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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 655, 5 September 1891, Page 3

A rather curious circumstance is recorded from the Spit. During the last wool season, one of the employees of Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co., who were engaged in dumping bales, mysteriously lost his watch. He never suspected where it went, and the loss had almost faded from his memory, when from the London firni to whom the wool was consigned came a package containing the man’s watch, in good going order ’ The watch (which by the way, was a valuable one) had evidently been dragged from the dumper’s pocket, got jammed up in the bale, made the long journey to London, was discovered there, and forwarded back to Napier. Needless to say the owner was very much pleased on the watch being handed over to him by his employers.—Napier News. The Wellington Press writes : —Here are a few facts which show the “ nice little pots of money ” that were netted by the butterdealers owing to the private advices they had received, One firm in the Wairarapa bought a large quantity ot butter at per lb, and only three days later sold it at 10|d. Another firm of butter-dealers bought at and sold at B|d two days later. In both instances the buitar was bought for export to Sydney. Again, a Wellington dealer is reported to have made at the rate of £5O a week profit on butter, owing to early private advices he got from Sydney,