NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2409, 25 March 1922, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Milk is selling at Balclutha at 3d per quart. The price at the Stirling dairy factory a_t present is only 5d per gallon. A teacher named Onions was reeently farewelled from a school in the North. The local paper states that some of the audience were moved to tears.

I.caving a fortune of £107,787, -the third Earl of Ducie, who died on October 28th, aged 0-1, made a special direction that: —“My funeral shall be conducted with the greatest economy, and without any display whatever.” Expensive (lowers, making a great display, were a feature of the funeral at Elstead, Surrey, of Mr James Matthews, a well-known showman, who died in. his caravan, aged 98. His father was known as the “King of the Gypsies,” and about 50 of them attended the funeral.

The stone-throwing habit of a boy attending the Masterton District High School has resulted in a fel-low-pupil being handicapped during his whole future life by the loss of one eye. The victim of the accident was the eight-year-old son of Mr H. J. Jones, motor engineer. The injury was caused on Friday, and was of such a serious nature that the child was taken to a specialist in Wellington, who found it necessary to remove the eye. The practice of throwing stones and other missiles is an exceedingly dangerous one, and it appears that a warning should be issued in all schools.

A sailor named*'James Ingram on returning to Montreal was sent to prison for a month because while he was at sea his wife sold liquor illegally in Montreal. As the law stands, any wife who wants to get rid of her husband for a few months has only to break the liquor law.

According to latest advice, the area of tobacco grown in New Zealand is increasing. At the tobacco farm at Riverhead, in the Auckland province, over 60 acres are under crop this season, while in the .Brightwater district, of Nelson,, 30 acres have been planted on ten different farms. The areas vary from half an acre to three acres.

Lieut.-Colonel O. C. Ola fee, in unveiling a war memorial at the'Constitutional Club, Chertsey, Surrey, said if sometimes happened in France that troops were given an impossible task, and, after seeing the cost ;of the enterprise, he could not help comparing the cheapness with which the lives of those splendid young men were held with the care and expense to which the nation went in order to ensure long lives for habitual criminals, incurable lunatics, and hereditary paupers. “For myself,” lie added; “I should welcome the operation of the lethal chamber, which would prevent the proportion of unfit to fit becoming any greater, and at the same time help to relieve the nation of one of its many burdens.” In reply to a subsequent speaker’s criticism, Colonel Clare said he did not suggest a lethal chamber for a child of tender years. ,

A rather good story comes from Hokitika anent the recent race meeting there. It appears that a well-known North Island sprinter who competed at the meeting there was thought to be so good that the owners and their friends had a substantial punt on him. The race wps run, and to their, great surprise the gelding ran. like an absolute duffer on the first day; and on the second day his party were so disgusted that he was allowed to start practically unbacked, and he duly won with the greatest ease. The owners then instituted inquiries, and they found out that, while the horse was in the paddock previous to the first day’s races, some youngsters, thinking it a shame to see a horse in a place in which there was no feed, in their goodness of heai’t supplied the animal with several sackfulls of thistles, andVhe horse performed as might have been expected on the first occasion. What the owners said when they found out has not yet appeared in print..