NEWSY PARS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10354, 1 May 1911, Page 2

NEWSY PARS.

Two Seotoh women in a .tram-oar 1 were hteiaixi- discussing the) meaning of the word J'Jubilee."Tlie first did not knowl the! meaning of ib. The other thlought she did. "Twenty-five 'esnrs mairit is a; silver 1 waddin', and! fifty '6ars mairit 's a golden waddin', an' I tha Jullileie'si v han the man dees!"

It is* not generally known that Government House, Wellington, is situa.tdcl within the prohibition district of Ncwtown. The coiiaequenc© is that if Hi? Ekcellency wishes', to g-et. any wiiio or spirits from Wellington to replenish the cellar at Government House, notiele has to be setnt' on his biehalf to the clerk of the court, with the usual'particulars1 aa to thequanI tity. requiroct, and set forth.

Tha Earl of Rtosebery opened anexhibition and sale of Scottish homespun twteedsi, kiiitteld! and 1 lace goods at the Mansion House on March 13tli organised 'by the Scottish Home "Industries Association. IJcvrd Rtoseibery remarked that the whole city of London- -or the great part of it—went to Scotland in August, and usually arlived in kilts, which were put on in the train. At Perth Station they were apt to appear in brilliant kilts;, with veny whitei knees, except, perhaps, those more practised! visitors who stained them in walnut hues.

Locally trained horses competed at the Avondale races en S.«.tiirday. Taiaha, who is an inmate of C. Whale's stable a.t Thames 1, won the Handicap Hurdles. Mr E. Pride's Ellclciti Jafcoff was third in the Avondale Handicap, the principal rate of this dlay, and is evidently improving 1. Mr* J. T^'tohill's stable was represented by Impulsive, who ran third in the Titifangi Handicap, won by Masted? Waiviki: and Jena, who ran third in the: Railway Handicap, won by Misa Winnie, and! unplaced in the daMey Handicap, won lay Mighty Atom.

During the hearing of the prosecutions of four mine managers on Friday for not providing sufficient pur-3 air for the men underground the question •was raised as to why these four claims in particular had been pi deed out. In reply the Inspector of Mines said that at about tho same date —■within a few dl-iys— all the mines were visited! by himseJf, Ma- Paul, and eithei 1 Mk" .Sawyer or Mr Lnt'as, president and secretary of' the .Miners' TJr.ion respectively, and that in all oaaas, with the exception of tho foui' mines biefore tho Court the air was found to be up to the standard), and in some instances beyond it. In the Case 1 of the Thames Company counsel said that when tbe swindi is blowine from a tiertain quarter it is impossible to continue operations, and on the* day on which the inspector 1 made his visit the wind was blowing fi'om this particular quarter. As a matter of fact the conditions . gtev worse an the day advanced, and! a short time after the inspector left the workings, the manager, ns is his usual custom, dismissed the men as 1 lie did not conisiclel* the air -gioofd emough.