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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 13, 28 December 1872, Page 2 (Supplement)

Some of our exchanges are publishing, as a curious item, a statement to the effect that a horse in lowa pulled a plug out of the bun<r hole of a barrel for the purpose of slaking his thirst. We do not see anything extraordinary in it. Now, if the horse had pulled the barrel out of the bung hole and slaked his thirst with the plug, or if the barrel had pulled the bung hole out of the plug and slaked its thirst with the horse, or if the plug had pulled the horse out of the barrel and slaked his thirst with the bung hole, or if the bung hole had pulled the thirst out of the horse, out of the bung hole, and plugged its thirst with a slake it might be worth while to make a fuss over it. Mr. Vogel.—We take the following from the Post-.— “We are informed that the Government have invited her Majesty to confer upon the Hon. Mr. Vogel the distinction of knighthood in recognition of his eminent services to New Zealand, and that it is also in contemplation that the honorable gentleman shall proceed to England to act there permanently as General and Financial Agent of the colony, vice Dr. Featherston. We cannot vouch for the truth of these statements, but late leading articles in our contemporary, the Independent, appear to give force to the latter suggestion.