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NZ Truth, Issue 123, 26 October 1907, Page 8

When lasti heard of everybody m Onamalutu Valley. m the Marlborough district, was down with influenza, except the school teacher and two children. One of the surviving kids chopped a toe off with an axe, and had to be taken into the Blenheim hospital by the teacher. That left one sneezeless juvenile, who appeared to be much depressed by the distinction when the mail was despatched by the prostrated postmaster, St. Poole, of 'Auckland, wants nacket licenses on the coastal boats abolished. "The facilities for extendin c; comforts'' to passengers have been outraged pretty continuously," he remarked recently m his Irislv-Amer- , icon-Colonial drawl. The Kai Ora wreck has stored things up a bit. Ho also reckons that vessels •leave- New Zealand with. unsulficient provisions aboard, and instanced one boat which lately signalled Taspianiss for proveiulor— tlmfc vessel went a-shore-at Warrnambool because the crew wcio too. .week to .work her.