NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2863, 26 March 1925, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A contributor to an exchange writes: Sir, —While playing poker the other day I was dealt four eights and the joker, which made live eights ia all. 1 have played the game for 30 veers, ;i■ l< 1 have never seen or heard of live eights being dealt to a player.” Pure* clay is silicate of aluminium. it was formed originally by Ihe dciunnposii ion of the felspar in igneous rocks, washed off the surface and carried down to the sea or lake, and then liardemd by the pressure of llie mass on lop. When a col’lin was about lo be lowered into n grave at Edmonton Cemetery it was found lliui (be grave was not large enough to lake it, ami the funeral parly withdrew for about 20 minutes while the gravediggers made the grave wide enough. Rubbitskins are seliiug exceptionally well in the South for this time of the year (slates "The Post’s" Dunedin eorespondeni). Big money is being paid for wliaf. are known in the trade as “racks.” The realising <»f hitherto unknown pi ires for these advanced summer skins augurs well for the. values winter skins tire likely to command. The lirst lot of autumn skins was forward at a sale held early this month and they brought high prices. Faced with a deficit of £<3ooo on the years working, the Christchurch Tramway Board has decided tlmt the work's and .trallie committee shall go into the question of lares, and the service generally. The losses are attributed to wet holidays, seaside, excursions, the epidemic, and the added cost of £-1000 through the new award. It is not every lady of 82 summers that would do what Mrs Harriet Thompson, of 3-1 Hutcheson Street, Sydenham, did one day last week. She went “joy-riding” in one of the Avros from the Sookhurn aerodrome, and for ten’minutes saw the city of Christchurch as only pilots see it. She was radiant when the machine .returned to the hangar. “Oh, its line,” she said; “I could have gone on for ever. I’ve never c'njoyed myself so niucli for years!”