LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16211, 27 September 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr W. E. G. Willy has received a telegram from the Department of Internal Affairs that the Order in Council constituting the Horahia Drainage District was gazetted on Monday .

An instance of how.goods increase in value according to demand was given to a Chronicle representative yesterday by a. local mercer. He stated that “bun” hats were being sold for about one shilling last year, and now they were selling for 25/-, this class of bat being all the vogue amongst men folk these days.

“He must have been saving up to get married,” remarked a Palmerston North grocer to a. pressman after relating tlie following incident:—“Two years ago a gentleman of the bachelor type walked into a shop and purchased a tin of salmon, for which he paid Bd. To-day he brought it back and wanted bis money refunded because the tin had a dent in it!”

How a lamb was lost for two days and then found, was related the other day by a Canterbury farmer, who was in the paddock at the time, spent two hours searching for it. But the lamb bad made such a complete disappearance that the farmer could only conclude that a. hawk bad picked it up and carried it olf. Two days later (relates the Timaru Herald), when in the same part of the field, the farmer found the lost lamb in a rabbit burrow. It was still alive, though very weak from lack of food, but after restoratives bad been given, it revived rapidly and rejoined its mother as if nothing had happened to it.

Times are apparently hard for some people, says the Hunterville Express. A man ami Ins wife and two children walked into Hunterville and said they had come from Porewa that day and intended walking on to Taihape, where they had friends who would give the man a job. The man had only 4/- in his pocket. On hearing this, Mr A. T. Gat re 11 of the Argyle Hotel, promptly invited them to dinner and handed the man a. pound note. The Patriotic Society was communicated with and their worldly wealth was further augmented. A commercial traveller, Mr C. Davidson promptly offered them a ride through to Taihape, and times seemed much brighter for tlie quartet.

Mild excitement prevailed at an Lnvercargill hostelry the otliei evening (says the Southland Times) when tlie news circulated round the dining room that a participant in the oyster,soup ration bad discovered a pearl in liis soup. Later on, when it became known that the discovery in question bore strong evidence of having already figured in a well-known form of pendant jewelhry, the run on tlie “succulent bivalves” pulled somewhat.

An intending passenger by the ferry steamer Maori at Lyttelton was so occupied with friends on the wharf that he did not notice that the gangway was down, and he first became awaie that the vessel was leaving when she was actually moving. He made a sudden rush to get on board, hut was warned olf by an official. He waited until the official turned away and then essayed another attempt. By this time the Maori was slipping along at a good speed and be succeeded in getting partly across the vail, where be bung with his legs over tlie side. From this predicament he was rescued by the official, who seeing that it would he dangerous to try to pull him hack, assisted him on hoard with a heave that landed him bodily on to the deck. As the ship passed the end of tlie wharf the passenger was seen to pick himself up in a dazed way, at the same time, no doubt, congratulating himself on his narrow escape.