NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 986, 2 May 1911, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The teller at the Katoomba branch of the Commercial Bank of Australia was recently handed, amongst other paper money, a bank note for ,£2O, which bore a remarkable inscription on the obverse side. Apparently it was the confession of a spendthrift. It was in the following terms ; “This is the last of ,£20,000, which has been spent on wine, women, and gambling.—D.W.”

“Government auditors know very little about sheep,” remarked a member of a local body, when some exception was taken by the knight of the blue pencil to a sheep transaction, “ Why,” he continued, “at a Domain Board audit, the auditor could not understand why the Board owned fifteen sheep at the beginning of the year and twenty at the end of the year, without any being purchased in the interim !”

Wilbur Glenn Veliva, overseer and successor to the late John Alexander Dowie, at Zion City, is confident that at the April election he will regain the power wrested from him by the “independents” a year ago. In addressing a meeting of his followers in Zion Tabernacle recently he renewed his declaration of war against tobacco users, and said he would appoint a vigilance committee of prominent citizens to horsewhip on sight any user of tobacco. Voliva declares also that he will drive all the independents and all the churches from the city, take over all industries and run them on a co-opera-tive basis, making all employees profit-sharers, and refuse to admit any industries that do not guarantee that no users of tobacco will be hired.