BRIEF MENTION.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 20 November 1920, Page 4

BRIEF MENTION.

INTELLIGENCE AND HUMOUR. According to the ‘Age,’ Che father of the late Aiderman M'Swiney was at one time a resideiii of Meitourne, where he died 22 years ago. At London the other day Mr Charles Hill, a veteiwi rifle ahotl of 68 years, and runner-up for the Queen’s Prize in 1891, made the highest possible aggregate of 105 at 200, 500 and 600 yards. This feat has not been accomplished since 1914. Tauiparunui B o 'ough Council have adopted a proposal for power and light io cos, £44,000. A poll will lie taken. • The transference of lire Headquarters staff of -.he Union Company means a loss of 40 families to Dunedin. That's Wellington’s suit staniial gain. A party of four Gore fishermen wno virited the Chamita on seven sepa ate days during the monJl of October seciued the fine haul of 1 716 trout I A caller at a public-house, bemg much attracted by a parrot on the counter, ei.deavomed to purchase i; , from tlie pul-dcau. The laser said: I would not part with that 1-ird for ■ anything; blut she has just laid an l eg'g, and you Can halve that' if you. I like, and hatch it in an inculiator.” So the visitor took the egte-, which in due comue produced a thrush. The , customer ,mueh called at I the public-house to relate his experience. The parrot, whose cage was still standing on the counter, greeted him with the remark: “I know .something! about you I” “Yefit,' said the customer, “and I know something about yoiu,! You had neuter shut up! ’.’ One morning! old Mr Bell was tiusily plying' his hammer on a wooden contrivance under site kitchen window in the yajrd; when a nei-ghldur called t<> enquire after his wife, who had tieen unwell for some timet The old chap’s reply, however was drowned ly someone in the house coughing very loudly, “Poor dear! 1 suppose that’s her coughing, ain’t it?” cried the sympathetic old lady. “No, no, my woman ’’ replied the aged toiler, surveying his 'handiwork proudly, “it ain’t a coffin; it's a fowlnouse.”