NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4525, 1 November 1930, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The following advertisement appears in the Auckland Herald: “Housekeeper wanted. Plain cook. Control children. Clean and sensible. No cigarette-sucking, shorthaired, -marcelled, half-dressed .1030 models need apply.”

Thirty-six years ago last Wednesday occurred one of the worst maritime disasters associated with New Zealand—the wreck of the steamer Wairarapa. About midnight on October 28, 1894, the Whirarapn, a passenger steamer of 1786 tons, hound from Sydney to Auckland, ran ashore in a fog upon Miners’ Head, the north-wes-tern extremity of the Great Barrier island. Of 239 souls on board 137 u lire drowned or died of exposure in the water. Among them was the master, Captain Mclntosh. Only two of the vessel’s six boats could be launched, and in them about GO persons were rescued. Many of (lie remainder were washed into the sea. as the tide rose over the week. A few were fortunate in drifting asliore in lifebelts. Some others clung to the rigging until day broke, when a steward gallantly swam ashore with a line, L’.v which they reached the rocks. .Maoris in boats took them to Catherine Bay, and they were landed at Auckland bv the steamer' Argyle on November Ist.

Quite a number of wealthy lews from New York arrived in England recently to take up their permanent residence there,” according to a Wanganui resident who has just returned from the Old It on 11 try. This is considered ti> be a good sign, as apparently the new arrivals have more confidence in the future of Great Britain than in the United States. The lews atre noted for their good in vestments and no doubt they believe that by transferring their interests to England they are making a wise move.