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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10293, 30 May 1919, Page 6

To voluntarily enlist at 18 years of age, fight through three years of hard warfare on the Western front, to be wounded in tho head while dispatch carrying at Mcssines. and then to spend nine months in hospital, is a sufficiently good record to entitle any young New Zealander to tho thanks of his countrymen (states the Dannevirko "livening News"). It has fallen to the unfortunate lot of Private W. It. Todd, however, to realise that having gone through this war experience, he returns to the Dominion only to find himself gazetted as a military deserter. Tho mistake has evidently arisen through failure to delete his name from Territorial enrolments when he went away on active service. Private Todd is a son of Mr John Todd, who some time ago resigned his position with the Hawke's Bay Farmers' Co-operative Association in Dannevirko in order that he might manage a farm for his broth-er-in-law in Pahiatua. and relieve him rVthe war. Mr Todd had two sons on active service. . and no family could more loyally have responded 'to the country's call.

Four diamonds, valued at £3OOO, which wuro rnisoing from London, have beon found buried in a garden near Dublin, and havs been returned to their a diamond mei chant, of Hotton Garden. The'jewels include two stoae» ot 20J carats each/ und two of ?i carats (inch, set in a cross-ov»r ring.

Men nod women who work among lavender, gathering it or distilling it, seldom have neuralgia or nervous headaohw.