NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2873, 21 April 1925, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

According to an explorer, the natives of the Pacific Islands never kiss each other. Judging by their photographs, we do not blame them.

Two ancient coins were found clasped in the hand of a skeleton unearthed during excavations in London. It is thought to be the remains of the first Scotsman to visit the metropolis.

The people of Greymouth in the early days can hardly be said to have been prohibitionists, for an issue of the “Grey River Argus” of 50 years ago contains advertisements from no less than 23 hotels in the (own.

As an example of how great a speed a motor cycle can attain on a grass track it is stated that during one of the races held on Napier Park race-course on Monday the machine driven by P. Coleman was travelling at periods just on SO miles an hour.

The value of flood lighting for night Rugby practising was demonstrated at Napier last season, when a special flood light, throwing a beam of great brilliancy, was set up at McLean Park. This season further measures to secure good night lighting are to he adopted. “These pushes must be warned to behave themselves. This spirit of Bolshevism and opposition to the police is had. It seems a sort of religion with some.”—Air J. W. Poynton, S.M., at Auckland, when fining three men £3 for disorderly behaviour.

Two young men til Gisborne set < ut to shoot wild cattle (states an exchange) and shot two dairy cows belonging to a farmer. When charged with the offence in court they pieaded in extenuation that the cows had no appearance of being tame.

A schoolboy in Oamaru has been working out wages problem. ITe stales that bis father, as a mechanic, works eight hours a day for 280 days in a year to earn £215, while his teacher works five hours a day for about 220 days to earn £450. He declares that he is going to bo a teacher. in addition to the Hauraki, now in Auckland, there are four motorships on route to that port. The Aorangi is bringing passengers, mails and cargo from Vancouver, the Lei sc Maerske general cargo from St. John, British Columbia, and Enton basic slag from Antwerp, and the Tennes.se cargo from Hamburg and other Continental ports. A stranger in an American town in the Middle West asked a resident for the “location” of the various churches in the town. “They are all in the usual places,” the resident answered, “and yon will have no difficulty in finding them. The .Jewish Synagogue is next door to the bank; Hie Baptists are close down by the river; the Presbyterians are near the cold storage; the Salvation Army just opposite Hie fire station; the Cougregationalisls are just by the laundry; the Episcopalian Church is in the same block as the theatre, and the Methodists are next door to the gasworks.”

Penalties imposed for poaching in New Zealand are light in comparison with those inflicted in other countries. In the United States where the endeavour is to keep fishing and game shooting democratic, an offender for poaching in a sane fury was recently lined £IOO, besides being sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Some rather more befitting penalties have, however, recently been imposed in New Zealand. It is unfair that the poacher, a difficult and expensive person to catch, should get off with merely a nominal fine (says the New Zealand Native Bird Protection Society).