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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 156, 17 February 1903, Page 5

The latest fish story comes from Mirnihan, in Southland. According to the Wyndham Farmer, Mr Edward Tanner, of Tnvercargiil, while angling op. the Mimihau, in the vicinity of Venlaw, one day last week, hooked a 1| lb trout, and just as he was in the act of landing his prize an eel grabbed at it. Its teeth becoming embedded in the trout. Mr Tanner captured both IA-ize.and poacher. The eel weighed rtolb. It is well to be thorough in details regarding weight when fish stories We baiug dealt with. It is stated that in Gisborne during the ivceut drought, it cost one publican no le.-s than 15s a day for the supply of water which he was compelled to purchase. Sherlock Holmes was what we term A specialist in crime ; His methods surely must confirm Him greatest of all time. And tnough our object's not the same, Our methods just as sure, To kill bad coughs is our great aim, With WOOD'S GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE. WADE'S WORM FlGS—the Wonderful Worm Worriers — are a safe a?id sun remedy, in is boxes ; sold everywhere.

A good many sheepowners (says the North Otago Times) in the Waitaki district are concerned at the present time over the disappearance of considerable numbers of their sheep, one large owner having lost as many as 1500. Where they have gone to "is a mystery. An owner of a small flock lost as many a 100 in a very biief peiiod, and others have also been sufferers. Where the sheep have gone to can only be surmised. A singularly disgraceful storv on the fertile subject of remounts is "told by in 'Navy aud Army*.' •'During the war," he says, "a system of fraud worked for some time. The colonel and officers of a colonial corps with a high sounding title were always drawing .remounts, and were as constantly badly mounted. It then struck a remount officer that a very good class of animal was being used iii Johannesburg in the cab traffic. Commandeering was commenced, and it was discovered that the whole of the cabs in town—or a large proportion of them - were run by ;.». syndicate consisting of officers of the colonial corps with a high sounding title. The majority of the remounts had gone to increase the dividends of the shareholders. Cabs in this period were plying at 7s 6d an bom. A closer investigation also brought to light the fact that the said syndicate fed its stable on Government ration corn."

Denniston is determined to be quite up to .late in its public lighting apparatus for the town will shortly be lit throughout by electricity. The Westport Coal Company are placing a dynamo in position for the purpose.

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