Shannon News FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1924.

Shannon News, 25 January 1924, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1924.

Owing to the lack of interest, and so many members being ilnftnancial, the Shannon Cricket Club has been compelled to withdraw from competition.

Owing to the growth of his motor carrying business, Mr C. C. Franks has found it necessary to enlarge his garage) to more than double its present size. A start has already been made with the work. Pickpockets are reported to have been present at the Foxton races, and as a result of their presence a wellknown Shannon resident returned home minus a valuable watch and chain.

On Tuesday evening Mrs F. Buckman’s little niece, Louisa Wilkins, of Ohau, who was visiting her, was taken suddenly ill arid had to be removed to the Palmerston North Hospital.

A large consignment Qf 6-inch pipes I from the Old Country, ™}*ch are to be used in connection with the water i supply scheme, have reached Shan-1 QiOU* .v ~ 1 Last Saturday Mr Watty, held the children’s service and judging) by tneir attention they thoroughly enjoyed it. These services will be continued every Saturday. During the next ic\v weeks Mr Witty will be dealing with the I subjects/The battle of Armageddon The Judgment of the Nations,, The Millennial Reign, etc. A large number of Shannon residents attended the Poxton races o Tuesday, where ideal weather conditions made the outing an enjoyable {one, but on the second day the attendance from Shannon was not o large, owing to the heavy ram, which fell during the day.

The payments by the various factories to suppliers of butter-fat during the month of December are as follow: ijgvin (butter), Is 7dj. Rongotea, £13,000, at the rate of Is 6d per lb; Newbury £I7OO, rate Is sd; New Zealand Farmers’ Dairy Union, £18,731 14s 6d, rate Is 6|d; -Awahun, Is 6d; Manawatu Reliance* (cheese) Is 6d; Ravenswood (cheese) Is 6d; Tiakitahuna (cheese) Is 4d; Whakaronga (butter), Is 7d, (cheese) Is 6d; Kairanga (butter) Is 6d; Shannon (butter) Is Bd. A numbor of bank-notes, chiefly y high-value, and split in half, are in circulation, and the public should be careful when handling paper-money.

An amusing instance of a Maori’s I idea of values was provided during the I week (relates the Poverty Bay Heraldl I when a buggy, in which there was a I Maori, was .leaving one of the stables. It appears that the horse had not been ] properly harnessed and the Maori lost control of it. The horse made straight for a large plate-glass window, and would, undoubtedly, have .gone through but for a bystander who rushed forward and stopped it. “By goriy, j said the Maori, “very nearly half a crown gone.” Some amusing stories relating to the Americans and the Great War were told at the Auckland Rotary Club s luncheon. The chairman, .Mr W J. Boldsworth, related how? he had listened to a brilliant speech delivered by a Hindu scholar at a Rotary conference held in London (recently. After referring politely to the presence at the conference of a number of Americans, the speaker asked the visitors if they knew why their soldiers were called ‘'doughboys” in Europe. It was,” he added quickly, “because they were kneaded in 1914, but did not rise till 1917.” The visitors, said Mr Holdsworth, seemed to take no offence at such a rebuke from one of a coloured skin. The Humane Society of Santa Bar. bara, California, have raised a curious question. Is there such a thing as I cruelty to a jumping beau—or rather to the larvae of certain moths which have their home inside the bean, and which, by their sudden movements, cause the - seeds to roll and jump about as if animated? These beans, the seed of tropical American plants, are commonly known as Mexican jumping - beans by children in the United States, who use them as playthings. Santa Barbara merchants who offer them for- sale have been used to expose them to the hot sushine to energise the insects inside. The Humane Society holds that this is cruelty in its worst form, as the larvae are subjected to torture such as would be experienced by any creature confined in a super-heated oven. A campaign has been started to stop the sale of the beans.

A settlor at Ruawai recently purchased a keg of nails at, one of the stores arid when it was opened at home, a New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ badge was found among the nails. The settler immediately communicated with the store on the assumption*- that the badge may have fallen in -at the store. This, (however, was not (he case, as the keg had not been operied and was sent out exactly as it had come to the storekeeper irom the ; factory in England. How the badge*, came to get in the keg of nails is therefore still a mystery.

A somewhat seedy-looking individual dropped in at the Matamata post office the other day and iniormed the local postmaster that he was trying very hard to get employment ana could not And it (states the Matamata Record). The postmaster, out of the goodness of his heart, bustled round, and within five minutes had procured suitable work for the supplicant. However, the stranger did not turn up on the job the following morning, and being met later by the postinasier in Arawa Street informed that official that When he woke up he felt too tiDed.

While at Lake Taupo Mr J. C. Milnes saw the Government launch netting trout for the Empire Exhibition. He was informed unofficially that the 75 specimens obtained averaged 131bs loz after cleaning. One was stated to have weighed 2®lbs.

It is extraordinary how some people will persist in flirting with danger (states the Wanganui Chronicle). Recently the Surf Club members marked off the danger ait Gastdecliff with the customary notices, and within a few minutes a party arrived and went into the surf right at the very spot marked “Dangerous.” and furthermore used as a clothes rack the pole carrying the notice. On the same day one of the reels was put out of, action by a bathing party, who rendered useless the little machine by hanging their clothes upon it.

Wellington won the Plunket Shield match against Otago yesterday by 145 runs. Otago, in their second innings, made 495 runs for the ten wickets The total number of runs was Wellington 1025, and Otago 880, an

aggregate of 1905. The world’s record is 1911.

Howard Andrew, Ltd., have an S.O.S. message in their advt.. regarding their gigantic clearance sale, which begins to-morrow (Saturday) at 8<?0 a.m.