Shannon News FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1924.
Mr S., Wilkinson, oi' Shannon, intends leaving on a business visit to Australia next week.
A general meeting oi the Shannon Bowimg Club will he held this evening in the Pavilion.
The Shannon Athletic and Cycling Cl'ub’s annual hail will he held in the Druids’ Hall this “evening. ■Messrs Wall Bros., the- contractors fur the installation of the electric light, in Shannon, have now completed their work in the Borough, and are about to commence on their Foxton contract.
His Worship the Mayor of Shannon (Mr W. Murdoch'); lias lorwarded to the secretary of the Levin Hettuned Soldiers’ Association the sum of £8 Its subscribed on Poppy Day in. Siiamion. Last year the amount forwarded was £7 18s.
A*oorrespondent writes to us wanting to know it all the Carriages on the New 'Zealand railways are smokers-. He -states that lie was travelling in a lirst-class carriage a lew days ago, in which were a. number oi ladies, and there were no less than tour men in the same carriage smoking. The/guard* as he passed through, appeared to take no notice, lie states the practice is unpleasant- to nonsmokers and to ladies and children and should not he allowed.
The first catch ol whitebait this season was recorded by Mr Hector Dawson at the Foxton wharf on Saturday. Alt the ships of the Special Service Squadron burn lOiil. Oil fuel gives them speed which would have been impossible with coal on the same dimensions.
“I don’t like to see fat hen in a paddock,” said Mr W. J. McCullough at the 1 Eketahuna branch ol Farmers’ Onion, ‘‘but it’s an indication ol good land, and where you get lai hen you will generally grow' good mangolds.” His Grace Archbishop Redwood, accompanied by the Rev; Father Smyth, parish priest ol Thorndon, will leave for Europe, via Vancouver, by the Niagara, which sails Irom Auckland on May 13til. Both are to attend a big apostolic congress to be held in Amsterdam, commencing on July 23, and afterwards will visit Rome.
A country correspondent ol' the Taranaki Herald wnites: We ha ve survived the strike quite wet!. The dairy company experienced no difficulty whatever with regard to the transport ol our produce. The opinion ol one ol the leading lights ol the village was as lot lows: “Ah would put ’em all in cbokey; that’s ,\vhat ah would do wee ’ urn. ’ ’
Tile car traffic alter dark, when the service cars were conning in irom Palmerston Nm/th and Woltinigtloo, presented a striking spectacle on the. Ilastings-Napier road (says the Napier Telegraph). The procession of headlights formed almost an unbroken beam ol light, while the receding red roar lamps of cars going the other way could he seen one beyond the other on the straight, stretches. Generally speaking the rules of the road were well observed, ;uid it is notable that the -extra .'traffic seems to have shut out the speed maniac; but expepiencGd drivers .assert that the way would be easier if the courtesy of “dimming” was observed more frequently.
An eight-hour tally taken in the Manawatui 'George recently showed the trai'iic to be 331 motor oars and ob lorries.
