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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XL, Issue XL, 3 February 1911, Page 4

Mr Chow Chong, of New Plymouth, was recently presented with an illuminated address by prominent settlers of North Taranaki, in appreciation of his services to his adopted country. "Your having," states the address, " on your arrival from China in the early sixties, entered into the export trade of fungus was the means of saving many a family from want and-penury in the early days of settlement in ,the district by causing circulation in oui midst of over half a million of foreign this the outcome of legitimate trade and not from loan. When later you entered the butter business, being almost a pioneer in factory manufacture, you led the way into what has become the mainstay of the district, and helped to develop an j export which materially assists in J the prosperity of the Dominion;" :

A member of the Wanganui Countv Council urges that the tax oh every rabbit dog should be £-1. He Faj : s he has had considerable experience of rabbits both in the South Island arid the North Island and he blamed the dogs to a considerable extent for the spread of rabbits Unless molested, the rabbits lived altogether, but when they were hunted by dogs they scattered. and colonies sprarg up all over the place. The council decided to put a ta:c of ICs ou every " rabbit dog."

P«r f i -uHr? o- iha Narrandera tragedy show thai, Turs Warby and her daughter Amy were shot dead. The mother was the proprietor of Billenbah Station. Two boys, named Clare, .16 years, and Millar, 17 years,were arrested and charged with the murders. Mrs Warby was emerging from an outhouse, when she was shot in the head, dying shortly afterwards. 'The daughter, hearing the shot, rushed out, and was confronted by a boy with pea rifle. She turned to run, but was shot twice in the head, dying instantaneously. They had planned to rob the place, and waited till they got an opportunity to shoot their victims. They had been reading bushranging litera- , ur e.