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Mataura Ensign, 23 January 1912, Page 6

A large king-fish, weighing 37)b, was ] caught off the Onehunga wharf on Tnes- ; day by a Mr Ormerod, who was using an ordinary schnapper line and hook. On examination the fish was found to have some ten inches of the snout of a sword-fish sticking into its gills, presumably as the result of an encounter. Mr Ormerod considers that it would have been impossible to secure the fish had it not been in a feeble condition j by reason of its wound. -■*

On Mr H. Magill's farm at Waiiou, j near Te Aroha, last week four foxes (a, vixen and three c\ibs) were found. This; is the first discovery of foxes made in j this district, and as there is a chance of | their becoming a pest to the farmers,; all efforts will be be made to extermin-j ate them as soon as possible (says thej Auckland 'Herald'). Speaking of the West Coast, Mr McClure, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Southland, who was recently transferred there from Westland, told a reporter that he was much struck when he visited Butler Bros.' mill at Ruatapu, seven miles from Hokitika, to find that their mill was run on the most modern Swedish and American principles, nearly the whole of the work being done by machinery. It is a band sawmill, the only one of the kind in the South Island, and it turns out 30,000 feet a day.' The firm had 28,000 acres of bush, purchased from the Hokitika; Harbor Board, who received authority to sell by special Act of Parliament. Saved His Life. Little Jack Vincent was attacked with croup. "He was just at the choking stag© and we had no time to send for medical aid," says his mother, Mrs Agnes L. Vincent, Margaret street, Geelong, Vic. "We had Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in the house and it was the means of saving his life. It only took ten minutes for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to do the work." Sold everywhere. "

The town of Ferdinand, in Duboic County, Indianapolis, has had no divorces, no prisons, no corruption, no justice of the peace and no criminal prosecutions for civil suits in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Several years ago two citizens forgot to pay their taxes, but it was a mistake.