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Otago Witness, Issue 3019, 24 January 1912, Page 59

A party enjoying a pionio at hairy Bower, Coonumblo, states the Sydney Daily Telegraph, had just sat down for dinner under the shade of some trees when a carpet snajee measuring over 6ft, : dropped from a limb of a tree and landed first on the shoulder of Mrs Regan, the . hostess, then on the lap of a young lady j sitting close by, and finally on to the table. Most of the guests left tho table j without asking leave, and generally hero , was a desire to let tho newcomer have tho ! meal to himself. Eventually, however, the 1 intruder was killed. I

The Federal Treasury has received an application from West Australia for the redemption of £lO3 worth of notes which had boon almost wholly destroyed by fire. If there is reasonable evidence as to the denomination cf the notes, the Government will pay for the redemption of mutilated notes is not infrequent. Not long since a countryman who had placed notes in his boots for safety, and worn them out in tramping the city streets, received £3 10s in gold for the tattered fragments which with diligence ho was able to extract.

Mr J. D. Healy, architect of Stratford, is preparing plans of proposed alterations and additions to the Stratford Mountain House. Tho committee has a sum of about £IOO in hand, and it is proposed to add a new dining room and further bedrooms.