NEAR AND FAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 11, 4 September 1931, Page 2

NEAR AND FAR

1 / — — V V Coming Eclipses. There vyill J be two eclipses r this month, One of the sun.and one .of mooii. On 12th September the sun will be partial^r eclipsed, • biife t% phehbmenoh-.wiil oply be visible frdih a region round Bering Strait and Alaska. The moon will be totally slipsed on 26th September, but this again ■ will*' not -bee-of much use to New Zealand, as the major part of the phenomenon take's place ,after the moon has set in the morping, . - On 11th, October. the sun wili. he,. again partially eclipsed. "But to view this a- joumey to the* South~Polar regions will be necessary.« • l » •• H ealing Ganges Water. The belief of the Hindus that the waters of the Ganges have specdal lifegiving.' properties has now been confirmed from science; ;• Experimehts by scientists have- shown that Gaiigtjs w.ater, contains hacteria which are ahle to attack- — and kill — the germ of a number of diseases. 'Thec,School of Tropical Medicine lh Calcutta .has been investigatirig these helpful baeteria, and^it, is.hoped thab chltureS of them may be olbtained which will be 6"f use iri fightirig 'disease. Women for the Mittistry. " At the Primitive Methodist Conference at Derby it was urianiinously decided to admit women ta the ministry — with a proviso that marriage be equivUlent to resignation; ';The. sUggestion that women be admitted to the ministry' was the recommendation of the joint comhlittee of the three Methodist • Church es-. • Women* haye alr'eady beeii, admitted to the.UnitariUn, Baptist and Congregationa-1 Churches, but objeqtion .has- been takien to their admisison to the . priesthood of the Ghurch of England; ■ ■ . ; , Chain of Men". Four men forming a chain resciied five children from an upper room of a hlazing house in Anglesey- . Street, Bootle, England, recently. Patrick Murray, the father, passed the" children to a man clirfging to a seco'ndstorey window sill. He handed them to a- man standing ofi a wall; who in turn passed them doWn to' a fourth man in the yard. Just as Mr;.Murray was about to climb down himself, he realised that .his- seven-year-old son was missing. He found the boy under a bed.-- His wife,- meantime, got out of a window,- climbed down a water spout and ran for the fire brigade. Private Exchanges. Installation of - private automatic telephone exchanges. on the premises of some of the larger business concerns in -Christchurch is proceeding steadily. The first .of the .exchanges installations was for "a hig hotel. The exchanges were ordered. .from the makers so that they would • -reach Christchurch singly, with such intervals between them as would permit of one being tested by the Post and Telegraph Department while the ofie that arrived previously was being installed. ... . • - ; New Zealand's Fame. • "On street and in tube We have found it useful to say that we were two New Zealanders, and we have been invariably met with one of two commentst — ;he earthquake or , cricket," writes a Christchurch man from London; :" A bookseller stopped wrapping a book while he discussed the posibilities of - the New Zealafiders getting' another test; "a tailor nearly caused me to miss- a train for- the same reason; a uniformed messenger, near the Law Courts, putting me on the right track, -stopped unduly . long on a saf ety .island to tell me what he thought of New Zealand cricket; and a hairdresser kept my nephew a full half-hour in his chair." " .V Y ' " ' : ' -• • ./■' Skeleton Found. The'skeletOU of a'.fully-grown male wus unearthed on Mr.' J. E. East's farm at Taihoa, Matamata, this weelc. The land in the Jocality had been brought out of the virgin state-: by its present owner and had been- in grass for a number of years. * Mr. ••West's son came across the bones two feet below the surface, aiid 'he carefully dug arOUnd the skeleton. The oldPst residents have rio recollectibn of a burial- in the locality,- -nor: -is it; re^ cognised as a Maori burial ground. Big Price Not Expected. " "As. far'as the coming season is concerned, I san .sea no hope of - big prices- for butter," said' Mr. J. A. Nash, M.P., in moving the adoption of the annual report and balance-sheet at the annual meeting ' at Palmerston North of the New Zealand Earmers' Dairy Union, tLd. "Prices will probably remain in the vicinity of 110s to 120s per cwt., unless there is greater stability at Home, whirh would make for better results. • a - St range Foresight. A Turk living in a suburb of Cohstantinople went to an undertaker and said that he had had a vision of his own approaching death. He chose a grave-stone, paid his funeral ex* penses, and told the undertaker to call for his body the, next day. Then he went home, said good-bye to his relatives, and recited the evening prayer. He went to bed, died, and was buried according to plan. -. Orderly Seaport 'Port- Chalmers as a seaport town seems.to be establishing a recofd for orderlihess and sohriety; The first case for this year df disordetly conr duct due to the influence ;of .liquor was heard at the local Police Gourt recently. The charges of : drunkenness , heard at the court- this year total :two only. ; » Liars and Liars Melbourne^— "A legal friend of mine -has classified- witnesses- under three heads/' the Crown Prosecutor, of Melbourne ' (Mr. Nolan) told a jury in the General Session. "They are liars, d — liars, and expert liars." GHding Club . .Continuing its rapid growth, the gliding movement in New Zealand has reached Wellington, and a club has now been formed in the city.. The servioes jof 'Flying -Officer R. Mathe-son,*-an expert sail-plainer and glider, have been secured. , as the instructor, Flying Officer Matheson .is- a New Zealander, ,and held a .short service commission in the Royal Air Force. Going to •Germany,' he attended the- famous Wasserkuppe Gliding and Sail-plaln-irig. Schbo),. where-he gained-his A, B, and G fenses, * >■ t . "i- }. _ *- '