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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 156, 26 March 1908, Page 4

: Tho "New Zealand Herald's" . Gisborne' correspondent telegraphs an. extraordinary story about tho flight of a pigoon from Now Zealand to' Queensland. Ho says: "With regard to -.the recant Australasian record, said to lwvo beem put up by a flight of pigeons fro'm'Hicks' Bay to Invercargill, another one has now been reported. A Brisbane boy some months ago stayed with 'Mr. W, A. O'Jlearaj and beforo returning homo gave a pigeon' to a. son of his host. Tho bird was confined for a timo, and then released. It remained about tho houso for a day or two. and thon it disappeared. Subsequently a lotter was received from Bnsba.no asking when the pigoon had been roleascd, as it had returned homo." '

A good doal (says the Opotiki "Guardian") has been said regarding, tho stamina of tho English-bred ,as against : the' Colonial-bred girls. Countless illustrations may bo given proving that tho- Colonial girl, oven though she may not: excel her sisters from tho Motherland, can hold her own, This view is emphasised in connection with back-block sottleinont in tho Dominion. Tho journey from Gisbourno on'horseback, a distanco of 112 miles, is a formidable ono for a man. Yet this has been . repeatedly accomplished by women and girls. Lately seven or eight woman arrived from Gisborne, having acthe journey in two days, and next moaning loft for a 25-milo rido up tho AVaioeka Valley to visit relatives who havo taken up sections in'the back country. Asfccd if they had not found, the journey very tiring, they replied: "Not at all; and wo intend to go back for the show."