GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 58, 6 November 1915, Page 7

GENERAL.

An amusing skit by a sporting solat Gallipoli is afforded by the following betting quotations on the “Grub Stakes” 11 io 4 Raspberry Jam (Jones), 3 to 1 Bacon (unknown), 5 to 4 Fresh Bread (unknown), 8 to 1 Biscuits (Spratt), 8 to I Marmalade Jam (Whittaker), 100 to i Fresh Meat (Australia), 5 to 1 Apricot Jam (Deakin). Result: Raspberry 1, Bacon 2, Biscuits 3. Marmalade Jam and tintins of Meat, at 25s to I. also started, but pulled up lame.”

An incident happened on Sunday last at Waitara which lists an amusing side, although not for the «>»e most concerned (says the Mail). Seveial townsmen were lolling on the beach, when a burn of the gorse, was started. The Haines fanned by the breo/o, spread rapidly and reached th c spot where the bathers bad undressed. Some of the men rescued their clothes, but Mr Goodwin was not s<> fortunate, for every article of bis clothes wcie burnt, and ho bad to remain in the “altogether.” while fresh ones were, brought him.

At a meeting ol the committee of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce the following resolution was unanimously adopted “That this Chamber desires to enter an emphatic protest against the unpatriotic and ill-advised utterances of irresponsible war correspondents ol the Ashmeud-Bartlett type. and others who, apparently for selfish ends, are doing their best to damage their country’s interests and the interests of our Allies; that other Chambers be asked to make a similai protest, and that the Prime Munster he asked to cable this resolution to Mr Asquith, requesting that it ll( ' given the widest publicity in Great Britain, and that failing prompt acquiescence by Mr Massey, the Chamber .cable direct.”-

An illustration of the cupidity of seagulls was instanced a day or two ago m Waitara Jtast (reports the Mail). Some ducks had been laying away, and the owner of them had failed to discover the nest. Not so the seagull, however, for the fanner, ms curiosity aroused by the evolutions ol one of these birds, watched it and saw it dive to a certain spot; fly up 20 or 30 feet; drop an egg, and then go to the ground and eat it. This it repeated several times and the farmer then found that the gull had discovered the duck’s nest, and was taking the eggs and dropping them' on the ground to break the shell in order to secure a meal.

Ilciliamij a Wakanai native, thus delivers himself of a Gallipoli incident:—“We lio waiting for the Turk for quite a long time. He did not seem to want to meet ns and all tlie time* the Maori lie in the trench and listen. Then Te llaugihiroa give the wqrd to start the haka and very quick wo rush out the tug-out and charge. The Turk just give one yel! and run from us. I manage to see one Turk down at the pottoni of a trench trying to make the hide. J point the bayonet down at him and make him throw up Ids arms. Fork out the plurry Jioot, I says. The Turk empty out the bully beef and lot coin. Then 1 run him through with the bayonet and make him pleed all the same to pig!”

it is a most extraordinary act (remarks the Melbourne Argus) that a far larger proportion of the youth ol tlio churches enlist than of the youth ol the non-church-going class. In the Commonwealth there are about 290,000 unmarried men between the ages ®f 19 and 27. Of these something over a third have enlisted/ lint inside the churches the proportion oi enlistments runs from two-thirds to three-fourths or even more. The ex-