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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 54, 27 November 1926, Page 15

Tlie wife of a farmer, hearing a startled cry from the paddock in the AVinton district, Southland, recently, rushed out in time to see her husband go down before the mad charge of their bull which proceeded to trample and gore him (says an exchange). Without a second’s hesitation she seized a big kettle of boiling water and running across the yard unseen by the bull, threw the entire contents of the kettle over its lowered head. Blinded and bellowing with pain, the startled anima] wheeled from his victim and raced down the paddock. The woman then dragged her husband into safety, and went for assistance. The husband, though badly injured, recovered sufficiently to carry on quite successfully with the management of his farm work.

The danger of riding bicycles on the footpath was painfully demonstrated to a lady and her two children at Grey Lynn (Auckland) recently (says an ex-, cliange). The trio were walking along the road, when a boy on a bicycle camo out of a side street and across the path. The cyclist endeavoured to. swerve off on to' the road, but in doing so he knocked all three pedestrians over. The mother fell on her side, badly bruising her right arm. and the oldest boy—apnarcntlv struck by the handle, of the bicycle—was knocked right out. it being some time before he was revived with the assistance of some passers-by; The youngest child was lucky to escape .with a few minor bruises.

The proprietor of certain tearooms near Napier, who is fond of his little ioke. was enabled to give full rein to his humorous proclivities when a party nf motorists nulled un for refreshment (says the *Dailv Telegrnnh”). The wife nf the proprietor requested her spouse, to decorate the table with a,few Howers, nnd the practical inker forthwith proceeded to the kitchen garden and gathered several bunches of potato blossom, which he proceeded to arrange on the table in arti-tic array. The ladies of the party were loud in their praises of the beautiful floral effort, but were decidedly nuzzled as to which family the blooms belonged. The -ladv of the tearooms apologised for her husband’s jo-’ cose tendencies, and explained the situation, and the incident ended, happily.