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Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 65, 17 January 1918, Page 4

The prosperity of the country in spito of the war is shown by the total amount to the credit of depositors in theP.O. Savings Bank. The total for last year was £25,603,209. This is more than double the amount standing to depositors’ credit five years ago, the amount then being £12,269,294. A rather interesting experiment is being conducted by Mr R. Burgess of Appleby, in connection with the growing of marrows (states the Nelson Colonist). By sugar and water process and a capillary method of feed, a marrow put on six inches of growth in twenty-four hours. The facts are almost startling in operation. A very sad story concerning the return of a soldier has been told in the Eltlmm paper. He arrived recently aud was surprised and disappointed at there being no friends or relatives to meet him. On the way up to Wanganui in the train he learned that during his absence his father and mother had both died, also a brother and that the home had now changed hands. “I happened to come across a number of young Russian soldiers who were enjoying the sights of London for the first time,” says a writer in the Evening Standard. “I asked one of them wliat he thought the most wonderful thing he had seen. He at once replied : ‘Well I was at a music hall last night, and a big dressed up Kaffir came in and sat down alongside of me in the most natural way you can think of. I did laugh. He wouldn’t do that in Rhodesia.’ ”