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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 2 December 1922, Page 9

PUBLICATION RECEIVED “Flowing Gold” by Rex Beach, from the publishers Messrs Hodder and Stoughton, is a fine stirring story of the West of the U.S.A.. It ia a romance of the north of Texas, where the people had had a very hard drab fight with poverty, droughts, and the poorest of soil, when petroleum was suddenly discovered and men were made rich in a day. “Flowing Gold” begins with a rush, and is typically Rex Beach-like,; as it plunges along with ever growing speed, and ends with a clash of drama. The hero is Calvin Gray, who had served in the U.S. army in the Great War, but who thought the treachery of a fellow-officer had been wrongly courtmartialled. Gray comes to Texas where Colonel Nelson ‘lives, makes good, and forces Nelson to confess, and makes himself (Gray) right with the navy, etc. Gray comes back with nothing, but by his ‘brains and magnetic personality, coins money, and friends, and his friendship with a family of “nestos,” who had “struck oil” is very romantic and human. Anyone who likes a book with “pep” from beginning to end will enjoy Rex Beach s latest.

There is some complaint among the fanners in the Stratford district that what is known as the “flush” in the milk has not eventuated this year. About November the height of the daily supply is readied (says tin* year, but then a spell of cold,’ wet Post). This season started exceptionally well, being equal to the'“flush” of last weather checked the cows, and nothing abnormal in the. supply followed. As proof of the position, one farmer said •that ho was not receiving anymore milk now from 35 cows than when he was milking 31 some weeks ago. That deer arc becoming more daring is proved by the fact that on a recent afternoon a large samhur was seen in the vicinity of the May freezing works, close to Wanganui. The stag appeared to come from ; the direction of the river. It jumped some fences at the works, and then doubled back across the road, and after clearing more fences, disappeared into a swamp. These doer are to be found along the coast in the Rangitikci, Wangaohu, and Turakina districts, having worked their way along from Rangitikei. They origin,ally came from India, and take up their abode chiefly in swamps. They are rarely seen in the daytime.