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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 712, 7 January 1903, Page 1

A calf was born near Baiiaaea bearing she earmark of its mother. This unusual occurrence prompted a contemporary to indulge in the following humorous irrelevance “We have seen a child who was born with the same kind of bald head as its father, and the samo number of teeth as its grandmother." A bilious correspondent writing to the Otago Times complains vigorously of the vagaries of the New Zealand climate. Ho states that he has been three years in New Zealand, residing in the North Otago district, and, “with the advent of another so-called summer,” feels inclined to prol test against the persistent tvay in which the climate of this colony is “ misrepresented by the Tourist Department and others in the Old Country," He declares that in his three years’ experience here he has seen nothing approaching summer weather —“ in fact,” he adds, “to sum up shortly, it is the most absolutely miserable olimate that one could imagine. I am told that it is even worse south, which I can hardly believe. Those who have been in So uth Africa, especially the northern part of Capa Colony, will agree with me that, as far as climate conditions ore concerned, New Zealand is a long way beltis^"