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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 141, 4 February 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

First Chauffeur: "Bill got fined .£IOO for taking his employer's car without permission Second Chauffeur: "But how did the boss know he took it!'" First Chauffeur: "Why. Bill ran over him I" .Mistress (angri'y): "How dare you talk back to me in that way? 1 never .'M.-.v sueli inipudciiee. You have- a lot of nerve to call yourself a lady's ma d." N'nv Maid : " I don't call myself that now, ma'am: but I was a lady'' iiiiiid before l I got tli s job."

It lias been decided officially that no old-age pensions shall b«> reduced where incomes have In en increased beyond the statutory pn.sion limit by reason of military separation allowances. .lust over !• thousand new pensions were granted last quarter. * * * At a s;de at A.shford, Kent, on behalf of the fund for the relief of agriculturists in the Allied countries. <mr> of the lots offered was a sheep which contained in its shou'der a piece of a bomb dropped by a Zeppelin, the animal realising .Co Ps.

A correspondent of tin 1 "Xurs'ng Tihum" urge* that the name of .MisKdith Cavell should ik- added to i..e famous roll of the Victoria Cross.

The King and Queen arc making n lalL'f rollortoll of battle pictures, wliirli will nrobablv In' place 1 oil exhibition in aid of one df t!ic war funds.

Largo oiiantitie.s () f razor.- are bring sold 111 Shrliield, it is stated, bearing the inscription ".Made in Holland," but coining, as a matter of fact, from the Solingen steel works iu Germanv.