GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 38, 20 January 1916, Page 7

GENERAL.

The price oi' bread in Wellington is to be raised next week to for 21b loaf. At the Patea Magistrate's Court last week a local baker was fined £5 and costs 7s, for selling bread under" weight. I One of the interesting features of January "Everylady*s Journal" is the first of a series of articles showing 1 Australian housewives how they may ! make money from their hobbies. It is proposed to show readers how to grow herbs and flowers, keep pigeons and poultry, and so on, with profit as well as pleasure. For example, in this number readers are told how to grow flax and spin thread. A Wellington message says: "A telegram from Christchurch, publish- ! ed yesterday, attributed to the Prime Minister a statement that Parliament might be summoned "sooner than many people thought." Mr Massey informed a reporter that 'hi s words had not been intended to bear the construction placed upon them. He had not indicated, nor ever hinted, that there would be an early session. Any one of several events might bring about a session before the usual time, but there was nothing definite to be said on the subject at the present time. . ,An incident which appeals worthy of record J happened at camp (says a ' correspondent of the Hawke's Bay Tribune). The lads were instructed tolocate a movable target (a man), and to sight accordingly. The officers, naturally, were in the know of the man's location,.'but were surprised Vfc a member of the firing line, Private Milburn, of Waipawa, locating th object from the jump. When asked how he did it. Private Milburh said the son's rays on the dial of a wristlet watch the man was wearing gave him the cue. The dials of wristlet watches j have now to be covered. Hitherto it has been the custom for the Defence Department to notify j next-of-kin by telegram of all instances 'of soldiers admitted to hospital from the various military training camps. It has now been decided that in future minor cases will be communicated to relatives by letter, instead of telegram, and thus obviate disquieting effects which the receipt of telegrams naturally produces on the recipients. In urgent cases, where the condition of a patient is serious, an urgent wire will be despatched to the next-of-kin, as at present, when the attending .medical officer recommends such a • course of action. I A few weeks ago (says the Wireless World of November) a wireless operator in New Zealand distinctly heard the two West Australian stations at Perth and Broome (approximately 3000 miles from Wellington) testing, but as the staff of the office where these signals were heard were inclined to doubt the genuineness of this, the operator wrote to the station at Broome quoting particulars of what had been heard, and received a letter in reply giving a complete confirmation. Considering that the signals would have to traverse the whole of tb t > continent, including desert, and that they would have been subjected to diffusion, diffraction, absorption, and so on, this record is remarkable.