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Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 May 1910, Page 3

Mr AV. 11. Field, M.P., lias just disposed of his Rikiorangi farm, of o()o acres, to Mr Timothy Twomey, ot tlio Lower 11 u tt, who intends building and putting some of his sons on the place. The Otaki ZNTail understands that- the price realised for the farm was a most satisfactory one. indicating that there are not only buyers about, but that they are prepared to pay fair values. Mr Field still retains his I two farms a,t Waikanae.

A correspondent writes as follows to the .Melbourne Argus:—A resident of .Now South Wales, who went to Alberta, in Canadaj to settle there on the laud, .after some eighteen moniths' experience of the cold returned and wrote out the account oi his efforts to keep warm of a night, and the clothing ho had on. The following is a copy of the paper:—"At oUdeg. 'below zero in Alberta. Heavy fleece-lined underclothing—four pairs souks, one bicycle stocking, two trousers, foiu 1 sweaters, two coats, one fur cap. three padded quilts, two blankets, one dressing gown over feet. Fire going nearly all night. The toes on left foot frozen by morning. Kxperienced in February, 11)07." He is a young man, in the primo of life, powerfully built, and was capable of enduring extremes of either heat or cold.

"Good morning sir," said an applicant at Willesdeii, London, Police Court. "My mobbed died (three weeks ago. Father died seven years ago. Youngest brother claims everything. AVliat shall I do?" The magistrate was equally terse in his reply, "consult a solicitor." The other day, while opening a wocden case which purported to contain a cream separator, Mr .J. Black of the Farmers' Co-operative store, H.ivwrsdale, discovered that the box contained nothing but a large "piece of iron, a piece of lead, and a few blocks of wood, evidently placed therein as make-weights. The box had been carefully nailed up, mid there was nothing in its external appearance to show that it had been tampered with. The imaginary separator was received from a Dunedin (inn.