NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1848, 4 July 1918, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

“I am in'a harem,” writes Private John Wallace Davis, of the London Irish Riiies, to his uncle at Surbiton. “Ofi course, the ladies have {lone, hut it is an earthly paradise. For convalescence they have sent me to the Sultan of Egypt’s Alexandra seat. My bedroom has white and gold fittings, and the royal arms are emblazoned over ray bed. There is a gorgeous reading-room with a marble door, and divans with round, long cushions, and we have a small army of Egyptians to wait on us.”

A Chinese fruiterer at Eketahuna filed his schedule in bankruptcy a few weeks ago, and then disappearI ed. The meeting of creditors - was held in Wellington on Thursday, when it was stated that bankrupt was a patron of race meetings. When a meeting was on he would attend it, and put a notice on the door, “Without.” '(Laughter.) A book, evidently a ledger in Chinese, was produced, and the Official As*,signer said be would get it interpreted. The meeting was adjourned to allow of this being done.

The English superintendent: of a hospital for Indian women recently received the following testimonials to her efficiency: “Dear She. —My

wife has returned from your hospital cured. Provided males are allowed at your bungalow, I would like to do you the honour of presenting myself there this afternoon, but I will not try to repay you. Vengeance belonged! unto God.—Yours noticeably, .” The second letter reads: “Dear and Fair Madame, — have much pleasure to inform you that my dearly unfortunate wife will no longer be under your kind treatment, she having left this world for the other on the night of the 27th ult. For your help in this matter I shall ever remain grateful. Yours reverently,

A farmer writes as follows to' a

contemporary: “I discovered some years ago that wood could be made to last longer.in the ground than

iron, but thought the process so simple iind inexpensive that it was not worth while making any stir about it. I would as- soon have poplar or ash as any other kind of timber for fence posts. I have taken out these posts after having been set seven years, and they were as sound as when 1 first put them in the ground. The posts can he prepared for about one penny each. This is the recipe: Take boiled linseed oil, and stir in pulverised charcoal 1.0 the constituency of paint, Put a coat of this over the timber, and there is not a man living who will see it rotten.” “Necessity is the mother of invention.” A farmer in the district who works at one of the local sawmills (says the Bay of Plenty Times) has a considerable distance to ride to work. He rides a mare, which has a foal. The foal is left at home each day. One day recently the farmer’s dog followed him to work. Here was a dilemma. How was the wife going to get the cows home for the evening milking? No chance without the clog; hut how to get the dog homo? Happy thought —turn the mare on to the road, and it would be sure to go home to the foal, and the dog could go with it, lied to its tail. No sooner planned than acted upon, and everything worked out excellently. A traveller on the road met the pair trotting along cheerfully, and when the worker reached home the cows were in, and one day’s trouble over.