BY THE WAY.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1146, 7 February 1903, Page 2

BY THE WAY.

One shilling and ninopence has been placed in a chapel collection plate at Cardiff as a thankoffering for tbe hatching of 21 chickens. The inhabitants of New York who live in flats are up in arms against the proposed new dog law, whereby only one dog is allowed to be kept in .each house. Ono " house " may include 100 lints. Bully beof originally intended for the troops is to bo used as a rnanuro on a sugarcane plantation in Natal. In the Waikato a llaxmillor owns four mills and employs ovor2oo men, boaidos'24 waggons and four bullock drays. Earl Grey's public-house trust schnmo is to be applied to Gloucestershire It is reported from Constantinople that pirates in tho Red Boa have attaokod a British sailing ship (namo not given), and that ono of the crow was killed. Tho Di'ltlnh Ambassador has demanded £6OO conipoiiuallitn. While a Br!tinh t'oonnnolli'lrig parly was bivouacking at night near Dorbma recently, a man-eating lonpard which him Itillnl 100 persons in the laut eight years invadod tho enclosure, and solved a Huiimll who was sleeping by tho largo fire. The New York World sayH that four Boors, representing a thousand families in tho Transvaal, are now on thoir way to tbe United States to find land for settlement. It is expected that 0000 others will eventually emigrate. Two milk women wore fined at Anton, in France, for watering their milk. A local trust was then formed, and prices were raised fifty per cent. A milk strike has resulted; The magistrates who imposed the fines have j been boycotted; they can get milk only by having it bought for them surreptitiously.