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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 60, 11 March 1902, Page 5

A certain amount of interest is being felt in political circles in Christchurch, says the Press, with reference to the probable result of the deliberations of the Representation Commissioners. It is considered probable that a new electorate may be formed in the vicinity of the city. Some very* handsome mats are being made by the Waitarapa natives for presentation to the King and the Royal Family at. the coronation. A poultry raiser in the Palmerston district recently sold to a Wellington dealer seventy-five birds at four shillings each.---a very profitable transaction. What is probably the most extraordinary plant ever discovered has nowbeen found by Mr E. A. Suverkrop, of Philadelphia, in South America. It is an orchid that takes a drink whenever it feels thirsty by letting down a tube into the water, the-tube, when not in use, being coiled up on top of the plant. Mr Suverkrop came across- the plant by the side of a lagoon on the Rio de la Plata. There is an impression abroad amongst those engaged in the meat trade in New Zealand that there will re no stability in the South African frozen mutton market, for the reason that it will be found that our product will be too fat to suit the local palate. A Dunedin merchant -who has just returned from South Africa does not share this idea. In conversation with a Wellingtonian who met him in the S-nuth, he remarked that New Zealand mutton would be much appreciated at the Cape, and he prophesied that it. would fetch threepence a pound more than Australian. “ Pelorus Jack ” the big white fish that haunts the French Pass, and lies in wait for passing steamers, swimming in front of each for a mile or two, has hitherto been considered to be unique in New Zealand waters, but be now appears to have rivals on the West Coast of the North Island. Shortly after the Takapuna left New Plymouth for Wellington last Tuesday three white fish made their appearance, and accompanied her south for the space of an hour, exhibiting all the mannerisms of their contemporary in th& Sounds.