NEWS AND NOTES.
An Oamaru resident who suffered from acute rheumatism obtained much relief after being stung by bees.
Lord Suffield tells this anecdote about poor memories. Lord Mark Kerr could never remember names. One day be met King Edward in (lie street. His Majesty stopped and '•hatted with him. then took leave, and was some steps away, when Lord Mark called hack, ‘‘l say, excuse me, lint would you give me your name? J know your face perfectly, hut T can’t remember who you are.” One consolation to the people of poor memories who experience these social upsets is that the other fellow usually has a hearty laugh ov<n; the incident. Imagine King Edward’s joy in relating his experience with Lord Mark at his family dinner table that dav!
A Montreal correspondent slates that if the lumber companies are aide to secure all the help they require there will be 30,444. men cutting timber in the province of Quebec during the present winter. This is an increase of 5,000 over last year, and is an indication of the progress being made in the development of the fores) industries of the province. There will be abouf 3,000 camps in operation, and in order to cope with the increase tile staff of forest rangers has been augmented to about 150 men, who will visit the camps in the interest of the Government to see that only (lie proper timber is cut.
How many an attractive woman travel alone and avoid unpleasant attentions from men who may presume upon her unprotected situation? A former actress, widowed and retired from the stage, who recently made a trip around the world, tells her rules for an unescorted woman traveller. They are: Minch your own business; don’t Jlirl; put ‘fresh’ persons in their places at once. These simple rules were sufficient to give the traveller an unmolested trip. They did not, however, it seems, prevent the lady from receiving during her travels live respectful offers of marriage, three of them from sea captains about to retire, who “wished to spend their last days in peace and comfort.” That was not her idea of life, the ex-actress fold them, and the sea captains are still seeking congenial mates.
Coincidence was busily at work recently when Mr W. Cloudlet, who is visiting Southland, was recalling to passengers in a Bluff train the facts in connection with a peculiar tram accident in Invercargill thirty years ago. On that occasion a stormy night, the driver of the car was run over and killed, the horse tram proceeding to town without him, so that his absence from the driver’s seal was not discovered until the terminus was reached. Mr Goodlet was recalling the accident when the brother of the driver who was killed passed through the railway carriage, heard the conversation and met Mr Goodlet. The following day Mr Goodlet, again speaking of the accident, found himself conversing with the brother-in-law of the man who was conductor of the tram involved in the tragedy.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2699, 23 February 1924, Page 1
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504NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2699, 23 February 1924, Page 1
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