NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2700, 26 February 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Turnips are going to be dear in South Otago this winter. Already as much as £2O per acre for eating off purposes has been offered for good crops at Inchclutha. The offers were refused the owners anticipating that in view of the shortage the price will go still higher. In a. school case at the Mosgiel Court the headmaster was demonstrating to the court how he used the strap and being under crossexamination by Mr Sinclair, the master suggested that he should show how he did it on Mr Sinclair, lie, however, declined, and suggested that as Mr Callan was appearing for the master, he demonstrate <>n hifc own counsel. Mr Chilian promptly declined and sa.id he was only too pleased to appear for him, but he had a decided objection to being practised on with a strap. A Wanganui resident who went for a trip round the world recently good naturedly tells a. story of how he lost liis pants while travelling in a train in Now South Wales. Pacing of a. rural disposition, he did not spend all his time in watching the nice girls parading about the streets of Sydney, hut hit out for the country. It was on his return to Sydney that a calamity overtook him. Before hoarding the train at n country station lie sat down to rest on what transpired to he a nest of ants. When, he became seated in the train he soon learned that the aids had taken full control of the%inside of his pants so he went through the train to the guard's van al whirlwind speed. Having divested himself' of the garments with a. degree of alacrity that would have done credit to a first-class fire hrigndesman, he proceeded to shake f hem out of a window of the van. Just (hen smother train came along (it was a double line), and, in a trice. I lie pants became hooked to the passing locomotive leaving the own - er standing bare-legged and in great consternation. He had no alternative but. to remain in seclusion until the train reached Sydney, and then the obliging —and grinning guard sought out the driver who found a greasy pair of dungarees, which the Wanganui resident was very glad to don and retreat round the hack streets to his lodgings. He states, that his most vivid recollections of the incident is gazing help-

lessly and bare-legged, out of the window, and watching his pants sailing merrily away in the distance, flapping gaily in the breeze.