NEWSY PARS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10352, 28 April 1911, Page 2

NEWSY PARS.

The Louisa Craig has laadiud about 540,000fb of timber and is ready to depart on heff journey to Adelaide. The Jelssiie Qi-aig will shortly follow, her destination, (being Melbourne. Sho ha& partly loadled 1 at Tm'ua and at Kopu will complete! loading about 540,000 of tiuuLo;-, before she spreads i her sails to the ocean breeze.

Our Te Archu correspondent Writes as under: "The wedding of Mr T. Andreuvs to Miss Nellie Cooper, of Shaftsbury, took place yesterday. Mi.-a Alice Andrews was tho bridesmaid. There was & large number of friends present to witness the, aere*-mf-ny, and Mr and! Mrs Andrews were the recipients of ma.ny valuable presents."

A|t the Mofcau coal mine the miners us;j naked lights, the mine being considered, one of the safest and most easily worked! in the world. Though tho mine has flbleen in existence for over 25 yeai's, no accident has occuiTed. Thia is the only mine in Aiistralasia in which uncovered lights arj used.

The householders of the Richmond school district (iChristflhuirch) carried tho following mat ion : "That the new regulations requiring the attendance of"chiklirem for ten half-days per west hear too harshly upon parents, and should therefore Me altered so as to wovidc for a, shorter period, and that the Elduoa.tion Board sliould be I requested to move in this direction."

The Southland! Times states that Mi' W. Johnston, at a meeting of the Southland Aciolimatisiation Society, stated tha* the moose liberated oit the Sound's had recently Ween seen. Hi« informant had told him thiait the animals ■ware 1 in such a polor condition that he could have hung his hat upon them anywlieri?. Tbey were quite qmieib. Velry little food was available, and there wais every indication that they could not have betn liberated in a- more unsuitable spot.

The Canadian Government advertises freely in Irish newspapers: to attract immigrants. One advertisement is headed, "Whole counties given away ; homestead's of 160 acres given free'by Canada." The land so< given away in eight months is stated to 1 bo equal in area to nine British counties. S'uoli advertisements are no doubt very attractive to those who ttegin to despair of making progress to independence in the Old Land:. Capital is said to he ai spasm in threa jerlks—capital, cop-it-ali, and kwp-it-all.

Yesterday morning, state's the Dunedm correspondent of the Lyttelton Times, the D'unedin reservoirs held about 46,000,000 gallons of water, whereas their full capacity is about 80,000-, 000 gallons. Though the amount of Water at present stored is not very much grteate-r than was the oasis before the late rain, there is every probability that the daily inflow, will not again this season he less than the daily consumption. Latterly the depletion of the water storage had) bteien goingl on at an average rate of abb-ufc 2,000,000 gallons a ■week. "Nature" deals somewhat severely with the New Zealand Government's .action in granting the sum of .£SO or .£IOO toward the cost of explosives for rain-making experiments near Oamaiu. Tha London scientific journal says that it has. 'been shown that such experiments aits a useless expenditure of money, and have been condemned by the bast meteorologists in Europe and America. It quotes Pro- ( fessoi* 0. .Aibtle,, ai leading authority on meteorology, .who slays: "Thei firing of cannon or dynamite in order to mate a, great noise isi not likely to form rain, andl, in fact, cannot: possibly bring it down." With regard to the cannon used in Italy to siend vortex rings of air into the cilouds, he saysi: "We harrts no evidence thai they ever reach them, or that, they could have any effect if they did so. I regret to think of so many thousands of faitoers wasting time and money on this delusion."

It 1 .Mii-s Mary Eillen Hill, of Kiehmondi, can't ba the Jiope of the white race, she can well to its pride (says a Melbourne telegram). In a persona.! coin'biat with heir husband in the strefcit, she displayed a knowledge 1 of ring taciticsj and footwork that won the admiration O't' even such a hardened cynic as a policieminn. ''She was eiviiiding her liusband's blows with the skill of a professional :boxer," said S'enior-Constaible .Rkjhan, when William Hill was chai'glod with assault. Mrs Hill, the poslseissiot- of such.mastery over the sidesteps and t.lit smother, is a young woman of striking beauty o{ fr..ce and figure 1. Hei ears are dainty and shell-lite, a.nd hen- nose is a straiighb as a. Mel'bourno street. She did not wish to give evidencis, she, said. Sbnioa-'-Oonstablo Rlohan explained that he had seen the two eng-ago in n, stand-up fight. The woman was evidently "pretty good at it." In view of what he saw, he do--oidecj to take Hill into cmstody. Dofe]ida,nt, against whoan there were -52 prim' convictions, was convicted. i

Trooper Milloy. v famous member of thj Canadian Mounted Rifles, wlio mis Minded by a Bioer bullet at the IVilioO'i-t engagement in the South African wa.r. was niiiiried at Montreal recently to Miss Jean Mtmrne, da.utrhteir of ii capitalist, at Seattle, W'ashineiton. AltJicvucrh the blind snldier has never seen his wife., it was a fiast' of love at first sight. Milloy displayed great gallantry in South Africa., even after a bullet had destroyed tJi9 sight of Uoth hi.s eyes, fie was iriren a ji'reat reception on liis return to Cta.nada, and the Governments and the public made a bi<_r purse to re-ward his bj'avery. Btiring a li.vtuii'c tour he met the girl who- is now his wife. He was also honoured ,

in K'nirlaud, and Kbxs*. George, when Prince, of Walos, presented him with tho sc-i'vioo m«lal on his way back to Canada. After n ponding his honey - nmnn in the United States., Mr Millc.y will (my!* an American paper) proofed to l\!n«'land, where it is expected he will outer political life.