New Zealand GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 64, 21 February 1916, Page 8

New Zealand

GENERAL.

BELGIAN RELIEF FUND,

It is estimated lli.nl the private damage caused hy 11 1 < > re I m>l i ion in tin 1 (Free Stale hy Do Wot and 1 1 is cray.y followers will amount to nno million sterling, of which one quartor will have to ho paid hy tho rebels. This practical form of punishment is the soundest method imaginable of discouraging a reonrronco of the t mnhle. QmS ■

It is computed liy someone who r<’ckon.s lu' lias a knowledge of these tilings that tiic profits made in Now Zealand from’the war since the start is 71 millions sterling. The amount raised for the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund has not yet reached half a million. For other funds raised hy voluntary subscription (states the Opnnake Times), we can allow a total of a million pounds without being precise to a few hundred pounds. There should he no difficulty for the New Zealand Financial Treasurer to worry about source's of taxation for revenue purposes.

The Swiss police and Customs officers make a very careful examination of all passengers into Austria to prevent their carrying military news across the frontier says an exchange. Women spies are very frequently caught. The other dav a woman with her arm in splints wept bitterly because the police insisted on undoing her bandages and plaster. 'The young woman’s arm was found to he quite healthy, hut wrapped round with military documents. A stranger device was adopted by another woman, who had notes of great military importance written on the skin of her back. The trick was discovered after the woman had been bathed by the female searchers and the rouge and powder with which the writing was covered washed off.

At the Zoological Cardens, Sydney, last week, a small .Japanese black bear made a savage attack on John Thomas Hillier, an attendant, and severely mauled him. Hillier had entered the cage for the purpose of cleaning it, when the hear rushed at him, hit him on the left leg, and knocked him down. Hillier regained his feet, unlocked the door, and was about to escape when the hear again attacked him, hiring him severely about the upper part of the body. The noise broug ht John Cleevy, another attendant, "to the scene. Cleevy, snatching up a shovel, jumped to the ledge outside the cage and succeeded in heating olf the hear. He dragged Hillier from ili,. cage. The Civil Ambulance Brigade took the injured man to the Sydney Hospital, where ho was treated fur severe lacerated wounds on the arms, legs, and shouldeis.

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