MISCELLANEOUS.

North Otago Times, 13 January 1906, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

According to the Auckland Herald the potato blight, whilst it attacked tho |<any-crops in the. Auckland district very ; severely, js not having such a disastrous i una on the later crops, which were i Planted after the drier part of the season set in. Some of tht crops are likely, to yield good results, but, owjng to the I prevalence of the,blight the area planted s not so great.as would otherwise have I been the case. ■

ihc following account of how a recent police raid on a " two-up " school failed is given m a Sydney paper; The place selected was in Pitt Street, near Park Su C f« lcl ' B . ms "cry reason to liuicve that the visitors played "twoup. The time fixed was shortly after -up.m. At that hour a number ol plainciOllies police approached the building from Pitt street, and in ordor to guard about * h I lll ™* CSCaping at the M ' aDOUt twenty officers were stationed in Castcreagh street. The signal was given, ,1 Tl li ? r , was forcc(l °P CII . Mi the men charged down a narrow nassaee only to find- that another door, about two inches thick, and strengthened with iron, impeded their progress. That obstacle was removed, but when the police enere.l he room they found that the birds had flown." The answer to the ; question-how did tho men escape ?-was urmshed by. a burly form, which was «n disappearing through a window into lark stn»t Just as the police appeared !on the scene. . .