GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 18, 24 December 1915, Page 7

GENERAL.

At the Matiere Court on Friday, 10th hist., B. Smith, baker, Matiere, wag charged, by Inspector C'aiderwood, with selling bread underweight. The defence was that the bread was stale and sold at a lower price. Convicted and lined £ 1. —G, F. Monk, manager of the Matiere Butter factory, was charged with selling butter underweight. Mr Monk stated that he was not aware of the fact, and was convicted and lined £2.

A very peculiar eel, not known to local fishermen, was caught recently near the Babbit island by Mr J. rr. Gross'! (says the Nelson Colonist). Its length is 3U inches. The tail, unlike that of an ordinary eel, tapers off to a hn e point, while certain tins usually found on eels are missing on this one. The color of the upper part of us body is pale brown, the under part being almost white, while a narrow white fin runs the full length of its back. The creature has been preserved in formalin, and placed in the Nelson Institute Museum.

A Chinese named Ah Nee, who died the other day (says the Sydney Daily Telegraph), came to Australia with the late Mr J. L. Brown, the original owner of Tonderburine Station, with three other of his countrymen, in 1830. The voyage took seven months to accomplish in a small sailing vessel. Ah Nee was then considered to be 32 years of age, so that would make him, at the time of his death, 117. For the past 60 years he has been with the Ferguson family, and for nearly half a century with Mr Peter Ferguson, of Gulargambone Station. Being a faithful employee in his early life, Mr Ferguson made every provision for hi s declining years. He erected a comfortable cottage for him on the station, and provided an attendant to look after him.