediately take up the matter with 'him. In any case. > think arrangements can he made for a magistral to tie detailed for the treatment of traffic eases in a more expeditious manner, quite separately Iron, the business of the ordinary courts.’ So that it looks as if the agitation to have the hoary system ol P'd'ce court jurisdiction in minor traffic cases thrown into the discard is at last to get sympathetic consideration here.

PH ETT JEST ANKLE. SYDNEY, August 26. For the women in Sydney with any pretensions to physical beauty, ami with the courage to acclaim to the world their advantages over their less fortunate sisters in that respect, there is an extraordinary field. Not content with its competitions for the most beautiful woman, for the woman with the best head of long hair, am fn. the most captivating Or-toLer biicle Sydney is now trying to fim girl with the prettiest loot and ankle. A competition, hist by the way of. change, for tf'e man in Sydney mth. S . IV 'the most beautiful whiskers, or sa'v’ the most perfectly bald head would at least let the women see that thev have not the field entirely themselves. Perhaps it will come. They do some eccentric things in a lug city.