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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 1 July 1915, Page 2

The Queen Carnival just concluded in Wellington in aid of patriotic funds, is expected to produce a total of • £100,000. '

It is reported that Krupp's army of 115,000 men are engaged especially in the manufacture of big guns of very long range. Public opinion in Sweden is growing more angry every day over the torpedoing of Swedish vessels by the German undersea pirates. One thousand five1 hundred houses were burned in a fire that broke out accidentally at Pera, Constantinople. Poor old.unmentionable Turkey; time he went to roost.

The arrival in New York of 300 young Irishmen aboard an American liner has called fresh; attention to apparently organised efforts to induce the Irish to avoid enlistment.

One time you could get ?a sausage-roll for 'tuppence,' now you can't; that's all through Kultur, the Kaiser, and the , Constables.' Some time back the little kiddies could get a big bun for a penny, But the war-the ghastly war-came al™s> and now- tkoush the buns are still the same price, there's a big pinch of sponge taken out before they get into the oven. Anything so long as we are up against the Huns. -