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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 386, 1 October 1903, Page 2

There's nothing like knowing what to do in sudden emergencies. One morning, when a man fell overboard from a ferry steamer, a long-haired man who sat reading a newepaper rose up and called out: 'Stop her—back her—go ahead—throw him a plank—stop the boat—give him a rope—lower a boat—where'a a life preserver ?<-stop this beat!' The victim was saved. Of course he would have been drowned but for the efforts of the longhaired man. More than three thousand persons in Japan ma*e a good living by breeding, training, and selling what are known as 'singing insects.' Like crickets these insects are musical, and their Japanese names are kusa-hibari and euzu-muuhi. The music which they make resembles that of a silver bell, and, though rather moatonouß, ia very clear and sweet.' > J