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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9050, 27 March 1908, Page 5

Laat week the New Plymouth express train ran into a mob of about 200 sheep, which had strayed on the line near Pukehau, and converted about twenty into mutton-

A re&ident of Fendalton, Canterbury, picked from a tree in his orchard a cooking apple weighing lib lloz, and measuring 15|in in circumference.

The present Parliament contains more graduates ot New Zealand University than any of its predecessors, there being six representatives ot that institution sitting in the House. On Monday last the province of Otago celebrated its diamond jubilee. On that date, sixty vears ago, the ship John Wickliffe first dropped anchors in Otago Harbour, and the pioneer band of pilgrim fathers first let their gaze wander over the outlines of the home 'of their adoption. In April, 1848, the second pioneer ship, the Phillip Laing, arrived with another batch of settlers, and the history of the Otago province began. That history, says the "Otago Witness," is summed up in one word, "progress."