TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15955, 17 October 1922, Page 6

TOWN EDITION.

London, October 16: Arrival at Liverpool, s.s. Kara men. It was stated by a bankrupt at a meeting of creditors at Nelson, that he had bought sheep for 25s a head, and three months later they were only 5s a head.

hast night a moloy-ear, instead of being driven into Wi i'ere Street via Valley Road, was driven along the Ormond Road footpath, the l glare, of the headlights dazzling pedestrians and nearly being the cause of an accident.

A Marconi wireless crystal set was recently landed at Pitcairn Island from the Knahine. The apparatus was the gift of the Marconi Company, sent in me hope that it would prove a useful link between the lonely island and the outer world.

Complaints continue tu be made by Dunedin business people regarding the dirty bank notes which arc at present in circulation. “We can’t get, gold,” said the head of a large firm, ‘‘but we have to take very dirty notes. Like oilier large employees, I dislike paying my employees with these filthy bits of paper. They will soon become a menace to health if nothing is done.” A sensational experience, which emphasises the careless use which is being made of firearms, is reported. Mr and Mrs A. Wadsworth were driving into Blenheim about 8.20 in- the morning in their car, when a bullet penetrated the wind screen just in front of Ktr Wadsworth, and' missed him by inches. The bullet (apparently from a pea-rifle) drilled! a neat hole clean through the heavy glass of the wind shield, hardly marking the class otherwise. “The brewers told us that the owners of the Californian vineyards would go bankrupt if prohibition was carried. Grape juice is the nearest approach to human blood that it is possible to get, and several operations have been performed by infusing juice to the human body. The vineyardists are planting extra vines to meet the demand, and more profit is being made now than when the States were wet.” —Father Zurcher, at Masterton. There was a, dramatic episode as a man named William Thorson (sentenced at Melbourne for loitering to commit a felony) was about to leave the docs. 'Throughout the case his mother had been sitting at the back of the Court, and showed evident signs of nervousness. When she heard the sentence siie rose up and cried in a quavering voice, “God bless you, Willie! You have been a good boy all your life.” The prisoner regarded her stolidly. The woman dashed up into the dock and kissed him passionately, exclaiming all the time, "You have always been a good boy.” Thorson callously brushed her aside and strode from the dock. His mother was led weeping from the Court, still protesting that her boy was innocent. A Sydney man had the extraordinary experience recently of learning after he had built a £3OOO apartment house on a water frontage at Watson's Bay that the land upon which he had erected the building was not his property but that of another person (says a Sydney correspondent). The mistake was discovered when the real owner of the block of land was asked to contribute half the cost towards the erection of a dividing fenco. It .was then found that the builder of the house, who actually owned the adjoining block, bad mistaken his area of land, and was so confident that it was his property that he had failed to take the usual steps which would have guarded against the regrettable error. The "tangle was straightened out by the house owner being allowed to purchase the land.

The red deer, which over-run Nelson, Marlborough, and part of North Canterbury are now finding their way through Westland, and are stated by the Hon. G. M. Thomson, in his monumental work on "The Native Animais and Plants of New Zealand,” to be descended from a stag and two hinds sent out from Thomdon Park in Essex as a gilt from Lord Petre. The Wairarapa deer sprang from a stag and two hinds from Windsor Castle presented by the Prince Consort to Governor Weld, in 1862. Governor Weld gave them to Dr. Featherston, superintendent of Wellington Province, and Mr. Carter, M.P., for the Wairarapa, secured them for his districtfi and had them carted in crates across the Rimutakas road to the Taratahi Plains. There Mr. J. Itobie son tpok an interest in them until they became established by later irnportalions from time to time. The Otago deer were imported in 1871 from the estates of the Earl of Dalhousfo in Forfarshire, Scotland, and are the only lot of purebred Scottish deer in the Dominion.

The Otago Daily Times states: One of the businesses that have been hit since the days of plenty following and during 1 the war is that of the übiquitous taximan. Before the country was flooded with money resulting from Imperial purchases there were only some seven or eight taxis in Dunedin, and their owners earned a comfortable living. Soon, however, the business became so lucrative that, like all good things, it was rushed by many with visions of getting rich quickly, and more or less easily. For a short time they were on the road to attaining their desire, but gratuity money does not last for ever, and with its disappearance disappeared their hopes. There are now over 70 taxis registered ill the city, but within the past month or two many men have packed up and left for other avenues of bread winning. ‘‘A short time ago there wore twice as many men on this rank as there are now,” said one taxi-driver. He added that it was not uncommon for a man .to wait all day on the rank to earn haJf-a-crown. A ‘‘decent run” was a rarity nowadays. , ■ A wave of co-operation has lately been sweeping over the producers of dairy produce in Otago and Southland (states the Daily Times.) The Southland Dairy Federation, with headquarters in Invercargill, effectively conserves the interests of its many supporters throughout tho province. Cromwell and Owaka are both centres for Vide districts where co-operative dairy companies are gradually but surely getting down to bedrock with the problems inseparable from tiie launching of new concerns. The North Otago dairymen look expectantly to their headquarters . just ‘‘over the border” in Waimate for wise guidance in matters relating to marketing, etc. The last' link in the complete chain for all the territory south of the Waitaki has lately been forged by the establishment of the Co-operative Daily Co. of Otago (Ltd.). It will be interesting indeed to watch how the dairymmen of Otago and Southland will shape in their commendable endeavor to control and .develop their own productions. They also now have at hand an opportunity through representatives from the above organisations of presenting' their own case 'before the Government when measures like the Dairy Produce Export Control Bill arc being discussed. Years ago a payty of surveyors were out surveying the boundary between New South Wales and Victoria, and outside a. waybnek farmhouse they found an old man engaged in his usual occupation of , doing nothing at all and sunning himself on the verandah. When tlie surveyors set up their theodolite at the edge of the clearing by the house the old man had at first taken them for bushrangers with a new kind of gun. Up went his hands. “Don’t shoot!” he called, “I surrender.” They explained that there laid been a mistake about fixing tho inter-colonial boundary, and they were putting it right. The now lino would pass about sUlt. from his house on tho upper side of the hill. “But, say, mate," said the old man, “that'll put mo over into Victoria, won't it:” Yes, it would, he was told. “But that won't never do. 1 was born and raised in New South Wales, and you ain't got no right to be shifting me out of my native colony." Can't help it, said the surveyors. After thinking it over, tho eld man said resignedly, ‘Terhaps it won't be so bad, after all. I’ve always heard Victoria is a healthier place than Now South Wales.”