NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1023, 14 November 1912, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

“Sorry to see a lot of old cows still slaughtered,” remarked Cr Ambury at a recent meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council when the abattoirs manager’s report was tabled for adoption.

It is said that dew is a great respecter of colours, To prove this, lake pieces of glass or board, aud paint them red, yellow, green and black. Expose them at night aud you will find that the yellow will be covered with moisture, aud green will be damp, but that the red aud the black will be left perfectly dry.

Duriug the peformauce by the Auckland Amateur Operatic Society of “The Mikado” on Salur day night au unfortunate mishap occurred to one of the leading ladies. As she was leaving the stage at the conclusion of a trio, her hair, or a large portion of it, came off, and was solemnly removed to the wings by au attendant amid roars of laughter.

It has been placed on record that “the British Army swore terribly in Flanders.” lu more recent days there has been placed on record —fortunately not publicly—the language used by the ladies of Waihi in their oral attacks upon the strike breakers, One official within whose purview the language has come, says it is hot enough to burn a hole in the paper it is written on.

Au order has just been Issued by the City Council ol Gary, Indiana, prohibiting any man from riding with a girl on a motor-cycle. “It is bad for the man, bad for the motor cycle, and worse for the girl,” said the town clerk at a meeting of the Council held to discuss the matter. How can a man have any control over a machine going forty miles au hour when a pretty girl has her arms round his neck ? A fine of £5 has been fixed as the penalty for each offence.

Mr Robert M’Millau, when addressing the Country Press Association’s gathering in Sydney last week, told of a man who described a band programme. He said the band played “Rule Britannia” to please the English people present; “The Marseillaise” was for the Frenchmen ; “The Campbells are Coming,” for the Scotchmen ; and “The Wearing of the Green,” for the Irishmen. “Then,” he said, “they played, ‘F'or Those in Peril ou the Sea,” aud that was for the Germans!”

“The perjury committed in this Court is getting just as bad as it can be,” remarked Mr Kettle, S.M., at the Auckland Magistrate’s Court. “Day after day,” he added, “people come into the Court and commit perjury.” The state of thiugs was getting so bad that he was afraid something serious would happeu. F<ach day he had to listen to perjury. It was wearing him away, aud he was afraid it was having a detrimental effect upon him.

A Loudon cable to the Sydney Sun states that Sir James Crichton Browne, an authority ou braiu diseases, read a paper on “brain rest.” He maintained that children of ages from 4 to 17 should have twelve hours’ sleep in the twenty-tour, between 17 and 21 should sleep for nine hours, and above that age for eight hours. The sleep of the rising generation, declared the doctor, was being detrimentally disturbed, aud a rich crop of neurasthenia would be the result.

Oue of the delegates attending the Methodist Synod (says the Dannevirke News) Is a freak of nature, if his own confession is correct. At the conversazione, the Rev Mr Mcßeau, of Eketahuna, was explaining that he loved all churches and accounted

for this by his parents’ nationality, and other matters. Referring to his origin he boldly declaimed that “My father was a Scotchman, my mother an Irishman”—and then he stopped until he could again make himself heard.

Followers of horse racing (says the Taranaki Herald) are more or less superstitious, and an amusing story is told of a New Plymouth sport's win ou the Cup. For a few days he had been closely studying the form ol the Cup candidates, but could not make up his mind as to which horse he was going to support. On Friday night the question was settled. At midnight his wife presented him with a son, and the proud father thereupon decided to book Midnight Sun for the Cup. This he accordingly did, aud the “ tip” coming off, he picked up a nice little sum.

A retired British soldier, Mr Frederick Irvine, who was wounded at the relief of Ladysmith, has just been discharged from the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, after a remarkable operation. A Boer bullet wrapped in a shred ol his pierced tunic was found to have lodged just within an inch of his heart, and was extracted after remaining there for over twelve years. The wound seemed very slight at the time, aud the doctors said that the bullet must have glanced off his ribs. He soon recovered, and rejoined his regiment. A mouth ago the wound again troubled him, and in hospital the X rays revealed the presence of the bullet.