GENERAL NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 89, 5 October 1911, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS

A well-known in insurance eireles ; Jh 'Wellington has just completed ah insufaiu'e on an individual life for !£U,OfoO: Mis is'the largest policy ever taken' oiit tfii the Dominion. The pf preparing the authoritative "LTife"' of King Edward will probably be",,undertaken by the Duke of Argyll l; t It.is understood that the Duke has been in communication with King George on, tlie I 'subject. Kilinors- have been current, for some time in |>p<V siround the 'Waverley <listrict.Uiat,sjieeprstcaling on an extensive scalp was/ being carried out in the back eountr.v.fpf j;\Yaverley and in Southern TaranaJsi. ~,ft .was stated that the supposed, thief \yas a particularly wary individual, ,pnjl was carrying oil his -calling" En l a'ui:i i nner similar to the famous "Tantopopla.Tiger," who mystified the police and residents of that part of .South,. for some years. As an outcome, -at \ these .alarming rumors Detect jw. li( si(l(j(4ls . and a couple of eonstables 'VjjsKffj .the scene of the supposed "den,'; and "ijeriprt that there is absolutely rip, fo'iindf'tio(i for the statements that liav i c,''l)een' in circulation, JJr. Kiddells stating Ihat.the only thing that he found bad roads.— Wiinganu'i.'Wt'a'ld;,'

An .exciting fight between a snake and a bull topk; piac* recently in the '"Wild Australia."-enclosure at the Festival of Kmpirct'ryrtal ;l?alace, though not in publio.iln fa<|.t-Tio,thiug was known about it un.tili.thij!, morning when one of the. attendants found a valuable earpet snate.dcjid i)(iar a bull, the reptile's head (being,.completely pulverised. The ibull ha<l, / l)(?eii : ,bitten by the snake, but an examination,; showed that it had not been iwifionejly.iaithough it .was suffering from frlghi, i%;h thought that the snake, which' is ,lfjft long, and which was used by Mife*!riMpainV:<in- her performance, I forced.it* i\va,v:out of its home into the I stockyard ia.,wliich the Australian cattle are kept.;and: there the huge reptile,) whirh weighed.,fiuilb, fell foul of the bull. | It is thought that the bull, after being , biUciV succeeded i.either in trampling on the snakei or (butting it with its head.