LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 36, 13 February 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

John Gibson Bryant, who was until recently a .civil‘servant, was charged in 1 tlie"Wellingtou 1 Magistrate’ s Court to-day with'theft of a cheque for £79ll,, s tl)ih,' pi'opertyql. the, : G oVermeut, and was felhanded'until 22nd February, bail being allowed in‘the sum 0f £2OO.—P.A.

The visitors from Olmrar spent part of the morning in conference with the Chamber of Commerce, dealing with several matters of joint interest to the two districts. Later, the A. and P. showgrounds and the racecourse were inspected. The party leave by the evening train for Whangamomona, and are due home by'coach on Monday.

A trooper of AI Mounted Rifles, now in Zeiton Camp, Egypt, writes to a friend in Whangamomona as follows^ —-We . are , camped on . a desert, where the rain does not trouble us, as only one inch falls in a year, so we have not been washed out of our tents. I simply love being here. The. sun is very warm by day and the nights ard very cold, with heavy dew. There are .such a number of places of interest one could go and see, but we are kept very busy, and ,we have not much time to visit around. We get a little practice at trench digging, and often come upon old graves, and the mouths of all the skulls were filled with a blue head. Roman coins have been fountd; they are very plentiful. One man, found a gold and silver signet ring and was offered £2O by a jeweller, but refused the offer. I have been to the Zoo and saw all the animals you read about in the school books. The natives are a lot behind the Maori.’s of New Zealand, and are not to he trusted. English soldiers are not allowed to speak to them. We will soon he looking for the best troops the world can put against us. Ido hope we will be ‘sent to Palestine. It is reported that 100,000 Turkish troops are, there. About fifteen miles from our camp there are 70,000. We all have to he up at 5.30 every mhriiing. ' “ J