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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 22, 9 January 1911, Page 8

Picnic part m s should bo partiru larlv careful when lighting fires now that the grass is so drv. A little carelessness in tl's resnect will often cause a great deal of damage to property. On New Year’s Day. some persons set fire to* the g»*as:on the Te Mata Prak, in const* quence of which Mr. Bernard chain hers ha*» lost consi«h-rablv. Between thirty and forty acres of grass a» well as fences and shrubs were dr stroyed. C- reward is offered fo«information leading to the eonvic tion of the culprits. The " Waipiikurau Press' 'says: A settler on Argyll, noticing a cox-, in distress, was <onsiderah ? v surprised on extrncat ing a piece of wood from the nostril of the animal to find that the splinter measured Win. in length, and it must haxc been driven in close to the brain of the cow. as one eye was for the time blinded. The piece of wo. d was firmly embedded inside the nostril and could not be seen until a dote examination was made.