NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1368, 2 March 1915, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Cheese was the principal item in the dairy produce taken away by the New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner OraU, which sailed for London on Wednesday. In all there were 19,885 crates on board. Wellington’s contribution was 10,579 crates, while S,ooo crates earn? from Patea, 720 from Wanganui, 474 from Auckland and 112 from New Plymouth, be butter totalled 11,709 boxes, :l of. which came from Auckland.

4 , Lot spring has been struck on .-•i Alley’s farm at ITikutara, in .ames Valley. Homing for ~c water was begun. At iSfl. ij-id and mud were met with, and varying country was intersected by the bore until a depth of 100 ft. was reached, when what was evidently a large log was passed th'ough. At 170 ft, it was decided to relinquish boring, but no sooner had the reds beeu lifted than there was a rush of water, and to the surprise of all it proved to be. bot, and with a similar taste to the Te Atcha waters. The flow is at the rate of about 1,000 galhms per hour.

Vigorous appetites have been developed by the men on active service in Egypt, and one of the men enlarges on the subject in a letter received by the last mail. “Stew twice a day, if we are lucky,” he writes. “Four loaves ot bread per day for 10 men, no butter, and ylb oi jam to last four days. Butter is sold at the canteens at is per lb.” In another letter, written a few days later, be states that a week ot battalion drill had just been completed, several days having been spent in the open. ‘‘We were put on army rations,” he continues, “ilb bread, one chop per man, and ylb of jam for 20 men to last 24 hours. We had to cook our own meat in the small canteens with which we are provided.” As a contrast with this condition a description is given in the letter of a dinner given by one of the men for a party ot seten at a cost of ( 3 2 105. “We started to eat at h iif past six and finished up with cigars at a quarter past eight. I have never eaten so much at one meal before. The menu was a very long one, but we started at the top and went right through the lot.”