NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1928, Page 8

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

DEMAND FOB DOMINION TOBACCO Canada’s tobacco exports are growing steadily, and ' last year nearly ".()()(),0001 !> of Canadian tobacco was out into British pipes and cigarettes, •\s compared with about 17 0,0001 b in 19*21. An important factor in the expansion of the British market has been the preferential tariff of 'l9 cents per lb granted by the Mother Country.

MAYOR AS BARMAN

The Mayor of .Barnstaple! recently acted as barman at Barnstaple Guildhall and bulled out beer, specially '•rewed by corporation officials in ac'•ordanco with an ancient secret recipe, from massive silver bowls into loving cups for distribution among the assemble Great crowds tried to get in. This fund ion, known as the Toast and Ale Ceremony, marks the opening of a three days’ fair.

LONDON’S FINK HIDDEN DOME. The English possess the second largest dome in the world, but hide if so that its tine exterior is not to he seen. This is the dome of the British Museum Library. A visitor tried to find a glimpse of the dome from outside. But it was not until, from the top of Drury l.ane, looking towards Bloomsbury, ho saw an are against the skyline, and discovered it to be a sogement. of the dome.

PURSUED BY HIS BAIT. A West Somerset fishermen dug out a wasps’ nest, after poisoning the wasps, and took it home to use the gnlbs as bait. He put the nest inside tho oven ready for the next time he wanted to go fishing. A few days later he hard a buzzing coming from the oven. When he opened the door thousands oi wasps Hew out. The fishermen made a beeline for t*ic dooi, with his dog and cat close on his heels.

THE OSTRICH POLICEMAN. A policeman at Tower Bridge Court said that he saw some hoys playing cards and went home and put on an ••Id coat and waistcoat, and blackened his face. He then went hack, and when he got near them a woman standing by shouted “Hi, hoys! Here cimes the copper.” Air Campion, the magistrate: How did she know you were a podice officer? Policeman: I had my uniform trousers on. Mr Cam i,ion: You wore like the proverbial ostrich. Because you had blackened vour head you forgot that the eagle eye of a woman would pick out youi police trousers.

A FAMOUS PUGTLTSTS’ RESORT. Long Reach Tavern, on the Thames below "Woolwich, has witnessed more historic prize-fights than any other house in outer London. I lie tahh which used to serve as a strctehei foi the victim of a knockout may still ho seen there, and the tiny cove is pointed out where a boat used to lie hidden ready to convey the principals across to the Essex shore when the alarm wa* given by watchers on the river wall of the approach of the police. Old lose dents love to tell how Jem .Mace went there to fight his great battle with Jo (loss, and how none recognised Him until he put his huge black-pickle-’ hands up to his ’face to hide a grin.

peer for boat crfav. The Rev. T)r Courtenay Weeks, a’ the opening of tlm national conference of the Hand of Hope Union at Northampton, read a letter from the score tarv of the Oxford University Boat Club condemning the use of alcoholic drinks in training. At the time of I’>last boat race, he said, he wrote to tlm seet'otary of the Ox’ford crew asking him whether alcohol was obligatory in training, and. if so. what were U physical indications on which it wa • Emod. 'the answer was that it was mu obligatory, but was customary. ‘ 1 personally/’ wrote the secretary, “ am ..hc+.liner, and took no alcohol during/training, and No. 7 was also an ab-