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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4147, 6 November 1884, Page 4

Not a little amusement and excitement was caused yesterday morning (says Tuesday's Timaru Herald) on the beach to tho southward of the railway station by a free fight between two bulls for the Show, just landed from the trucks. One was being led some distance ahead, of the other, when tho hindermost got ; away from his keeper and made a dart for the fellow in front, catching him under the flank in tho most approved bullish stylo. Thereupon a regular tusslo ensued, lasting over quarter, of an hour, when the assailant party landed his opponent on las back. After some difficulty the pair were separated, but not before a third bull, anxious for the fray, appeared on. the scene. The latter would doubtless have settled the little quarrel himself but for the man leading him, who hurried tho keepers of tho other two by singing out his animal was "blue-mouldy fur want ay a batin , , ,, and would play all sorts of ructions it he got near them. It was highly amusing to see tho numbers of people, who were admiring tho bulls while they were quiet, clambering iiito trucks, up the embankment, and 1 on to piles of "sleepers so soon as the fun doubt with the sole object of getting a better view of the battleA reporter of the Lyttelton Times, describing the new telephone invented by Mr Hebden, of Ghristchurch, says:—"The practical improvement secured by llr Ilcbdbn's .hew transmitter is greater than even those who arc using the telephone everyday could readily imagine. I, in Christeliurch, talked in an undertone with the inventor in liyttelton. I' (and others, or I should hesitate to record it) could hear every .sound lie uttered, minus the' metallic twaug ; even when, at a distance of 14ffc. from tho instrument, ho whistled a murderous rendering of 'Bulo Britannia.' The ticking of a small pendulum clock could be heard when placed close to. the appliance, , and so, too, could tho scratching of a pen upon paper. The Southland .Times states that while working in tho gravel pit near the Waihopai bridge on Friday hst, .some of Mr John Fulton's , workmen Came upon three greenstone axe-heads. The' stones wore unusually !ar"O, being 14, '9, and 8 inches long respectively ,' and proportionately broad and thick.' 1 ' They were got 9ft from the surface, cnib'edded in ' the gravel, and froni their quality they have evidently come originally from the" Greenstone Creek at the head of JLake Wakatipn. • ■ ■ /