MISCELLANEOUS.

North Otago Times, 26 January 1906, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

A party of tourists had an exciting experience ■ on a recent Sunday while out rowing in a boat oh the Waikato River,: says the Auckland Herald, They • intended to land alongside the , Waipikirangi geyser, which has been dormant for sometime. Just as the party were within a few yards of the geyser, without any warning it ■ burst into action, throwing up water to the height -of one hundred feet. The occupants of the boat just managed to get clear and avoid being scalded by the boiling water. Since the putburst the geyser has been playing regularly every day, During the course of his speech at a welcome home to him at Elgin on Friday Mr John Cochrane, a wellknown Ashburton farmer, stated that he had bought lamb in London at a halfpenny per lb less than he had sold his own lambs for the previous year, and Mr Cochrane also gleaned the information that a "ring" had been formed, to "bear" the lamb. market, and in this connection an expert had told him that there would ie a decline in the.price'of lamb. This, Mr Cochrane added,-he had found to be only too true since his return to the co'ony from his own experience of the price' of lambs sent to the freezing works, and Mr Cochrane also stated that the. method of displaying the lamb in-the j London shops does not tend to its retaining to the full its proper flavour or firmness of texture.

. A disturbance was created at a house in the Epsom district on Thursday afternoon, says the New Zealand Herald, by : a man who demanded admittance to see-one of the occupants. On his request being refused lie i ecame violent, and smashed the glass, of the door, and made forcible entry through the hole made, The lady in charge vainly endeavoured to eject the intruder, and it was not until Mr Alex, lieatly, a neighbour, and others, came to her assistance, that the man was got under control, He was then roped down and tied hand and foot, and the police were communicated with, and the man taken into custody.

The Hon, T, Y, Duncan is not an impressive orator, and his speeches do not abound in airs and graces (says the Post). Now and then, however, he hits the nail on the head with admir a''le force and precision. At a banquet at Ahaura last week, for example, he was urging on the people the necessity of settling on the land, He would remind the young men, he said, that they should secure plots of land on the Coast l-efoie the hole in the hill was cut; once that was cut the land would s ip away from them as 'also their girl?, Once the capitalists caught a glimpse of the Coast then everything would t e snapped up. l'he warm applause that greeted the sentiment indicated that the capitalists will at all events find a f.w girls to spare when they arrive.