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Nelson Evening Mail, 21 September 1916, Page 7

"Griggsby ' always insists on telling everybody that he is a self-made man." "Yes, poor chap, he can't see that the job isn't worth 'braggiii' about." "Please, ma'am," said the maid, "there's a man at the door with a new telephone directory." "Tell him to go away," replied her mistress. "I haven't read the old one yet." Mr G. F. Morgan caught a shark last ■week on Bondi (Sydney) beach with a rod and reel and 24 cord line of the type usually used for tarpon fishing (says the Sydney Sun). It took him sn hour and a quarter to land the lift 3in monster, which weighed between eight and nine cwt., and was of the true tiger species. A quaint collection of prey_ was found inside him. First and most inedi ihle was a 201b porcupine fish, absolutely covered with hard spiues and. looking like a weapon of torture used by the Huns. Inside him also was a. large porpoise, a most unusual meal in a shark's menu, a little shark, ah albatross, with a i wing span of between six and seven feet, I a lot of mixed small fish ,and a King Charles Spaniel dog with a collar on, but no name. i Aa a place name on the maipi of Firance, St. v Eloi has been freshly writI ten on our hearts. But raider the varied ! names of Eligius, Eloy, or Loye, the f man St. Eloi has long 'been. remelmibered j in Scotland. He was bom; in the seventh ! century near Limoges, and l early show- : ed remarkable skill a3 a worker in ! metals. He 'lived to 'become Bishop of Nbyore, amdi it is recorded that the exqu/site works with which he enriched the churchps which he built and endowed were wrought by his own 1 fingers. Sacred arit represents him as both a ■ bishop and an artificer, and he has been ; caUled "the Vulcan of hagiology." In the 'cathedral of Le' Mans; in Brittany. he is represented' as holding red-hot tongues the snlout o:f' a green -coloured devil. Sir David L-ynsday, in the "Mont archie," sketches hi'm in connection with his labouirs at the anvil:— "Sane* Eloy, he doth staitly stand:, i An© new hors-schoo intill his hand." and again':— "Sum imiakis offrande to Sanct That he thejr hoi's may weil convoye." Mrs H. B. Irving, speaking at the annual conference icf the Actors' Church Union, said that actors had volunteered for active.service in greater numbers , almost thani any other profession. They were deliberately bleedndg themselves to death, but they would d'o it as long as they ipossi-bly could. For doing thalt they had earned the right to be treated 'without prejudice as ordinaiy people and among the barr'evs which the war was breaking down was that which divided actorsi fromi their public