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Shannon News, 16 March 1923, Page 2

A London cablegram states that several women are training for q novel London to. Brighton walking race (April 1) in which'the competitors will wheel a baby in a perambulator. Airs jfinnacer, aged 29, an cx-soldier’s wife, on Saturday covered 30 miles in eight hours pushing a perambulatdr containing a two-year-old child.

The select .home of a mason bee was discovered in the study of the vicarage ,of a well known Anglican clergyman, who was talking to a friend when the intruder flew inside with a spicier in its possession, states the Auckland Star. It disappeared behind a picture, which was promptly taken down and examined. Down the edge of the back of the frame under a fold of paper was a ee-mented-in home about six inches long-. On it being broken down a dozen cells, all partitioned off, and with the skeletons of numerous ’ spiders, were revealed. The mason bee/which derives its name from its constructive ability, catches a spider, stings and sends it into a stupor and then builds a cell in which an egg is deposited under the spicier. When the young bee eventually hatches it is thus provided -with food. Meantime the mother bees are said to have become pests afcout Auckland. , Mr Coleriian, the Palmerston North motor cyclist who put up a world’s record at Takapuna recently, started riding in 1912, and has had 18 spills, none of which resulted in any bones being broken. When he falls or feels that he has los/ control of his front wheel, Coleman completely relaxes, lyul this theory, by which it is said an intoxicated man who does this act unconsciously can never get hurt, is something which must require a great deal of nerve to do.—Manawatu Times.

Says a Loudon writer: A correspondent send:; me a cut Ting from a .French newspaper, from whicli it appears that the other day the Olympic Oluli of Marseilles wore expecting a visit from the l’ei a Club of Constantinople, the Association champions of Turkey. The .striking; filing about the Turkish team is that all it:; members are Greeks. MIN' - huts keeps goal; the backs are Xus.fos and Vapaslrades; the half-backs, Ik;. Gdgeiivl's, ami I'roiii'bitoUirios;

Uiid 1 i.o foi- wauls. Makixopoulos, SHail go] .undo Nigieponiis, Emmaiiuelides,

.-.ad. bimopoulos. I have seen no acui.t of Tie match, but it must have a ]iii.a.; :.ut thing to hear the Greekislr captain frcnziedly exhorting (say) Tala:.epoxies to give the ball-, to Em» mannelidis. Iv must have sounded like a recitation from the Iliad.

The danger of smoking near a haystack was illustrated . at Kakaramea (says the Patea Press). Mr Lord was standing near a large stack of nis, I.syds long by 6yds wide and about •?OLT high, and was in the act of lighting his pipe when the head of the match that he was striking flew off, and before; he could look round the stack was burnt to the ground: The slack was not insured.. ; Thanks to the efforts of some neighbours an adjoining stack was saved. \ Mr Bennett, who- visited New Zealand two years ago as manager c.f the Springbok Rugby Union team of footballers, lias died'at Kimberley'as a result of a motor accident. “Having finished his legislative duties for the time being,” says the • Press, “the , Hon. W. H. Mclntyre, M.L.C., lias resumed his ordinary vocation as a ‘coalie* in- the Millerton mine.”