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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 8, 4 October 1907, Page 3

In Wanganui, on Saturday "last, 1 saysthe local " Herald," a fair path-riding cyclist led a. constable a lively. chase.; Disregarding tho ma nin blue's call to stop, sho pedalled away at,,an....Arasfc. like pace. She Boon, however, found herself pursued, for the limb 'of tlie law borrowed a wheel frbin' a brother constable in plain clothes who chanced to be passing, and set out'upon' her track. The fair offender then got her head down to her work, and in the distance of two or three ..blocks .had, made pursuit hopeless, leaving a panting policeman wishing it was not Sunday, so that he could wash the dust from his throat with a "shandy-gaff. ' " Mr. Ewen Cameron, of Pouparae, is looking fora poisou that will'be fatal to the lusty ,miun.li, which'does so much destruction in an orchard, says a Gisborne '-exchange. As this is'the reason at which -farmers- should endeavour to cope with the., small birls pest, Mr. Cameron has been,. scattering, though there are thousands of dead birds to be seen about" his'place, 'not a solitary minah is to be found amongst them. The minah comes into the .barnyard and cats the grain given the fowls, but he is either too cuto'to take the poisoned food, or, if he does,, has a constitution able to resist the effects of the strychnine. :,«.-.