A welcome social will be tendered him in the evening by the draughts players of the district, in conjunction with representative chess players.
Mr Jordan is on a tour of the world, his mission being to arouse interest in the world's draughts championship, which is to be held in England next summer.
In addition to being the draughts champion of England, Mr Jordan is a very expert chess and billiard player.
While in Melbourne he put up some very fine scores in simultaneous play.
His stay in Dunedin will extend over a week, after which he will go to the south on tour before going north.
• Auckland: A good number of catches have been made at the Whangamumu whaling station so far this season, 12 large whales having been landed up to the present.
The whales are caught in nets, and the steam whaler Hananui, which was recently imported from England by an Auckland syndicate, takes them in tow to the station conveying two mammals at a time.
Up to the present this has been the Hananui's sole occupation, but when all her gear arrives she will go in search of whales herself.
Towards the end of the month or thereabouts the Hananui will, it is understood, proceed to the southern grounds, which are situated at Tory Channel (Marlborough), Kaikoura, and Campbell Island.
Right whales are to be found in these grounds, and recently 13 right whales were netted at Tory Channel.
• In a case heard at the Balclutha court on Wednesday a witness stated that five persons - two girls and three young men - could easily milk a herd of 60 dairy cows.
Another witness held (says the Free Press) that seven persons - a man and his wife, two girls, and three boys - could handle 88 to 100 cows.
• Quite a record in rat-killing was established near Timaru on Wednesday evening.
Having (says the Herald) been troubled for some time by a pest of these animals, Mr H.
Smallridge, proprietor of the Fairview woolworks, took advantage of the rise in the creek, which had flooded the lower holes, to destroy a few of them.
With the assistance of two of his men he killed 87 in an hour and a-half.
- ODT, 18.7.1910.
