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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XL, Issue XL, 9 February 1912, Page 1

Extremely rot weather prevails., all over Aastraiia/vv:Adejaidie;/;-'"nisws ; : ; -'re." i ports fires that Havel done damage to the extent of £100,000.". Victoria thure are bush tires every wjiere and wide areas of grass,'farm buildings homesteads and stock.have destroyed, , One .fire on.';tbe.;-Victoria Ranges was seven miles Jong Mahy v "of the fire fighters;- Vwerey affected by the heat, some were- badly, burned and others injured .by falling trees; etc All vessels are. delayed owing:, to the heavy smoke off .the: was discovered by a passenger) while a train was in motion, It was pulled up, arid the 35 passengers hurried .out of the two cars They lost all their belongings, the cars being completely destroyed The fire, was probably, the result of one of the bush fire's ■.■■'••.■• There are also bush fires in Tasmania A settler in the Garston district is now exterminating" the rabbits on his flat land by placing tarred straw at the entrance of the burrows of the pest His efforts, says the; Lake Wakatipu Mail, have been; : eminently successful as in no case have the mouths' of the burrows been re-

1 opened. By following up the operation and closing up holes which been left untouched, the destruction of bunny is complete—at least on the area treated -It only requires coicerted action on the part of the landowners and the pest would be very considerably minimised , Mir W. R. Lawson, the well-known financial expert, writing in the Outlook on American trusts in British markets, says that the historical Smithfieid is rapidly becoming 3 foreign outpost of the Chicago packers. The monoplists buy out the English salesmen one after the other, and •'bring their shops into the trust. As soon as they hear of one retiring are after him with tempting bids fur 1 his goodwill. As much as £15,000 has ! been paid for the good will of a sing e I shop: Though the trust has been only I a few. years at work at Smithfieid,.'it I has Mr Lawson asserts, already got. i the lion's share of the business. 1 When Mark Twain was editor of a -Missouri paper a subscriber wrote to him saying that he had found a spider in his paper and asking him whether that was a sign of good luck or bad, This was Twain's answer: finding a spider in your paper was neither gocd luck nor bad luck for you. The spider was merely looking over your paper to see .which merchant i 3 not advertising so that he can go to that store, spin his web acrotes the door, and lead a.life of undisturbed peace ever afterward. A Parliamentary candidate at the recent elections at Oamaru was asked - what attitude he was going to take up on the Ne Temere question. One imagines for the moment he wss flabbergasted, but he rose to the nc ' While I am pretty well coiversant, he said 'with the Mokau question,, the details of the acquisition ofthe other estate named have nut\pot come \to my knowledge; but if the Goverment have been guitly of any thing-questionable in the Ne Temere -estate. I would certainly ha-ve something tu,say about it.'. The audience are reported tohave received this reply with 'loud, and prolonged applause' which leaves us wondering whether they, knew as little of the matter as he did,—Exchange. ;