NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1010, 22 February 1912, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Au interesting point cropped up at a meeting of creditors iu a bankruptcy case at Timaru. In answer to a question, the bankrupt said he valued his stock and Sittings at about all of which could be sold. The Official Assignee questioned whether the fittings could be sold. Shelves aud other appurtenances which were screwed on to the wall could, he said, be taken away, but fittings that were fastened by means of nails, at once became the property of the landlord, and could not be taken away. The solicitor for bankrupt said that was not the case. He had gone into the question closely, aud had found that all fittings placed in by an occupier could be removed when the latter vacated the premises. The Official Assignee said it was very puzzling, as other solicitors held quite different views.

The Story Telliug Society of Ballarat was proceeding in peace and harmony, till the snake-story man spoke. “Some people,” he, said, ‘ ‘consider the snake hasn’t got any sense ; but they’re wrong. For instance, once when I was iu India, I saw a Hindu mother place her year old baby outside the hut to sun himself, and, to keep his spirits up she gave the little chap a big feeding bottle of milk. Well as I watched, I saw a snake insinuate himself close up to that child. My heart was iu my mouth. I feared for the baby. But bless you, the suake was only after the milk. He just slipped the teat out of the child’s mouth and into his own, and then the the thoughtful aud kiudly reptile put the end of his tail into the child’s mouth by way of a comforter !’’

Greymouth has unearthed a local Sherlock Holmes. On Saturday night a lady’s bicycle was stolen from a local hotel. The proprietor, becoming acquainted with the event about n p.m. found a clue in the fact that the missing machine had flat tyres, Thereupon he secured a strong acetylene lamp, aud with the aid ot a companion traced the marks of the tyres vVhich left a good mark on the roads, from the hotel round town and down to the vicinity of the railway goods sheds where,the machine had been carefully hidden amongst some timber. A long wait followed, but the culprit did not put in an appearance, aud the searchers returned to the hotel with the bicycle much to the astonishment aud gratification of its owner.