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Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1923, Page 1

There is a story current of a little romance at Moliaka in which a dusky maiden and a- young fellow countryman arc concerned. Outside the house was a car ready in take the maiden to t'u- minister, but the watchful mother spied it. and having another bridegroom in hoi mind’s eye slie bad the finely taken oil’ and to be doubly sure sin- took the bride to bed with her. But love laughs not only at locks, bars and bolts, but- finds a means of disentangling the encircling arms of a mother. The maiden got away, however. and the knot that cannot easily be undone was tied.—‘-Hawke's Bay Herald.” That the exceptionally severe winter is taking heavy toll of the older generation is shown by the fact that among the death notices in a recent issue of tin- Auckland ‘'Star” appear the names of five aged 90 or over, with an average cl 80. It is worthy of notice that, the longest-lived of the quintet. Mr Matthew Blair, formerly of Port Fitzroy, Great Barrier, and more recently of Mt Eden, who had reached his 92nd year came out In the then colony in 1.882 “lor tile sake ol his health, which had badly broken clown."