NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2735, 20 May 1924, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The total number of clergymen under 25 years of age in the Church of England is estimated at very little over, 1000.

Innkeepers are being trained in cookery arid in the licensing laws at a special “school" recently established in London.

Mr Massey has received from the .shipbreakers who purchased the battle cruiser New Zealand a ehecpie for £20,000. The money is to be handed over to the British Government as a contribution toward the Debt Extinction Fund in connection with the repayment of the cost of the gift battleship. The term of that fund lias about live or six years to run,

Mr A .V. Udy of Hukanui was verv badly mauled by a boar recently when shifting it from one paddock to another. The animal savagely attacked him, indicting several gashes on his face, bit a linger off and severely gashed bis bands as he endeavoured to keep it, off. Mr Udy found it necessary to enter the Pahiatun hospital for treatment. New Zealand’s heavyweight champion boxer, Tom Hrenov, of Gisborne left by the Ruahine for England. He decided to go to the Old Country on the advice of Mr Earl Stewart, of Wellington, who has seen most of the English heavy bri gade in action, and considers that Ileeney should do well abroad .

That ladies are takig advantage of every loophole that may be opened up for a chance to work on the fact of this being leap year, is evidenced by an incident that happened at one of (lie football matches in Oanmru last Saturday. A young man of marriageable age, together with a young lady was watching the players very closely and he said very enthusiastically: “See that centre forward there, lie’s a line chap. He will he our best man in a few weeks.’ And she replied, “He’ll do —but really. this is all so sudden.”

The Lyttelton Times publishes some extracts from the rules ot the Canterbury Rabbit Club, 1874. The objects were set forth as the “preservation of rabbits or game of any kind on islands known as McLeans on the Waimakariri.” There were thirty original members, headed by Colonel Packc, and Mi- -John Tucker Ford. The entrance fee was £5, and annual fee a guinea, or such portions as might be called up. It was a rule that a gamekeeper should he appointed to protect the rab-Ijit-H from poachers si ml ve attention to tho sheep of the lessees of the islands (Ford and Newton). “Tuesdays and Fridays, also Saturdays” were shooting days, the latter as a bye day. A book had to he kept by the game-keeper showing what rabbits had been shot and when taken away. Strangers might shoot- with one or two members who should pay 10/6 for each strangei at; each shooting. The shooting season was from March 24 to September 30. (This interval presumably, was to give bunny lime to supply the demands of the club). The names of influential foundation members have been, by request, withheld, says the Times. Cheapside, London, claims to be the best-lighted thoroughfare in the world. The illumination is so complete that it is possible at night to read a newspaper when walking along the centre of the thoroughfare and to see a pin on the surface and to pick out the numbers of motor cars which pass along. Cheapside ranks as the leading thoroughfare in London.