Long Ride for Work.

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 169, 10 March 1932, Page 4

Long Ride for Work.

An Englishman looking for a job cycled 600 miles through lion-infested country between Rhodesia and Tanganyika. He had neither gun nor camping equipment. He lived for the most part on riee. After riding ahout 500 miles he fell a victim to malaria and had to break his journey at Kasama, where he spent three weeks in hospital. When he had recovered he resumed the journey, and reached a little mining settlement in Sonthern Tanganyika — to the astonishment of the diggers and traders there, who knew that no white man lived within 50 miles to the sonth. The Englishman sold his bicycle next morning, bought himself a pick, two pans and some camping kit — and went off to the Lupa River to pan for gold. Great Drivers. A tribute to the service provided by the service car companies in New Zealand was paid by Mr. J. H. Tandy, ' manager of the South African cricket team, at a dinner at which the players were gnests recently in Christchurch. He and two or three other members of the touring party motored from Auckland to Rotorua. This, he said, provided them with a good opportunity to study the country and also to appreciate the service cars. The ears were great vehicles, he thought, and the drivers were really wonderful. Pyjamas at Railway Station. The sight of a passenger on the mail train wandering ahont the Stratford station in colourful pyjamas and dressing gown was the unusual spectacle Seen hy Stratford residents recently, but it was only a case of a member of the Gilbert and Sulliyan Opera Company taking a stroll. A case of poetic license, no doubt. Unfortunate Fall. Clad only in a pair of trousers, a | cook from one of the ships in port at j Wellington was sitting on the edge of the Queen's Wharf sun-hathing the other morning, when, in waving to an acquaintance, he lost his balance and fell into the harbour. While swimming, he lost his only garment, and arrived opposite the wharf poliee station naked. There were a fair number of people bound for the Eastbourne ferry steamer passing at the time, so he remained clinging to a pile until the coast was clear, when he made a dash for the police station, which he reached unseen. In a borrowed overcoat he returned to his ship.

Belling the Cat. Belling the cat is easy when hnmans take a hand. All the cats in Llewellyn Parlc, fashionable residential section of West Orange, New Jersey are compelled to wear bells around their neclcs for the protection of birds, The women of the community met and decided that something must he done ahout the dwindling bird population. The bell ordinance was adopted and unless the cats work out some method of silencing them while hunting birds the prey will he forewarned hy the tinkling of the bells. Village Under Arrest. The lads of the village of Lendak, Czechoslovakia, are "lads of the village" indeed. So much so that, following a series of heetie Saturday nights, the whole village has been put under arrest for being drunk and disorderly. Nearly 20 people have been among the .villagers. Fighting injured in Saturday night affrays among themselves was too tame, so they began to throw stones at passing motorists. The climax came when two income-tax colleotors were thrown into a pond. It was then that the village was arrested.

Hero of the Snow. The remarkable heroism of a four-year-old hoy was revealed at Montreal, Canada, recently, when searchers found him half-frozen beside the body of his playmate. All night the little fellow had supported his friend in a snowdrift, where they were trapped after wandering from home. Police and searehers who scoured the country for 20 hours were often within 100 yards of the spot where the boys were slowly freezing to death. It was only when it was decided to abandon the seareh that the hody of one of the little boys was found in the snow, clasped by his comrade. Police Court "Talkie." The entire evidence of a case heard at Manchester City Police Court recently was electro-magnetically recorded on a mile of steel tape, and 10 minutes after the case had concluded was reproduced, word for word, through earphones worn hy the magistrates. Not a word of evidence was written down, but every word was recorded for reproduction as often as required. Microphones were fitted on the bench in front of the stiperidiary magistrate, on the witness-hox and dock, and on the solieitors' bench and the clerk's table. Listening in to the "relay" later, magistrate s, with earphones over their heads, smiled as every phrase u'ttered, every inflection of the speakers' voices, was reproduced by this wonderful reeord in steel.