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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 46, 18 November 1926, Page 4

Messrs. Rowntree and Co. Ltd., York, had a visit from the New Zealand Rugby League Team on tour in England. The team, after lunching at the works, was shown over the factory, and had a general look round the city of York.

The Zealandia Hall, Palmerston North, is expected to be filled to profusion with summer blooms on Saturday, when the Horticultural Society will hold another of its popular flower shows.. Gardening in these fast-moving days owes much to the encouragement afforded by the local society, and that the cultivation of floXvers is a keen pursuit in the Manawatu should be fnllv demonstrated at this latest fixture.

A giant tree, which was carried out to sea bv the Buller River, caused a repair gang employed on the Buller bridge some anxious moments as it approached the bridge (says the "Greymouth Evening Star”). It threatened to collide with the piles »ul sweep them away. The men left the bridge in time to see the huge tree pass under Hie structure, just missing its supports by a narrow margin. The girders of the bridge were badly damaged by its protruding branches. The tree was carried half a mile out to sea, where it came to anchor, standing upright in 60ft. of water, and presenting a weird spectacle with its branches towering above the surface, and swaying to and fro. The Westport tug went out on the following day, when a hawser was attached to the tree for the purpose of removing it off the track of vessels. The attempt, however, was unsuccessful, for the hawser parted under the strain.

An unusual freak of nature is to be observed at “The Downs,” Outrain, the property of Messrs. Anderson and Lyttle, in the shape of a six-footed lamb (says the "Otago Daily Times”). This lamb is now. six weeks old, and is well developed. The extra feet spring from the fetlock joints of the hind legs and are used in a natural manner by the lamb. Articles of all descriptions have been washed up on Sumner beach during the last week no doubt remnants of the huts at Kairaki, which have been washed away during the recent floods (says the Christchurch "Press”). Tables, and chairs and almost the complete side of a hut were amongst the wreckage. which littered the beach, besides innumerable planks and logs.