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Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1929, Page 5

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A meeting will be held pn Iriday, 25th. Oct. in Keller’s Sample Rooms at 8 p.m. of all those in. favour of forming a Kiwi Cricket Club. Advt.

Canaries are generally regarded as depressing!}’ optimistic, birds who insist on singing all through breakfast or even during a particularly,wet weekend,, but they have other uses it seems —anyway in Strassbourg. During the hearing -of a divorce case' the; husband, a Trail-looking man,'said his wife, , who was a powerful woman, habitually beat him. The wife denied doing so. The husband then told the judge that the only .witness to these assaults was a canary. Every time his wife struck him this bird grew excited. The canary was brought into court. The judge ordered the wife to pretend to strike her spouse; The canary shrieked furiously, the wife confessed, and judgment was entered for. the husband.

Sending letters by* the Graf Zeppelin Ims proved a profitable occupation. When Dr Eckener flew from Germany to America last year he, cai- j ried with him fifteen sack!of mail. The postage on'letters was four reichmaiks (four shillings), and, half that amount was charged , for postcards. When the airship arrived these fetched 12s 6d and 8s 6d respectively, and by the time he came hack at the completion of his recent world flight they had. trebled in j value. The two stamps which the German Government issued to Trank the mail are now valued at 7s fid the pair unused. Letters car-. ried on his latest venture bear a circular stamp with a globe in the centre and the inscription, “ First round-the-world flight, Graf Zeppelin,” and arc selling at three guineas a piece in America, and postcards now cost two guineas each.