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Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1928, Page 4

Howls is a most decorous frame. Those who play it will tell yon that the first trial of the season is accompanied by certain creak mgs of unaccustomed joints and followed hy pains an ' ill-conditioned muscles. On this testimony, it must he allowed tc>' rank as an athletic exercise, tint the uninstrneted observer, watching its leisurely progress on a halmy summer afternoon, would hardly think so. There is nothing violent about bowls—no concentrated and colossal swipe as at the little white hall, no leaping here, there and everywhere over the playing areas as in tennis, no ferocious hurling of a hard crick'd, hall that might easily black one’s eye. Yet though women play all these lierce and strenuous games, there is objection to their j uning in t’’c dignified movements of the howling green, to which we are sere, given a little en- . cnurageinenl. (key would impart all (he (mui'Uv grace o ! an Iflh 'euturc minuet, Tim “leeds Mercury.” Tin-' nor.i; in>u. The sensational gold discoyrias in New -Guinea. or I’apra, as the world’s largest island is vari-a-ly ceded, sc-m likely to develop into a second Kh-ndyke, and to-day the adventurous from all ends of the earth are ionverging upon its mysterious shores. The call of virgin gold is irresistible, and sounds more imperatively than than of any bugle in the ears of those whose nature is attuned to hear it and s 1 the answering hordes of frenzied gold-rushers will sweep away the last remaining mist clouds that still linger over the least known part of the British Empire. I'litil recently the discovery of gold in any hitherto unexplored part did not occasion much comment. The news spread quickly enough amongst the miners on the settled fields, and. by some mysterious means of native transmission, reached the prospecting parties in the most distant mountain gorges. 11l time these who were discontented with their luck where they happened to he would gravitate towards ilia scene of llie new lind and thence, on again later when news of the next discoverv percolated by the last camp. The authorities preferred this means ol workin". always (’eprecs.t ing a rush,

any win l ! c, as anv large* movement of mi'll with the gold hunger would likely lead to trouble will] the natives. The experienced Xe-.v fitiinea prospector seldom gave reasons for any native unpleasantness, hut. unfortunately, invariably alter the sensational reports ol some new discovery had reached the cities of Australia and

elsewhere there was an influx of men fired with the desire for sudden fortune. and not caring much how they got it.—T{. M. Macdonald, in tiro “Corn hi 11 Magazine.”