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Shannon News, 29 February 1924, Page 3

A settler in toe Awakino district has a .horse with a remarkable homing instinct. It can be taken more than a hundred miles from its home and if released, will find its way back. Being a fine jumper, it thinks nothing of hurdling a roadside fence and making a detour if anyone on the road tries to block its progress, the. owner states. Only a few weeks ago the horse was taken to OtOrohanga to compete in- a jumping competition and afterwards it escaped from a paddock and returned alone to Awakino, a distance considerably greater than a (hundred miles. Another of its lonely journeys has been from New Plymouth to its home. A Wanganui Chronicle reporter was shown a sample of Australian wheat, for which 5s 6d a bushel is asked. It was riddled with weevil and not even up to toe standard of good fowl wheat' The berries had a shrivelled appearance, and compared very unfavourably with some of the locally grown Tuscan variety.