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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3027, 14 March 1917, Page 8

The days of self-help are already here. Bulky portmanteaux and hat boxss had been piled high into tho air o:i a porter's handcart beside the Moeraki at the Queen's Wharf at noon yesterday. The porter, not a Hercules in appearance, strained to take the load, a.ud staggered in the attempt, when s, bronze-faced moil with a grey ueard and merry brown eyes sprang forward and gave tho cart a push that kept tho "shafter" going for a few yards. Thon, seeing that tho porter had his work nut out, he kept en giving ifc a push now and again, until within a few yards of the Customs shed, when, in a spirit of fun, ho hung on to the cart -until the porter threw a.red eye over his shoulder at the practical joker, who happened to bo the owner of the greater part of iao luggage. "He's a lively chap," said someone, as the cart pulled up in iho shed, "who is he?" "Don't you know him? That's Sydney .Kidman, the Australian 'Cattle King'! was the reply. And it was.

A valuable copper "strike" is reported from Little Bay—a small settlement situated in Notre Dauio Bay, about 200 miles north of St. John's, Newfoundland. A vein estimated at 2000 ft. long has been uncovered. Assays mado on tho ground are reported to show rich veins from ono to two feet irido, running as high as 29J per cent. TOiat is claimed to bo tho first time in golf history -when a player yon a. lnari'.i) ny malting the final hole in ono is recorded in a- recent contest at Chicago, riayin-; in thp final, file two contestants came" to tho eighteenth w all square. Tlw hole was 165 yards, and one player's mashio shot rolled up te t!'p hole, and rested against the pjn. \\ !ii:ii the pin was lifted the ball foil in.

Ai. l!i)iws announces iu tho "Echo fin l'.'.nci" lb:u the ''t'odoratjon of the Muuiaitfd" has reoeived £1600 coiteot-