MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, 4 September 1922, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

A cons}jfiimeiil of ~\M) prime bulj locks from a Manawatu station, was J , shipped to London last season. The i returns to hand show that they reaiI ised approximately £1750, of which ; C 250 was licit. The balance of £6 per I head was eaten up by freezing and shipping charges. One would almost regard this as sufficient to take them home alive and feed then on the way. There is room for a Meat i'ool inquiry here. It is not generally known that the New Zealand Mounted Mifles have the honour ot being the only white people wiio ran claim to have lived in die Jordan Valley throughout the summer. 'tins, however, is the ease, and, at the re-union social of the New Zealand Mourned iiii.es at New Plymouth this' week, tiie chairman .1. li. Davis rei'erred humorously to an in-' cideni. during liieir sojourn there. I While enduring the heat, dust, snakes. malaria and other discomforts charae- j teiistic of the valley, he said that a ] copy of the London Tunes reached them, and opening it. they read ol a question being asked in the House oj Commons as to whether then.' were any wliiu; troops ill the valley, The answer was; "No; onlj Indians and coloniais p'