NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2919, 6 August 1925, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

An unusual theft lias been reported at Gisborne, the minister of a local church announcing that his Bible had been stolen off his reading desk. Over £SOO was paid to the Taranaki County Council in toll fees in the six years that the Rnliolu Dairy Company has been running its present motor lorrv.

Aliens to the number of 025 received certificates of naturalisation in Great Britain during 102-1. Russia headed the list with 351 men and 14'women.

Blind people who found begging more lucrative, have refused help offered by the Health Committee of the City of Bath. One person was said to receive ns much as .C-l a week from the charitably minded. Wells have now to lie driven to a depth of over 220 ft. under London to reach water. A century ago the pressure of underground water was sufficient to bring water to the surface wherever a boring was made.

A witness in a ease heard in the Taihape Court said that ho was engaged in cutting wood and selling same, and his earnings during line weather amounted to £2OO per month. Expenses in connection with the getting of the wood, etc., only totalled £75 per month.

William Reeves, an inmate of the Knox Home for Incurables, Auckland. was'a hundred years old on Monday. Less than a year ago had a leg amputated. Beyond being slightly deaf and unable to read easily, he is remarkably well preserved, and takes keen interest in all going on around him. “I don’t know why it is,” said Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, “hut whenever a man or a woman is placed in an inebriates’ home or on an island, relatives will get them out before they have served the full time. It invariably happens and then when the relatives have got them out they find them worse than ever!”

The hire purchase system has become such a habit with many people as (o lend a colour of veracity to the following story of two young Blenheim parents who have recently been visited by the stork (stales ihe Marlborough Expres.-). The husband the oilier evening mentioned to bis wife that be bad paid £lO off the doctor's bill. “Good enough!" replied the wife enthusiastically, clapping her hands, “one more payment and the baby's ours!”

An object of considerable interest at the police station at Thames was a dead kiwi, picked up on the Coast road, near Kereta. There are teeth marks on the in. i.,

indicate that it had been chased by dogs. The bird was two feet in height, with a beak of live and a half inches. It is believed a place will he found for it in the Auckland Museum. A live specimen was .captured last year in the same locality.

During the voyage of I lie K.M.S. Mukura from San Francisco to Wellington, a first saloon passenger, Miss A. G. Sold on, underwent a serious operation for an abdominal trouble. The operation was accomplished before arrival at Papeete by Dr. A. .Joseph, a passenger by the vessel, assisted by Dr. Kygate, the ship's surgeon. The Mnkura’s nursery was converted into a hospital, and several trained nurses who were passengers by the vessel, rondel cd valuable aid and attention to Miss Seldom On arrival at Wellington yesterday the patient, was transferred to Alto hospital.

Men putting down water pipes at Sunnier Christchurch unearthed several large mon hones, about three feet below the surface, close to the foreshore. AIT. E. J. Haynes, taxidermist at the Canterbury Museum, collected from the deposit six large leg hones. Their length and thickness show that they belonged to a gigantic species of mon. which stood about twelve ieel high. Three of the hones, belonging apparently to one leg, have a total length of about live feet live inches, exclusive of the toes, which have not been added to the extensive collection of mon hones in the museum. A search will lie made for further hones at the satin 1 place. Mr. Walter Blackie. of .Mosgiel, Otago, has received a private letter from a cousin in Glasgow, in which the writer relates that when visiting a poultry run in the country la l found the farmer feeding his stock on New Zealand dried milk. There was, however, no distinctive label on the fins, and through this lack of enterprise the Dominion lost what he regarded as an excellent opportunity of advertising its products. He draws attention to the omission in the hope that it will he rectified and full advantage in future taken to advertise New Zealand dried milk.

A dose season for Californian (|u;iil next year was advocated by some members of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society at a meeting the other day. Mr. Shorn! estimated the number of quail in Canterbury at 1,000,000, ;,nd said he did not think- they were decreasing. A striking fact was the predominance of eock over hen birds. Mr. Clark said be thought the quail were as numerous as ever, but they were hard to find in some localities, as they look cover which was inaccessible to the sportsman. The feed in any district was limited and would support only a certain number of birds. He thought that it would be advisable to trap quail in places where they were, numerous and transport- them to other localities where they had not yet penetrated. A committee was appointed to consider the matter.