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Otago Witness, Issue 3889, 25 September 1928, Page 38

“May we smoke. ladies? ” said Mr W. C. Prime (Christchurch), at a sitting of the Conciliation Council in Timaru the other day (says the Herald), “Don’t ladies/* said another assessor They tempted us in the first place” said the first speaker, “only it wasn’t with cigarettes.” “You haven’t got any proof of that,” said the commisisoner (Mr W i" H " Prime: “I can only rely on Holy Writ. tt Sugarland, Virginia, United States, having no rifle and fearing the shot he had would not do the work at hand, removed theTead pellets from a powdered shell and inserted ball bearings from -bis old Ford car. Thus equipped, he went forth to give battle to a bear which had been killing his sheep almost under his nose. Arnold wounded the bear at the first shot, then, pursuing the animal into the woods, where it had been treed by_3.ogA. brought it down with a ball bearing through the heart.