NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24826, 28 January 1942, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF

When a party of fishermen recently visited Coal Island, Paterson Inlet, one of .them shot a three-legged deer. The animal, it is stated, had not lost a limb, but apparently had been born with only three legs. A Bluff deerstalker who vouched for the story, said he had never before heard of such a case.

“A man is never too old to learn,” so visit Crossan’s Waterloo Hotel and find out for yourself the quality of their liquors... The title of “ the oldest digger could justly be claimed by an Auckland resident, now in his eighty-fifth year. Finding it impossible to secure labour for constructing an air i)aid trench on his property, he armed himself with the only available implement, a short-handled spade, and in short time he dug, lined and covered a trench eight feet long, three feet wide, and five feet deep. Binder Oil, Oilers, Harvesting Gloves and Denims are procurable at very reasonable prices at James Gray and Sons, Ltd., Milton... The average daily occupied beds at the Timaru Public Hospital during last December. 146.9, shows little increase on the figure of 146,4 for December, 1940. Admissions during the month totalled 221, compared with 177 in December, 1940. and 262 (213) were discharged, leaving 117 (129) still in the institution. The number of outpatients treated in December was 722, against 598 in the corresponding month in 1940. Showroom specials for 14 days only. See special window displays. Oddments at gift prices. Call early.' Mosgiel’s drapers.—A. F. Cheyne and Co.. 1882-1942... Four years and a-half ago, when one day out from Wellington, en route to Java and Singapore in a Dutch liner, Mr D. Bowie, of Wellington, wrote his name and address on a small piece of cardboard, and slipped it into a bottle, which was corked and thrown overboard. The bottle was picked up on the Sarina Beach, a little south of Mackey, Queensland, on December 18 last: and the tiny piece of cardboard, with Mr Bowie's name and address quite clearly decipherable, has been received by him.