NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2446, 27 June 1922, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES

A woman motorist, who had been “going the pace,” s on being called on by the traffic officer to stop, asked indignantly, “What do you want w r ith me?” “You were travelling at forty iriiles ’an hour,” said the police officer. . “Forty miles an hour? Why I haven’t been out an hour,” said the woman. “Go ahead,” said the officer. “That’s a new one on ‘me.”

Many stories have - been told of persons escaping death or injury owing to having a premonition of evil. An instance occurred at Greymouth the Other day (says the Star). A local business man was Sitting at an office on Mawhera Quay, engaged in making out an account. ' He'states that he suddenly had a feeling that all was not right, and that he was in some danger. The feeling was so strong that he hose from his chair and crossed to the" other side of the office. No sooner had he done so than a heavy picture fell from the wall over, his desk and'crashed down on the spot where he had been sitting a moment before. The picture was hung with wire, which had rusted through. The satisfaction which follows on the doing'of a good deed is, no doubt a full reward, but sometimes satisfaction is tempered by a feeling of justifiable disappointment, says the Otago Daily Times. In Dunedin a young man walking along the Anderson’s Bay Cemetery, found : large roll of notes and at once se; about finding the owner. Noticing a woman coming towards him with her hahdbag unclasped, and evidently looking for something, he asked if she had lost anything. She said she had lost a considerable sum of money and on the young man asking her if the roll of notes were hers, she expressed her overwrought feelings with, “Oh, thank you! Thank you!” That was all.

The’ : Maoris have traditions that Manukau harbour was once a lake, and if .this is correct, then when the volcanic disturbances occurred on Auckland isthmus the result was to cause the Manukau to burst through the barrier between it and the ocean, remarks a writer in the Auckland “Star.” The Maoris also ascribed -the origin of Lake Taupo itself to g sudden depression of the great plain. They have also strange traditions of how the underworld took >fire. A great tohunga chanced to be near Tongariro, and feared he would be frozen to death as everything was covered with snow, he could not'light a fire to warm himself. He knew his sister was at White Island, so he called to her to Come to his assistance. The sister ignited a torch at the volcano of White Island and carried it to the tohunga via the underworld passage, and started Tongariro as an active volcano, and set fire to the underworld nearly the whole distance, with the result that Nez Zealand has the Rotorua thermal regions.