GENERAL NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 352, 1 April 1910, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS

lii Spain «o -one rnts:* or learus a -railway without Lowing politely to the occupants. add thu person who enters a shop and asks for what ho wants without first greeting the shopkeeper is considered very ill-mannered, d "The wedge of country bktwomi Pal- " meiston and Paekaku ki is .prc-eminum-l_ ly suited to be Wellington fruit and i- vegetable garden." re;.or r .it the director ■ of Orchards, garden? and apiaries ruS| cently to the Ministrr fu; Agriculture, who had brought u.adei hu» notice a ■s communication from Mr. H. Field, 5 M.P., pointing out the suitability of j 1 the Manawatu district for lruitgrowing. '■ r 'ting to a friend in Christchurch. t . McPhnil, the ex-Canterbury reprea sentative, says: "Played in fifteen e ' matches (luring my first twelve months e in the Wigan team. The play is very n rough, and the players seem to take pleasure in knocking men out. I have ig never played on a dry ground so far; 1 there is always snow about. lam about ° 'full up' of the game, and expect 6horty ly to be hack in New Zealand." i- A remarkable sequei to a marvellous it surgical operation wai dsreribed at an r_ inquest at Birmingham a ♦< w weeks ago. It was performed-by Dr. Morrison, at ,s Queen's Hospital, Bipminirham, on a it man named Charles EmVH, who had 3- been from a stricture of th» •e gullet, caused by takinj sulphuric acid t- in mistake for whisky The man's iO throat having been cloaH a new perma- " nent mouth was opened m his side. 1, through which he was ltd by means 3- of a tube. Endall gainei' weight and d was able to leave the hospital, but had 3.1 given way to drink, arid died from exe haustion. n The Bluff correspondent of the Otago e Daily Times reports that the members s of the Waikare wreck rec< r ery gang are perhaps the most serious sufferers r oy the delays occasioned lv the recent heavy weather. They have now entered upon the third week of t'"eir detention at the Bluff. Efforts we*..' made to engage the harbor tug, l'u her charge (£BO for the trip to ard from Dusky Sound) was considered prohibitive, and tht negotiations were abandoned. Both t the Amokura and Hinemr* are expected to arrive at the Bluff non en route ' for th» Sounds, and if nr i ten are not * arranged otherwise one n' these opportunities -will be availed of The most remarkable private ballrpom in the world is the one to be found in Lord Iveagh's house in Dublin. This room, which is 70ft in length and ' 40ft wide, possesses walls panelled with alabaster, which are draped with rich " rose-colored silk and dark velvet hang- ' ings. The music gallery and the gallery that faces it are made of aluminium, out of which vessel the great fender J before the fireplace, which can 'be lifted in the hands, was This beautiful saloon naturally cost a very considerable sum; indeed, the amount spent on • it—£3o,ooo —which works out at about 1 10 guineas a square foot renders.' it' one of the most, expensive.rooms in existence. Australian grapes do not appear to foe in much demand in Auckland, and the locally-grown fruit seems to provide most of the sales. One merchant in the North recently, speaking to a representative of the Auckland Star, stated the reason might be attributable to the fact that most of the Australian grapes received this year were white, and Auckland people possessed the queer idea that unless table grapes were black they were not the thing. <Hlfrelated an experience of his own, when lie received a shipment of 100 cases from a grower who had never consigned to Auckland before. The grapes arrived in good or-1 der, and when offered at auction realised 4s 4d per box of 241b, or 2d per lb, while Auckland fruit brought from 4s fid to 5s per 181b case. The Dannevirke News reports one or \ two amusing incidents during the progress of a cricket match in that town. ! During one' of the waits, a hare was» | seen to come on to the ground near] the gates. Instead of running off it j dodged down the field right along the pitch and amongst the players, eluding everyone. It is to be hoped, says tne paper, that football playeTs present took notice. Later on in the afternoon, a boundary was hit, and a large dog calmly picked up the ball and was walk- j ing off with it. The dog's owner, however, called it back, and threw the ball | to a fieldsman. The dog was a persevet-1 Sng animal, and immediately bounded joyfully after the ball, and it seemed as though the game was going to be delayed some time, tout luckily the fieldsman in question was fleet of foot, and reached the ball first. Broaching of cargo is an evil that almost aH tradesmen who do their own importing appear to suffer from, ajid drapers are especial victims. Only the other day an Oamaru draper found on opening a case of men's felt hatß that the contents of three and a-half boxes had been extracted from it- (says the Mail). Evidently the thief was an expert in his line, for the case was most strongly made and seenr-ed, with clasps , on the corners,; riveted 'bancis right round the case, and sealed strings which would break if a plank of the case were disturbed. The draper and the carrier, both well acquainted with the precautions taken "by the -packeris against pilfering, examined the case' before they opened it, but saw no sign of its having been broken into. The case had come from Italy, having been transhipped at Sydney, so it could not be said where i or when the theft was committed. Much office work, the refinements of modern life, and trams, trains v £,nd bi cycles, have taken the edge off the" old conditions that did so much to toughen the men who lived through them. Bat -the New Zealander to-day, we ibelieve, is not less virile than of yore (remarks the Christchurcli Press). There are many hundreds, nay thousands, of young .fellows who can do as good a day's work as their fathers ever didi' "'WMVinayi happen in time to come no one can tell,! but, so far, the 9 easier conditions of life have not yet made ..the .New, Zealander soft and effeminate. '-spw* Mr. Foster Fraser has; accused young ;.Australia of "slackness and flaccidity." We can safely leave our Australian brethren to answer that charge, but in the meantime it will occur to most people that in the manly sports in which they have competed With Englishmen Australians have shown neither slacknefs !fto| . cidity. In the {great gajjfp'of"war both' i Australia and Nety Zealand held their ' own with Englishmen of their age. In science, literature, and art .we in v these new countries have yet to moke our* name, but if our critics will us sufficient time—we are only just'niaking our way—we may yet "arrive" in those; domains as we have done in matters; fequiring merely courage and muscle; and stout hearts. The training of the colt cannot begin too etrfy. , m