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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 191, 4 September 1888, Page 2

The following is gravely vouched for by the Lyttelton Times: —“ In a stable in this city there is a horse entertaining a most 1 cakepudding ’ affection for a hen. The hen has an equally strange affection for the horee. Only in the horse’s manger will the hen lay, and the horse waits with more or less patience until the egg has been shed. He then, with a most unnatural appetite for an equine, quietly swallows the egg, and does so with the greatest gusto ■ imaginable. The hen will lay nowhere else but in this particular manger, and when ‘ chuekie' is taking, to the horse’s thinking, too long a time to deposit the coveted morsel, the horse opens his soft lips, lifts the hen by the tail to see if the egg has been laid, and, if it is, quietly appropriates the delicate morsel. If it is not_, he becomes quite restless until the little delicacy he ba* been waiting for is 1 passed ;' but ha will have his egg, and his fondness for the hen who thus supplies him is unbounded. The story appears incredible, but the horse's owner is perfectly willing to convince anyone to the contrary. Mr Ford, telegraphic lineman, returned from the Mahia on Sunday night, after one of the roughest trips he haa yet had. The wire was interrupted some distance beyond the Mahia. We have not been fortunate enough to obtain a copy of the amended Gisborne Harbor Act, but from a glance at the copy published in our contemporary, we see no reason to alter our previous opinion that the whole thing is a wretched bungle. At the Mutual Improvement Society last night, the second lesson in connection with the[eloouiion class was gone through.