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Otago Witness, Issue 3782, 7 September 1926, Page 58

A distressing accident befell Mr William Blackler. an elderly man. at the Wallacetown sale on Tuesdav afternoon. During the course of the fat cattlo sale. Mr Blackler was strolling round the top walks of the store pens when he overbalanced and fell headlong into a pen containing a oouple of cows. Fortunately his misadventure was noticed immediately by several bv-standers, who turned the frightened boasts out of the non and lifted the victim in an unconscious condition to an adiacent race. Later he was admitted to the Southland Hospital suffering from several body bruises and a nasty gash in his head. His condition is not critical. Totally unsuspecting that ho was doing something highly improper, a man strolled into a tobacconist’s shop in Napier the other morning and during the time he was being served with his requirements, dropped the end of a smoked cigarette into a box labelled “butts.” After the portion of the cigaretto had been successfully speared out with a hatpin by the flurried damsel behind the counter .it was explained that the box was for the receipt of art union ticket butta and for no other kind of butt. “But-*’ exclaimed the crestfallen offender, as ho tried to explain. “But me no buts,” waa the retort of the flurried damsel, “but gut out of this or you’ll bo butted out.”