General News.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 4 July 1918, Page 1

General News.

The "Star ,r gays that a uusiness man in Hawerev received a pleasant surprise on Saturday. When he opened a registered letter he found it to contain £70. Enclosed vms also a sheet of notepaper on which was written two words only, "Conscience money.'' Evidently men's consciences are not always tlead! Enquiries made by a "Post" reporter yesterday elicited the information that the Wellington Gas Company is now rcduced to about live days' supply of coal. It is expccted that a delivery will be received this week, but the position is somewhat precarious, and may bccome serious if the expected shipment does not arrive within the next few days. Speaking at the Lintvood school last week, the Hon. G. W. Russell stated that New Zealand was the tenth country in the world as regarded the size of its flocks. "You may not know," he said, "that there arc more sheep in Hawke's Bay than in the whole of the German Empire. In Hawke's Bay there arc 0,217,000, and in Germany 6,000,000." _. Masterton resident received a cable ivsssage, allegedly from his son, asking thai sum of money be sent to a 1 in London. The money was A cable was subsequently sent > ts.i soldier saying that the £10 had bee.; <lesp..iehed. The soldier called at the ban.?, i<. discover that the money had already i»f?d out. He then wrote to his parentsstating that there must have been sume mistake, as he had not cabled foi money. The following description of a war wedding cake came in a letter to a Tariki resident lately:—lt was a mixture of prunes (currant substitutes), dates (raisin substitutes), almonds, and margarine (butter substitute), and war flour, which is composed of peas, beans, lentils, maize, bran, plaster of paris, and floor sweepings of straw and hay, ■with a small addition of butter stolen from our weekly ration of half a pound and eggs at 4d each. The Minister of Defence has been advised of the safe arrival at its destination of the transport on which were embarked the 30th Artillory, the 3Gth Engineers, certain infantry details, and a party of aviation cadets.