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Waipukurau Press, Issue 9, 26 January 1906, Page 2

A potato, weighing not more than two ounces, was sold in Wellington recently for 10s. Last year Messrs F. Cooper and Sons, of the Hutt, imported lib of seed potatoes of the variety known as Eldorado, and planted them in shallow boxes, which later on were covered with glass to protect them from frost, and it was one of the tubers produced in that way which the firm disposed of to a Dunedin business man for half-a-sovereign. Two or three years ago potatoes of the Northern Star variety were sold in Wellington at 8s 6d pei’ lb, and last year Messrs Cooper disposed of 15 tons at Is per lb. A very remarkable fish story is told from Fiume in the Pesther Lloyd. It is to the effect that some fishermen, while trawling off Spalato, captured a fish lift, in lengh, and weighing more than than 6001 b. On being cut up this monster was found to contain a purse of a kind carried by peasants of the region, and. containing 50 kroner and 78 hellers. Inquiry resulted in the purse being identified as belonging to a man named Melada, whose boat capsized in a storm last July, but whose body was never found. The fish is described as a Nolovanus griseus.