A Maori woman, at a point. 20 miles •below tlie liouseboait on the Wanganui River, recently caught a number ot yearling Atlantic salmon in a bucket. They were looking very well indeed, and" were soon placed back in the water. This little incident is a good indication ol' the progress made- in stocking the river with this fine sporting fish. For tlie past fortnight there bas been a rumour in circulation to tlie effect that arrangements are afoot, lor establishing a new dairy factory m Eltiham (says tlie “Argus”). .Rumour lias gone so far as to say that a she has been secured. The latest detail is that the Stratford people are alive to the business advantage that accompany the establishment of dairy factories, and are willing to find a suitable site tree of cost if a new factory is -established there
Excitement was .provided lor a largo crowd Ql onlookers at tire Addington trotting cottr.se me oilier day by a man and Ins wile, wlio engaged in a dig-lit os'or money matters, 'line woman apparently liad been winning, and her bus band took possession of her money. She strongly resented his action,' and endeavoured to .obtain the money. A scuffle ensued in ] Hie course of Which the woman broke, an umbrella ov-er the nead oi ner husband, eventually chasing hun right oh the course. A Christchurch telegram says that James Ernest Williams, aged 0~, a married man, was electrocuted, in the State coal yard yesterday. Williams and two other men were working, on a circular' saw which was diven by an electric motor connected to an electric pole in the yard by a copper cable which .was .uncovered. Williams' turned' on the electric current to start the motor and when walking away from the switch to 'the saw bench'must-have come in contact with the cable, tor he was picked up dead with the cable across his body. , ihe London Graphic chuckles at i the latest Wembley scandal, says a cablet. It relates that when the N.Z. paviliOlt was fust planned a prominent Anglo-New Zealand artist volunteered to model the figures to adorn the entrance gates, provided the commissioners covered his expenses. New Zealand declined 'he offer amt gave the contract to a British Ann who ooincidentiy invited the same artist to undertake the task. Tims New Zealand ended by paying a heavy sum for work it could have done for nothing. . Oil Tuesday last the County Engineer Mr W. N. Anderson, accompanied by ’Mr Murray, Engineer for the' North Island Main Highways Board, Mr J. Hannah, Engineer-in-chief to the Public Works Department, and chairman of the Wellington West District Council,' iuid Mr Rona.yne, assistant Public Works Engineer, 'inspected the whole of the County main roads which it is proposed to bring under the aper;i/iioir~of the Main Highways scheme, with a view to ascertaining the extent of the damage dono by the strike period traine - ami also for purposes in connection with the highways" scheme. It is expected that the roods Will be gazetted within the next week. A most unpleasant surprise awaited a young Palmerston wile on her return from a Visit to a picture theatre on Saturday. On entering the house she noticed a strong smell of smoke. Going to the kitchen site looked in front of the lire, to where she had placed some washing to dry, but it had disappeared, and in its place was left nothing hut cinders. A glance at the mantelpiece showed how fortunate she was that the house had not been burned down in her absence. Practically whole surface of the mantelpiece was burned, some of it. fairly deeplv, and a portion of the linoleum, probably that upon which the burning garments had- fallen, was also charred. The occupants'had allowed the insurance policy on the furniture in the house to lapse a few days ago, so stood to incur a lair loss had the fire not fortunately burned itself out. .... ■
Two' hundred mil Lions ol millions ol miles away is a star called Algol. It is the second brightest star in the constellation ol Perseus, and it lias the curious habit of varying in brightness at -regular intervals. After much research we know' now" that Algol consists of two stars—-one bright, the other dark. They ar,e each -about a million miles in diameter and about, two million males apart. They revolve around each other, and when the dark star is between us and the bright one, the light we receive from the latter diminishes. There are several other stars of the Algol type, and it is simply through -our researches that we arc -aware that there exist in the heavens (lark stars —stars which give'no light at all, and are in themselves totally visible. How many there may be w r e do not know', iv-r it is only bv their power of eclipsing brig]it' stars that w'e can recognise them at all.
A London correspondent writes: The -military gentlemen a.t the War Office appear to have quite taken 10 their ndw Minister Ibr 'War. little genia}l Mir Stephen Walsh, the oxminer who reads the classics, and quotes them, and recently astounded the grfcn-visaged Communists by having his photograph taken in lull Levee dress. Mr Wadsli is frequently accompanied at the War Office by Mrs Wailsh, a delightfully simple Lancashire matron of homely habits. One day when she was sitting with her newspaper in the room of the diminutive Secretary of State, there, entered a high officiulWiih documents. “These, Mr Secretary,” he said, “are important and extremely confidential documents which you ought to see.” Mr Walsh’said, “All right! Just run over them to me now.” “I repeat, Mr Secretary,” said the high -official, glancing towards Mrs Walsh, “They are extremely conlidentia 1 documents.” For a. moment Mr Walsh was puzzled. Then his face cleared, and lie smiled happily at lhs permanent official. “Oh you mean Mother!” said -he “We don’t, have no secrets from Mother!” ' '
A blind, rat was recently seen in Ebbw Vale, being guided along by. a companion; each-had the end Qf a piece of straw in its mouth.
“Do you know anything?” “This phrase,” remarked the bench, “appeal's to be a, pass word in Oainar.u for the procuring of liquor.” The secretary of the New Zealand Counties Association wrote asking the assistance, of the Manawatu County Council in prohibiting the unsightly practice of advertising on hoardings.
