Waipori Bash.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — Is it right and proper that the bridle track recently made by the Government through the Waipcri Bush should be gouged into hollows «nd heights by persons u=rng it for logging, thereby tendering it unsafe for packing, for which it is at present intended! Trusting this will be at once seen to. — I am, etc., Berwick, September 14. Miner.
— The swiftest river in the world is the Sutlej, in India. At one part of it there is a descent of llooo ft2 } 000 ft in 108 miles. — The mountain people of North Carolina and West Virginia are said to put salt ir> theiv shoes in order to keep off the witches. It id related that one of the aboriginal tribes o£ Noith America refrained from eating salt in the belief thai it turned the hair whit©.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 27
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142Waipori Bash. Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 27
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