JOTTINGS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 50, 15 October 1914, Page 8

JOTTINGS.

The South Canterbury British and Belgian relief fund is over £SOOO. In the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon, replying to Sir Joseph Ward, Hon. Allen said the cost of the Expeditionary Force to date was, roughly, about £250,000. At a meeting of the Christchurch Liverpool Fund, the treasurer reported total receipts to date £2213 17s Bd, payments £Bl7 Is, balance at bank £1426 16s Bd. About £I2OO remains after accounts have been paid. The committee decided to provide certain articles for members of the reinforcements. In the course of an address at the New Zealand Club's luncheon in Christchurch, Mr James R. Boose, secretary of the Royal Colonial Institute, stated that since his arrival in Australasia he was informed that the British War Office authorities, owing to the want of space at present, had applied to have the Institute made the headquarters of the whole of the Empire troops arriving in the Mother Country. A picture postcard has arrived ii Paris from Switzerland which is said to be all the rage in the land of Wil liam Tell, and which.shows the spirit at present animating the hmd-lockec Republic. The postcard bears the legend:—"The Kaiser in the country of: the best rifle-shots." It shows a conventional caricature of the terrible Emperor, helmeted, spurred, and highbooted, with a hand on the hilt of hi? big sword. He is looking with stupefaction at a simple Swiss soldier, ii his plain Federal uniform, carrying a rifle. In the background is a musketn target, showing a hit full in the centiv of the bull's eye. " "And so, my son," savs the terrible William,'"there are 100;000 shots like you in Switzerland But suppose I come with 200,000 Prus sians?" "In that case, your Majesty," replies the Swiss, "we shall each of us fire two shots."