MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, 15 April 1922, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

Quite a gloom has been east over MatamaUi by the death of Mr n. Moure-Jones*, one of the unfortunate victims of the Hamilton Hotel fire. .Mr Moore-Jones was on his way to

attend the marriage at Matuniai.t next day ol his niece to Mr Leslie liayly, ami elaborate festivities had been arranged. The wedding was proceeded with, but the celebrations were cancelled.

It is stated that a grower oJ lucerne in the Wairarapa desired in take a crop of seed, but was dissatisfied witli the le-ults. lie was told that the crop wanted a fertiliser, and was advised to tun a few colonies of bees near the lucerne, lie got u friend to run about 100 colonies near the spot, with the result that the next time he grew for seed he succeeded far beyond his expectations,

It requited ;?} bullocks, i pigs and 52 kerosene tins lull of potatoes and kumeras to provide one meal at tlu Waitangi hui. All the lood was cooked by steam in huge barrels, and all the arrangements were completely up-to-date, even to a trainway to carry away the waste from the kitchen. Electric light was gemrated by a dynamo driven by a kerosene engine. Early one morning last month a farmer of Stockdale, Tasmania, was awakened from sleep by feeling something luting him. and found a snake dangling on the index lingei of his left hand, lie promptly chopped his linger off short with an a.\'.\

but did not tie a ligature. We galloped 14 miles on horseback to the nearest doctor, reaching there in a state "1 collapse.

At a meeting of creditors in tlie estate ol the late Mr 11. V. Hammond, held at YYunganui, it was decided ito submit the properties to auction, and give the D.O.A. power to quit, provided he could come to

a suitable arrangement to apportion the second mortgages and to an ange with the first mortgagees to allow the mortgages to remain on; and, if no workable scheme can be arrange I. be abandons the properties to the mortgagees. It is believed by the brokers that the bulk of the wool that was purchased al the Dunedin auctions is

destined for Bradford and the Continent, whilst, much of the erutchings will go to Japan [states the Star,. The New Zealand mills representatives were not buying largely. The wool offered did not include much that suits the machinery of the Dominion mills, and, moreover, the fashion ol the day ill New Zealand—or shall we say the fashi )f the period, for it seems to be continuous!— 1-, to wear garments made from fine wool. The only discordant note struck £t the Plunket fete at Alfredton, says the Eketahuna Express, was the u-e of spurs by a rider in one ot the horse events. -Some of 'he ladies were almost in tears at the treatment the gallant little horse received. To "dash the rowels in his -teed" might have been considered an heroic act in the days of "Marmion," might even have been expedient as a means of escaping a lulling portcullis, but to subject such a fine little animal 1o such a cruel rowelling as that witnessed on Saturday is not ••cricket."