NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2648, 20 October 1923, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The high hopes of the Auckland Zoo officials that a young vulture would be hatched have been literally exploded. The precious egg upon which the female vulture has been sitting for some time burst the other day with a loud report, and the hen has joined her male on the open-air perch.

An amusing incident occurred at the Auckland Police Court on Saturday (states the “Now Zealand Herald”). The accused in a certain ease, on being handed over lo the care of the Salvation Army, became greatly excited and began lo make incoherent remarks lo llic Magistrate, Mr F. K. Hunt. “Go and tell it to the eaplain,” said Mr Hunt, “it doesn’t interesl me.” “But your worship,” was the amazing reply, “your Worship, T suffer from invisible speech.” “Take him away quickly,” said,Mr TTupt, dismissing Ihe case. -

With reference to*the Innit*nt jil»lt* dentil of n hoy ;it fionville ns t ho result of n katipo bile, n well-known native resident states that there is an effective antidote for the poison of the spider in question, (states the Wanganui Chronicle). When a. young lad, this gentleman was hitten in the leg by a katipo and his parents put him in a hot hath in which rauriki, or puli a (sowthistle) had been steeped, with the result that he was effectually cured. Tn those days the natives never worried about katipo bites. They sometimes dealt with them by simply rubbing the affected part with a piece of rauriki, and in extreme cases the pulia was steeped in boiling wa-. ter in which the patient was bathed. That the Maori was naturally a religious, person, and had great powers of meditation, was the declaration of the Rev. J. E. Ward, of Taumarunui, when giving an address at Devonport, on various aspects of Maori life. The Maori, he said, had the mystic light of the Polynesians, and that was why Ratana was a healer. He had powers of concentration but most of all powers of meditation. -The speaker wanted the pakeha and the Maori to join hands in facing all these difficulties, and to sail in the one

canoe together. Why should there be dissatisfaction between the races, and why should they have two canoes when one was better than a number. They could pierce the fogs better if each took a hand at the oars,- with no danger of collision. Both races should work hand in hand for the good of the country, and there was plenty of room for all.