MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, 20 September 1922, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

I .Melba lias \vou some treuieuUous booking rocoipu for charity—£6Boo in Sydney lor the Polish Relief Fund, and £6200 in Melbourne lor the War Fund—but ber concert in Geelong (\ ictoria) lor the Kitchener Memorial Hospital on August 15 realised the biggest, hooking of her career—£7ol2. “Famy any two men, with only 1 £'7oo between them, wanting to start in a business returning £IO,OOO capital,'' said 1 lie Chief Justice, when aduiessmg a jury. Such cases were art unlo.rlunate Jeanne of the purchase I tot hirnis in this country, he continuj ed. A great number of people in the | Waikato, Gisborne, and Hawke's Bay I laid been ruined by speculations of ; tins nature. ) “This will make a big reduction in [ the ioti.il rales received by the rid- ! iiiy.” reinaiked Cr. Barber at Fri- [ day's meeting of the Maimwatu Counly < iiiin.il, when advice was received Horn the Yu bullion Uupartineiit. that, as the Government had declined to acquire the Moutoa estate, the valuation of the property hud been reduced to the owners’ assessment. The chairman (Sir James Wilson) pointed, out that the reduction in valuation amounted to £21,000, The ,\ew Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company has just landed and put into commission the latest model ol an electric locomotive. This is being used for shunting and hauling railway waggons in the company’s yards at Frankton Junction. It is a Goodman electric locomotive of .70 nomii mil horse-power, and will pull 100 | tons, or about eight trucks. A great j leuture about the locomotive is that j it, can he charged at. night, while the load on electric lines is easy, redttc-. tug running costs considerably. Also jat Frankton Junction Dairy Factory, a synchronous motor has been instal- 1 j loti for lire pump purposes, which at. ! the same time corrects the power fac-1 | tur nf lioialiora, saving about 00 to in jr.v nrni of till power. I \u Amei icati merchant recently tll--1 loved a uegro, a cliaracler about town, to use his telephone. This is 1 what happened: “J» tin's the Italy who : adverlised lor a man to look alter i tin; furnace The lady on the oilier • cud Ol the line inlormed the negro j i hat she hud already secured the serj \ji us ol a mail lo do tile work. .-Still I he persisted. "I'se. a good man for work. i ’t-11 itJll- I should call in an- , oilier week when Ihe oilier mail does J not sal is.ly." No, in; need not call again, replied Hit; lady. Hoioro leaving tin; store llie merchaut expressed his ieg j id. :hal the ncgio had not secured the position. “You needn t led sorry for no 1 , boss, 'cause ISO the man what go! 'lie job. i just wattled to know where. I stood with the j Judy." ! rhe disadvantages under which puI pu ill .-mail seiiouis labour in cotn- , pciill g lor scholarships was stressed Jiw Mr w. 11. Field (Oitiki) in the ’ Douse ol Hopresentutives. Tltere was I a si long lee ling, lie said, that country .children were not getting fair ueatincur in die distribution of the schoi larsliijr-. atnl lie asked ii some bedei -vstein could not he devised. Ihe .Mmi-icr of Kdiieationj the lion. C. J. 'fair, .-aid it was perloetly obvious Ida! pupils of email schools had not _ i the same cham-e ol winning scholarI ships as pupil- ot the larger schools 1 v.ltcie there were bigger stalls and ! hotter equipment. TJiC Department i hijd been endeavouring to remove the CTtmlicup, and children irom the -mailer schools were now required to obtain 10 per cent less marks to qualify lor a scholarship. In proportion to the number that entered l'or die scholarships, the country children now did ver> well. The Department was, iiuu eve-, now considering further j measures ol nliel, ami it was sug- , ge-.icd that some sdtu’.arsliii'S should be -ci ai'UH lor die couiury schools alone. •An iiigeniou.