LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, 30 September 1938, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

A respectable couple with one child, desire to rent two - or three furnished or unfurnished rooms.-

The annual meeting of the Pateia Cricket 'Club will be (held in the Town Hall Supper Room on Wednesday next, sth October.

Those intending to travel overseas should make a point of communicating with Messrs C. F. Mill ward and Go . Wanganui, who will furnish them with full particulars with regard to fares, sailings etc.

An extraordinary incident is recorded from Somes Island. A white cow, one of a mob being .trucked from Fetuiie, jumped from), the wharf and swam to Leper Island, the small islet to Line north. A telephone message was received by the officer in charge of the stuck station on Somes Island and, as the result of a s.-;aroh, the animal was discovered. (An effort was made to entice it to swim to the island, but this failed and it Avas decided that the only soiuLion Avas to kill it, as there is no forage or water on the islet. Two mien came over from Fort Dorset and, after two shots missed, the stock manager succeeded in the dispatch of ttye coav, which was skinned and the carcass thrown into the sea. The distance swum by th-a cow was over two miles.

, They were balking tobacco in a certain saloon bar up town the other night. Quite a pow-Avow! Said the little chap in tho black velveteen coat, ‘‘l went without a smoke for six weeks once—doctor’s orders. It Avas the longest six weeks in my life. ’ 1 "Bah, that’s nothing,” remarked the old salt, beginning to fill his pipe, “I wont Avithout a smoke for six bloomin’ mouths once —wrecked and oast away on a desert island. We, didn’t an make up for lost time when we got back to Noo Zealand! Bought a big tin of Cut Plug No. 10 between'the lot of us and I fancied it so much I be ,ii smoking the same brand ever since!” "How many toasted brands arc there, by the way?” asked tike imn With the tweed cap. "There’s five,” said the ancient marine, "I know ’em all—Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead) Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog) Cavendish, Rivcrhcad Gold and Desert Gold, and wot’s more', take ’em by and large, bettor Dacca ain’t grown nor made.” Carried unanimously.