LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 688, 14 November 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

l Tennis Competitions Ovring to the unsuitability of the j weather last Saturday afternoon, the Rotorua Lawn Tennis Clnb deeided •to leave the date of entry for the haaidicap competitions of the club operi until to-morrow evening. Deckchairs for Players At its last meeting the Rotorua Lawn Tennis Cluh decided to purchase twelve deckchairs for the use of members of th'e clnh. Arrangements for the purehase of the chairs were left in the hands of Mr. A. G. Holland. GoretJ By a Bull A sharemilker, Mr. K. Forbes, employed near Opotiki, was admitted to the Opotiki Hospital on Saturday as a result of being gored by a bull. Mr. Forbes was driving a mob of cows when the bull charged his horse throwing him to the ground. The infuriated animal after injuring the rider, then turned on the horse which it injured so severely that it had to be destroyed. Mr. Forbes is now stated to be making satisfactory progress. Woman in Court Mary Little, aged 49, who has been in custody ever since her arrest on October 14, on a charge of attempting to murder her hushand, George Little, at Pokeno, made another appearance in the Auckland Police Court, before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., yesterday morning. On the application of Detective-Sergeant O'Sullivan, accused was remanded to appear in the Magistrate's Court, Pukekohe, on November 16. Nine-Finned' Trout A freak of Nature that should interest all anglers, and more particularly the Freshwater Fish Research Committee, was discovered when an angler caught a three-year-old trout carry ing an extra fin, in the Opihi River last week. The angler concerned was Mr. D. Horgan, of Temuka, and when he noticed that the fish had nine fins, he took it to the ! ranger of the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society (Mr. F. W. Pellett) , who is f crwarding it to the ReI search Committee. In addition to the usual dorsal, adipose, candal, anal (2), and pectoral (2) fins, the trout has a small superfluous one on the back just behind the head. Consisting of the usual rays the fin is not a strong one and is deformed by having grown straight up. Baked for a King An unusual curiosity was shown to i a Wanganui Herald reporter recently hy a local resident. Carefully preserved in an artight tin, it was a small round bread roll which had been in his possession for over thirty years. It was an ordinary bread roll except that it was one of a batch baked by the cook on the Royal yacht, Ophir, which brought the Duke and Duchess of York (the present King and Queen) to New Zealand in 1901. It was presented to the owner by the chief steward of the vessel, and has been kept ever since. Having been kept for so long it is doubtful if even a mouse would look at it now, but the owner has no intention of exposing it to such danger.