NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3839, 1 September 1928, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

A Wanganui resident had a number of large daisies growing in his garden resembling the ox-eye daisy, which farmers do not view with friendly eyes. Some months ago, says an exchange, a Wellington friend suggested that there was money in the daisies if sent to the city for sale, and he offered to arrange for regular supplies. The resident was surprised when his first cheque came to £7 and a more recent one amounted to nearly £9. A woman went into a certain suburban store in Christchurch the other evening and asked if the proprietor sold cigarettes. What brand did she smoke? The woman did not smoke herself, but did not know exactly what brand her friends smoked. Could the storekeeper show some packets of 50? He could, and tyd. “Excuse me a moment, will you?” said the woman, making her choice. “I’ll go outside and see if this is the brand they want.” The storekeeper was quite willing for her do that, thinking that she was going outside to her friends in her motor car. She disappeared into the night —and so did the cigarettes. There was no motor ear. A little farther down the road was another store. The same woman entered it and asked the storekeeper if he could lend her a few matches.

Some months ago a seal decided to make its home in the sea at St. Clair beach, near Dunedin. One would imagine that it knew its safety was guaranteed by the New Zealand laws, for it wanders fearlessly about the beach and the waterfront. It has been a source of joy to the children, and of interest to older people, whites a correspondent. Lately, however, it has shown signs of becoming embarrassed by the attentions bestowed upon it, and when youthful admirers try to get it to go into the water in order that they may see its aquatic feats it turns on them with bared teeth. The danger has become so obvious, not only to children hut to bathers as well, that the caretaker at 'the baths has obtained permission from the Minister to shoot the seal. This is not the customary way of dealing with undesirable immigrants, but- it is very effective. It is reported that some of its sisters and its cousins and its aunts have been seen in the vicinity lately, but so far they have not ventured ashore.