MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, 22 December 1919, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

In years past the tendency of emigration from Denmark has been towards America, but Mr B. Knapp, who is visiting New Zealand as official Agriculturtal Adviser to the Danish Government, after touring Australia, is of the opinion that the Dominion offers a better field. On his return to Denmark he is prepared to make representations to that effect, and the success of early Danish settlers in Manawatu and the Seventy-mil" Bush and elsewhere will, no doubt, i>; quoted in his report.

‘‘l have just excused the man who brings the. cream, so I suppose 1 must excuse the man who supplies the strawberries,” remarked his Hbnor Mr Justice Stringer at the Auckland Supreme Court, when a | l«r'.ver followed a milkman in a re, for relief from serving ,tm the 00.. ..ion jury owing to urgent business ren.-ons. Mr Dixon, counsel for the strawberry man. said the fruit was just about right for picking, and if I lie owner were tied up at the Court for a week it would spell ruination. Both the applicants were excused.

In .the course of his i-’eace Treaty speech in the Chamber of Deputies on September 25th, M. Clemcneeau explained why/the English language had been preferred to the French for use at the Peace Conference. "It is not my doing,” lie said. * 1 .Speakers of Eaglisa have increased by many scores of millions since the eighteenth centnjry. It is not my doing that English is the most extensively spoken language iu the world. Moreover, its adopt ion was an act of generosity towards the men who shed their blood for our country.”

‘’There is no such thing as ‘gJslow’ in the butchery trade.” said one of the workers’ representatives at £> conference in connection with thy Auckland butchers’ strike. ••When a man is tm the job he has to go ‘eves out’ to keep up. Look at the way the meu worked the day Pei ore the strike. No body of men eouhl have acted in a more sportsmanlike spirit.” Representatives of the employers concurred, one employer remarking that there was no doubt that they played the game and worked splendidly through the rush before the strike.

The damming back of the Waikato River for the hydro-electric scheme will result in a lake IS§ miles long and about 180 feet deep at the lower end. This will provide a fine inland waterway for motor launches and small steamers into country that is now rapidly being settled and brought into fanning land. Thu To AwnmutuPutaruru railway, which is being promised under the provisions of the Local Railways Act, proposes to cross the river on a bridge built on top of the dam, thus providing the up-river farmer with a most convenient access to the outside markets. The lake will also afford fishing, shooting, and boating possibilities, and scenic beauties that should prove a decided attraction to the future tourist and holiday-maker.

Old-time election meetings had much more sap. ‘‘lf I had a soil who wus an idiot like you I’d drown him,” said an interrupter to a young and boyishlooking candidate. ‘ • Evidently- your father was of a different opinion,” was the reply. Or take the reply of Sir George Reid when he received u packet of flour full on his expansive chest: “I always said I was a white man.” Or one of Lloyd Gtffirge’s retorts —when a man in the audience called out, ‘‘X knew your father when he drove a donkey cart.” Lloyd George replied: “1 have seen the cart myself, but 1 thought until now the donkey was dead. ’ ’