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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 201, 29 September 1909, Page 2

An endeavor is being made to establish a fanners' co-operative freezing works in the Manawatu district.

Chaff is practically unsaleable in Invercargill, hut prime quality U quoted at £2 on trucks at country stations.

This story ia being told by one of our ■bank tellers as a true bill, says a northern paper. It concerns a very young wife, m .iii.-e husband was recently aunt South b» his company on some important business At the end of the week he posted to his wife a cheque to cover domestic expenses incurred during his absence. The wife had had no dealings with cheques up to this time, but she duly presented it at the bank. " You must endorse this cheque, madam," said the teller in his best tones. "Why, my husband sent it to me. lie is just away on business," replied the lady, in an agitated tone. " Yes, madam, that's' all right," said the teller. Just endorse it—si»n it on the back, you know, so that \\'(» shall know it's all light, and your husband will see that we paid it to you." Then the blushing wife went to the table, and in a few seconds eanw back triumphantly with the cheque. It was endorsed: "Your loving wife, tiriith."

,; J3nrg]nry is so ridiculously that I preferred it to the salary of ,£IOOO a ycar-I drew as an official of a New York bank," was the remarkable confession made bv Hnlph Sherman, an elegantlydressed man of 37. who for son»n time oast lias played the p:irt of a fasbionab'e Ihief. ''lvpe;*i,i!ly in summer time." oh served th< ex-bank oilicial. *'! found lliat burglary could be accomplished with >o lit tie expenditure of energy that it whs ! a pleasing vnriation to the grind airi confinement of office work. It is most remarkable the way people leave windows and doors unfastened. All I had to do wan to walk into houses, gather the trifles that took my fancy, and take my departure." Sherman, who robbed the fashionable residences of the popular seaside resort of Farrockaway of thousands of pounds' worth of valuables, informed the magistrate that he used to cherish a profound respect for the skill and daring of professional burglars, but after his experience of the Inst fjw months he concluded that "cracksman ship" was ridiculously easy. As he walked out of the dock back to gaol the prisoner added, "It was only by a lucky blunder that the dunderheaded police effected my capture!"