MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 23 April 1920, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

The vagaries of tho mechanism of a slot telephone are reported to have been responsible for a man who could nol be connected with'the number he

wanted as it was engaged, receiving the handsome return of 1300 per cent on hi:? "investment." In auuitiou to the penny he paid in, the. ouligiug mechanism spouted out a siring of thirteen pennies. It is not recorded whether he returned inc unlucky thirteen coppers. Ti is reported (says the "Cromwell I Vrgus") that the Canadian geese I liberated some years ago on Messrs j Tnyloi Bio-.' properly in Hunter ValJ | C y by the Otugo Acclimatisation | Society, have largely increased in num-j I hers during the past season. The birds [ lijivi! nol been molested, and are now [ t'ulty elsablished in their new sur- ! rounding*. The Cape Barren geese j liberated at the tame lime have not in- | creased to the same extent, only four ! of the young of Uiii. species having j been noticed --incc the close of the < nest iny season. | i„ ;,u addles before IliC Uri'tisli Asi ..,,', i-ii M.m id' Malingers of Textile j '.v,.il, . I'rol't ■-r .1 A. Todd (says a I Loudon cone -pwiidt nt ) declared that j -,,, .ever much production increased in 1 C: cotton iinlii; try, the demand would 'outstrip ir. The woihl had not come within ..•;■; lit of if- r< .|iiiiement;., and Lancashire could do with IUU.O'iO.OuO more bait's oi cotton each year than it was. now using. Countries that have : ;,(,.,. out of ihi market since 1914 arc taking enormous quantities, of manufactured piecegood.-. La. t month Tur- ! key alone took .wnrly 10.0t10.000 yard,, j vhile D.-nmail which in January, j , ~]- ■; (ioiViOo van! last January, and .',,'„.," • ■ ",,'■■„, v .,,,i ' (-;;■ the oth« r hand t* : ' .„'.',- ~.'-,!; „',»■ out overseas (mehid i ~. ■-, ... ;/,, ; ,|;,,„11. the r. ason being ,\.[",. („ shipping di faculties, and not to .' : ,,. v I'alling oil' in orders. It would ! ~,'.,„ ,i i: ,, ,| M - prospects for the next ] ~.,..,r ,„• Lwo are all against any easing I ~r prices so far as cotton goods arc !l ...iiccrned. \ „ « • I The paper which Mr tf. llursl bcager :! r oud at the Town I'lanniug Conference ! Ua's met with very wide approval and i appreciation (writes a Condon correspondent, under date of February 2tf). | m,, ss , s Rnvmond Cnwin and Harry ' Parker, whose names are known the world over in connection with town planning, are in full accord that industries should be considered in connection with any housing and town-plan rung scheme, and Mr C. 10. Purdom says thai in stating the case in the way he did .Mr Seager's .paper should set , l( .»plc thinking on those lines, and that „ 00 | effecl should result. Monsieur \ a i;, v . itic eminent French archi,]H| Mr Seatrer the honour of /,,'•,l-nid which h" .-howed when reading l.w'.'.-ii.i-r and he remarked thai Trance j,,,,!,,.',] to Nov. Zealand for Heas even ~„,,,. „,.,„ ( „ Koglaud. Mr Soagcr v M| h| . r( . 1I1 . l i„i„g in this eouuliy for ~„.,. „„,i,ih- yet. He has already |i(;ii|| . ;| ~,,„ ~,,,,. , ;,,-,ii| of the north. i,, l,e seen. SrientCl are looking io lh< time U | M .„ with' th- world's available ,„„,v. ■ or iue| l.uint up. some other „ ,11 |,o ii.-i e, ary. There will, of course. ahvay ■ I.e On- v iud to be harnessed. i, ut hrec.w a. liihil and arc of little ~... vithoiii adequate power storage ,-:„.!!,'i, .. Water pov.cr is also avail:il,i.. ~, |:, r ..e fj-.i.Hiiitie . but the water „„],. t)ov. - ill '•Haiti channels. ActinQ „„ ',!,,, ~ ne.o.M., da' the inferior of ,(,,, ~; iri |, , 1...;, .--.- ' harles Parsons, invent i : I'm .-cms tor!.inc. has ,;,..,,.. j,-.| ,- : ■ hole twelve miles in .i.-ptli ln.uld i. ■ unk i>i the earth, at ,1„, |,on ..■ vVoh there would he Mitiiciem h -a- :■■ -n. rate steam. The f ; ,; n ..„e,i ,■■-■ • ~f uch work is c$ uii.'i.i.oi'i. and rht time to be occupied ;,, .5,,-. In!:!'.- put at -"• year, or ."hereabout . I! V limem.; have been made which >-.:e cs-i -o ?hov.- that the -.,-lif-me is pra'-ti'-arde. la Italy bore i, o i".-'"i ; .,-.-.- i,--: i 5.,,- which discharge ~.,.„a v ,-s , of h:-;h-Tirissurr- steam, •, v pieh -"'ttr.-.i- al-'Cuit 10.'.'00 horse-