NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3516, 27 July 1926, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES

A clergyman at Opokonui was delivering a sermon in the little church oil (he subject of Sunday observance. “This is becoming a dreadfully wicked world,’’ he said. “Sabbath breaking is rampant. Here on this Sunday morning, from where I stand, I can see through the window a number of boys playing football.” “Please, sir,” said a boy at the back of the church, “can you see who’s winning.” Yearly salaries of leading American pholoplayers are: Harold Lloyd, 2,000,000 dollars; Charlie Chaplin, 1,500,00 dollars; Douglas Fairbanks, 1,200,000 dollars; Gloria Swanson, 1,000,000 dollars: Mary Bickford, 1,000,000 dollars; Norma Tailmad&e, 1,000,000 dollars; Tom Mix, 780,000 dollars; Thomas Meighan, 075,000; Lillian Gish 500,000; John Barrymore, -100,000. The dollar is equivalent to 4s 2d. Seeing its master being tossed by a bull, a dog seized the animal by the nose and distracted its attention sufficiently to enable him to escape. Badly bruised and shaken, with a lacerated thigh and his clothing torn to shreds, George Waines, who was working on Oaklands farm, Bempton, near Flamborough, was taken to the Bridlington Hospital. It appears that the bull broke loose and turned on Waines as he was feeding him, tossing him several times, and at last impaling him by the thigh with one

horn. In saving his master the dog was tossed, cut and bruised.

Quite the best story going the rounds (says the Bulls correspondent of the “Advocate”) concerns a Martonian who advertised in an Auckland newspaper for a lady help, and finally selected, from a number of applicants, a person named “Whisker.” The stranger duly arrived, and was met on the railway station. The Martonian’s first question was, “Arc you one of the Bulls ‘Whiskers’!” referring to a well-known district family. Once again the unfortunate name caused discord and misunderstanding, for the northerner “took the huff” and caught the next train back to Auckland. The Martonian is still advertising for a lady help! The almost incredible tenacity oi a 12-year-old Maori boy of Waitara was revealed the other day. Ihe boy was a member of the W aitara School Rugby team to play Inglewood School. ITe arrived on the Waitara railway platform just in time to chase the train out of the station in a valiant but unsuccessful attempt to join his fellow team members. Nothing daunted by missing the train the boy set off on foot tor Inglewood, thirteen miles awa\, and the pace at which lie covered (hose miles may be imagined from (he fact that tie arrived in Inglewood in time to play with his team and, incidentally, to play a dashing game.