NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3613, 15 March 1927, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

A dusky native who Avas a judgment debtor at the Marton Court told the Magistrate that lie had been working on lie Temple at Hatana pa for the past 12 months, but had received no pay. “Well,” replied his Worship, “the sooner ,you get work that you get paid, for the better. IE Katana wants to keep you out of gaol lie had better pay your debts.” . The final call has been made in connection with shares in the Wanganui Woollen Mills Company, and fully paidiip share certificates will ■be issued. While in conversation with an ollijeial of the company, a “Chronicle” man was informed that the mills were doing better business to-day than at any stage since the notation of the company, and this despite the severe period of financial depression through which the company had fought its way. A surprise for a Wanganui woolclasser preparing a hack-country clip for the sale was a gold ring which fell from a fleece. Apparently it had slipped from the linger of a busy shearer. A parallel case, perhaps still more curious, occurred some time ago when in a bale opened for examination a pair of shears was found. But in the.catalogue of queer experiences in that particular wool stor(f all was eclipsed by the unheralded arrival of a sack containing two hams, and a side- of bacon. Whence they came, and why, are still matters for perplexity. ' - Waipukurau people expressed annoyance that the Duke and Duchess were not allowed to stop there and shake hands with the leading citizens. It may have been somewhatdisconcerting to the leading citizens if asked for an interpretation of the name of the town and also somewhat terrifying to the Duchess -to he informed that its main thoroughfore was the street of two fabulous reptiles. No wonder the Royal train accelerated its speed when passing the township! A piquant schism lias occurred at Nuneaton (Warwickshire). The Rev. C. D. Sharpe, known as the “dancing curate,” owing to his enthusiasm, 1 for dancing, has arranged a dance for Shrove on Tuesday. His pious parishioners were horrified at the inclusion of that now popular dance the Charleston, and appealed to the Vicar, who banned the Charleston, declaring that it would attract the riff-raff. Mr. Sharpe says that the Charleston is only indecent if not properly danced. “The shingle won’t- last a decade. Long hair will return as sure as the sunshine follows the rain,” says Marcel, the inventor of the now famous hair wave. Mr. Long, who assisted Marcel to popularise the wave, declares, however, that the shingle will he fashionable for the next 30 years' The conflicting opinions were obtained when Messrs Marcel and 1 Long visited London. They were aclcompanied by their wives, neither of whom was bobbed or shingled. Mr. Long added that the shingle would be longlived, because it went with short skirts, which must continue. The Eton crop, he said 1 , was doomed because it was ugly.