NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2777, 28 August 1924, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

“I object to some of the treatment I have received and I am not going- to stand it,” said Ur. Golms, at a meeting of the Wanganui City Council. “You will have to sit down then,” replied Mayor Hope Gibbons.

At Budweis, in Bohemia, four cats were bitten by a mad dog. which was destroyed. The police decided that no risks must be taken and ordered the destruction of every cal within a radius of three miles. Despite the protests of the owners more than two thousand cats wore collected, taken to the gasworks and asphyxiated.

“If you ask forty boys in a class to write an essay on education, you will get forty essays on ‘How to get mi in file world.’said Dr. John Adams, (lie eminent British educationalist, at the civic reception given him in Wellington. ‘T set a boy such a subject and lie wrote. “Unless you have a good education you won’t make much money in this town.' "

During the hearing of an application by a wife for separation and maintenance at the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland last week, Mr Schramm, counsel for the husband, concluded his cross-examination of the complainant with the remark: “You are a real woman; you will have the last word.” Mr Hunt, S.M.: “Oh no, I have the last word.” Mr Sell ramm replied that he was very glad to hear it.

The possibility of salmon fishing being provided ill the Taranaki streams was one of (lie matters brought before Mr C. Ayson (assistant inspector of fisheries) during bis 'visit to Stratford last week. Mr Ayson stated that once the Atlantic salmon became established in the Wanganui River it would not be long before tjiey would travel along the coast and enter the rivers and streams of Taranaki.

It has been suggested b.v the. Mayor of Auckland to the Mayor of Christ church that a Dominion conference should he held to consider the Motor Vehicles Bill, such Dominion conference to lie preceded bv local conferences, at which delegates would he appointed to attend the Dominion conference. The suggestion lias been referred to the By'aws Committee of the Christchurch City Council, and will probably •ome up for consideration at the lext meeting of the council.

Harvard astronomers watching Mars were rewarded b.v the discovry of now stars in the Magellanic -loud. They slate that the stars are • f greater brilliance than any others veil in that group, and are three four times larger than the f'amed ;units Belelguose and Autnros. It A estimated that there arc more ban half a million stars that fire at east a hundred limes as luminous s our -mu in the small Magellanic binds, 'which is receding from the M.ilkv Wav at a velocity of 10(1 miles per second.

An amusing- little dialogue was ivcrheard in Dec Street, fnvercarill. last week, says tin* “Southland Times” between a local business jail and a well-known Invercargill ignwrifor. The sign-writer was proceeding along the foot fiat hin a c.-ii(>-free'Sort of manner, totally igloring the new. blunt command of ■he City Fathers —Keep to the Left -when lie was confronted by a mm of commerce, who .jocularly remarked: “You're on your -wrong fide. Can’t you see the notice?’’ •‘flood heavens, sir,” spluttered the sign writer, “I’ve been painting t hern darn things all the morning.”

One of the many dogs that roam iiit Timarn streets barking at and chasing moving objects, bad the tables turned on him the ol her day. Ih rushed out at a cyclist, whose coat he grasped firmly in his teeth. As he hacked down to pull at the rider the point of' his Jail became tangled up with the small cog on the hack wheel. He forthwith let go the coat and tin* Cyclist haling dismounted by ibis time, the dog set up a loud yelping in his endeavour to release his fail from'the cog. As the cyclist was tilled with a hack peddling brake the chain could not be turned hack so the tail had„.to go right round before it- owner could leave the scene in haste.

'file fuel that a woman drew one. of the sections in tile ballot for land at Kanakanaia litis been remarked upon by a number of people, who were unaware that women were entitled to he included in a land ballot (says the Poverty Bay Herald). The explanation is that both husband and wife can have their names included provided that the wife has had farming experience and can pul up the necessary capital. This provision has at times been criticised, but the provision is a statutory one, and the Land Board has ini option but to admit women with farming experience to the ballot.

Lessees of! railway bookstalls, il is reported, have received something in the nature of a bombshell in the department’s decision that they must not sell chocolates (says the X.Z. Times). In the past chocolates have been sold at bookstalls, and it is stated that, as far as the leases under which they are rented are com rented, there are no prohibitions of articles not to be sold. The leases giie the lessees the sole right to sell on the station platform certain specified things—such as books, periodicals, newspapers, tobacco, cigars and cigarettes, and so forth — and it is assumed that there is no bar to their selling anything else, the understanding being that in respect of the articles not specified they do not possess the sole right of sale.

An educational prodigy is repor-

ted from To Araron. Two of (lie pupils obtained their piolieimey. One of them, Alice Oilman, is only eight years of age. Tin- girl lias made wonderful progress. ] q-j-j she was in the Mangnpapu 5c1n.,,1, when she was at the top ~f Standard T. Last year, on the removal of her parents to To Araron. she entered Standard TT. Before a year bad passed she was in Standard TIT. and during the following 12 months -Inwent through Standards IV., V. and VI. Rite is remaining till the end of tin. year, when it i- hoped to send her on to the High School. “I say that the Englishman, as such is the fairest man on God's earth. He is fairer Ilian we Scots. The Scots want to win, right or wrong, but the Englishman does not want to do that.”'This striking testimony to the fair defiling of the Englishmen as a class was made by Professor -Tolm Adams, the distinguished educationalist, in the eonr--,e of his reply at Christchurch. Tie added that a fcllow-S.-otsman had -mid to him on one occasion: "It has taken me forty years to knowjhese Englishmen.” and though it might lie a long process learning the characteristics of the Englishman, d was worth while, even if it took t v veil rs. A programme of nn-morinl services for the victims of the Japanese earthquake lias been arranged tor September 1, the anniversarv of the disaster. It will include services in chiii'clies. temples and shrines, and for (wo minutes sit noon there will bo a cessation of all traffic, llicic will be no music on that day. no “sake,” and no banquets. Women are requested not to powder their faces or to wear jewellery, and the people generally arc asked to iestrict themselves t<> frugal meals, and to give their savings t«> charity a-, thanksgiving for their dclivcran(H‘. _____