Manawatu Herald TUESDAY SEPTEMB. 18, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2634, 18 September 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY SEPTEMB. 18, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The poles for the transmission line in connection with the Mangahao Hydro-Electrie -cheine, have been laid as far as (he Manawatu Heads.

Between September 201 li and 28th ten linei's will leave ihe Clyde, taking 10,000 emigrants to Canada. Since January Ist, 90,000 emigrants have left the Clvde,

The usual fort nightly dance,, under the auspice.', of t lie local Fire Brigade, in (lie Masonic Hall la-t night, proved (piite a successful function, and an enjoyable time was spent, by all present.

Sixty thousand one-year-old trees of exotic varieties have been seal from the Forestry Department’s nurseries at Rotorua to Oroua Downs. The trees have been lined out in a temporary nursery, and next year will be finally planted out. The death took place at the Napier Hospital on Thursday last, al - ter a long and painful illness, of the wife of Mr J. E. Tollison, of Hastings and mother of Messrs J. E. and A. G. Tollison and Mrs J. Coley of Foxton, at the age of (12 vears.

Fail-ball got decision over Volaire at Wellington last night in a light which went the full 19 rounds. The boxers were well matched and gave a beautiful exhibition of skill and a great display of endurance. I lamargin in Fail-hall’s favour was not big. A section of the crowd hooted the award but the decision was not seriously disputed.

A eonerete tower (100 feel high is to he erected at Wembley, near London, England, to give visitors a view of the surrounding country. A searchlight powerful enough C» be seen from the coast of France, will be installed in the tower. A cage will make the trip to the top of the tower spirally.

Bones believed to lie those of a mastodon which existed in the American Continent 30,000 years ago, have been discovered by Mr William Jones on his farm at Mealwnre, saya London (Ontario) message. The. teeth are a foot long and eighteen inches across. The tusks are eight feet long. It is estimated that tlie monster weighed between 30 and 50 tons.

“With the resources now available, it is quite time the banks should offer the public some relief by reducing lbe rate for advances,” declared the president, Mr A. M. Bisley, at a meeting of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce. After quoting statistics to show the improved position of producers he said the corner had now been well turned, and with a good season, he was convinced that the country was in for a far better time during the next twelve months.

John I?. Brown, publican, was fined CIO in the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington yesterday for selling a bottle of gin labelled with a wronglabel.

The Board of Trade, London, has

issued the finding of the Marine Court at Mai'itius —that the Trcvessa foundered during a gale in consequence of a leal: in number rue hold. Her pumps were in good condition, but their working was hampered by the nature of the cargo. The Court expressed admiration of the conduct of tin- master n| the vessel and the crow.

The “moral” reformers, sell-sty-led the “Zealots of Christ,” whose ■anipaign against bare arms and necks has earned them severe drubbings, have resumed their operalions in Athens, sa'-s the correspondent of the London Daily Mail. The Imre arms of a school girl were sprayed with sulphuric acid in the main street of Alliens, the child being seriously burned.

“Many New Zealand birds are a! (lie parting of the way, Mr E. !'• Stead said at Christchurch. “U, is a question whether they will survive or go out altogether. Many, I am afraid, will become extinct during the next century at least. Many others that have been scarce during the past fifteen or twenty years are returning to districts in which they formerly lived. The native crow and the saddleback almost certainly arc doomed to extinction. Tim hell Bird, the tui, the grey warbler, and oilier small native birds are holding their own. Introduced diseases arc one cause of the. disappearance of native birds. If those diseases are withstood, the birds will become plentiful again. I hope that, when the first stragglers appear in a- district they will he welcomed as friends not treated as enemies.” Mr Vincent, examiner for the Trinity College of Music, in an address at Oreymouth, said the standard of teaching in the Dominion was often excellent. He added: “In one cent re 12 candidates eanm before me, and alas, only two passed. One of the teachers had the audacity to write ine, on behalf of two of lmi pupil*, slating that their parents were poor working people and had scraped up with difficulty Ihe fees with a view to obtaining a certificate and all limy got was a failure. Could I not stretch a point and give them a pass. One never ncknowledges such letters, but the sentence ‘all (hey got was a failure/ was too good to be missed, so I wrote hack p, this effect: ‘These examinations

are as much for the protection of the poor parents from bad teachers as for granting certificates and in this case tlm teaching was entireh lo blame. When a teacher instructs her pupil, if the scale of C Minor is asked, to plav A Minor, and for G Major E. Minor, there is something sadly lacking in the teacher. Tim duly of the parent is obvious, and 1 think worth the amount of the fee/

Because he wished to see New York again, Gerbault, an internal,j tennis star, and descendant o! French Breton sailor folk, arrived from Cannes, via Gibraltar, Hoversing 9,(10(1 miles in 142 days singlehanded in a 30-foot 10-ton racing caller. Hurricanes enveloped the frail craft three separate times, whipping- it along at the rate of 70 miles an hour, and eventually sweeping the food into the sea, tor T cine- Gerbault to subsist on a clip of water daily for the succeeding o(j da vs. Finailv on the eighty-l ourC, day out, and after lm had been 4S hours unconscious, a Greek steamer passed and replenished lfis food supply, permitting him to proceed. During fair weather Gerbault spent thi> lime in day-dreams, rending Kipling and Conrad. Then a tierce storm overtook him, and a 30-foot wave struck the ship, which disappeared into a wave as tons of water thundered overhead. Then with miraculous suddenness the storm subsided. Gerbault now wishes to sell his boat and buy another, with which to sail the South Seas, to which he is attracted by the current novels.