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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 32, 9 February 1929, Page 8

A Fine Point. ' The Arbitration Court was asked yesterday afternoon to decide whether the daylight trips to and from Lyttelton made by the Maori and Wahine at Christmas time arc "excursions" when they take place on a Sunday, as was the case this year.. ' Should the Court hold that they are excursions and not, as the Union Steam Ship Company maintains, part of the regular time-table, such daylight trips having been made regularly at Christmas time for the last five years, tho stewards will bo entitled to .additional pay. A decision on the question 'will be given later, after the Court has had time to consider the matter. ■ After Ambergris. . The recent sensational ambergris finds have prompted many coasters to visions of easy fortunes and luxury (says tho "North"Auckland Times"). Even tho ladies have been raised to a live interest, and recently two lady campers at-Maule's Gorge set out along the beach, being somewhat reluctant to impart the purpose of their mission. The nature of the quest, however, was not difficult to guess when they returned some time later bearing black smudges on tho ends of their noses. They had diligently applied every black object seen on the sand to the test of their nasal senses, but had returned empty handed. A Too Hasty Conclusion. While bathing off the Marine Parade at Timaru, a young man had an experience which he is likely to remember for some time. Ho had been swimming about for a frfw minutes, when he felt something tighten about his ankles, and haying in mind stories about the presence in the vicinity of octopuses, lie concluded that he had fallen a victim. A struggle ensuod for a minute or so, and oventually tho swimmer broke free, and lost no time in reaching terra firma. On leaving tho water, said the "Timaru Herald," ho found the supposed octopus to bo the lower portion of his two-pieco bathing costume, which had slipped down while he was in the water and which had become twisted round his ankles.