NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2824, 16 December 1924, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Mr H. E. Cluing, the Chinese University footballer, luis left New Zealand for Sydney and China. He has now recovered from his recent serious illness.

The News of the World foreshadows that the New Year honours will create Prince Henry the Duke of Edinburgh. The title has been in abeyance since 1900. The bridge over the Rangitikei River at Bulls is to be redecked at a probable cost of £3,000. borne equally by the Highway Board and Rangitikei* and Manawatu County Councils. It is estimated il will take some nine months to procure the necessary hardwood timber from Australia. A Maori living near Rotorua, who had just purchased a motor car, was not seen about for a few days. When he again appeared he was asked by a white acquaintance where he had been. “I build house for my car,” was the reply. On beino- questioned as to what material he” had used, he said: “Oh, some raupo. Some iron, I think. Just sort of half-cast house.” An interesting of the av»u-.. shortage of building space in London is shown by the experience of a large firm which was forced to buy up a whole block front in the London warehouse district for use as garages. The block previously contained houses, and to make the alteration these had to be pulled down, and'in order that the frrmcr occupants should not go hom.ole-s, the firm found it necessary to rebuild the dwellings on top of tlie garages, thus raising the whole block of dwellings one storey.

When a. county council receives a request from a back-blocks settler it is usually in regard to either-a road or a bridge. That there are exceptions was proved at a meeting of the Waitotara County Council this week, wln-n a settler made a request for a boat, it was explained that he paid £BO a year in rates, was beyond reach of any public road and that a boat was necessary for crossing the Wanganui River at Kc riniti, the past arrangement of seeking the oilin'’of a canoe being by no means satisfactory. The council voted £lO toward the cost of a boat.

So great was the run on Australian apples at Wembley that at one time it was feared that the supply would fail. On on? of his visits Mr Murdoch. M.L.C., New South Wales. having heard complaints that some, of the apples were had, . •isuallv mentioned it to the official in < I large of the Australian pavilion. That gentleman hotly denied the allegation. ‘Come with me’, he said to the. Colonel, and calling one of the girls who was busy “bagging” the apples, he said to her: “What were iny instructions about these apples?” Without a moment’s hesitation the girl replied: ‘Not to put more than two had ones in a hag.” Mr Murdoch has often wondered since what happened to that girl. The possibility of the big Exhibition being postponed is one of the common subjects of talk in Dunedin, but nobody (states the ‘Star’), seems to be excited about the matter nor to 'treat the suggestion very seriously. If the directors of the company do make up their minds (hat a postponment is desirable, they will have to consult the shareholders and by the terms of the contract between the company and the applicants for space the latter must be notified by the end of the present- year if the date of opening is pushed forward.

“.Nine thousand crates of onions and ten thousand-cases of apples left Vancouver in one week for New Zealand,” writes the Auckland Star’s Canadian correspondent. Every liner sailing from this port for tin- last few months which has ref: iterated space and is hound for the Antipodes has carried British Columbia onions. This lias come a- ' bout through the embargo hr 'New Zealand against the Californian product, and it is understood that the Canadian article has been so favourably received that its market can now lie said to lie permanent. The fact that Vancouver lias captured the Antipodean onion market lias caused considerable chagrin among the Californian producers, and to make matters worse there is now raging another terrible outbreak of foot-ami-mouth disease, although on this occasion it is confined to Texas State. A skeleton with a broken skull was recently found under a cell in L< mberg prison. says a cable from Warsaw. The police were mystified, but it is now. established that the skeleton is that of a woman who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her lover, who was an undertaker. \V r, liile in prison the woman won £3OO in an Austrian lottery. A prison warder killed the woman and stole the ticket. A warunder the heading “The Latest,” rant has been issued for his arrest.

Writing to the parish magazine, •he Rector of Halesowen, Worcestershire, says:—“A new collecting plate is reported to have been issued on the other side of the Atlantic, which possesses the following valuable, if extortionate properties: !, if you put in nothing, it..whistles: o’ il you put in a tiirce-pcnny-bil it, exclaims “’Good Lord!’;, 3, ii: you put in a penny it makes a noise like bell nnd takes your photograph.” Drivers of the “pedicab,” !!„■ Chinese taxi, must not eat g-arlic under pain of £2O fine, flic Department of Commerce bus just been informed. In addition to their abstinence from garlic, the drivers of the pedieabs” which are fast slmnt »ig the time-honoured rickshaws in•o obhvion, must wear uniforms and bathe regularly. The “pedicab” is a form of bicycle, the driver sit-

ting in front and forking the pedals, while the passenger >its in a “most comfortable carriage behind.” They are advertised as cheap, hygienic and fast. Wanton damage by slashing with a sharp knife across lib warps in the looms at Albion Mill, Accrington, was discovered one morning in October, and no work'could be dune by the employees throughout the day. The damage is estimated at many hundreds of pounds. When shopping in a busy Grimsby thoroughfare, a young woman, Elizabeth Doris Vine, saw a horse attached to a pair of shafts galloping towards her. Dropping her basket, she ran into the roadway, and seizing the runaway's, head as i? passed, succeeded in bringing it to a standstill after being dragged 10 vards.