INTERESTING ITEMS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 311, 12 November 1910, Page 3

INTERESTING ITEMS.

Aerogen gas was on exhibition on Wednesday and Thursday in a shop in Rora street, Te Kuiti, Messrs Philips and Pike, the Wellington agents, showing it. It is a pure white light, of intense brilliance and it is said to be non - poisonous, non - explosive, adapted to cooking, power, heating and lighting, and cheap. It is one of the many forms of air-gas now on the market, being much like the Dreadnought gas, but richer in petrol, and has been extensively installed in Germany, Holland, Britain and America.

"New Zealand looks pretty good to me," says a Wanganui resident just returned from a visit to America. "I have met many New Zealanders in my travels, all doing well, but their eyes are ever turned towards their island home, and, without exception, ali intend coming back soon. There is no place like New Zealand for a New Zealander. Life is so pleasant in this land, and conditions of labour so well adjusted that a New Zealander is spoiled for residence in Canada or America."

The following incident in connection with the Anglican Mission speaks for itself, says the Christchurch "Press." One of the missioners having occasion to have his watch repaired, a friend took it into the shop of a well-known Socialist. On the missioner'3 friend subsequently calling for the watch, and asking how much the cost would be, the watchmaker replied: "As he is a missioner, I shall not charge anything for my work."

A party of Boy Scouts from England has been visiting Canada. The boys were welcomed everywhere, and at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, Indians gave them lessons in scouting, tracking and hunting.

The efforts of the charming young ladies who sell pretty things at bazaars, says the "Lyttelton Times,'' are looked upon sometimes with suspicion, but sometimes they can proclaim thp pievits of theiv wares quite frankly. Two young ladies at the Ambulance Bazaar became perfectly honest when a young man had refused for the fifteenth time to subscribe sixpence towards the purchase by the method usual to bazaars of a cushion of seductive appearance. "It is really worth fifteen shillings," they said. "But why?" queried the young man. "Because it cost us fourteen and sixpence to make," was th,a crushing reply.

An exhibition of boring postholes took place recently in Queensland. The inventor of the machine is MiFrank Hazelvvood, a Victorian farmer, who recently settled in the brigalovv scrub at YVarra, Queensland. Mr got tiyed of % sinking post holes in the slow old way, so he sat down and thought out a patent, and constructed out of old pieces of scrap iron about the place. Judging by the success of the exhibition, the machine promises to revolutionise the expense and labour of erecting fence 3in Australia The machine in question is just in its crude state, and has just completed boring the holes for eight milea of fencing on Mr Hazelwood's section. The machine which is driven by a six horse power motor engine, sank innumerable holes 2ft oin (Jeep, and Join in diameter, in 25 second. It is claimed for the machine that it wiil do the work of ten men in one day, and that by it threequarters of a mile of fencing can be erected per day.