DRAUGHTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 282, 28 March 1913, Page 8

DRAUGHTS.

THE GORE TOURXAMEXT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Gore, Thursday. The handicap tourney was completed last night. Several players,, speaking at the farewell social, commented on the excellent handicapping, some stating they had never known or heard of such good adjustments. The first prize (£ls) was won by Botting (Dunedin), and the second (£7) by Young (Rakaia). Seven players totals were within four points of the winner who. with a handicap of four points, aggregated 16 points.

A startling surprise awaited several men who clambered over the rocks and entered the cabin of the battered Danish ' steamer G. Koch, which was lately wrecked near Aberdeen with the loss of seven lives. As they forced open the cabin . door there was a burst of song, as if it ) were summer time. Birds were singing merrily, all oblivious of the roar of the ' waves, and the crashing of wreckage against the rocks. The party found about a dozen canaries in cages, their feathers dry and unruffled. Standing in the cabin they found the ship's dog, a retriever, which had tn be forcibly taken ashore. No bodies of drowned sailors were found. | Although rabbits are reported to be I numerous throughout, the Southland i province this season, which commenced | on March 1. the paucity of supplies for export purposes has been most marked. , As a consequence prices have risen eon- | siderably, one agent remarking that he had paid as high as Sd per pair, while the average value was 7M.>d on trucks at country stations, compared with 4Mid ruling last season at this period. Merchants attribute the present condition of affairs to the acute shortage of labor, but it is expected that this difficulty will be gradually overcome as the grain season draws to a close, a large number of trappers being at present engaged in harvesting work. At the present junc- , lure trapping is evidently a paying business, for it is stated that on good 1 grounds a trapper could earn £3O per month. Ladies! Warner's Corsets are comfortable; guaranteed so; they shape fashionably. The bones cannot rust ■or can the fabric tear. Order now. Local drapers.