NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2641, 4 October 1923, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The trout fishing- season opened on Monday last, October Ist. Te Awamutu Borough Council is taking a poll to raise £40,000 for permanent road and footpath construction.

Mauro Menti, who commenced life in 1901 or 1902 as pastry cook’s boy in Milan, and never went to school, has purchased the Florence Restaurant in Piccadilly, London for £150,000. Sixty large bags of cones were taken from a single pinus insignis tree felled by Mr A. Morgan, of Cloi'donton (says an Auckland exchange). This was in addition to the timber, represented by the trunk and firewood from the branches.

“Lloyd’s News” states that Carol, the beautiful daughter of BrigadierGeneral Wilding, of Penbyrn Hall, Montgomeryshire, the head of a Welsh .family dating from the sixteenth century, married Reginald Bavies, her father’s valet, who is the son of a Newport docker. The couple fell in love at first sight and the General consented to the marriage.

In order to advertise New Zealand lamb the New Zealand Meat Producers Board is making an experiment which is sure to be popular. The board has made arrangements to deliver single carcasses of prime New Zealand lamb to any address in the United States for 33s per carcase. All that is necessary is to send 33s to 1 lie secretary of the New Zealand Meat Producers Board P.O. Box 121, Wellington, together with a friend’s name written plainly in ink. All the necessary arrangements will be promptly attended to. This amount covers all charges of delivery at the friend’s house.

The London “Daily Express” states that Lieutenant-Colonel Aubrey Herbert, a member of the House of Commons, who died a few days ago, was present when his half-brother, Lord Carnarvon, opened Tutankhamen’s tomb. Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert was deeply impressed with the solemnity of the occasion, and remarked to a bystander, “Something dreadful is going to happen to our family.” Lord Carnarvon died within a few weeks, and now Lieu-tenant-Colonel Herbert has died at the age of 44.

A case of wanton cruelty has recently come under the notice of a prominent farmer in the Wairarapa (says the Daily News). In walking round his property lie was astonished to find about 10 young lambs lying dead, and later discovered a ewe that had been done to death and a tire lighted in an unsuccessful attempt to burn the carcase. Inquiry revealed that three small hoys were the culprits. They admitted “that they had run the lambs down and knocked them on the head.” Three of them had set on the ewe and treated it in the same way.

Probably the last perfect specimen of a sod house in South Canterbury is to be seen on the road to Hakataramea some miles beyond the Stonewall (says an exchange). The four walls nr6 in an excellent state of preservation—practically as good as the day they were built —and have the neatness and substantial appearance of reinforced concrete. With the addition of new window-panes ’and doors, and possibly a few repairs to the roof, (lie house would be inhabitable to-dav. Sod-house building is a lost art; no one to-day could build a habitation of earth so substantially and neatly as did the early settlers.