NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1925, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Some of the Oamaru deer-stalkers have returned from the culling expedition in the t'|>ner Waitnki (says the “North Otago Times”). They report that deer are still very numerous, and in excellent condition. The weather was good for stalking, and splendid sport resulted.

Black-hacked gulls destroyed two ewes last year on Mr A. O. Graham’s farm, Oxford (says the “North Otago limes”). The ewes had been cast by the heavy wool on them, and were helpless. Ono had its tongue peeked out, and the other had lost both eyes. The gulls were disturlwd at their work. Both ewes died.

Fishing in the Rangilata Diver last week. Mr James Pringle caught a salmon which turned the scale at 321 b. (says the “Ashburton Guardian”). Other salmon, weighing from 141 h. to 301 b. were landed last week by various anglers. The run of salmon this year has so far been very irregular.

Two young men at Gisborne set out to shoot wild cattle- (states an exchange) and shot two dairy cows belonging to a farmer. When charged with the offence in Court they pleaded in extenuation that the cows had no appearance of being tame.

.Maori girls attending the Katana Faster camp displayed plenty of furs (states the “Wanganui Herald”). Some of the expensive coats they wore were in striking comparison with the slight apparel the natives in the early colonisation days were clothed in—a blanket or a rug was satisfying then.

A well-known Napier resident statethat while walking across some paddocks recently at Taradale lie ohnorvbt several patches of ragwort. “Tliii was just, the way that ragwort starlet in Taranaki district some years ago and one has only to go to that district now to see what alarming growtl this noxious weed had made,” he said —Napier “Telegraph.”

Two dead stags were discovered in a paddock at Tutaki (says the Nelson “Mail”!, investigation disclosed that they had mol their death in an extraordinary way. They had evidently been lighting, and during the combat ono of the beasts must have picked up a piece of loose fencing wire, and eventually both became entangled in the wire and locked in a death embrace. Ono deer was an 11-poiiite! and the oi her a d-pointei'. The flouring in the room al the old Christchurch Provincial Government buildings, for many years occupied by the Deceiver of Land Bovonue, has just been taken up (says the Christchurch “Press'”). Owing to the aid sence of ventilation beneath the Mooring, parts of it had begun to rot with the damp. Apart from this there is no sign of the borer in the timber, which, with the exception of the planks affected hv the rot, duo to dampness, appears as sound as the day it was laid down. It is assumed that the timber, which is black pine, was felled in the fall of the year, and that this has resulted in the borer not finding it suitable for its purposes.