Shannon News FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1925.

Shannon News, 16 October 1925, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1925.

Mr E. A. Frost, late of Shannon, but recently of Wellington, left last week on a business visit to England.

A payment of Is 9d per lb for butterfat supplied during the month of September will be made 'by thei Shannon Co-operative Dairy Co., on the 20th of this month.

The fortnightly euichre and dance helu by tiie committee of the Ladies' Guild .of Ven. Bede's Church will take place in the Parish Hall on Tuesday evening, when the final of the euchre tourney will be played at the com elusion of which the names of the winners of the points prizes for the season will be announced.

The Shannon Bowling and Croquet Clubs' season will ,be officially opened on Saturday next at 2 p.m. A large number of representatives of outside clubs and residents of our own town have signified their intention of being present, and, given fine weather, there should be a large attendance. The Club extend a hearty invitation to all to be present.

Miss Agnes Aim, A.T.C.L., iL.T.C.L., presented three pupils for pianoforte at the Trinity College of London music examinations (held recently in Palmerston North), all of whom were successful. Intermediate (honours), Ethel .lamieson; junior, Nancy Easton; preparatory (honours), Joyce L. Blackwood. Miss Aim was also successful in the Associated Board of the H.A.M. and B.C.M. examinations gaining 117 marks for advanced grade singing.

The death is announced of the Rev., Joseph Foster, of Hamilton, father of Mrs V. Croon, of Miranui, Shannon. The deceased, who was born in Sheffield in 1857, arrived in Wellington in 1880 on the sailing ship Maravol. lie afterwards resided in Auckland and for some years was engaged in the Iruil growing and canning industry for export. Subsequently he entered the ministry and for some years he was at. Ihe Thames and later at Waihi, where he was a member of the Borough Council and the Hospital Board. He went to Hamilton several years ago and carried on the ministry up to the time of his illness. He leaves a widow, seven children and 26 grandchildren.

A most successful dance was held in the Druids' Hall on Tuesday evening by the committee of the local branch of the Plunket Society with the object of raising funds to assist in carrying on the good work of the Society. There was a splendid attendance, nearly £l4 being taken at the door in adilion to a large number of tickets sold. The decorations which, were used at- the Maori Ball, had been left for the occasion and these gave the function the appearance of a ball, rather than an ordinary dance. The duties of M.C. were in" the hands of .Messrs .1. T. Bovis and B. Spencer, while'splendid music was provided by Mrs Butler and Mr Mason, extras being played by Mrs Cronquest, Miss 1). Spencer and Mr B. Spencer. An excellent supper, presided tover by Ithe jladies, was nvuicti appreciated. The response to the request to forward cooking was beyond expectations and notwithstanding the large attendance a quantity of food was left. Mr A. Morgan conducted a Dutch auction, the sum of £1 5s being realised.

The following original letter was sent to the State Advances Office, Wellington, by an applicant tor a loan:—"I note that to-day is the r-n----niversary of my valuation receipt for 425. Will you please let me know what is my position in the queue and if I am near the entrance door?"

Patricia -Caroline Howard, nearly t 1 "-"-> years of age,, ate a mothball at Vanganui in mistake for a lolly on October 7th. A doctor was summoned, n stomach pump used, and the child appeared all right. Two l-■'■>r it developed other symptoms ri'i'i died. The inquest disclosed that ."ii active) Ingredient in the mothball was naptholene, which ic now vq\i :ecognised among the poisons.

At the Hastings High School sports yesterday, P. Graham long-jumped 19 feet 11 inches, beating his. previous school, record of 18 ieet 10 inches of a few days ago. This is believed to be a Dominion secondary school record.—Press Association. An electric stove, thanks to fine work, done by Miss Thorpe, assisted by Mrs Thomson, has arrived at the Oitaki State School, and will, doubtless, be much appreciated by the scholars who are receiving! lessons in cookery, says the Otaki Mail. Chaffinches in this district are to a great extent conspicuous by their absence, if such a contradictory sentence may be .used. Two, however, met their death recently n a very unusual way. They happened to De fighting on the road and so much were they concerned in their little argument that they failed to notice a motor car coming and got under the wheels. They are now * numbered among those who "died fighting." The "Daily Express" Berlin correspondent, says .Dr. Karl Mueller, of the Physical Technical Institute has made sheets of steel as transparent as the clearest glass. Lines on test plates used to determine the transparency of glass were photographed through the steel sheet and showed no distortion. The sheets are so thin that the atoms of helium pass through without impediment though they are completely stopped by a sheet of paper. The sheets Are made by depositing a film of metal on a, smooth surface by means of an electric current, then separating the film from the foundation.

The spirited and thorough defence of his rightful property made by a man armed with a rifle caused a sen sation amongst -csTrc-freo sportsmen at Otatara, Southland. The hunters of game had' found very little to satisfy their craving, and, seated on the river 'bank, began to indulge in shooting at a small dinghy anchored a few hundred yards from an apparently deserted lighter. Closer and closer to the dinghy went the bullets, when an enraged figure suddenly made its appearance on the deck of the lighter. A rifle was in its hands, and a moment later at its shoulder. Then bullets began to fly—so did the sportsmen. They flew up the river bank and retreated into the'bush lo the whistling of flying lead. When the s.s. Flora, an Island steamer, was on her way from Rarotonga, and about MOO miles from the coast of- New Zealand, a starling suddenly dropped on the boat deck in an exhausted condition. A member of the crow picked it up, and a nest was made up for it in a box, where it was cared for during the trip. It soon revived under the kindly treatment and food, eating and drinking ravenously at first, and was made quite a pet. When the vessel was abreast of_Cape Palliser on Sunday evening, the sailors opened the box and gave the bird its freedom. Speedily it mounted in the air, and then made a bee-line for the coast,, greatly rejoicing in its frcei dom. It was probably blown out to \ sea by the south-westerly gales ex- | periencer] lately.