Shannon News TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1925.

Shannon News, 19 May 1925, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1925.

Mrs T. Watterston, who has been on an extended holiday visit to Auckland, has returned home.

The usual fortnightly meeting .of the Borough Council will be held in the Council Chambers this evening.

A social and dance will he held by the Shannon Football. Club on Friday, May 1 29th, in the Druids' Hall.

The -weekly dance in the Druids' Hall will be held on Thursday evening. Good music has been arranged for and supper will be provided.

Tiw wiring of the Shannon School for the' installation of the electric light and heating apparatus has now lxvn completed.

Mrs A. Merwood, who has been staying in Christehureh with her daughter, Mrs Wilson, returned home last week. She was accompanied by Mrs Wilson.

'•Enough Said" is the subject of the advt. of Howard Andrew, Ltd., on page 2, and this will be the .verdict of all. those • who read it as. regards prices.

Arrangements have been made for the returned soldiers' of .Shannon a«d district to hold a social in the Parish Hall on Tuesday, May 26th, at 8 p.m. when it is hoped there will be a good muster.

Miss McKee, travelling secretary of the Presbyterian Women's Missionary Union, will give an address to ladies only at the Presbyterian Church, to-morrow afternoon.

A meeting of ladies interested in . .<■ welfare of the pupils of the Shannon School will be held-in the Coun-e-i Chambers to-morrow afternoon at !.:;■•» o'clock.

Mr Leverick, of Mangaore, who was t v winner of the 'big doll at the newer Show held last week, has very iiiuughtfully donated it to the ehiluivu in the infantile paralysis ward at the Palmers-ton North. Hospital.

A movement is on foot in the northern (portion of the Horowhenua County to form a new County to extend from Koputaroa to the northern boundary of the" present County, it the opinion that the present County is too cumbersome.

The annual installation ceremony of Lodge Mangahao was conducted in Shannon last evening by v Rt. Wor. Bro. George Russell, assisted by Grand Lodge officers, when Bro. C. H. Speirs was installed as Worshipiul Master. The service itself was perianiied 'by Rt. Wor. Bro. J. A. Nash, P.G.S.W., "who has been a lifelong friend of Bro. Speirs. The attendance of visitors was very large and representative of all parts of the district.

Water freezes every night in the yuur at Alto Crueero, in Bolivia, while at noon the sun is almost hot enough to blister the flesh.

The people in Greymouth in the early days can hardly be said to have been prohibitionists, for an issue ot the Grey River Argus of 56 years ago contains advertisements from no few. er than 23 hotels in the town.

Driven in from the open by the cold winter nights, rats have shown a marked increase in numbers within the town during the last week or two (says the Christehureh .Star). In the residential areas, too, the vermin have made their presence felt, and rat poison is meeting with a ready sale at the municipal offices, while traps, too, are being called into use to help combat the menace.

One of the glories of ancient Palestine, the Lebanon land from which cedar was carried to Jerusalem for the Temple, is to be revived. A whole series °f decrees has been issued, covering all possible helps and hindrances to tree culture, even to the raising of the tax on goats, to these herbivora from eating up the forests in embryo. "The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon" may again become a apt simile for abundance.

There is at present a considerable amount of money awaiting investment on freehold mortgage (says the Wairarapa Age). The weak demand for such accommodation rather contradicts the fears that money would not be forthcoming on the termination of the moratorium.

At a conference between the JPalmerstqn North Hospital Board and residents of Otaki, strong objection was taken to the proposed closing ox the. hospital -there. Dr. Watts promised two single bed wards, an ambulance and a nurse, .but otaki is dissatisfied and will petition the Ministor against the proposal.

A Wanganui butcher tells the following story. The other day the telephono at the shop rang, and a voice at the other end said: "Butcher, will you send up three 'pennetlV of cat's meat." "Certainly," was the reply. A little time later the telephone rang again, and the message this time was "imtcher, do not send up the cat's meat. Our cat has caught a bird."

Over Mr Massey's grave there has been erected a huge pyramid to carry the many beautiful wreaths wMcn were sent by people in all parts of the vvori.' and by people .of all shades of politics and in all stations In lite. The pyramid is nearly 30ft high, and presents a glorious spectacle, bedecked as it is with the floral mementoes to the departed statesman. It looms so conspicuous against the skyline thai even in the grey of winter it can be plainly seen from the city.

A unique mark of respect to the late (Prime Minister was paid at Otaki on Thursday. As is well-known the ship which brought Mr Massey to New,Zealand in 1858 is lying on the Otakl beach, where she was wrecked in 1874. Her mast still stands and Messrs A. J. Knocks and C. Kilsby rigged a flag .at hali-mast on the main stick of the old ship, which was so closely associated with the deceased statesman. •

The latest fund-raising idea—which at the same time solves a dairyman's problem—is a cull cow drive. One of these took place from Carterton and Grey town under the auspices of the Farmers' Union realised £577. There were 245 cows supplied by 72 owners. The highest price was £5 6s 6d for a single cow, and the average i'2 7s 3d. It Is proposed to hold the di ives every four months. The grading was. as follows:—Three first freezers, 37 second freezers, 66J first boner, 121 second honer, 3J; canner cows, (ii condemned.

Gilbert Franklan wrote "Gerald Cranston's Lady" as a sequence story for the London Magazine and it was so popular with the reading public that it was then published in book K'nn and was one of the best sellers of the year. William Fox saw great possibilities in the screen version of such a story and it comes to us as one of the 1925 Fox specials. When Mr Les Scott was in Wellington tliis week he secured "Gerald Cranston's Lady" lor presentation in Levin at an early date, and there is Uttle doubt it will receive the same enthusiastic support with which it has been greeted in other centres.

The clerks at the booking office ait the Christchurch railway were unusually busy the other evening with the ferry bookings (relates the Press). The telephone rang and one of the clerks picked up the receiver expecting an inquiry about a tram time or a reserved seat. But in response to his. "Hello," he was surprised to hear a man's,voice' say, "Sorry to trouble you, old man, but I'm working out a crossword puzzle. What's the name of a station on the Cheviot line With four letters, the last two being NA?' " The clerk was too astounded to remonstrate, and replied meekly, "Mina, I suppose." "Thanks so much, 'old chap," said the puzzler.

As master of 53 different languages, Professor Carl Arneli, formerly secretary to the U.S. Ambassy in Japan, who has just died in Washington, must be regarded as a serious r i v al of the famous Cardinal Mezzofanti, appointed librarian to the Vatican in 1833, who could read, write, and speak over 50 major languages, and dialects innumerable. Byron met Mezzofanti and found him "a monster of languages, a walking polyglot who ought to have existed at the Tower of Barbel to act 'as universal interpreter." The poet' tried the Cardinal "in all the languages of which I knew a single oath, and, egad, he astounded me even in my English."