NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 889, 8 September 1910, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Among the spectators at a football match between Bradford and Euroa —Victoria —was a pet cockatoo, which amused the crowd by flying above the players, and finally watching the game from the oval fence, repeating “Buck up Bradford !’’ “Chem’m up Euroa !” impartially, in echo to the cries of the human barrackers Our vernal equinox, which is of course the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, marks the beginning of spring, and takes place at 1 minute past 10 in the morning of the 24th inst., when the sun enters the signs Libra, the first of those on the southern side of the ecliptic. The length of our day is consequently increasing rapidly, as on the Ist it was nhrs. i6min., and on the 30th will be X2hrs. cmin.

A remarkable reason for divorce recently came before the Court in Chicago. It was a plea of a man seeking divorce from his wife. He said that he wanted a divorce because his wife set plates on the table at each meal for the deceased members of her family, and, not satisfied with this, she held imaginary conversations with the deceased during each meal, the conversation generally relating to the cooking of the menu or to striking incidents in the lives of these relatives. The man averred that these uncanny proceedings got on his nerves. The Archbishop of York, the Right Rev. Dr. Cosmos Gordon Lang, preaching last Sunday at a special service attended by members of the British Association at Sheffield, said the quarrels between religion and science were now confined to a comparatively few of those who might be termed camp followers. True science was concentrating itself on its own subject matter. It was becoming impressed by the mysteries involved in the ultimate causes and origin of life and the meaning of the human spirit. Religion also was recognising its limitations, and abandoning the claim to prescribe God’s methods of governing the world.

The Animals Protection Amendment Bill introduced in Parliament by the Hon. D. Buddo, has been circulated. It proposes to absolutely prohibit the use of cylinders for duck or other game shooting, godwits excepted, from the present provisions relating to the closed seasons for game. Power is to be given to the Minister to giant permission to any person to hold native game for a longer period than seven days after the end of the shooting season, but such permission will not authorise the killing of any native game after the season ends. . The authority to take acclimatised animals or birds for distribution to some other country is to be extended to include native game. Power is given to the Minister to authorise under such conditions as are fit, the introduction of animals into New Zealand for the purpose of exhibition only, whether in a zoological garden or a travelling menagerie.