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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11825, 5 January 1933, Page 3

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When ;t paity of men from Eltliam went out pig-hunting in the country beyond Mungumingi tile dog bckingin to one of them put up u stout and began to fight with it. Hie men thought the dog could look after itself, and did not interfere. The dog killed the stoat, but was badly hitten. and could hardly stand up. After a while it got up, and, after running along the track, made oil. :, nd the, hunters lost it. They searched and called, but could not find the 'log, and so they decided it "as dead. Next morning, however, it turned up at a house near the spot where it had been lost, and, though not quite itself, was recovering. The men cauio to the conclusion that the bite of the stoat must be deadly, and said that if the dog had not been a particularly hardy animal it would liot have survived. A. fall from the top uf a. el iff at Karitane, near Waikouaiti, on Saturday afternoon resulted in the death of a girl named Joan Ellen Skinner, aged 14$ years. Her body was found badly crushed, lying, at the foot of an almost perpendicular drop. Death had apparently been instantaneous. At Des Moines, a town in lowa, United States, there is an ordinance that all persons undertaking the role of Father Christmas must be equipped with asbestos whiskers to avoid danger of fire.