NEWS AND NOTES.
The other day a vara avis, a yel-low-crested penguin, was driven on to the bench at Sumner, and although it apparently had been engaged in a long flight with the elements it was not in a weak condition. The bird was picked up by sorne boys, and it is their intention to retain it tts a pet. Tt seemed iptite at home in the company of human beings. ■ The “luck of a Chinaman” is nothing compared with that of a local Trisli terrier, which is indeed smiled on by the gods (says the M’anawatu Standard). The other afternoon, while crossing ihe rails at the railway station, litis particular canine was -truck bv the incoming Auckland express. Caught by the cow-catcher, the dog was tossed along the line, caught and tossed again, finally being thrown clear of the rail*. A compassionate train examiner obtained a hammer with a view to ending the animal's suffering, but tliq terrier evidently had had enough excitement for one day, and left the scene rapidly, apparently none the worse for the experience. The brief history of a pair of child's boots was narrated by Mr E. J. Howard, M.P., in Christchurch last week. They were bought four or five weeks ago for 1/ 0: during a heavy rainfall a week or so ago, the child got the boots wet and (hey were placed on the fender in front of the school fire to dry. The result was that tile sole of one boot became separated from the upper, disclosing a packing of wood and some material that looked like glue. The sole is very thin, and doubts are expressed as to whether if is leather. Mr Howard expressed the opinion that it looked like “dead" or “starvation" leather made from the hides of animals that died from drought in Austral-
Several passengers by the ship Surat have presented the ligmehead of th/il unfortunate vessel to the Otago Early Settlers’ Museum (savs the Dunedin Star). Mr Arthur Ellis and Mr Henry Frnpwfll have acted on their behalf in making (lie presentation. The figurehead is the head of a woman carved in wood and now freshened by a coat of white paint. The inscription gives the memory it ><*- minder of the circumstances . of the wreck. The Surat was an iron ship, fully rigged, hound from the Old Country with immigrants. She struck a. rock after making the const, somewhere about Chnsland - Mistake, and was beached on the sands inside of False Island, at the northern side of the entrance to Catiins River, on December 31, 1875. No lives were lost. •
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2754, 5 July 1924, Page 1
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435NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2754, 5 July 1924, Page 1
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