Untitled

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 150, 11 August 1903, Page 3

The New Zealand Band have sailed for home in the Gothic. Their tour was unsuccessful finan dally. In recognition of the greater degree of safety from fire which has been given l-fr" \ waterworks at Westport, the underwriter j hare granted a variation in fire insurance premiums to the extent of 25 per cent. A correspondent of the " Hot Lakes Chronicle " writes : — A case of some considerable interest came before the Court recently, who na native was charged wit h selling native pigeons, and was fiued ,£5 and costs. This is the first time that siu h a case has been brought before the magistrates, and the fine inflicted created i great surprise among the natives and Europeans alike; ( A countryman visiting Dartmoor ■i. observed that a gang of men were working on the moor, each wearing a ball and chain. He asked one of them why that , ball was chained- to his leg. "To keep people from stealing it," was the roplp — I " there are so many thieves about here I" , A Dunedin gentleman who recently returned from a trip through South Africa, says Kthgve's house in Pretoria was being turned into an hotel at the time of his visit. Everything that was ; decently moveable had been taken away . by the relic hunters, eren down to a 1 paper on tie walls 6i the room.