NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1014, 6 July 1911, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES

Front, lisli, usually pretty common on the sea beach during the frosty nights, are quite rare this .season so lar. A couple of these fish were picked up on the sea Ixiach at Foxton about, a week ago. Largo numbers of Maoris from the Manawatu left for Hamua, near Bahiatua. to-day. to attend tho tangi and funeral of tho lato Nircaha Tainaki, who died there yesterday. Tho deceased was ono of tho head chiefs of tho NgatikahungLinu tribe, ono of tho largest in the Wairarapa., Bush, and East Coast districts, besides being a chief of tho well-known .Manawatu tribe, the Rangilane. In connection with Ihe girls’ strike at the Uoslyn W< lollen Mills, a conference was hold yesterday, and matters in dispute adjusted. Tho dispute related to tho apportioning of work, and the thirty girls struck. The work will bo resumed to-day, and tho two girls over whom tho trouble arose will be shifted to another department.

The authorities of Canterbury College recently advertised for. a lady to act as librarian’s assistant, at a salary of 12s 6d per week. At. ten o’clock next morning there were nearly thirty ladies, almost. all of I Item young, waiting in the lobby and about tile porch. Lhcso were lollo'wed by others during the day. And yet young women tor domestic service are at. a premium.

Tho Wellington carpenters and joiners, who sought an award of 40 hours tier week, received an award of 45 hours per week, fij hours to bo worked on live days of each week between 7.45 a.m. and 5 p.m., and 3j hours on Saturday between 7.45 and noon. The Union asked for a minimum wage of Is 8d per hour, and the Court ruled for Is per hour. Piecework is prohibited, except in respect to

Dr. Murase, head of tho surgical department of the Japanese military lorccs, who is at present in Victoria (British Columbia), stated in tho course of an interview that every year the Japanese, army and navy were being brought to a higher state of efficiency. Japan, he declared, was prepared for war, but was not anxious to be involved in controversies with any great Powers. “This is the first case of tho kind which I have met with in 20,000 inquests,” said Dr. Wynn Westcott, the coroner, at an inquest held on Mrs Annie George at Hackney. The woman tell, striking the “Adam’s apple” of her throat against tho edge of a basin. The upper part of tho cartilage of the windpipe was fractured, and although tracheotomy was at once performed she was gradually suli'ocated. Christchurch milk suppliers bad a very harassing time during last moulli, and it is scarcely expected that this moulli will see any appreciable diminution of their worries. 'flic position arose out of Ihe long spell of dry weather that North Canterbury underwent, in the autumn. The delay of the rain caused a. shortage ot iced, and on many dairy farms the cows “went, dry” much sooner than usual. Some dairy farmers were even faced wiiti the problem of purchasing supplies of milk lor their own consumption. Largo suppliers opposed raising the retail price and (lie general opinion is that tho milkmen will not take the step. By tho tarter end of tho present month, or the beginning of next, the cows will be “coming in'’ again, and tho scarcity of milk will be at an end.

There, wan recently exhibited lief ore the Royal Society ot England a collection of skulls and bones of prehistoric monsters dug up below tho foundations of some premises abutting on Fleet Street, the heart of London newspaperdorn. Somewhere about 160,000 years ago, said nr, F. A. Bather, F.R.S., describing this interesting exhibit, these animals were wallowing in tho alluvial mud in the neighbourhood of what is now- Fleet street. They, were the contemporaries of man, lor one of tho bones has been cut by a sharp instrument, like a Hint. .Some oi them are reindeer bones, which is another proof of the vagaries of the climate.

An extraordinary occurrence is reported from Stewart s Island. A sports gathering was being held on Coronation Day, the starter using a double-barrelled shot gun, the shot being supposed to bo discharged into tho ground. The final of an event was about to be run, and all the competitors were straining in anticipation of tho report ot the gun. But before it bad a chance of making an impression on their minds ono of the competitors received a portion of the charge ot shot in his leg, and forthwith got away with a tremendous spurt. A finer start was never seen in tho locality, the man with the shot in his leg running as if for his life. He ran home an easy winner, but afterwards had to occupy himself extracting tho dozen or so pellets which had entered his flesh. Although the leg is somewhat sore and swollen, the competitor is none tho worse for the incident, though ho says ho has no wish to receive such a reminder to got away on any future occasion.

The Sydney Sun declares that there was at least one woman in London who was determined to see the Coronation procession. At 10 o’clock on the morning before Coronation Day she could be seen iu St. James’ Park making her way towards a spot that commanded a tine view of the route along which the great pageant would come. That she had come to stay was evident from tho load of things under which siie struggled along, in oue hand she carried a camp-stool, a kettle, and a spirit lamp, and in the other a hamper basket big enough to hold a week’s provisions, while over her shoulder was thrown a heavy rug. Reaching tho site of her “camp,” sho unburdened herself of all her goods and chattels, and with a sigh of relief settled herself down tor a long and weary wait of nearly thirty hours. Hosts of other people followed, and at midnight the parks were crowded with campers.