Mr ,1. W. T. Mandeno, who was the most successful exhibitor at the Wanganui Horticultural Society Show on Ma| ird'ay, forwarded to Wel/Ungton, .eight of his choicest blooms, which are to lie Dozen and sent in ice to the. Empire Exhibition. The schnaipper fishing season lias opened welt and many line fishers report good catches during the past tew ■davs in. waters in. the neighbourhood of Tauran.ga. One party of two can gilt. 260 sob napper in one day, and the same party landed over .100 the following iday.' Another party secured 96 for one day’s fishing. A brown trout 26. Lbs ill'weight was recently captured in a ti-tree hush near halve Tu'uipO. Although a fish story it has the merit of being true. Tile facts were that during the heavy rain the Tonguri.ro. stream rose suddenilt’, anid inundated tide low-tying areas near its hanks. When the water was subsiding a number oi trout were sen floundering in the ti-tree scrub, and the 264 pounder was seen red.
It has been definitely decided that Miss -Gwitha. Sha.nd. the brilliant, youim Christchurch swimmer, shall represent the Dominion at the Olympic Games in Paris. The Olympic Council realising that quick action, is necessary if its nominee is to have a chance of training on the other side of the world pencilled a 'berth on the Ruahine, sailing from New Zealand on May S. On Saturday it definitely decided to confirm the pencilling. An Ashburton man who was in New Plymouth when the strike was declared reached home on Tuesday mourning. It cost him 27s 6d to reach Wellington from Wanganui, he haviiior done the journey from. New Plymouth to Wanganui in a,.private oar. From Christchurch to Ashburton, a distance of only 50 odd miles, ;he had t. O uav his taxi-driver 90s, and there was a.' fiili car toad. The distance between Wanganui and Wellington is aboiut 140 miles. Between> those, two cities there is a highly organised motor service, no more product of the strike but a.-permanent service which is cutting deep into the revenue of the railway. This is particularly so between Palmerston North and \\anga.ir.nii and Merton and Wanganiu.-', Guardian.
"The.Lyttelton Times publishes some extracts" from the rules of the Canterbury Rabbit Club, 1874. The objects were set forth-'as the “preseivation of rabbit* or game of any kind on islands known as McLeans on five Waima.kai-m.” There were thirty original members, headed- by Ooloni’l Packe and Mr John lacker Ford. The entrance fee was £5, and annual fee a guinea, or such, portions as might be called up. U was .a rule that a gamekeeper should lie appointed to nrotect the rabbits Irom poachers arid give attention to file stiee.p of the lessees of the islands (Com and Newton). “Tuesdays and Fridays also Saturdays” were shooting davs’ the latter as a. bye day. ' A book- bad to be kept by tire gamekeeper showing what rabbits bad been shot ami when taken away/ St rangers might shoot with one or two members who should pay 10s on for each stranger at each shooting. The shooting season was from Marco H to September 30, (This interval, presumably,* was to give bunny tunc to supply the demands of the club.) The names of influential foundation 'members have been, by request, withhold, says the‘Times. A.’few days ago (relates th'e Auckland Star) a"iuaa wandering along Pilm Beach found on tlio wet sauds just •after high tide a lump of greyish foreign matter that gave, off-au odoui .something between phosphates and a low-grade guano. “ Ambergris! ” said oive of the party, and it really seemed that the dream of half a life-time had come true. Carefully packed up, the find was brought to town und submitted to Mr. Mason (whoso family have for nearly half a century been among the few experts in ambergris in this part of the Dominion), and as'soon as he got a sniff of the “treasure” all thy* castles in Spain that had been built on its prospective value came tumbling down. The denouncement of this tragedy was quick. Not so one that happened at Napier. A eon si leiable lump was found on the leach and carfully locked up in a bank safe among the gold and' other precious things pending the report upon a sample that had been sent to a London expert. In the meantime the under had, as a great favour, allowed a particular friend to have an ounce or it tor £5. After weeks and weeks of waiting out came the London report, and all it said was: “The substance submitted is a very poor sample of low-grade tallow in an advanced stage of decomposition.”
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