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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 313, 30 September 1926, Page 6

A baby hippopotamus born in the Auckland Zoo on Tuesday could not be found yesterday morning, but mangled remains under the male parent led to the conclusion that the monster hnd devoured its offspring.—Press Assn. The Pecretany General Post Office, has received advice that legal time will be restored in Belgium at midnight on October 2-3. and in thy Irish Free State nt 2 a.m. on the 3rd idem. I “Blue blood” is nn expression of Spanish origin It was user! in speak ing of the Spaniards who bad neveintermarried with Moors.

Sometimes those who live in the country are possessed of a very keen wit iremarks the Auckland “Star”). When a party of hospital board was speeding on to Warkworth they found that, in following an old road, their path was blocked right across by the erection of a new house, which pulled them tip at a dead end. In answer to an inquiry as to whether the car could get past that way without turning back to find the proper road, a pleasant-voiced workman replied that there was no hope whatever, because the present house was being put up by one of those unalterable things called “an Order-in-Council.” which meant that the road was blocked for nil time nnd there was not even a wav to get round it There was nothing for it bu ( for the cm- 'n turn vmk while ‘he occupants eni<’. the 'oke.

Yew trees were originally planted ift churchyards to protect them from cattie and so preserve them for the mnkinc nows and arrows