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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 5093, 1 October 1891, Page 3

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Dogs seize their food with their jaws, cats with their feet, and so do monkeys, some of them pressing their prehensile tails into service. The squirrel uses its paws to carry its food to its mouth, the elephant its trunk, and the giraffe, ant eater, and the toad, their tongue. Down in New Zealand (says " Wooin era ") there had been an accident at a funeral, the horses attached to the hearse having bolted. Discussing the matter afterwards, an old gentleman seriously urged that a yoke of bullocks would be more suitable and safer on such melancholy occasions. A young new chum Highlander, who had been watching the progress of a bullock team on a bad road, horrified the old gentleman by exclaiming, "Ta resurrection wut come along pefore tay got to ta cemetery whatefer." An Adelaide man sued for damages for injuries that were inflicted on his wife by a dog. The judge dismissed the case because it was not shown that in attacking the woman the dog had any " malicious intent."

The Victorian Minister of Defence has recently, through the Premier, communicated with the Governments of Australia and Tasmania, asking their concurrence with a proposal that a new military adviser should be obtained for the colonies.

>" Charley Naivyo is a sort of go-as-you-please boy, isn't he ?" said one Washington girl to another. "It has been my observation that he never pleases to go," was the sadly spoken reply. The Bruce Herald says the partridge, one of the most delicious game birds known, was liberated in Bruce County about 21 years ago. They rapidly increased in numbers, and were especially numerous about Eae's Junction, some ten miles from Lawrence. Pheasants were also introduced, and a few of them are occasionally seen, but the partridges have entirely disappeared.