NEAR AND FAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 52, 23 October 1931, Page 2

NEAR AND FAR

"Chinese Remedy. . _ An old Chinese hawlcer tapped1 at an Auckland back door the other day, and, having sold his cabbages, cheerfully remarked: "You all got 'flu here? Me killum pretty quick." He disclosed the Chinese remedy for iniiuenza, which is being extensively used in Auckland just now. Parsley; in large quantities, is boiled in water — the water is then drunk. The old hawker swears by it. The New Method. A niessage from Mudgee, Australia, says that a traveller spending a night with a district farmer disciissed the affairs of the country with his host. He became more and more puzzled as to how the little farm paid. At last the visitor ventured the quest'ion: "How in the world do you makg: a do of it all?" Indicating the farm hand sitting at the erid of the supper table, the host repiied: "You see that fellow there. Well, I can't pay him. Itt two years he gets the farfii. Then I work for' him until I get it back." Eight Tons of Scrapb'ook. Scrapbook compilation on a lafge scale is being uhdertaken by Dr. Joseph Broadman, of New York, who is now asking through tbe World Disarmameht Movement for clippings and documents from New Zealand relating to the Great War. Dr. Broadman is collecting war records, and his newspaper cuttings and documents on the 1914-18 hostilities already fill 34 packing-cases, and weigh nearly eight tons. Unusual Radiator Cap. Radiator cap thieves have driven many motorists to desperation. One Wellington car-owner who has decided not to waste further money on the purchase of caps devised. one which he has fitted to his ear, and j which he believes will not be stolen. It is an ordinary wooden bung, through which a hole has been bored to serve as a vent. Meteorite near Waikawa. A few evenings ago a meteorite fell at no great distance from the; township of Waikawa, when a sudden bright flash of light illuminated the entire landscape and was followed by a reverberating roar (says an exchange). It is believed that the meteorite fell into the sea somewhere near Shado's Beach, which is between the Waikawa Heads and Chasland's Mistake. This is the second time withiri eighteen months that the district has had such. a visitor. On the last occasion when a meteorite fell somewhere near Slope Point, persons seated round a fire at Waikawa with their backs to the windows, and all the Tblinds drawn, distinctly saw the flash. Saved by Aeroplane. The case of a young man near Chatham, ICent, England, who was bitten by an adder and treated with serum sent post-haste by airplane from Paris, is described by Dr. Not- I man Morrison in the Scottish Jour- 1 nal of Agriculture. Telephorie calls to London, says Dr. Morrison, had elicited the information that the serum was not available in England. A telegram to the Pasteur Institute, Paris, for the serum to be sent by airplane was immediately complied with, injections were given, and the patient in time began to mend. A Good Homer. A racing pigeon belongirig to Mr. George Fradsham, a miner, of Hugglescote, Leicestershire, England, which was sent to the Bournemouth race in May last year, and was believed to have been lost, returned to its old loft after fourteen months' absence. Party in Quicksaiid. A grandmother ,her daughter and two young children nearly waist-deep in quicksand. This was the spectacle which met two cyclists on Seaforth Sands, England, recently. They dismounted, watched the efforts of the four to extricate themselves; and then rode away. The people in danger were Mrs. Jane Jones, aged 54, and her daughter, Mrs. Ann Boughey, aged 30, who had with her her daughter, Dorothy, aged five, and a neighbour's child, Gladys Jackson, aged eight. Several men came to their rescue, and forming a chain of hands, dragged them to -safety. "It was an awful sensation being sucked under," Mrs. Boughey said.

A Japanese Student. An interested visitor to Hawlce's Bay recently and one with eyes and ears particularly alert to catch any detail which he might be able to pick up in respect to the farming methods of Hawke's Bay was Mr. Isamu Kawase, a Japanese student, aged 24, who has come to New Zealand to take a four-year cpurse in agriculture at Lincoln College. Mr. Kawase, who certainly saw Hawke's Bay at its best and brightest, with a profusion of spring grass everywhere, expressed himself as much impressed with the possibilities which apparently existed for intensive development in this province. N.Z. Newspapers iri U.S.A. "The people of America hold New Zealand newspapers iri very high regard, for their make-up, illustfations, and presentation of news. I had several sent to me while I was in the United States, and I had difficulty in keeping themj so anxious were people to secure samples," Said Mr. Keith Falconer, New Zealand delegate to the recent world conferences of the Y.M.C.A., held in America, on his arrival in Christchurch recently. Mixed Pollination. A most extraordinary example of mixed pollination by bees has occurred an a Whakamara/ farm. A houseWife secured a cabbage frorii the garden,, but on cutting it wound that heneath about three iriches of cabbage leaves and completely enclosed thereby was a perf eetly formed caulifldwer. Gardening experts consulted admit that the freak is entirely riew to them.