Quicksands AND SEAGULLS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2722, 16 May 1906, Page 80

Quicksands AND SEAGULLS.

To " Magister," — "While on the Ocean Beach last Sunday afternoon I took a walk as far as the outlet of the drainage works. What I saw there both__surprised and pained me. There were some young men and boys amusing themselves by throwing stones at the Eeagulls, which were there picking up any scraps left by the receding waves. It was amusing to watch the gtrlls — a small kind, and which appeaxed to be quite tarne — hopping and jumping about after anything they could pick up. Directly these hoodlums and hobbledehoys came (young men and boys is too good a name for them) they commenced io throw etnpoa a.t tJxc anils, and

A conscience that took 12 years to recognise itself has just come to light at Waihi. A person writing from there to the Re-ceiver-general on April 26, says: — " Sir,— About 12 years ago a Is stamp came into my possession which had already been affixed to a parcel, but, through an oversight on the postal official's part, had not been cancelled ; I afterwards used that stamp again. Please find enclosed Is in payment of same. Romans, 3rd chap., verses 19, 20; 10th chap., verse 4; 10th chap., versa 9.'t