MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, 7 March 1923, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

I o ji Alter commenting on the damage i Itlone in the Dominion by deer, the isew Zealand Herald states: "Last year the owner of a grazing run abandon- | el 53 000 acres at Lake Boloiti, and; explained to the Commissioner of j 1 frown Lands that the deer had left mo tood tor the stock. The author ol the report calculates that deer have I displaced the equivalent ol 450,000 1 sheep from the pastures ol the Do- . minion.'' I on the recommendation oJ the Pubi licitv Committee, the Wellington ' Chamber of Commerce has resolved: 1) Thai Wellington be boosted throughout the world: (2 that the Post and Telegraph Department be asked to co-operate by the utilisation I ol postmarks for this purpose,'as has i i een done In the case of local exhibitions: and (3) that the co-operation )of Hie newspaper!: be sought to include regularly special articles ol a I pithy interesting nature relerring to Wellington. A linn carrying on a Dominion industry, which is a member of the industrial Association and has been taking part in the campaign for pushing New Zealand products, has just issued a neat little advertisement m the shape of a letter-opener made of cel- ! fuloid or similar material. On one I H ide 's the name of the firm, and on ! the other in bold type, "Encourage ' New Zealand Industry," Unfortun11'tcJv, in print about one-thirty-second ; nt au inch, too small to rend without a microscope, is the inscription, "Pas. \liinn and Gilden, Melbourne. Made ( in r.s.A." Feilding Star. i The scene Was a bowling green in Wellington, and tiie principal character hailed trom an accountancy (inn ;,i Wanganui, the principal not beinc unconnected with some local bodies. Preparing for the battle on the green, the visitor dived into his handbag to draw forth the weapons, i.e., two bowls, when lo and behold he performed a regular Nicola trick, producing without apparent effort two peri i,.,-My harmless and innocent-looking on the 'phone for the exponent, ol pirs!idi"itntinii, ami a meek and mild v,.id> informed him llial Hie shins in ,j ciccnuas that are subject lo ironin'', would be sent on hi him lo ati, nd m at the bowling green. I hen it was*liorue in irpon the victim liiat ~.. was the subject r.l a practical joke neatly execuled l>y an erstwhile Wanganui citizen.

'A\ here does my liability end. and ing. lie was 'under the impression i'i:il ii lie brought uoo f.al sheep to Hie I •cards' and the auctioneer knocked! liiem down lo a purchaser tit:,! he i could go home, knowing the stock had - been sold and the auctioneer would see he was paid. Bill the account which lie recently received from ft him said: "On nccounl risk ol - Could it oe thai ihe auctioneer could I int.' him up v lieu he got hot >r a his sheep nwnv again because the} h;,,i t,.,t been iciid lor? Mr C. Smith. .■',;.| : -,..;in. said the l>' W<\ case was foii;.;hl oul on ilia! ji'iini. An auctioneer did not. accept the risk until the -lock were delivered lo Die buyer. ihe love N'ew Zealand lies lor Piuslrumenial bauds, .and ihe very lihe i;0 -uppori that is accorded them by v im~v band. Speaking at ii social 7-t i aiiicrl.ufv Mounted Hides' "ijjiiid i in A.sb.burtoir Mr Partington -aid ii wes iin eye-opener t ! > him thai bands country and treated so well. Public linanci'al ' sii)>poi t or support from i \ local bodies In Australia was very I j meagre in comparison. The Kedfern Municipal i lounril had donated Hie i "magnificent" sum of tii 10 towards i j the hand'- trip to New Zealand, lint not lor nothing! When (he band re- \ ' writs it has to give concerts for three months to make up for it, said Mr \ Partington, amidst laughter.

"ll woul'l be u terribly monotonous world if we all thought alike." said Mi John Fisher, president of tlic Cam- » bridire A. and I'. Society, when speaki ny ;ii >he I'ukekohe Show gathering. | An oJii Scotsman meditating on thai very subject, suicl to lii.-* friend Sandy: I , "Weel, ii that were sae, we wild a' ho j 'wanting that wife ol your.-." • "Ah, i replied Sandy, "I'm thinking it you jj | all thought the name as me nunc o' i yae wud liae her." The speaker, proi ceeding after the laughter, said itu'i 'explained the advantage of good eomjj | petition as between tiie breeders o! \ , the different kinds ol cattle. He r- | litembered it was once said thai Ayr ; , shire cattle wore only bred by mental asylums and Seob-h 'folk— -(laughter;— k [and. therefore, he was awfully pleas f ; ci.| to know ilii.il l-mki kohe hud at |j ieasl one Irishman who went in for • §.! Ayrshire?. (Laughter and applause., | I A traveller describes ihe wonder- o; $ I Ihe Victoria Falls in lUtodesia. | i liiey are li-i only the grandest wa- | | terfalls," he says, "but also the most is i sublime spectacle in ihe world. To H j -ay ilia! ihe i ivei Zambesi measure R : more than a mile in breadth where i; a i rushes over the precipice in a roarI iug, snow-white torrent- lo drop i j luai i. and to throw up columns oi | spray to some 20011 visible 50 miles I I disianl—that is m say nothing. N'oth i iug. at leasi that conveys any idea o; a I'he magnitude and beauty oi the la! ■ I j Anyone who has seen Niagara may £ i gain some little notion ol its nti•j j known, untamed, unspoiled rival b> 0 . imagining something nearly twice a- ; |ibioud. And, as (his is n practical age. 1 (a comparison ol the amount of horse[j I power running awav in carp ease is | I interesting. Niagara's horse-power is B 17,000,000; the Victoria Fan's allow I 30,000,000 horse-power to run to picf, j turesque waste I" p| Lord Glenavy and Mr r. M. Healv g I lurnish proof that time works woiilid is. As Mr J. 11. Campbell, M.P. for I I Trinity College, Lord Glenavy was p the ablest and bitterest opponent'the | i Irish Party had. He was legal ad- | j-Viser to Carson's Provisional GovernI'lnent, and became Lord Chancellor oi I''lreland. He had just been elected i j chairman of the Irish Senate. Mr jjlliealy is now Governor-General ol the I' Free* State. In the law courts in forR iner years thev have repeatedly e.ross- » ed swords. On one occasion Mi I Campbell was prosecuting in a seri- | cms criminal case, and in a moving !<* speech said that when he read over , the evidence in the case he cried bitterly. Mr Healy thereupon almost ' j succeeded in having the court eleaied " by interjecting'. "No such miiaele has j occurred since Moses struck the

i, .a." J v good story was told at a Llandudno dinner of a deep-laid—and successful—plot to urge upon ihe then! j chairman of ihe London and North- ■ Western Railway Company the need tor a better railway station at J.lan- j l.ludno. In those days the station con-; I sis:,-d of a single island platform on ! j which the cabs drew up i,, pick up l | fares. Mr Moon, the chairman ol the railway company, was invited to in-' |speei the station, .lusi as he came on i [io the platform he had a narrow esI cape from being knocked down by a : cab. II had the appearance of a pure i accident, but later in the day, the srnry pro.-eeded, one ol the bills on the Town Clerk's desk read: "To preM'ding io knock down the old gentinmnn, a- directed, 5." Plans for an / j ■ ■>., ovfd station were adopted iintue- j diately.