NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1923, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

A remarkable feat was performed by a ten month.-.’ old Airedale recently state-. the Christchurch "Press ). The dog was bull! in Lyttelton, and had never heel) mu of the port. Recent I v ids master became an inmate o! the Cashmere Sanatorium. He had been there a few weeks when he was surpri-ed to see the dog appear at hit bedside one evening. No relatives had visitetl him since the dog was seen at his home in Lyttelton the previous da.v. and the manner in which the amir,al found his way across Cue lulls and located his master in a strange locality still puzzling all concerned . A member of the Tim,mi Borough Ctutm-il, whose nationality need not bs Mated. mum provides (quite unconsciously) the comedy element at the council's meeting states the limaiu • Herald”). At a recent meeting he was addressing the council ill very serious strain, concerning breaches of the bv-laws alfcctir.g street verandahs, when he expressed the opinion, most emphatically, tli.tr- “i hosts breaches should he pulled up. Rather pointed remarks were made by Mr Justice Stringer, in the Supreme Court at Auckland, in dealing with an action arising out of the sale of a motor-ear (states an exchange). am afraid." said Ilis Honour, "the sale of second-hand ears i- something |iße the sale of lior-es. and induces a good mauv -iammonia which are proliat.lv mil quite borne out by fads, m order to bring about -ales. 1 am nolined to scrutinise somewhat earclully transaction- of this -mu. which are carried out as this one was with a degree ot pro-ure ami haste.

Although willing and anxious to do liis best, a young constable picked up a ca- • in Queen St.. Auckland, that proved too much- or. rather, ton little for him. and eventually a good-natur-ed woman did the job for him (relates an Auckland exchange). A nice little mite of two was obviously lost, and her -cream- gave the impression that she wishel tlie world to realise the fact. t(M> Whon tho pulii’Cinnn on tho scene he tried M <'oMse|e the lost or. hut she treated his blandishments with loud scorn. •Ins! when things looked helples- a good-natured woman took compassion on sirayed childhood and [KTplexod police loree, picked up the kiddie, and the three took tramear for the police station, where the in jam was afterwards claimed by it* worrit'd mother.