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New Zealand Mail, 18 January 1900, Page 45

The railway freight, on wool, heing so greatly out of proportion to, that lon other produce, a. farmer in The Tapanui district (says the “Courier”) determined to see if he could effect a saving by carting it to Dunedin”; His dip consisted of about fifteen bales, and he ran to Dunedin; and back in six days at a time, too, when his horses were not doing secured' / back loading at a. rate which left him a handsome profit on the transaction;;' The kiss is to be put down in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where the law enacted in the reign of King Charles ,H. is being revived. It has been found to be among the forgotten iaws of the State of Connecticut which have not been repealed. It prescribes lashes for the man and thirty for the woman, administered on the bare back, caught kissing in pflbns.. The law is revived because the citizens of Newhaven complain of the Yale College, students publicly kissing girls in the streets, to the injury ‘of the town morals. "