AN OCTOPUS

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 28, 1 February 1917, Page 8

AN OCTOPUS

10 TUB EDITOR. I Sir, —In yesterday's. issue, "Resident'Bl .talks..of ."star, and jelly fish," but thi»f was the real and unadulterated octopus. Hundreds were there and saw it. At; the word "ooto" denotes, it had the regulation eight feelers, each of which was armed with the regulation' circular suckers; also the "bag," which this mol lusc can fill with water or empty out at its own siveet will. And the octopus is not too particular whether it is on sand! | or rocks. Line fishermen ->i ten hook i-v I right out- in deep water on a soft bot-1 torn, and the trawl net also gathers -it| in in the inner bay Sara, a. Bayita 1 ratepayer, —-nd I saw this particular! octopus in the flesh. Possibly "Kesi-| dent" is taking'on a brief on behalf oil Island Bay, but his brief would only! mulct him in costs. Yes—as the corre-1' spondent who sent The Post trie item—if stand by. every word. In the New Zoa-1: land Transactions of 1913, Vol. xlvi.,..j page 138, Plate vii. and viii., two very! fine photo blocks, giving dorsal iuidlj ventra] views of an octopus are' shown,! and the Island Bay. one was full brother .to these.—l-am,-etc., ' ' THE REAL MACKAY. Ist February.

As a result of the application of Mr.-1 E. S. Baldwin and the hearing before | the Registrar- of. Trade Marks, 'an Order-in-Council has been gazetted suspending the enemy trade mark "Salvarsan" in favour of Burroughs, Well-! come and Company. An- additional war bonus of 2s 6d, making 5a a week in all, is being paid to lock-keepers by the Thajna? (Qjjnservanejv Amongst the men employed on White j island by the New Zealand Sulphur. Company was a cook lui-incd Steven Henry Young, who, with all his mates, was foiled by the explosion in September. 1914. His mother has sued the company for £200 as compensation. Mr H. P. Richmond, who appeared for the company, denied that Young's death j arose out uf, or iii< the course of,, his} employment by the defendant company, j Mr Richmond held that the time-sheers produced indicated that Young was paid a weekly wage for specified hours of work. The payment of overtime for any extra period worked was also provided for This meant" that after the completion of the regular and ordinary j hours of work Young was at liberty to { do as he pleased. It was argued, there- j fore, that he was not in the coj aiuosis | employ of the defendant cb'mpany. f Counsel for the plaintiff contended that | Young was in the positior of a domestic I servant, in that, owing to the nature of I his work, he was likely to be called npoa 1 by the company or its representatives an j any time. The fact that he was paid I overtime did not alter the position.. Mr.-.» Justice Stringer gave judgment in Anck-j land. this week. His Honour held that |. Young was not employed continuously, | and. he therefore gave judgment for the | company. ' No order as to costs was I made ■ |

The Venetian Paince at Rome, former-. - ly'the s«it of the Austrian Embassy to the Vatican, .has bec-n confiscated The palace used as the .Austrian Embassy io> the Court has been soul ',o an Italian banV. Mr. For.iter announced in the House 06 Commons about the middle of November, that ir the last twelve months there wero ninety-eight fatal accidents to members of the Royal Flying Corns (Military Wing) " '. I Mr. Harry A. Shejiherd advertises & , fresh list ol properties for private' sale.-. Marked plans of Hataitai may be obtained at hie office. Messrs. A L. Wilson and Co. advert lice particulars of a. sale of furniture and j effects, at their rooms. 151-3, Lambtoivquay; also a. number of ladies' coats antl costuineo. ' . ..