BY THE WAY.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1415, 24 November 1904, Page 5

BY THE WAY.

Weather completely reformed. Dunedin A. and P. Show opens to- . day. , i Further advances in wool values reported. Owing to scarcity of feed sheep were fully is per head cheaper at Gore yards on Tuesday. A groat temperance movement is progressing in France. No signs of going dry yet, hpwever. Swarms of grasshoppers are destroying the crops in some districts of New South Wales. An arbitration treaty between the United States and Germany has been signed at Washington. Great distress prevails owing to failure of the Irish potato crop on the West Coast. It is the worst year since 1579. The District Engineer estimates the damage to the -Waipahi goods shed and rolling stock owing to the recent accident at £OOO "Ho do you plead, guilty or not guitty r" said tho clerk of the Wellington Court to a first-offending inebriate the other morning. "Guilty. full up to the neck," was the reply. A child had a marvellous escape from being killed by an electric tram car on Kyber Pass road, Auckland, yesterday. The motorman named Bacfc, after applying the emergency lirake stooped over the apron and lifted the child on to the car by her hair. She escaped scathlcss.