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Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 29, 19 November 1901, Page 4

The half-mile amateur championship of Australia was decided at Brisbane last Saturday -week. It resulted as follows : —P. Davis, Queensland, 1 ; Turnbull, New South Wales, 2 ; Dowd, Queensland. S.. Time, Imin 7sec. The "ten-mile championship x was won by Dowd, with Turnbull second and Daing third. Time, 27min 48 4-ssec.

The Tower Bridge, .London, has just been painted at a cost of <£SOQO. To give it three coats it takes 30 tons of paint and 300 gallons of varnish. By an Army Order recently issued by Lord Roberts all ranks of Irish regiments are required to wear a sprig of shamrock in their head-dress on St Patrick's Day. On September 23rd the aitendance at the Glasgow Exhibition reached 171,960, while the total attendance up to that was over seven millions.

Dr. Kennedy, the resident medical officer at Rotorua, has, since his appointment, received D 751 in fees for attending private patients. He was not permitted private practice prior to December 1899.

Dr. John Logan Campbell, Auckland's ex-May or and pioneer settler, celebrated his 85th birthday last Sunday by making the ascent of Rangitoto, the lofty volcano at the mouth of the harbour.

It is stated on reliable authority that the mortality amongst sheep Wairarapa is muc below the average for the spring season. A Masterton farmer recently made a good dealr He purchased a line of ewes in lamb at 7s a head. He sold the lambs at 12s each and the ewes remain.

Several visitors to the Ashburton show last week stated that feed was more plentiful in the Ashburton County than in North or South Canterbury, and that the lambs of the Ashburton County were in far better condition tian those in either the northern or Southern districts.

Individual communion cups have been brought into use in the Naseby Presbyterian Church. A parade of a Christchurch volunteer corps one night last week was attended by only one lieutenant, one private, and one buglar. The nerve of some people ! A burglar who had his leg broken by a policeman's bullet at Waverley(Sydney) last week tried to escape by hopping on one leg, the broken limb dangling as he ran. After capture he was put into a deliv-ery-van, but again tried to get clear by jumping from the fast moving vehicle, and hopping away till he fell exhausted.

The Oamaru Mail is informed that in the Maniototo County the plains are bare of grass, and as a result the mortality amongst both ewes and lambs is considerable. Unless rain comes quickly the grain crops and turnips will be serious failures. A similar report has to be made in reference to the Lake and "Vincent Counties. That part of the country lying between Middlemarch and Nenthorn has experienced a large mortality in ewes and lambs, but upon the Sti-ath-Taieri Plain itself the condition is not so bad.

Sydney Bulletin says that the labour unions of New-South Wales are booked for a period of prosperity—provided they don't lose their heads.