NEWSY PARS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10348, 22 April 1911, Page 4

NEWSY PARS.

The death is announced of the "(.irand Old Man of ELghgaite Ponds/ Mr W. MtoKemk', long 1 known as "Grandfather" by his fallow members of the local Lifebuoys' Club, aged 93. Till six weeks ibtefore his d'e/ath hei was a aonsttant bather, and his unfailing regularity in joining' the swimmers when hei w'ala 92 proibiaMy constituted a record for the United Kingdom.

Some twenty men are now engaged in the pi'eliminaiy survey operations in connection with the Lake Coleridge electric-pcwer x sichemei. The first necessity is to locate a linel for' tha tunnel for the oil-take from the lake. This will be about a mile in length, andi as soon as that survey is completed a start will be made with the itoiisfcrulction work. The recently appointed chief electrical engineer (Mir Parry) is expected to arrivio from England in a feav weeks, and the Minister of Public Wtariks anticipates that the! whole scheme will Ite in working ordeir in about two years frtom mm.

When a, noted Irish orator wak in America a few years agio, he delivered an address on Horn© Rule There were 6000 of his countrymen in the audience. At the close of his rema.rlks the dbairman said: "Would, anyone like to ask the speaker a. question?" A man in the rear of the hall, who was quite evidently under the influence of liquor, arose and blaid: "Will tho sjentleman tell

me if thore ig any rcafeon why the Irish should not (bte wiped oft' the face of the earth?" Immediately pandemoninm reignicd. Oalls of "Leti me at him" came from all directions. Finally the searcher after information Was rescued by the policia While the audience could srtill hciar outside the clatter of the amilvulance as it conveyed its burden to the hospital the chairman stepped forward and aslkled : "Would anyhmdy like to j.gk another question?"