GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2220, 28 December 1920, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Thai ii!<_• prc>eiil season will be :i {>■00(1 line for farmers is evidenced by t lit* fact iliat Ihe supply ol the Moa Dairy Company. Inglewood, greatly exceeds that of lust season. The company will dislribule on Ihe 20lh of this month the sum oh £lO,697 Us 2d, exclusive oh casein payments, as against £6,442 16s 8d paid out on December 20th, 1919. Memories oh whaling days in Hie Arctic were revived by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in Christchurch, when he had a long (dial, with Sir Joseph Kinsey, who was actively connected with the Scoit and Shackleloii expeditions. Sir Arthur spent seven months in the Arctic regions as medical officer of a whaler, when he actually came of age on a whaling cruise. A hull, the'property of Air W. F. Kirk, Glenki uich, attacked his owner and seriously injured him. Bui for the animal being short-horned he must have killed Mr Kirk (says the Tapanui Courier). The only thing that saved the man. was presence of mind. He drew his knife and stabbed the brute in the eyes, and he then desisted. Dr. Robertson was sent for, and attended to the injured man, who is making- a good recovery. The young ex-officer was relating his war experiences to the very bored maiden: ‘‘Yes,’ ho said. “I was captured by the Huns. They took me before the general, and asked mo to toll them where muguns were situated. I refused, and they said, ‘lf you don’t tell us, we will blow your brains out.’ ” “And did they?” queried the maiden, breathlessly. One,of the difficulties of the foreign exporter to Japan (writes tiro Rev. F. Stubbs to the Gisborne Times) is the unblushing way in which European and American trademarks are copied. As for whisky, there are probably as many brands of “Scotch” produced in Japan as in Scotland and Ireland pul together. And so with “AAMrcostershire” sautes, and many other things. The labels and names of well-known firms are imitated in such fashion that only a close inspection reveals the fraud. It is a pity that such practices'should be permitted, and whilst they no doubt worry foreign traders, they also lower the prestige of the native manufacturer.

The hoys and girls who sat: for a recent New Zealand University scholarship examination were asked to solve the following problem: —• “Three men. A, B, C, run a race. The odds laid against (hem are 2 to I, 3 (o I. and 4 to I respectively. How much must a man lay on each so that whoever wins he shall win £3 ss?” Perhaps some of our mathematically inclined readers will find no difficulty in working out the correct answer.

Children are often most amusing when most serious, and Miss Louise Mack has found this out in her lectures to children which she delivered all over New Zealand under the auspices of the Education Board. The lecture often becomes a talk. When speaking of Germany in her travel talk, she asekd her small auditors; “Can you give me the name of the Emperor of Germany?” “Mr Massey,” promptly responded one small patriotic youngster. On another occasion she asked the small audience; “Can you tell me who won the war?” Up went a hand from a wistful little girl in the front benches. “Well, my dear, who was it?” “My brother,” proudly responded the fragile child.