SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1918, Page 3

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

SYDNEY, This Day Sailed,—Suffolk.

Among the enemy submarine commanders who have met with justice is Captain Schneider, of 17-87, who claimed to have sunk the formidable total ol 130,000 tons of merchant shipping, (says a cable message to the Australian liapers of the Bth inst.) He omitted to state he sank the defenceless steamer Arabic. Schneider finally was washed overboard from the deck of a submarine which had dropped under the sea. A British patrol later destroyed the U-87 with depth charges which tore the delicate mechanism to pieces and forced the submarine to the surface, when the patrol boat immediately rammod and cut her in half. There were no survivors.

The closing of hotels apparently has not had the effect of ensuring absolute prohibition, (says an Auckland paper), for a badly inebriated man was seen vainly trying to induce a land-ladv to let him enter an hotel by a side door. The wife of the licensee, however, The wife of the licensee, however, steadily barred the way, and was heard to remark: “I do not know where you got the liquor, but you are not coming in here.’’ Men will go to great lengths to get a drink. During the Waikato war the soldiers would pay 20s for a bottle of whisky, although they had a daily allowance of grog. On one occasion an officer who came to town took a sergeant with him in order to bring back a small keg of whisky for the men. On the way up to Ngaruawnhai. either the officer or the sergeant sat on + hat keg. Upon arrival, when the sergeant lifted the keg to carry it ashore it was empty. Soipeono had bored a hole through tiie deck and the bottom of the keg, and secured the whole of the whisky. The officer is still alive and hearty though now well over eighty years of ago. hut he laughs heartily when lie relates how cleverly he was fooled on that occasion Remember, if you want to get rid of heavy dull feeling in the head, which accompanies Nasal Catarrh, just take a good inhalation of “ Nazol ’’ through a Na/.0l Inhaler and get immediate relief The famous North British belting, is without equal for all mining machinery, wood-working and iron-woking machinery. Best British manufacture. Quotations and details from Hayward Bros. Ltd.. Christelfurcli.