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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 33, 2 August 1911, Page 7

An incident is .recalled in the old days, about '(i3 and 'O4 when men were being recruited for service against the Maoris. Twenty or more men would enter the office each day for medical inspection. After a look at each mans eyes and hands, and giving an occasional prod at one or two chests, the inspector >vrote "passed' opposite the man's name, and went to his- dinner. For that arduous duty, occupying about two minutes, lie received from Government 10s per man, or an average of ;ClO per day for some months. But money was .plentiful in those days of military expenditure.

Two greyhounds were killed in a remarkable manner (says the Greymouth Star). Messrs O'Malley (Totara Flat) and P. Grogan (Greymouth) were exercising their dogs (Fly and Pandora), when one espied a hare, and immediately chased it, driving it in the direction of the other dog, which went to pounce upon the hare as it shot by. However, he missed the mark, and came into violent collision with the other greyhound, so that iboth dogs bounded several feet in the air, and then fell to the ground dead, the force of the impact having broken the necks of both. Fly and Pandora had figured in a number of local coursing I matches, in whidh they had put up some good performances.

Discussing the fortunes made out of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, one writer contrasts the (jnarler of a million loft by Mr D'Oyly Carte .with Sir Arthur Sullivan's comparatively small fortunb of £54,000. That sum, however, by no means (represents all the composer received as his share in the profits of the Savoy triumvirate. On the morning of the production, of '"loknthe" in 1882, Sir Arthur was, so far as lie knew, a rich man; but just before setting out for the Savoy to conduct the first performance he heard of the failure of Cooper, Ilall and Co. With that failure disappeared his life savings, and when he took up the baton in the orchestra that evening scarcely anyone in the theatre was worth less than ho. That was the more serious jof two such blows which Sir Arthur met [with characteristic equanimity.