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Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 142, 23 December 1902, Page 3

An extraordinary story of an elephant employed in a timber yard is told in “Animal Life.” A number of logs had to be removed by him, and only one remained when the bell rang for ceasing work. Of course, the elephant knew the bell and what it meant and was sauntering away, when the foreman bade him move the last logHe did not ocject, but with all hitr<' tugging and straining did not manage to lift it. Seeing this, the foreman called on a second elephant to help, but even the twotogethei did no good —the log could not be stirred. It must be left. Next day, to the foreman’s astonishment, when the bell rang for beginng work, the first elephant marched straight up to the log, lifted it quite easily, and carried it to its proper place. Messrs Strange and Co., drapers, of Christchurch, have purchased for the sum of .£IO,OOO the Somerset Hotel premises at Ashburton, which, on account of the no-license vote, would bs closed in June next. 'Some enterprising youngsters in the south are said to be in the habit of collecting starlings’ eggs, spotting them with ink, and passing them off as thrushes’ eggs, and selling,them to the County Council. A cablegram from Kingston, Jamaica, states that there aie premonitory signs of eruption. Intense heat is being experienced.