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Otago Witness, Issue 2914, 19 January 1910, Page 69

While the Union Steam Ship Company’s | steamer • Manama was being berthed at Lyttelton on Friday morning- a line fouled" one of 'her propellers. It was impossible to free it from above water, and three or four men spent some strenuous hours diving down to the boss of the screw and cutting the' rope free. I A parent admitted in the Napier Magistrate’s: Court the other morning that his : daughter, who would be 14- year's of age in a little over a fortnight, had only passed the First Standard. He was fined for neglecting to send his child to school, but did not lake to it. kindly, for he declared : “ I won’t pay it. The doctor says she is not to be sent to school. I will | take it out.” Default was fixed at seven ] days’ imprisonment, with hard labour, I A guinea is aways welcome, and there are few easier or more pleasant ways of earningone than by writing a short four-line, verse on Flag Brand Pickles. Just, spins happy ■expression in rhyme wins every week. It does hot need a literary genius to produce, such. : Almost anyone, with a little thought, can do it. Regularly each week ; a guinea goes from Messrs Hayward Bros. to. some fortunate person, who, complying with the conditions of their competition, has sent in the few fines asked) for. The result is announced op Saturdays in our columns, and the competition is. in every way straight and above board. —AdvL