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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 161, 6 March 1903, Page 4

In a certain small, but extra pious N.S.W. township, it was recently proposed to treat the younger inhabitants to a picnic ; but the leading citizen declared that he "wadna coontenance ony sic warldly divairshon—unless it was held in the cemetery !" And it was.

The Wanganui Herald says :—A silly joke was perpetrated by fouryouths the other night in "Victoria Avenue. They tied a piece of thread across the thoroughfare, which caught a lady cyclist under the chin, and almost overbalanced her. As it was, it took the skin off her neck, and gave her a considerable shock. The lads were •brought before Mr Kettle, at the Police Court and severely reprimanded by him for the foolish and dangerous act, which he said "might have been attended with serious circumstances. He ordered a conviction to be entered up, and they were discharged with a caution.

An infant named Charles Parker was drowned in a peculiar manner at the True Blue Lease. ELalgoot lie, W.A. The mother had occasion to go out of her house for a fe\- minutes, and she left the little one playing with an empty cigarette case near a kerosene tin which contained about 6in of water Apparent!}- the cigarette case fell into the tin. The baby tried to recover it and toppled in. Life was extinct when the body was extricated.

Rumors are in circulation in Hokitika of an impending action for libel. The plaintiff is the head of a Government Institution ar d the defendant a merchant in business in that town. The latter ig alleged to have cast reflections on the management of the Institution.

"Whydm'tyou buy your meat oj me now ?" asked a butcher of one of his old customers, who had recentlytaken to dealing with an opposition shop. "Well," replied the old woman,, "the last I got from you I could have «olect my boots with it." -'And why didn't you do it ?" asked the butchersarcastically. "So I would if I could have got tacks to go through it." Collapse of butcher.

"It is the very usual case of a man drawing his will and making it based on the circumstance of his existing family, without having in mind the possibility of an increase in his family,, or else having it in mind, intending to alter his will when fresh conditions arise. We all know that is is a very common practice and a very foolish one. We are all aware, too, of the hardships that have been inflicted upon some children through this practice."—Mr Justice Denniston. in the course of a recent judgment at Wellington. The existing conditions in Australia are causing business people to consider the advisableness of emigrating to more favored lands. A wool and skin merchant doing business in Goulburn (New South Wales) now finds his occupation gone as a result of the mortality through drought amongst the sheep in that State, and he has written to Wellington enquiring whether that city affords an opening for a business man such as the writer.

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