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Otago Witness, Issue 3854, 24 January 1928, Page 7

It is a common sight to see a couple of minahs keeping a cat on the run, whilst they fly in close circles round her, striking and pecking fiercely at her until shegains the seclusion of a covet. The other day, however, some minahs on the Havelock road showed even a higher spirit i (states the Hawke’s Bay Tribune). They | were strutting on the middle of the road when a terrier, in sheer exuberance and overflow of energies, shot off the pathway, bent on their destruction. The birds, however, just raised a few feet and then commenced a screaming and vigorous attack on the amazed canine, using beak and claw, with such effect that the howling animal fled for his life, putting up good time in his sprint for shelter. . , When a schoolboy was gathering pipis or cockles at Puru on the Thames coast recently he unearthed a gold sovereign case containing a half-sovereign. The case was in a good state of preservation. Owners of bicycles in Nelson are warned that the sneak thief is about again (states the Mail). Within thepast few days several bicycles have been stolen —two from one family in one instance. This particular form of theft is despicable, and a sharp lesson to any offender caught would no doubt act as a deterrent to othersj