THE OTAKI MAIL. FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, 6 July 1923, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Headers of the "Mail” are notiiied that subscriptions j u advance for the current quarter are due. By paying in advance a saving 0 f Js may be made, and all who wish to secure this concession should do so at once. J.ho Hue frost iisit were secured ou the Oiaki beach this morning. ‘‘The Queen of Sheba,” a great picture attraction for Monday night, should draw a larec crowd. while "Scandal” a comedy, will bo 4mt u ...» the 23rd., and not noxr Monday as stated last issue. Mr. I, I-’, Lyon.-, who has taken over the Family Hotel, was for some wap in Wellington, when hr was proprietor of the Occidental Hotel and also of Bellvue. For soma time he was al«o’ proprietor of the Grand Hotel. Levin, and on ail occasions kept up-to-date hotels. The Maori boys at the native college 1 at Otaki exhibited a board of models in woodwork at the Palmerston show in -November last. It was reported to •ttynod on Tuesday that the display was then borrowed by the Education Department for exhibition at Toronto, as a worthy exhibit of Few Zealand schoolboys ’ work. The department has now written asking for permission to retain all. or part of the display, to forward to London for the British Exhibition.

SALB OX 7 BOOTS AKD SHOES, Our half-yearly sale i, on and a !i the odd lines must be cleared in ladies'* gentsand children's boots and shoes] —lrvine's Shoe Store, Otaki.—Advt. , A starting handle- is advertised for. A gold-mounted fountain pen is advertised for. are invited for the position of ranger and sexton. Tenders are invited for the erection or a cottage at the Otaki Sanatorium. f eucllre tournament will be held at the Te Horo public hall on Wednesdav nest , and once fortnightly afterwards.' 1 The Otaki Brass Band will play I selections at the Sanatorium on Sunday

! afternoon. | Mr Fred Barrett is here- again—this I [ time in the heart of the town. He has I repairs to do but will find time to do | more. Get iiis prices, and see his Jeath- * er.—Ad vt. \ev.- zeaiand farmer* art not the j oniy ones who have had a had tirmJ' lately. The director ol "he Fam bT < rea u Federation in \V-ashiuWi-Jfhe l latest or all farmer organisations in ' the country-stares that one out of,' e ' e ry 16 farmers in the State= sj-.’.H out last year, voluntarily or im-oiun ! tanly, that the occupants of oSt! of e'en .iv_- farms moved w another 1 district, and that Ko.ooo tenant c U nt. i vators gave up the struggle altogether 1 tJr,Z Sy iv 6000 tarm so! more than! d ' eia = e slZe - representing an averageinvestment or £-3200. proved that ale I average owner-operator last year made ' i-’tSO gross, and when allowance wa-‘ hade for live-stock and machinery ' nad £l4O with which to pay mortl ragas, interest on investment.'and ilv. ng expenses. ( For ItjStiemn, '.a.?.: Woods' Or*sat Peppermint Gars.

