NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2984, 9 January 1926, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES

The contract has been let for a new Presbyterian Church at Dannevirke, to cost about £4500. An Oamaru resident who has subsisted on uncooked vegetables for some months past declares that he never felt better in his life (says the North Otago Times). A cyclist on an old fashioned bicycle with a very big front wheel and a small back wheel, attracted considerable attention in Carterton the other day says the News. Over £1260 for missions was given in less than one hour at the Seventh Day Adventist camp ground at Dannevirke, on Saturday afternoon, the largest amount being £l5O and the smallest pennies, thrown by the children into a missionary map. The other day two bottle gatherers were noticed driving round Wanganui in a big ear without a tyre. If these enterprising gatherers do not soon earn sufficient to equip the motor with the necessary tyre, (says the Herald), the city authorities will have something to say about the rim marks on the bitumen streets. Though conversations with telephone girls are not permitted by the British authorities, some subscribers attempt them and a few of the freak requests are tinged with romance. It was more than a tinge which prompted a. middle-aged business man to lift his receiver at lunch time every day for a week to propose to the girl who answered him. After many curt refusals she met him and became engaged. An attempt is to be made shortly to establish toheroas along the beaches at Kawhia and Aotea harbours. The Settler states that Captain Iveatley, of the s.s. Rimu, has arranged for a consignment of these molluscs from Hohianga at an early date. These will be handed over to some responsible person, to be distributed along the beach between Kawhia and Aotea harbours. The success of their acclimatisation will be watched with interest. A curious happening is reported from Kiritaki, Dannevirke, where a farmer set a turkey on some hen’s eggs. The chicks duly hatched out and the turkey was seen proudly escorting six of her young brood, vnxious to kqow the fate of the rest of the eggs, the farmer paid a visit lo the nest, and discovered to his surprise a quail sitting on the nest, and mothering four more of the chicks! He left one for the fostermother. The spectacle of a bright green moon was the subject of much discussion in Auckland at about, a-quarter past seven on Monday evening of last, week. A prominent Auckland astronomer, who was one of the observers, attributed the sight to the blending of the blue atmospheric light with the usual yellow hue of the moon, to give it a bright green appearance. It might also have been an optical illusion. He stated he knew of no precedent on record. It is better known in Sussex than in most parts of England that hair must be cut while the moon is growing. Ladies adopting the shingle have not been sufl'icientvl careful to choose the correct time, which is between full moon and new moon. I-lenee the unruly behaviour of many cropped heads. Another Sussex caution is that hair must not be trimmed in May. This rule is so strictly observed in some parts that the hair-dressers are at a loose end during that unlucky period, although nobody seems able to explain why a man may trim his hedge and not his hair in the merry month.

It is an ill-wind that blows nobody any good. The professional cadger who was arraigned before the Court at Wanganui on Tuesday afternoon, despite the overwhelming evidence advanced by the prosecution, pleaded his innocence and protested against, the injustice of the charge (says the Chronicle). Ifvs case, however, was hopeless from the start, and the accused’s luck was dead out. Unfortunately for him his vision had been blurred by an over liberal dose of cheering amber, and, as a consequence, he had no memory for faces. It so happened that the presiding justice, who followed the proceedings intently, had generously accommodated the disreputable street beggar. It was no wonder that he was ordered to grace the prison with his presence for a month.