NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3698, 1 October 1927, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A recurrence of what is known at Greymouth as the Barrytown feud is reported. It is understood that as the result of a stone-throw-ing episode, one member of the Bourke family received a wound on the back of his head, requiring rnedicap attention on Sunday.

A retired contractor commenting on the prices obtained for draught horses at a sale in Christchurch the other day, expressed the opinion (o a reporter that in a year or two he would not be surprised to find live to s'even year old geldings, being sold for as much as £IOO each.

Well-bred sheepdogs are in request at Timaru at. the present time, the supply having suffered through the epidemic which worked so much havoc among the dogs about a year ago (states the “Herald”). Dogs of the right type, suited to shepherds’ requirements, are fetching from £lO to £3O. Occasionally as high as £SO is paid fir a good dog. 'Seventeen pounds was refused for one in Timaru recently-

, Mr. S. W. Pierce, ,of 8, Murphy Street, Wellington, reports the reception of radio telephony from a new quarter. On Sunday evening, from 10 to 10.30 o’clock, he heard station Cwß transmitting music and speech in Spanish and English, on about 45 metres. The initial “r” locates the station in Argentina. ÜBS is a well known Buenos Airs amateur station, owned and operated by Carlos Braggio. In making his calls on Sunday, Braggio said he hoped to be heard in Australia and New Zealand.

There are two townships at Oha,kune, on the Main Trunk line, one that has grown up along-side the Ohakune railway station, the other about a mile away. The day may come when both will merge into one. , At the moment a good deal of confusion arises by reason of the fact .that many people are unaware of , the Ohakune duplication. Letters and parcels are often addressed . Ohakune when meant for addresses at Ohakune Junction. The fact that .there is a post office in both Ohakune townships complicates things. .Attention is drawn to the matter, as there have been instances of delay caused through the wrong township address being given. Talking to a Herald representative a Wanganui resident, while expressing sympathy for the genuine worker who found a difficulty in securing employment, said there were quite a number of shirkers as well as workers in Wanganui. He instanced the case for £ls for cutting . into iirewood a number of trees. .After the contract was completed, , there were still a few more trees to be cut down, and the contractor offered to do the work for £4. It was decided, however, to give the .balance of the tree cutting to the Unemployment Relief Committee. A number of men were sent to do the work, which our informant declares cost £40 —not £4.

“St John” (pronounced “Sinjin”) writes to the Auckland Star: Tact and tactics it is. I think the noble gentleman named Knollys (pronounced Noles) who carried the information from Lord Wemyss (pronounced Weems) in answer to the late Queen Victoria’s inquiry as to

“what that really lovely tune” the Grenadier Guards Band at Windsor had just played should be awarded the palm. The bandmaster, Lieut. Cholmondley (pronounced Chumley), informed him that it was Mr. Gus (pronounced Guss) Elen’s composition: “Come where the' booze is cheaper, come where the pints hold more, come where the swipes don’t give you the gripes, come to ‘the pub next door.” The noble lord said that it was an improvisation by M. Auguste Helene called “Invitation,” and that pattern of propriety, Queen Vickey, demanded an encore.