MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, 8 September 1922, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

All tin* major planets that are visible to the naked eye may be seen in the western sky at one time for a fortnight hence. Four of these heavenly bodies are within a space of 20 degrees. The brightest and highest of the four is Venus, tinder which is Jupiter, the next in brilliancy. Twice the distance below is (Saturn. The planet Mars, which presented such a fine spectacle three nonths ago. is the brightest star overmad. Uranus is in opposition this .nek. rising when the sun sets.

The most important business of clect■r a new Parliament and deciding the

i in'i.-tion of prohibition or continuance f i* the liquor tialiio will lie put to the f ole in the course of a lew weeks' [ ime. Everyone should lake the small mount of trouble of seeing that they re on the list of voters, if they are ot on secure registration on the sup-

.ienienturv roll. The time to make are i.- now. it will be useless to pro,.st after I lie polling day if a mime is milted from the list ot' voters. The lain roll is open for inspection at the ocnl post office. A Christchurch candidate for Parliaueutury honours, being desirous of Prming a committee to further his in,<rests, sent out a number of circulars o persons he thought would be likely o assist. Back came one of the circti■us to him endorsed: “Not wanted;'’

n( | superscribed: “One of the damned atepayers! ” From this superscription it nitty be inferred that the candiInte in question is a reverend gentleaan u ho is also a member of the Christnurcii City Council. At a recent neeiing of that body, when it was meniom.il that the ratepayers were enti|,.,l in si.nie ciinsicleralion, he exclaim,j. . . |{- | wore not n clergyman I .vouid be inclined 10 say ‘ Banin the ratepayers! ’ ’ ’ An itl tempt to rescue an injured cow Ton, n ledge on the steep cliffs over.nuking the sen at Happy Valley, Wellington. resulted in a .somewhat serious [.-teciden! on Sunday morning. The uni--1 ami's perilous position was observed :,v Mr J. Fleming, of Wellington South, and. with the assistance of some people who were spending the week-end :il Happy Valley, lie set about to effect i rescue, in doing so Mr Fleming lost his footing and fell down the steep hillside —a distance, it is stated, of I.To feet —with the animal, which had also slipped from the ledge, tumbling ;i lew cards behind him. A projection near the bottom of the incline providentially threw Mr Fleming a few feet clear of the spor oil which the cow landed so heavitv as to cause its back and shoulder to be broken. A doctor was immediately summoned and found that Mr Fleming was severely bruised, as well as suffering from shock. —Post. “Rivers are almost human,’’ remarked the chairman (.(sir James Wilson) at Tuesday’s meeting of the Manawutu County Foiuicil. “If we display u bold front and protect a threatened bank. I lie Mnnawatu river, recognising the futility of carrying on a losing tight, irimost invariably slops bothering us and turns its attention to some other weak Spot." (Sir Janies was commenting on a case in point which cropped up i.u ihe monthly report ot the council's engineer. The latter reported that tlie erosion in the Mnnawatu river, which a few months ago threatened to .•a! a wav the main road near .Shannon, opposite Mr W. E. Barber’s property, was working destruction lower down the stream towards the Shannon bridge. The whirlpools causing the erosion opposite the above property had. curiouslv enough, shifted down the stream several chains, and immediately above the old position accretion was now taking place on rather a large scale. The

1 siuj'l pit on the south-oast side of the l jj voi’ was lining eroded away by every f flood, and it was not likely that the old road would be destroyed at the present time. *! A motion was enthusiastically car- '' ried at a big conierence oi Friesian LueeUers at Palmerston North, con- • gramhuin-r Mr Vernon Marx, of MaI ngaioki, upon the great record established by his Friesian cow, Alcartra Clolhiide Pietje, which was the first cow ol any breed in Australasia to produce 1 t»Jolb of butterfat in one season. No cow of any other breed had ni oitm od a similar amount of buttertat in Id months, whereas Mr Marx's champion had given slightly more th a u iOiiOib of fat in 10 months, the Mr C. hi. Kobertson) stated that tie had recently inspected this (me cow in the company of Mr \Y. D. Hunt, tlie president of'the New Zealand Friesian Association. She promised to give over ho,ooolb of.milk and about Jl-iulb oi fat in the full 12 ' months. Moreover, she would calve again within no days of finishing her J test. This cow had never been housed. but ran out with other cows on her owner's farm throughout the vear. Under lire conditions of tilts test her performance was a world s record lor all breeds. It was decided to endeavour to arrange with the own- ' er to have his cow on exhibition the Mattawatn Spring Show. Mention was also made of the fact that a heiier in Taranaki, which had milked in only three quarters throughout the year, promised to finish up her year's test with a pi eduction of about SiKHb . fat. This would also be a record for ail i, reeds, and was an astounding pet mi unities in the circumstances, i O, Maisie and Daisy, get up and come » out! There 's midnight and music and magic about. I hear “fairy pipers’ far down in the !glen — It must be the march of the little brown men! . They 're skirling a strathspey, piping a | reel, j Hark how they shout as they double * and wheel! I hear every word, and they mean it, “Three- cheers for 'Woods’ Tcppe-rnwnt Cure. —Advt.