Thoughts For The Times

Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1920, Page 2

Thoughts For The Times

A Poilu’s Elegy to Kitchener. \ (Translated from the French.) Seek not beneath the elm or cypress tree the place Where sleeps the great Kitchener—the last long sleep. Names that are graven in marble are effaced; He has for tomb the immensity of the seas. Ourselves but voyagers here below, our hands are filled . With flowers that some day shall onwreath his brow; But it is the great voice of the great storm That shall repeat throughout eternity hia name.

Tho entries for tho fat stock sales at Arahura on Monday appear in this issue. A notification to persons keeping bees for the registration of apiaries appears in thiß issue. The Eastern Extension Company notify the resumption of the acceptance of all tralfic for the United Kingdom, via Eastern. The Manager of the Greymouth Borough Abattoirs, at last night’s meeting of tho Council reported as follows for,the month of May: Cows examined 20, Bullocks 151 (2 condemned), sheep 93, lambs 49, pigs 2, calves 17. ■ At Addington Stock Market on AV edncsday, there was a medium entry of the usual mixed description of pigs. A fair demand was experienced. Values were as under:—Choppers, £8 to £9 10s ; light baconers, £5 10s to £6 15s; heavy baeoners, £7 to £8; average price per ib, lOd to 10£d. Light porkers £3 15s to £4 10s; heavy porkers, £4 15s to £5 ss; average price per lb, Is to Is OJd. A small entry of store pigs was forward, and they met with a fair demand. Very few large stores were offered. Following,is the range of values: Large stores, to £3 7s (id ; small, stores, 37s (id to £2 1 10 s ; weaners, 10s to 22s 6d.

A sperm whale, the first in thirtyseven years, was found on the beach, about if} miles above North Brighton, by Mr A. Griffen, on Monday morning. The whale, which was half buried in the sand when discovered, is .09 feet in length, seventeen feet of this being taken up by the mouth. Sixty pounds has been paid to the finder of it by Mr Jack Carl, and it is understood that a Christchurch firm of wholesale chemist's have offered the purchaser £SO per lb for any ambergris found in the carcase. A start was made on Wednesday to strip tho carcase of its blubber and whalehone, of which there is a large quantity. Operations are being supervised by an old whaler, who is now a resident of Brighton.

A .slouched hat, a pair of “shorts” and a pair of boots, as all Arizacs know formed the chief, in fact, the only costume of most of the troops on Gallipoli. Commenting on this fact at the R.S.A. smoke concert at Christchurch, General Sir William Birdwood tol.d of one occasion on which he had taken a French Admiral to see a battery of such scantily-clad men. The Admiral was greatly impressed. “Ah, my General,” he said, “wliat magnificent men! end if they <; ould appear in Paris in such a costume what a. sensation they would make,” (Laughter.) “Well,” commented the General, amidst' laughter, “they say imitation is tho sincerest flattery. When we got to France' we found that the 1915 fashion of Gallipoli had almost become the 1918 fashion o! Paris, I mean, amongst the ladies.”

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