NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 946, 26 January 1911, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

“IVoping Tom” was caught in the acton the St. Kihla beach, Dunedin, a few night* ago. Through the lupins he was spying the ladies enjoying a bathe. Some young fellow* who wore not far oil' caught the intruder and inflicted such a summary drubbing that ho roared for mercy.

There is a little colony of descendants of old whalers now living on Campbell Island, comprising such well-known name*, of sixty or seventy years ago, as tile liebberleys. Jacksons, Nortons, Booths, Cooks, etc. Mrs Cook, wife ot the superintendent of the whaling station. lias also gone to the. Island, and will be the first woman to make an extended .-lay there.

The steamer Tnrakina. brought an tinn^uali\ large' package. from Umiloii to l.ytli'ltom It. was a. huge wooden crate, containing the ilium ot a. new meter for the Christchurch Gas Company. The. drum weighs about four tons, measuring 13ft.. 6in. by 12 feet, in diameter. While not, too high far the Lyttelton tunnel when placetl on the. truck, it. was tori wide, and it will probably have to be t raiisported over tbe hill on a trolly .

“Idleness,” remarked the Bishop of Carlisle, in a recent addre.ss, "is a- curse, but. idleness of the rich is a greater curse titan idleness ot ll to poor, and unemployment ol the poor is Jess harmful titan unemployment ol the rich.” The. bishop also referred to I lie fact that, in the old Jewish Church there wars a law that each boy had to learn a- trade, lie wished there was some such law in Tinglaml to-day.

in many districts in Poverty Bay, Californian thistle is declared U> hi; spreading with alarming rapidity, inert; particularly along the banks ot Urn rivers. One settler is taking etfective steps to eradicate tin' weed over his extensive property by ('tilling it down pretty close to titt' ground ami covering the severed stems with a heavy layer ol salt, considerably over one bnntired lons being ret|uiiett for the purpose.

Say.-, tin l Ttinimtki Daily News: Tin; Xorlii Taranaki branch <>f the Jersey llreeders’ Association la\ours the introduction ot n. system of -eore-carils lor judges at agricultural shows, ami lias st'tl a resolution to tins cited, at a recent, meeting. A member of me Association relates in support ol tbe movement an interesting example ot llie present system ot judging, which inn I come turner In- notice. A Iteal B at l.’almeistou Aon h (a metropolitan show, lie was taret til to remind us); B beat G at, LLawera; and lo’. C beat. A at, Stratford 1

There wit,- tt very sptti-M’ attendance ut Mary*, at ttic meeting held in llteCounetl ( handlers. .Auckland, tins week, called bn- the purpose ol making I lie necessary arrangements iu connection with the proposed Coronation gifts lo tjneeii Mary by the Marys, .Miinme. .Mays, and Marthas ot tlio lintisli Lniptre. Miss Hagnail presided, and suggested that, the schoolmasters of the province be askod to cob leet the donations. Kventnally the meeting was adjourned until next. Tuesday in order that, the movement might become more widely known.

A T;i ran tiki .Magistrate. Mr Kenrick, recently touk occasion to animadvert niton the too common practice of applying for adjournments in judgment, summons case*, to which he look strong exception. In his opinion eases of this kind should be brought 111 a head immediately, and tin applieal ion slioulo not be made for an. order unless it was intended lo go on with it. lie did not think it was fair to the debtor lo keep the matter hung up iudeliiiitely. lie reminded those whom he was Specially addressing that a judgment summons is issued to show that a debtor has the nigans lo pay, aud when tl is so shown, ami the debtor fails to obey the order of the Court, he is imprisoned for contempt of that, order —not tor the debt.