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Shannon News, 21 April 1922, Page 3

Mr George A. Seifert, Paddon’s principal backer, has covered Arnst’s deposit of £IOO to bind a sculling match with Paddon for the world’ championship. Paddon says he , is willing to row a private match ;jvith Hannan in New Zealand for £SOO, but the championship must be rowed for on the Richmond River, N.S.W.

A coal lumper, who formerly followed the occupation of a seaman, was s recently admitted to Sydney Hos,pital. On being examined it was found every tooth in his top jaw is gold, and in the centre of the two front ones are set two sparkling diamonds. The outfit cost him 33gns. “The shortest and most pointed sermon that 1 1 ever heard of,” a subscriber says in the New York Outlook, “was delivered at the funeral of a coloured man wTio was not at all what he should have been. It was this: ‘We all hopes that Brudder Eph’m is whar we thinks he ain’t. ”

There is to be seen on Mr Richard Reynolds’ property, Pukekura (says the Cambridge Independent) a magnificent maple tree. The autumn tints of the leaves are just iio>v of a glorious colour, somewhat similar to the beautiful Virginian creeper, and with the sun shining on the leaves the tree makes a sight well worth going a long way to see. Tljis tree was planted about fifty-two years ago, and is now fully fifty feet in height, symmetrical in shape, and the trunk is over two feet in diameter. There are about sixty species of maples, or acer, and this particular tree is a Canadian maple, evidently different from the common acer saccharinunv or sugar maple. “The runholders about the Haast and that part of South Westland,” said Mr T. E. Y. Seddon, M.P., after his recent trip, “are now beginning to complain that the deer have become so numerous that in six or seven years they will have eaten out the feed jfrom the forests which; previously afforded sustenance to herds of cattle. Unless something is done the going to be a serious menace.”

A man who walked into the Wellington police station and asked to n'e locked up was being searched when £3 fell out of a stocking. At the Court next day it was explained that defendant had forgotten that he had it. He had put it there when he was on a spree at Christchurch weeks since, and he had not had his boots off since!

The Dean of Nelson (Dr. Weeks), speaking at the Church of Christ conference, related that a bishop once asked the boys and girls what was meant by a visitation (reports the Mail). A boy answered: “A visitation is something that God sends but you don’t wan?.” He hoped the conference would not be .looked upon in that way#