NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2660, 17 November 1923, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES

Some female witnesses are very voluble when recounting in court tlieir troubles in applications for maintenance orders against their husbands. In a ease at Auckland a w,ife seemed like a brook —likely to run on for ever but at length counsel said '. “Be quiet; thank God, I’m not your husband.”

A mouse crept between two cables at Aberdeen’s power station a few weeks ago, with the following consequences: Doors were blown out and machinery wrecked, the tramcars were stopped, and shipping was held up because the swing-, bridge could not be operated. Swat the mice!

Mr Harry Thomas, a wellrknown land agent, has been missing since Saturday, and the horse he was riding prior to his disappearance was found yesterday near Ankopae, with the saddle still attached. It is believed the horse in fording the Wanganui river, slipped and threw its rider, for whose safety fears are entertained.

“If is the sort of thing 1 would like to see in the school,” said Mr C. P. Brown, chairman of the Wanganui Technical College Board of Governors, when a firm wrote offering to supply a complete moving picture machine at a cost of £llO. It was decided to defer the matter until the financing of the object can be. discussed.

“Twelve fathoms deep is not so lonely a spot as might be imagined, states one of the divers who has been engaged in salvage operations on the steamer Wairarapa at the Great Barrier. “Apart from the general run of small marine animals the grandfather cod is a most friendly fellow. Some of these fish were swimming around us as we worked, and seemed quite unperturbed. We could almost have reached out and stroked them.

A writer in the London tailors journal complains that Mr Massey’s jacket makes no prefenee of being in any fashion at all. Air Mackenzie King’s coat is stated to be really a poor fit. His trousers sadly need an uplift. General Smuts is a censed of failing’ to realise the importance of fit, quality and age of his suits. Mr Brace alone wins approval for “taking his tailoring seriously and fashionably, but he is mildly rebuked for omitting the outside breast-pocket.

Alderman Davies lias been eleeted for the sixth time Lord Mayor of Gravesend. lie is 83 years old, but is still alert and upright. He is the oldest Mayor in the Kingdom. He attributes bis physical and mental fitness to a busy life, physical training, and moderation in all things.. At the age of 16 years he roughed it in the Australian hush. Tie has swum from Margate to Ramsgate, served in the London Rifle Brigade, and was formerly a good boxer, an excellent cricketer, and an expert billiardist.

'flic appearance of Hamilton and iR environs has been much improved bv the operations of t he Hamilton Beautifying Society (says an exchange). Great improvemeut> have been effected to Ferry Bank, the River Path and the Memorial Park. Flowering beds and a rockery have been laid in the Ferry Bank Reserve, while in the 'Memorial Park beautiful shrubs and trees each bear the name-plate of a fallen soldier. The society has planted 1,200 trees in the streets of Hamilton and Inis 19 garden plots in various parts of the town under its care.