GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
A cable message from Antwerp state- thaf 12.000 bales of Australian wool were offered and 3600 sold. There was animated bidding and a 3 to 10 per cent advance. Midnight thieve- made a ban! of loose change from lour or five Cliristchureh hotel-- during Thursday and Friday nights. The White Harr, Federal. Dominion, and Royal Hotels were till visited by the thieves, and unlocked bedroom doors made their work easy. It is reckoned they c-b aned v.p about £l3O, in addition to a number of totalisator tickets. An ambitious attempt is being made by Mr G. Eanford, of Whakaronga, to lower the world's Jersey butter fat record with his cow. Grannie's Merry Molina, and with this object in view he has entered her tor the semi-official test over 12 months, conducted by the Dairy Division of the Agricultural Department. The cow is hy the imported bull Molina's GeEC-ral. of the wellknown Noble of Oakland strtiin. a.nd ;.- out of Grannie's Ftolie, a relation o: that line old cow. Grannie's Girl, who when owned by Mr Griffith?.' of New Plymouth, put up a world's record in Palmerston North for a three-day-' test. Reports of the cow-'.- iirogrc--= will be published from time to time.— i Palmerston "Times." IT—»—«—MIMIIIH ■
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 18 August 1920, Page 4
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