1 Mi's .Mice Roliertson, retiring Congresswoman, dosed her congressional j career by saying: “I want to go borne as soon as possible. I am going back I to my old armchair in the garden where the flowers frill be blooming, , to listen to the mocking birds, and at - dusk, out. over the wide prairie, to j watch the twinkling lights in (he south ! western oil fields —just to vest and j think : for the twilight of life is a. time ] l'or reverie and remembrance. No: public life is not the highest career of ) a woman. Her happiest plaice is in the home.” | The Federal Council of the Churches i of Christ in America is gravely con- ■ rented with the challenge offered by lynching to Christianity and the latest issue of the Bulletin gives the results of some investigations recently undertaken to get at the facts. It appears, says the Church Times, that between 18S5 and 1022 more than 4000 persons, of whom more than 1000 were whites, were lynched by mobs, often | after slow torture of indescribable kind's. Ah were slain without trial : many wore innocent victims, mistaken l,v the mob for the real offenders. I'ighfy-three of them were women. A vivid picture of northern roads is given by a. writer in a provincial paper. “Between Tongapoiuhi and Awakino along she Valley roa<| the going is good, except where fillings have been made, and they are only passable on horseback. From Bexley gates to the tunnel the going is good. But. thence to Mahoenui it is indescribably bad—mud, oveans of it. all the wav. up 1o the flaps of the saddle. I made the trip with another the oilier day. Tt. took me five hours to do the ciglo miles from the tunnel to Mahoenui. C tor oilskins were solid mud to our shoulders. But we are not, worrying. Far from 1 it. We are quite iiapny. We get home at night, have a sc mb down end a bath, and forget all about it until the next morning, when we go through the same performance.” i II horses are at all given to rcllcci lion there must be a very puzzled ) equine hauling an express cart about | Auckland, lit 1 was .ambling along 1 .lervoib road about 11.30 on Thursday 1 morning when a new and bewildering system and hit the crown of las being like a. sledge-hammer. Ii all came , about tlirough a ridiculous little thread jof wire. A wire had broken loose lmm |a telegraph pole and fallen across the • iu<ulway, and as it. sagged groundwards it. rested on one of the highly j charged earlier.-, of the tramway cur--1 tent. The horse, joggling quietly i aidiig, put a boot on the telephone j wire, and a moment later wtis lying |in a, collapsed heap on the roaM. For- , innately tot the horse, the current , had already earthed, but the shocklie got. was suflieietit to "put him to sleep.” as they say in ring circles, j and lie stayed out for welt over Hie i nunt. Mis driver, with some vulunI teer assistance, unharnessed him as he i lay. and. in a lew minutes conscii•■!.«ties- dickered bark, and he was assisted. to his feet, I".,king very groggy and dejected. However, express jmr.-ts ate pretty hardy animals, and he was | soon jogging along again, but in fuI lure will probably keep an eye lining ‘ for innocent-looking lit.t-Ie wires lying I across the fairway. ! Recently a nurse and six bnshinwi , proved their unfailing courage and strength of endurance by an admirable action In a. remote part of Gippsland. Victoria, a woman lay very ill ami iit need of - immediate medical aid. The bush nurse was sent tor. and rode 40 miles, but on reach-; iing Ihe patient found that nothing could be done without a medical man. Delay meant death. R was Impossible for a horse or vehicle to travel across, [-ii.rn country. thick with tangled un-i Jin r-growth 'and felled gum tree- >ix- j jbusbmen in "he vicinity volunteered, j They placed the sick woman on a. lit- j ter and carried her sixteen miles j across the wild country at night amid j pouring rain. For the full sixteen j miles hush nurse Dorothy Allniond j walked beside the litter, attending to the sick woman's needs. The parly j reached the doctor just in time to save the life of the patient, bur. at the end id the journey they themselves were thoroughly exhausted. The townspeople are .-otifcting subscriptions ‘o reward the brave party, and they look with a'dmiration upon the courage and slidurance bred by the back blocks.'' uiscus-ing tj to opportunities ot trade between New Zealand soul Clump Miss • .Moore an < pagan woman who ha-. I been a missionary tn China lor 2b! years, and is in Dunedin on luriough, j -aid that one of the New Zealand pro- j ducts which would she believed, lino ] a. ready market in China it offered a' j a reasonable rate is beef. Australia exports a considerable quantity ul ] beci to Manila Jn Hongkong itseit i the!e is no mutton, and. it is all j / brought down aii\e ti'Oin the north oft (China in steamers, one company alone ; , brings about 1000 sheep weekly to j Hongkong. The beef to be had hi the j Hast /joe- not begin to compare with j the beef we are accustomed to here, t I OWna also get- much butter, con-( ! densed miik, cheese, and money from | America. There is also a lag market for apples and wool, mostly supplied by America. American apples are expensive', and not nearly so good as. those to be had here. Australian tin- j ned butler is very bad, but some of j their best butter in pats, is very good j in winter time. Foreigners in* Chin? { are entirely dependent on put side sour- j

