MISCELLANEOUS.
The Scottish herring fishery is now the greatest of ite kind m the world, emplojing m all 18,000 boats and 103,000 hands. Mrs Oolmore Dunn, an English novelist, it credited with the authorship of a phrase whioh has had vogue m Parliament for some years —•' The oonipiracy cf Bilencr." Bh,o used it si the title of a novel. An Adelaide paper says ;—A farmer near &(uloowurtie baa to flghfc tho mice from hit plate whije his meals, At Petemille i oat was put jnto a room where the chaff : waa raided .trgn^ the floor and proteoted by tins, On opaning the door tb» forme; found millions of mioe on the ground and the oat with its tail erect, evidently frightened out of its wits. Directly a light was shown the mioe soamper«i off and the oat disappeared snd bag never %eeo heart] o£ cidqq,
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Timaru Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 6064, 25 September 1894, Page 3
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145MISCELLANEOUS. Timaru Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 6064, 25 September 1894, Page 3
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