NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2810, 13 November 1924, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Two young men, Messrs Clive Ell wood Iliggs and Russell Leslie Longsliaw, of Inglewood, on Tuesday last, were fined £lO each for shooting two pukekos (protected game). To mark the spot where the last wolf was killed in ISutherlaudshire, about the year 1700, the Duke of Portland has built a granite memorial weighing about two-and-a-lialf tons. in Arabia justice is swift and sure. A man robs a caravan, and in less than twenty-four hours his

decapitated body will lie lying- in die dust of the public market place as an object lesson for die entire community. No time is wasted in mug-drawn-out legal formalities. The following motto occupies u prominent position in the business promises of a Paraparunm resident “Worry takes time. So does work. But work draws down the cash, so why worry ” A thing that strikes an Englishman upon visiting New Zealand for the lirst time, Dr. J. Warriner has stated, is the shop verandahs, it appeared to be an uncommon matter in this country if a shop did not have a verandah. In England, verandahs, and even porticos, were forbidden. If an express train travelling at the rate of forty miles an hour were hung into the air, it would reach the nearest star after 75,000,000 years of continuous iligh.t, with no stoppage or slowing down. This star is 270,000 times the distance that separate us from the sun. —‘Dreams of an Astronomer,’ by Camille Elammariou.

Two years ago the Legislative of California established a new Court, which has since been one of the busiest in the State. If is the Small Claims Court, and its object o give justice to poor people who cannot afford the customary legal procedure. There are no lawyers, and no amount in dispute may exceed COO. The judge simply hears the arguments, gives his decision, and that ends I lie matter. The Court is largely used for collecting small debts, and less than 1 per cent.'of its. ridings have been appealed against.