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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3522, 13 May 1912, Page 4

Poultry stealing has occurred from time to ’time in Ashburton' (says ‘the Mail), and on Saturday evening a theft of more than usual daring took place. However, on this occasion the offenders were caught in the act. The owner of the purloined poultry, hearing a noise in his backyard, proceded quietly to the spot from which the sounds were issuing, and Was amazed to seo a young man and a young woman in hot chase after, liis sole remaining lien —a. miljch-prized Wyandotte. The owner gazed quietly' in wonder for a time, and then announced his presence. The guilty pair were much taken aback, and seemed not a little annoyed at tho fact that it became necessary for them to return the ones they had previously taken, which were reposing on the opposite side of the hedge, with their legs tied-

The following Marconigram appears in the New York Times Book Review, under date London, March 16: ‘■'Many of the English publishers are competing eagerly for tlie right to publish Captain Roald Amundson’s book about tho discovery of fbe South Pole. Large offers were cabled to him at Hobart on the of his thrilling narrative in the New York York Times and the London Chronicle, in some cases on behalf of English and American publishers jointly. Books by the great polar explorers have been very profitable in Great Britain. Sir Ernest Shackleton's profit from his book was £lO,000, while Nansen made between £l2, 000 and £13,000 from the sale of his “Farthest North.”

A callous misogynist stood in the witness box at the 'Christchurch "Magistrate’s Court on Friday and .gloried in his ascerticism. He described how ho had been besieged by the attentions of a lady, who bad approached him in an hotel and flung her arms round his neck, exclaiming “I/love you, Jack!” The Court was obviously affected by this touching example of the pure, disinterested affection of an ingenuous young soul. The defendant, however, had. repudiated the charmer, and not ' n "the lmpicbicued language of self-abnega-t'.'ii. but with the brutally candid no ids, ■•Take your dirty hands off my nock.” The ’transports of the fair on-' Ire unkindly attri’ uted, not to be the emotional temperament of youth, but to whisky. For Children’s Hacking Cough at night. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Is &d, 2s 6d.—Advt.