A STRANGE METEOR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10511, 28 December 1911, Page 4

A STRANGE METEOR.

Our esteemed* contemporary, "The Dominion," in its isstie of yesterday, publishes; the -following, quaint paragraph.:—

"A meteor of unusual briOTiiance was seen at 10.45 o'clock last evening, travelling in a southerly directioai from WeMington. A bright shower of sparks was emitted, and long shadows like distant lightning • lit up thle clouds. Tlie flight lasted between two and- three seconds, the metelbr disappearing beyond the Tinakori hills.."

It is a pity, rather, that the reporter did not succeed in gaining an interview with this- particular "tra*veMter." He may then har-e been ablfe to offer somle reason for the r&mlarkahle conduct of that meteoric famtaisy .(wfliiohi prodiuced "long ishadbwsi Mke distant liglntininlg"), in ddsappeairfling beyond the Tina'koa'i hdfllisi after "travelling in a' southerly diwefction from WelKngton." Tlie probaibiflities are that tli» visitor found the- political atmosphere ini the siouth uncongenial, and retraced its steps that it might seek refuge- in the precincts of the Miinis-teirial residence, in Tinakori Road!

BRITISH MONEY. Mr William Wat&oii, a Ddraetor of

till© Bank of JS'ew ZenJand, who returned to Wellington yesterday from a trip to the Old OourJtry, ind'ormed a Press repaewEtntattive that A'aw Zealand ivnd Amstralia are not ait■faactive a,t present to -the British, iaivestor, on account of the labour diffienJitMib and the high prica of lafnd. 'litis, is by 110 mean's ai new dfiscovery. The aipitaULsts. of t2i/G Mother CburnItry have beeji fighting' shy of 2\ T ow Zealaaid for some years past. The ?atel of the liafit'loan i© pretty clealr evident© of t<iiiiis- fatit. Possibly Mir Watson had not guite reaffiised, however, vhicoi. hie spoke in saich pe&sdnastic tcnes, wthtat a cha.nige. im Govonifineiiit might mieata. As one of the ■Directors of a financiM ins&iifcuition lie nrost kn:mv tihiat any political move*nuerit which, temds to, restore oonfidelnce with local. investors mu®t have ia wholesome effect, upon Baitfcslb, money -fending iusidtiutiotifi.