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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20252, 10 November 1927, Page 11

The Goodwood races this year produced a most amusing dressing-up party, inspired by photographs of preiwar fashions; The 17-year-old daughter of a hostess fiatly'refused to believe that women r- rr v> wore hats with a circumference of 10ft., In spite of photographic evidence, she was not convinced until her mother un-, earthed one from a derelict hatbox. This befeatbered " cartwheel" caused such shrieks of amusement that a' ” pre-war fashions ” party was decided on at once: One girl wore a skirt which boasted 14 “gores,” another came in her mothers wedding dress, with 12 flounces and ;t< 19in waist, while one of the men sported a “ deer-stalker ’* 3iri stiff collar and a, Norfolk jacket. It is an idea which ia likely to be copied. On the occasion of a severe thunderstorm over the week-end in South Carnarvonshire, a few weeks ago, two dairy cows’ were killed by lightning in a field on .Tenybryn farm, at Dolbenmaen. .Another cow was killed on Penarlggaid farm, Rhoston, two miles away. Probably the longest gun in the world" is that situated on Long Island, TfJLA.,* which is 89ft in length? 1