-i\ malicious will led 1 to an iiciioti med m Hie French courts ten years ago. Jean Laurent, a well-to-do bachelor, v. hci died in IDL'D, used to keep a dairy reccdding with pain-' iul mimiiei't-s eevr.v incident of Isis daily i-oiu;i:c. At "uc Mid of each vear hi- record- vcrc t iciily bound, jatielicd 1111• irll- de ma \ie," and lent m unit to tour "id it tends, none jjf W'lloiil C'Ct' i-T IHil•'t_*• 1 Bt lilOl G ill till tl lew alliiuiigii when returning the volume each professed to have lead it tiirotigli and utijoyed it- Hveuluiihy flic "id man discovered their lit ol cssiotts io he false .and. piqued at tliis- luck cd tipprccia'ioti, wrote hts win on page Gif ol die volume for lipid. He divided liis w-iiole estate I among It'- l"'it friend-: but they reI mained in : gnu rate e ol their good I fortune, abhotigh fiie-y Jtad amide opportuuiu of learning it. so when Lauitem died lie was deemed intestate, } and a distant t elation took posses- { sion of Ids property. Ten years later the will was found, and altei a costly lawsuit the real liens tecovered about i u-1000—less than half the amount originally bequeathed. A jocular remark by the Minister ol •public. Works at Muiigahuu appears to j have been taken seriously by the pies* 1 'and the : esiiiuj.ni paragraph may | I cause a. wrong impression. Hie Min- | I iste. ts reported to have said that Mr I J\V. If. Field. M.P., wanted the Department to “vary the route ui iis main j ;iTtnsin issii'ii line in order to avoid a | ngaio tree" s,int,-where Ttiis was tie M lic tel • lit lift j'-ke it srt-m----.nm Mi i-iriii inis iteeii making reptei tin- :i -1.-n - ii a it'-v in saving a pir:e of native i.ut-i. ; about 3o acre; j on ins property. Tt-is fcusti is composed t-1 hf-aUlitUf iciest liees, allil juts -ceil preserved witli great care for many years. The route of the transmission line i- surveyed to pass i through lire middle oi the block, and J a.- a. warm lover ol the beauties of’ nature and keen forester, Mr Field j thinks n worth w hile suggesting that, if possible, anotbci line bo Uiken lor j tho |.»iirpose. I ill* (jopariment apple- *■ claims liu .Jo>ue i*n*J Hie Minister >v a s j just pleasant'-.- %ta- e-ilous when he re-j ,t \[j. j.jij tc Mr '.held ; lout u±dio tree.

At a meeting of Marlborough farmers it was decided to form a company with a capital of £25,000 to j trade with auxiliary' scows, primarily between Picton and Auckland, in con- ' nection with tiie chair trade. Provir sionnl directors were elected to make y preliminary arrangements. j 1 The aigurnent of the. Auckland City i 5 Schools' Committee that, in view of I ■ Phe compulsory saluting of lhe ilag at j ,• schools, ibe dug should be supipited t by title Education Department, came ■ - bef'oie tiie Auckland Education Board - on tiie point ol renewal of the worn- ! i out flag at Bereslord .Street School | i .states the Star,. By resolution the ! - board passed the decision on to the I j Department, reletting the School Com- j • mittee's statement that the cost of the 1 [ flag was a departmental matter to the ’ central body. ! ' A foiir-ye:ir-oltt bullock Irom Mr Walter liyder's properly at Ktikii , shows tiie line iailening qoalitie- oi ' tiie pastures in Hint district. When dressed the carcase was Jound to be 'in prime comlilion. the kidney lal being about sulb in weight, and to- . gether with other suet gave a total of over one ewt. The beef itself was j 1 of fine quality. The animal was pur- • chased by Messrs. Watkins and De- I vine, of Weraroa. The following incident is reported io have happened in tlie Wanganui district. An old and respected Maori , died and, according to custom Ins money, a bandy sum of £:i(JO. was to I be buried with him. whereupon the j wise man ol the tribe, a keen business person who seems io have had some insight into the way ol the civilised financial world, offered a cheque in : exchange l'or the money, which oiler was gratelully accepted, to the apparent satisfaction of everybody. Some excitement was caused on shelly Beach, Auckland, on Sunday j afternoon by two young boys killing ‘an octopus. The boys, who bad wulkl ed out to the end oi the reef mi the west side of the I’oini