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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9343, 12 January 1909, Page 5

The two young yachtsmen, for whose safety anxiety was entertained, arrived home safely to«day.

The Governor of Victoria attended the Hanging Rook races the other day, says the Sydney Morning Herald, Vice-Regal enclosure was provided, and his Excellency eat in it for a time. But under the white gums the people were boiling billies and eating sandwiches, and the spectacle proved too much for bis Excellency, who walked through a bevy of bookmakers and joined the general crowd. As he did so he expressed to one of the officials his intention of havnig some tea brewed in a billy with the first party that would extend that hospitality to him. Other provision had been made for the distinguished visitors, but the Governor decilned to accept anything until he had tasted billy tea. His Ecellency gave an assurance to his entertainers that it was very good tea indeed. The chamois which were liberated near the Hermitage, Mount Cook, about two years since, seem to be holding their own (says the Otago Daily Times). They have been seen on several occasions in the interval, and on Saturday last Guide Murphy, while coming down the Hooker Valley with some visitors, saw one of the chamois. It was very close to the party, and rapidly made its way some distance up the bill, but returned’to the lower ground as soon as the party had passed the spot where it was feeding. Mr M'Dbnald, who is in charge of the Hermitage, gives a graphic account of the liberation of the chamois when they were sent up to the district. They were taken down to the point of the mountain where tourists are taken across the Hooker RiVei* ih a wire cage, and on the door of the boxes in which they bad been’ oonfibed during their voyage front Edrope being opened they came out with some hesitation. With a slightly bewildered look they scanned their surroundings, and, apparently recognising something familiar in the steep mountain side beside them, they made two or three quick jumps into the air, and fled w,ith lightning speed up the nearest spur. It was reported soW time since that a young chamois had beeii seen with the herd. The animals were a gift to the Dominion from the Emperor of Austria.

One of : Feilding’s most popular shopping resorts is the Bon Marche. Messrs Spence and Spence’s business has been nuilt up on principles of honesty and fair dealing, and the firm have always on and a good selection of all fashionable lin«s at prices that cannot be beaten .any,, . where in the Dominion,* ; . t *