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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 30, 30 October 1907, Page 5

the Rev. A.B.HoL-oway, a member of the Council of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, who recently visited Australia for the benefit-of hh health, secured of golden pheasants' eggs, from the Svdiiov JJotanical gardens Every endeavour will bo made by the Society to have the otres successfully hatched at their gardens. A Hawera firm .blames the Factory Act for the .shortage in girls for dressmafchi'T and for the increase in charges. Owing to the hindrances and worries caused thereby says the local "Star," the firm contrasts vcry unfavourably to the present system the state of (he business before all the regulations wore'in force. . ' The Bcv. W. IJowitson, of Dunodin is fond of a good story,-especially .if. it can be brought to point a moral m connection with church worn.. The "Star" records his latest which is as. follows:—In the English language, ho rumui-kcd, there are a tiuarter of a million words, and bo had heard-of a lady who one Sunday afternoon used every one'of them i Shehad gone to church in the morning, a no', on return, found pinned on her beautiful hat a ticket marked "Reduced. 7s.- Gd."