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Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 May 1916, Page 3

Opunake people who take to owning motor-oars run certain risks that are not actual in most places. Witness the foil owing paragraph (from the Opunake Times):—Mr H. Malcolm has now "paddocked"' tho old and faithful white horse in favour ot a motor car. He drives it with stately look and turns the corners, passes blokes, but that look is looking straight ahead and he never hears the remark: "Hello Bob lias got a motor car." Mr Wai Yep is also "no vitiating" in a oaT. Just as wdll the County Council is improving the Teungatara cuifctng.

It h-ae often been a debatable subject at Acclimatisation Society meetings as to whether hawks had been known to catch trout. The recent experiences of Messrs T. Cottom and T. Twomey, of Methv&n, should serve to dispel any doubt ae to whether the hawk is an enemy of the trout (says the Aslibu'rton Guardian). Recently these two gentlemen were driving itrom Highbank towards Methven, and when nearing a creek, noticed a hawk rise up holding something in its claws. iJie hawk roee to about 100 ieet and then let got its hold of what turned out to be a trout weight lJJbs. The fish dropped on the sidie of the road and was picked up by Mr Twomey before it was quite dead.

Writing from Condon at the end ol March, a correspondent of an exchange says: "Germany is in a much worse predicament regarding paper than this country. Already some 2000 publications nave been suspended, and tiie announcement tUiait the price of paper (is to be again increased will no doubt mean trouble for more of them. One of the most notable cases ot the effects of the scarcity of paper was the reduction of the Daily Express to 6ix pages. Sulphlite puip, which a tow months ago, sold at £9 per ton, isTlcro- practically unobtainable in any large quantities. What little has been soicl during the past few weeks 'has fetched prices between £20 and £30 per ton. It is likely to rise still higher should the scarcity continue.

A replace advertisement from Messrs CI. M. Boss and Go., lAd., Jf<£. morafcon Norlli, will appear in to-mor-row's icuue.