MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, 5 October 1923, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

I "it is no use people becoming I alai'meit at tlie: prcuiCLiuil; I tiavu nut readied aie sLa'gc when-uiey I can say lor certain wiicn an earlnS quake v. m uccm, saiu ivir ii. r."S'ii.oy, I oi tiie CiiiisiCiiuruii ouaeivuiuiy.''•'-"■ •-•* J j A toouuiein syndicate, winch iias J j seeureu lud' nynis over jinnies oi lue I Upper uiuuia jniyer iuie luiwuiau | J muiien) in utago, lias lormuiated a. ! big erigineei my seneaie wnererjy H Hopes to protect uie ianus contiguous ] to tne nvor irom Hooding, ana at the : same Umu lo recoup ltseii ny secur- I nig Uie gold-iuden deposits oi tne river neu. ah engineer oi rep uie m i Wellington who nas recently visited Uisigo auu gone lino Uie question is 1 jouvmced mat Uie scheme is possible. A case more amusing man niosl 3 was heard at Uie (Jieyiaoutn Magistral e s UJuri. last week.- A Couuen , resident let Ins furnished hous<2 .to a lieiglUHiUT. lor a lew weeks, whilst tile owner went on a holiday visit to f\eison. i\o definite arrangement was laaue regarding* real, aim. oil" Uie owners return ae claimed £1 weeiay. 9 rius was objected lo oy L.He tenant, j ..-.-., .., ..m,., piesenleu the I.QiIOW- j lag -contra account : Caie oi iowis, \ inae weeks, piaiits, etc., IDs, £4 10s; i ■ cats' iiiuli,. one pan per day, £X in; I cats meat, las; lruit, biscuits aau } . cake lor opossum, HI; gas, tis—totai, | j K'i Ids.. Xiiq lie use-owner detnea ua- j ; biiity, una the magistrate upheld Una I | view, giving judgment lor the piam- ( ill! ipr ills claim, and dismissed me { ' counter-cunm apart li.o'iu tiie. charge lor gas. S\ iiiie Spain rta« iioeix pouring- 0-ut j millions in Morocco lor tea years j past the Spanish people seem to Have j readied an amazing pitch oi misery, j A writer in the Forwngliliy Review a j yeai or.'two hack deeiaieu that in the i t.as liuiues region oi Uie listrenia- j dura., in ''sunny Spain,'" Miere . are '■ human beinga herding like savages in ' holes and caves —halt-starved, Clothed m ruue skins, without doctors, churches, o; sciioois. Such statistics as they ■ cpiiect ill Spain show tiuat there ore ii inijuoii people out oi Uie 21 millions in tiie country can neither read nor write, nor eai.MiiL., the simplest figures. Nearly hail uac saiail towns , •laid villages are wiJiout even roads. Hail the area oi the country is uncultivated. The army has heen in revolt against t/he incompetent General Staff ioi years, and has juntas or commivtces • which issue oruers to which the Governments have either to agree or resign, as six or seven have done in as many years, "Our country," declares' Senor Jose Orteg.any Uassett, "is a rotting carcase in the last stages oi decomposition." And the delect of this unsavory comparison, from ail accounts, is that it understates the a ease. ; The Cambridge Powei Hoard is still i making steady progress. The enginSeer's report on the month from August 13 gives tlie following figures : Connections to date: Borough 229, injj crease of 3; Leamington 84, no inJ crease; rural lighting, 233, increase of >t; milking motors 136, increase of 23. Total consumers number 664, a net increase of J 7 new consumers. The majority of new connections are retlty extensions of existing consumers, l which explains why the. large increase in motors, etc., has not added a proportional number of new i c-n----tumexs. At the opening of the new hospital at Whakatane last week Sir Maui Pomare related an anecdote of a Maori who had a sick wile, livery time he made inquiries at the hospital tie was told that she. was improving. One day he .was tofd Uiat she was dead. "What did she die iromr" asked a sympathetic friend. "imj provetnents," answered the sorrowful i uusband. Dr. I'omate referred to the I great improvements taking place in 1 vvnakataiie, aud said: "i nope .you wnl not die i financial death." ? I'ne associated banks have agreed lor .Uife lurther protection oi drawers as follow: "11 it is. desUri. mat a cheque drawn to 'older' be altered to 'nearer,' tne drawer musi insert tne. word 'nearer' ajid sig^ l such I 1 alteiation. Where there is more than j one signatory, the alteration must be signed by all ol tfhehi. In cases wnei'e a imuted company or oilier corporate uotty desires to give a standing author- [ ity to one or more persons to altei 1 tlieir cheques fiom 'oruer' to 'bearer, < sttcli auinority may be acted upon, provided, ij. is under seal and quoies ' Uie text oi the resolution auiiioi'i a iij 0 tiie alteration. As it has bccii uie practice oi some bank*, to accept Uu> iais to suciti alterations as the abovu, it iias been agreed that alter Uetoac. i" such alterations win he accept-eo I oiiii u signed." ■ jj

•\i\ew ieaJanders are boasting oi their new tunnel oi miles long winch ia said to he the longest in tne Empne, r says me Northern Daily Teiegiiipn, Bla-Ckbifrn, .bngiand. "it is. a subject, lor legitimate pride, but some tunnels are not. One ol the, South American Republics insisted oil a guiic unnecessary miinel on mo route 01 o. new railway solely that they

could enjoy the novelty, and over Uit entrance they placed the legend, "This is the only".runnel in mia countiy.'' XI i e same thing bappened in fLngiand in blie early days of railway enterprise, in the twenties of last century a. line was projected from Canterbury to Whitstabte, and the engineer who drew up the plans reported to me diiectors that 'fortunately no tunnel will be necessary.' The direct route, he added, passed well to the west of Tyler Hill, which lies about two miles north of Canterbury. •We must have a tunnel,' was the reply, and the line was deliberately

I diverted, so as to rap. oyer half a mile through Tyler Hill. That was the first tunnel constructed for 3, railway, and was opened in May, 1880." The method of marking dairy cows . for identification purposes adopted by a Te Awamutu farmer jn connection with the herd testing operations proved a failure. He had no names for the individual cows in Ws herd, I and as the testing officer was due next day the farmer marked the cows with a linseed oil preparation. When tha cattle were turned out to graze, they licked the marks from each others I rumps. A tar brand will be used In future. I «iniiniiiuiiiMii™«awa«a