GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 75, 4 March 1916, Page 6

GENERAL.

I A well-known Auckland citizen, Mr E. W. Ali. Min, celebrated liis fifteenth birthday on Tuesday. To those who know his mature years, this may ap- [ pear (nays the Herald) either a misj statement or a joke, but ii represents simple fact. Air Alison happens, like the iicni of "The Pirates of Penzance opera, to have been "horn in leap

j year, op February ’20.” Consequently bis birthday rmues' round only once in ! [our years. liy letter and telegram .Mr .VdsOn roceivocl more than 100 congratulations upon the event. During a discussion at a patriotic meeting at .Palmerston the other night a. speaker said he did not believe in men going to the I rout and leaving their wives and families for someone else to look after. “We will go a st«'p further,” says the Marlborough Express, “and say that the present hap- . hazard method of recruiting opens an easy way for men so inclined to evade home responsibilities and to commit the crime of wile desertion under the guise' of patriotism. We heard of a case the other day where a man openly confessed that he had taken the chance of a lifetime to got away from an unhappy home, to which ho nevei intended to return.”

“Over-decorated” writes to the editor of the Wairarapa Age: “f am sorely perplexed. 1 am a member oi the Overseas Club, and have to wear a badge on the lapel of my coat. I am also a member of the Citizens’ Defence Corps, and wear the badge of that institution on the other lapel. I have enlisted for service and been turned down, and will require to wear a badge on my arm. I am a membei „f the C.E.M.S., and wear an emblem of that body on my watch-chain. Now I am being ‘badgered’ to wear another badge indicating that I "ill wish returned soldiers well, promise not to ‘shout’ for them, and buy only British tobacco and tea. Can you tell me jhow lam getting along?” “What is there a married, .woman with little time to spare can' do?” was asked at the meeting of the Women’s National Reserve at St. Clair on Wednesday night (reports the Otago Daily Times). Miss M'Lean was ready at once with a good answer. .Married women with young families were fully occupied, she said, and' they were certainly occupied in the lyciry best possible way for the country. But pgrhaps even they might do a little more. They might look after for parr of the day the child, ol soim qther woman who was an expert in 'some particular line, and so free her for national service, “ft would not make much difference, would iff said .Miss M'Lean eoaxingly, “just to have oho or two more children to look altei for an afternoop ?” The laughter that greeted the question seemed to indicate sonic doubt on the point among tiie ladies pi'bsent. “This is extraordinary case I have ever come across in my experience,” stated Mr W. A. Barton. S.M., at thb v CJ,i.sborno Police Court the other morning, when an application waif .made for the . cancellation of an order which’was made against the defendant, hy consent, in an affiliation case (reports the Poverty Bay HerThe solicitor who macre the application said - that according to his instructions it tv'fis impossible that defendant could have been the father ol the.' child. This was quite clear from what he had since learned from defendant and, complainant’s mother. Hi s Worship made tile comment given above, and said it was. a particularly peculiar case, seeing .'that defendant had admitted the allegation, and had consented to an order declaring him the putative ’ father. The application) was granted, and an application lor sureties wil's withdrawn. In connection with Sydney’s scheme of underground city and suburban railways, it is proposed that the only daylight station shall be in Circular Quay, and according to the plans it will occupy nearly the whole ol the centie ol the curve, taking in a space now covered by four Jerry wharves. In order not to impede the ferry traffic overhead construction will be used in, the Quay. The proposed scheme tor a big station at Circular Quay will necessitate the demolition of the Harbor: Trust building and the lire station at the corner of Ceorge street and the Quay, Every' other station on the system’will be underground. The station and permanent way at the Quay will bo built upon massive buttresses, the effect of which will be to alter the entire aspect of the water front at that point. .Several humorous incidents of camp life at Trentliam were told by Cmip-laiu-Captain W. Walker, at a Methodist meeting in Auckland. He related the storv of a soldier, who, m reuuera solo at a concert attended by the men, Attempted to roach a note highor than his vocal powers allowed. H s embarrassment was rather accentuated when a member of the audience immediately after the failure gravely asked ill military form if there were “any complaints.” Anntlioi 11,11101 ems’incident occurred on a rone march near Tnnlhnm. A farmer am bis wife, both well over the allotted snan of three score years and ten, were interested spectators of a portion o the march.. I''pan seeing them the soldiers promptly commenced singing the popular ditty, the chorus of which n i„ K “Halloa, halloa, who’s your hub friend?” ' Rheumatism and other forms of nri 1 :.fid poisoninc are curable Bui no i n . ~x t orior rubbing, not bv baths, not diethot by ••ei*>ovin» " -er.ic acid from Hie blood. Bill' It h-m restored Htoastuids ol sufferer-: to nerimment lienI'’' 1 '’' !i 1 ...jp a,, tiio worn for you. 2a Gd ami l 4s fid per bottle.