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Otago Witness, Issue 3590, 2 January 1923, Page 25

Time and tide wait for no man. nor doe* scarlet fever —and it lias caught another victim (says the Mataura Ensign). ’Tis said in circles which ought to know, that % well-known northern sportsman who brought “a winner” down for the Gore race meeting on Boxing Day contracted the malady. His condition necessitated the hire of a special car for the homeward journey—cost £3O. No doubt ho is now seeing red in more thas one sense. And he can say with Cowper, “O Solitude! Where are the charms that sagoe have seen in thy face v** It is understood (says the New Zealand Times) that the price paid by the Australasian Temperance and General Mutual Life Assurance Societv (Ltd.) for the purchase of the Oddfellows’ block at th* corner of Lambton quay and Grey street is £58,000, which works out at about £6OO per foot.