Ices of supply, especially England. V ->r I thcur dairy produce. Recently they were paying- about 4s a. lb for American tinned butter. Chinese women are learning’ to knit. and as the winter in tile interior is very cold, there is likely to bo a tremendous demand for woo! lin the future. Foreign stores charge I up to about 3C‘s a lb for wool, but the Chinese shops are much cheaper. The j American? arc very active]v pushing j ! he!r wares, but the vast, majoritv of j *l‘- shops arc --tin British. Tim borer does not destroy merely '-.'l- destruction - .. sake, but rather to ;;: ,U? V i f s natural craving for food, til's tact may be of some comfort to t.uo-e who have suffered from the ra.vacres of a creature which is probably i '-'•'.sung' til..- country rnanv thousand? : r -t pound? annually, some interesting :*s concerning the borer were given to a representative of the Christ,-hurch Press by Mr A. F. Blade, of Anc.ltland. Mr Blade, who has had much j practical experience in coping with}

*v- e of the borer, stated that ■-‘ 1 - ny usually mates afmr leaving the hole in the affected tvowj. She re-ma-ns fertiie as long a? she lire?, and deposits her eggs in various places. She is often very sluggish in her movements. and may never mate. The egg’s are_ of ;• torpedo shape, and a thin! s.-.tve protects them until the little I grub hat, h>-s. The grub, when hatch- ! imniedaiely enters the wood. It notes on ai:d hakes -he starch out of the wood r> its To is pror»s-

•'on Unites s ill the "ral> is fully ‘level•'*i%<'• 1. arid ready to >»rn into the beeT: then ■ orne- hack near the «jrhe? of the r.-'-tii. wh-re it "- the .'dr more rear?fly. When it turns into the beetle ;? breaks the .surface and crawls out. The thisi which comes from the •e'lrs has ti-'i--C-< 1 thro'U2il the hoilv Of ;he r rer. from which no timber Is 11 1..-. T: ],a-; rd tacked even hr* t>-i ■ 1 ■■ n‘el f• <r TrieVinsr \vh_ ■oral ha- neiforate,] lead ffu*»er?nsr 1. 1 - r. }■ nft oi'-. “(tcftti vrOv ‘ dealt her " : h ravn;*e«. beyond, nr-rhapt Ire. ’ r •" of ■* o -<.n- sea"chirtp .-a-. ■v'hlch herdtv pro-* a corrmi-rttal f-TCjte Sltit-Zi,,

Walter Frank Goodall, alia* Frank I Delaney, .was charged at the Levin Coun yesterday with on June isth, at Levin, converting to his own t&e, but not so as to be guilty of theft, a motor* 1 cycle valued at £55. Formal evidence was given by the police, and accused was committed to the Supreme Court! Palmerston North for trial. Householders a'n.xious about their winter coal supplies might., had they attended at- Heefion last week, have seeuired a coal mine all to themselves—and that with comparatively little outlay. The Empire coal mine and plant were put up to public competition by Messrs McMahon anti Lee. and were -old in one lot to Mr W. Campbell m his first bid of £SO. in opening die sale the auctioneer started that there were rails, trucks, mining tools, t-t, .. t'h ’he lease to the value of £750, The •annual meeting of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australasia rejected the. cabled request from die 1 tided States that the preliminary rounds ot the Davis Cup be played on Sunday. The cablegram explained that Sunday play would give the team-, the benefit of a large “pate.’’ Mr \v. 1.. Hicks, secretary, replying to the Ended states Association, explained I that Australia has various objection* which are not outweighed hv die gate takings. About twenty-seven ions cd cargo salvaged from the Wiltshire was brought to Auckland by the scow Lena on Wednesday last. The diving work at the Wiltshire is reported to be progrossing slowly. Two scow loads of cargo have been landed at Trypheria. Of the eight, blades on the twin pro. pellets one Iras been salvaged ami the others have been unbolted ivadvs for j raising to the surface. The blades are J made of copper, each weighting about j three tons, and being valued at £IOO. American justice, swift, and direct, was meted out at Wilkesbarre. Pennsylvania.. last month, when a magistrate. Edward Burke, thrashed a brutal miner accused of wife-beating to “sec how he liked his own medicine." The magistrate had listened only to a ! part of (lie wife’s complaint when he jumped over his desk and ordered the {defendant, to stand up. “How do you ! like it?” asked Burke, ns he knocked the defendant down, blackening his | eye. He. repealed the question, a.ccornj pnnied by a. judicial punch lit the other eve. when the defendant regained his feet. The Magistrate then imj posed a fine of £2.