Erin haihs. saw the octopus in a p-ml "I water, between the reel and the sea. one "l them, who curried an iron bar, dealt the lish a blow, while the other | plunged bis penknile into its eyes, j When brought on to the beach the ( creature was found to measure about ( ill from tip 1 o tj(i ol the firms. j A young lady in Scotland who iiad passed all her examinations as a | nurse, and who wished to come to New Zealand to join her parents who hud recently conic to the Dominion, wrote lo the High Commissioner, say- | ing that she would he willing to act as nurse in return J'ot het passage, io ; any sick person needing luilp on tine j voyage out. She go! a reply saying ! that there were ovei Jiih applications l'or such positions, and that only very rarely was a nurse asked lot. and there was little hope ot getting a position as nurse on an outwardbound steamer. A good story lias just been related to me (says a Napiei writer; by a triend who vouches fui ii- accuracy. A Hawke's Bay sportsman recently won £lO at a meeting, and on his ieturn home placed the money in a pocket ot an old garden coat, not be--1 ing desirous that in's wife should [know of liis success. A few days afterwards lie found him-el! in waul ot funds, and so decided to again become possessed oi the £lO. cm going to the place where the garden coat was hung lie, however, Jound that II was gone. fie instituted the most diligent search lor it, but ail liis eflorts lo locate its whereabouts ended in failure. He then approached bis “better half,’’ and asked it she knew where it was, and she replied that she had charitably given it away to a person who had called for oid | clothes! S Gauterbury College iota reason io be S proud oi the achievements oi two j men who were students there togctiiei ■ about go years ago and liave since gone out into the world and made 1 then mark Mays the Wairarapa Age . i .-dr Ernest ltutherford, the eminent physicist, went irom Canterbury College to Cambridge, and then t-.> McGill L niversity (Canada;. He avluw- j ed lame by his researches in radio tic- , J tivity. <ir William Martqs, who was . I probably the most distinguished soho- , far who ever passed through JVanga- i itui College, went from Canterbury*: College to L'xiord, and passed I< -y; , marks ahead of the next compeutoi I in the Indian Civil service examuia- I non. lie bus risen to tiie top of tiie j tree in that- service, and iuis now j been appointed Governor of the Unit- j l ed Provinces .India,. Strange to say, I . KutheiTord and Marris first appear-! led m the honours list in the .same ! I year (11*14.; 'be former being Knight- ’ cd and the latter made a C 1 E. New j Zealand has something to be proud ' of in these two careers. * A New Zealand vocalist who i~ making promising progress in Let «studies in London is Miss Millie Knight, a daughter of Mr and Mrs Willoughby Knight, of the Hull, and i a grand-daughter of Mr and Mrs D Mc-Kain, oi Weraroa. In a letter just received in .Wellington, Madame Ada ■ j Crossley speaks most encouragingly !of Miss Knight. “You might like to t know," says Madame Crossley, who ; I by the way was a prima donna in | her day, “.what I feel about Millie ! Knight's progress here. You will re- | member the very nice quality her voice had in New Zealand, but it is now iulli-i and infinitely more Vila am in tone, whilst the improvement iFi firT COliiToi hlid cliiissiOli ol Ilic’ iii't'Qiii Hi oft pro n ounce d I nvßiit 11 €> hear Tier latel v in ope. ran c an J oiher sij'les, and vvas absolutely delighted at her progress in every veay. With so much in her favour she will make a fine stand in London." Miss I Knight made her mark in Wellington | previous to going Home to study. | A WORLD ENTREPRENEUR. ■ Mr. Daniel Mayer, who brought out j Levitzki, Paderewski, etc, etc., is enthusl iastic about Q-toI (before shaving) and j Fluenzol (a* an antiieptic aoutngath). • Wri'ini from New York, he eeks thud i 'ejtiisr mcEthlr supplie* be pcstsd tsr ! hinzeL f cad Mends.’ Hs offers to help «ly»a the line* w the Amiziru mnkat.