NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 854, 18 June 1910, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

“I find a great difficulty in persuading people who are newly arrived from Home to go to church, especially Scotch people,” remarked the Moderator of Wellington Presbytery, the Rev R. Inglis, during a brief discussion on Tuesday on the subject of meeting and welcoming newcomers on arrival there. “But Scotch folk are not worse than others, are they?” enquired the Rev W. Shirer. ‘‘l don’t know,” Mr Inglis replied, “ but my experience would seem to show that they are. ” He added that people would come out and settle practically next door to the church, yet would resolutely refuse to attend its services.

A paragraph in the Melbourne Argus puts the humble necessary cow in a new and rather objectionable light. Recently, several persons residing at a boardinghouse drew the Stawell Borough Council’s attention to a nuisance caused by the repeated mooing throughout the night of a cow in an adjoining yard. The matter was reported to the Health Inspector, who replied as follows : —‘‘As regards the mooing of the cow, I have made a pathological examination of the animal, and from information received as to its peculiarities, find that the quadruped, like many bipeds, suffers from a particular physical failing commonly known as snoring. I have spoken to the owner, who has promised me that in future this cow will not be allowed to dine so freely before retiring tor the night, and, in consequence of this, I do not think there need be any fear that for some time, at least, the cow and her dissatisfied neighbours will not be able to enjoy the benefit of a peaceful slumber.

A lively scene ensued outside the Miners’ Union Hall, Waihi, on Wednesday night on the conclusion of what was termed a “vaudeville entertainment.” Posters of a company with a good repute had been displayed, but when the curtain rose to a good house it was explained that the members of the company advertised had not arrived. The principal asked the audience whether they would go on, and received a reply in the affirmative. The performer and his wife endeavoured to keep the audience amused and entertained, and secured assistance from another person, who sang and recited. The audience bore it all goodtrmouiedly, but a finale in the sh tpe of an alleged farce proved too much for their fortitude and patience. When the curtain was hurriedly lowered, the audience congregated outside, and made a demonstration which would have developed into a riot had it not been tor the timely intervention of the police. The female performer was escorted to her lodgings by the police, but the male, after secreting himself in the hall for an hour, took his departure through a window and over a fence.