WHAT HE WROTE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 138, 28 January 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

WHAT HE WROTE.

"See here, sir!" yelled the indignant citizen, an he entered the office or the 'Daily Whoop,' "what do you mean by this article in yesterday > paper?" "What is t* ''asked the editor. "What is it-" the indignant citizen. " Why, yoj rettY u in* as a jjreody jobber. "That is too bad," replied the ed'tor. "It is a typographical error, and 1 am sorry it appeared as it did." "Oh, very well," answered the indignant citizen. "1 accept your apology." " I don't know how that fool linotype man came to set the word 'jobber,' " added the editor. "1 wrote the word •robber' very plainly."

Thomas A. Edison, nt a dinner in Orange, insisted —as he insisted from the first—that the Allies will beat the Germans in the end. •• Hut Germany," said a GermanAmerican, "is building ships at a tremendous rate. She will soon have her navy up to her army. Germany since the war began has added twelve Dreadnoughts and ten cruisers to her fleet, ye i know." "Humph!'' said Mr. Edison. "If she keeps on at that rate she'll soon have to enlarge the Kiel Canal."

AN ELECTRIC DREADNOUGHT. The t'nited States battleship California, commenced la.st October, will be the world's first electric Dreadnought, and from the point of size will be greater than any foreign battleship built or building. The California and her two sister ship-, Mississippi and Idaho, already authorised, will each displace :W,()(K) tons, almost a thousand tons more than the new Dreadnought Pennsylvania, now nearing completion. The California will be a ship of innovations. She will cost 7,Xl)0.00() dollars without armour or armament, v.h'ch is expected to cost a.s much more.

She wi'l haw a speed of 21 knot,. will In' 621 feet Umx, and !>7 feet beam, with .'lO feet draught. She w ill mount twelve 1 1-inch .L'un-. three abreast in turrets; twenty-two ;Vineh rapid-lire ::u!w. and will have lour submarine torpedo tubes. The prim pal feature of the new ves. sel, linwever, is the machinery for propel'linj; her. She will be driven by electric n:otor>, the electricity for which will lie made by -team. Many cxp rts believe That e'etrie in-ialiatmi !-i cheaper than steam propulsion, and rediK-es the weijrht of niaeliinery. '1 lie collier Jupiter ha- bee,, ~, sitee.'ssflll with eh- tile niaeliinery thai the Navy feels justified ill adapt n- it to battleships. Outwardly the California "ill brine; a drastic change of htle and appeat::ilc( < to the fleet, a- -he will have a tapered yaeht-like -teni. Altogether. when n a'dy for her 'irM trial :ii I'.M i ci |«i|x. th" Cabfoin a promises an in ie:e-iniL' -t 1111 v for the naval . Xpert-.