LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1921, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

A meeting of the Motor Ambulance Committee will lie held in the Hospital Board rooms to-morrow evening at 7 o’clock. \ Wellington correspondent telegraphed the Hon Sir William Eraser was not,so well on Monday, but is said to be in no immediate danger. The Druid’s Lodge hold their annual ball in the Drill Shed on Wednesday evening next. Very complete arrangements have been made including the best of music and a good floor.

The following good story is related by Lieutenant-Colonel Is. C. Freybei g, w 0 is on n visit to his relatives at Wellingtn: It happened about the time of the attack on Menin. A young German prisoner was brought in <al>out midnight and subjected to a cross-examination. He spoke English a- little, and from him it was learned that he was a 153 man. and a student at the Leipzig University. He had been in the trenches just about an hour when lie was taken prisoner. During the cross-examination regarding the position of the German forces, the number of troops in Menin etc., Colonel Frevberg observed that an Australian was itching to put a question to the prisoner. At length the chance f ninc. ‘‘What do you thing of the Australians?’ 1 the “Aussie” stafl office! asked. For a moment the young German thought, and then came the reply “Coloured troops never good.” “So much for l-eipzig University, ’ the narrator concluded, and all present thoroughly appreciated! the bright, finishing touch to another war story.