LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 43, 26 January 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. An Auckland Press Association tele- , gram reports a fatal accident; Ivl- . ward Xeal, a married man, aged 32, was killed on the Khyber Pass road this morning. He was driving an ice van with two horses, which swerved in front of a tram going down hill j while another car was approaching from the opposite direction. Both ! cars pulled up, when both horses were lying between the rails. Neal was . thrown clear of the tram line and sustained injuries from which he died at the hospital two hours later. In a St. Albans fowl yard the other day a pullet was "reported missing" under rather humorous circumstances. Tts absence was noticed by the disconsolate owner, who gave -up all | hope of ever seeing the youthful egg- j producer again. The next day, as he was walking about the yard, he kicked an inverted half of a kerosene tin from his path. The tin turned over, and to. the delight of the fowl rancher the prodigal pullet fluttered out. Apparently the bird had perched itself on the side of the tin, which, overbalancing, had neatly trapped her. A farmer at Oaonui is lamenting the opportunity he missed over a land deal, reports the Times. A native woman with one of those big Public Trustee cheques that of late have been fluttering round Oaonui, poked it under the nose of the Oaonui farmer with an oT7er of very nearly double the price he paid for his farm about six year ago. He put the wouldbe buyer off in the hope that she would return. On the way home she met a shrewd young native and told her errand. He then and there sold his own farm iff a value he is pleased with and is quite cognisant of his ability in taking the wind out of the pakeha man's sails. And the pakeba man has now brought back to memory the words he learnt from Shakespeare about the tide there is in the affairs of man if taken at the flood loads on to fortune.