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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 176, 22 April 1929, Page 11

Messrs. Holmes and Humphries, of Frankton Junction, have returned to Taupo from a deer-stalking trip in Kaimanawa Ranges, in the vicinity of Lochinvar and Taharua, off the Taupo-Napier Road (says the Waikato “Times”). Four red and four Japanese deer were secured, and nil were in good condition. The former heads comprised one fine thirteenpointer and three ten-pointers. The Japanese heads comprised three six-pointers and one eight-pointer, the latter being a model head.

Three specimens of old silver coinage were brought into the Hawera ‘Star office the other day. The oldest bears a date, twelve hundred and something, and bears on the one side the figure of a unicorn and an uncommon design on the reverse. The second is a coin about the size of a shilling, dated 1585, and one can read plainly “Elizabeth . . . E . . . Regina,” and .discern the head of the Queen. The third is dated 1728, a smaller coin, and round the outside are the words “Benedictum, nomen dei, with a crown on a design of three, emblems like shields.