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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 308, 29 December 1922, Page 4

low j,jj O ; , r performed a teal in Kotorua quite a l a Blondin (*avs tin- local "Chronicle.") Tiir animal is *aid to have been seen making * .*,*?' "'""X an electric light wire stretching from the Australia to the pewt at the junction of Tutanekai and Amohia Sire-ts. Arrived at this post it .-.imbed on f> onp of tlie wires exUiidfnp across the latter street to tho railway station, and proceeded .aMy along that wire till it was lost to eight among the trM,. in front of the station.

I lie other afternoon (says the "Timarn Post') :> rather remnrk.ible theft wa» committed in a local draper's shop A la.lv was examining a pair of stocking, and her hamdbap. «hich contained about • wa * lyin * °" t!,e edge of the conntei. 1,,e customer leaned over the counter to make a thorough examination or the articles. and ,, )Im>on<l witll fx - tra . ordinary audacity p ,, t h i s ~r her hand under the lady s nrm and cmietlv removed the |>urse.

All interestinjr M l e , O()k ~u , p ,„ t]|(> Fleet street quarters of Messrs. Harmer. Kook.. and Compan.Vs l»hilau>li<- Auction >or>ms. who, an envelope with the old pT.. T * t * m P ß of - N »t»l I printed in l ii-ternmritzbnrje in I8ST), to the face value of 2/3, gcUl for £13. The envelope was a rift on W.olf of a mission church in Auckland. X cw Zealand, under the Biiperv.Mon of the Rev. C. F. Askew, and the proceeds without deduction of commission are being forwarded to him.

In a period of seven hours, during one day this week, no less than ni T-Tl Bnd 13 motor-cjviea (five of "inch had side-cars uttaohed) journeyed trom Auckland over the Rangariri Hills.