Second Edition LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 95, 28 March 1916, Page 6

Second Edition LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An Australian gunner, writing on February-, had quite an exoiting/'£x!enenc,ft.* the. other day, which yon may not believe; but, nevertheless, it is absolutely true. We were manoeuvring eight miles out in tlie desert, and just after lunch we came across a back of hyaenas. They gave one yelp/aud' a peculiar sort of laugh that they have, and they were off—so were all our gun teams! Luckily the desert was Hat for miles,csprjttCe stuck to their horses and let them go. We went for miles before the horses were fagged out, but all the same we enjoyed the fun. buttery' bolted—it must have been a fine sight to a looker-on, . J never dreamt That we would see sn far north as this, and comparatively close to civilisation. I can now sav I have seen wild animals in Africa.”

A numbe'r of new recruiting posters have made their appearance in Christchurch. They are most'-striking in the directness and force of the appeal made by them. Ofie depicts a mother saying, to hey jsou: f*p,OL r H’s. your dut.f; , !l lad.'' v Jmi/'' *tb-daV ! ,j Another features a typical John Bull, with a number of lads in khaki at his back. John Bull a, finger at .the person looking* at the picture, and is supposed to be saying: “Who’s absent? Is it you?” A key, on which are the wofd§:. “MpUjitions, Men, , and Money,” iS'sliowhi on’Another, which is headed “The Key to the Situation,” and which asks the question: “Are you helping to tunr.shis?” On another poster is represented a British soldier, standing on France } - saying to a civilian standing on England: “Cbme, kJi'slip and help t” A scout drummer boy is the principal figure in another poster, which declares: “Everyone should do his bit.” A spirited of - some of Great Britain’s fighters and of her women workers in munition factories is the subject of still another poster, which asks the in this?” "

Mr Rees Jones, who is in charge of the plumbing ic^paoa Freezing Works, had a thrilling experience the other day, being , placed in such a perilous position; that:.only his presence of mind and muscular strength saved him from what would almost certainly have been death (says the “Poverty Bay ,Harfild M ). He -had got over the top of the concrete Avail of the slaughter-house to adjust a pipe at the top. ,Me vvais,“ standing *on a plank held up by two ropes, and while he Avas in the act of working at the pipe, a carpenter, not knowing that Mr Jones was on the plank, unfastened one end of the rope to get the end of the plank out of his way. Fortunately, Mr Jones felt the plank going, a,nd immediately'-'grasped bold of the pipe (a 4in water-pipe) on Avhich he had been working, and thus remained suspended about 40ft in the air. The pipe itself Atas only - held together Weakly, a joint not being securely fastened, and struggling or wriggling Avould have caused it, to give. Thote Avas no ,c<liml>ing anywhere to safety, and Mr Jones remained as still as possible. His perilous position Avas at once noticed by the men beloAV, the plank having fallen to the ground; but to render assistance required a journey ftp to the third story. This Avas made ih a speedy manner, and a rope Avas lowered, to Mr Jones from above, but this entailed, .time,,and he,had to hang on fbFitbohV’iive minutes before being rescued. ■* Mr, Jones lias- taken part in many strenuous contests, also as a champion rower, but probably he never had a greater of his none and staying powers.

Shortly after the Mount Cook disaster on February 22nd, 1914, which cost the lives of three men—Messrs Sydney King, of London, Darby Thomson and Jock Richmond, the wellknoWn- guides, from The Hermitage—a committee of friends and relatives of the deceased and other mountainlovers was formed, and by this means, with the''aid of. the pvernmerit, which supplied about half ‘of the funds, sufficient money wag .soon collected to erect a memorial to the nVove. lic committee decided (says a-correspond-ent of the Christchurch “Press”) to erect an al|ihe hut-as the memorial, and cho’Se the Haast ridge as the most suitable place. The hut will not only facilitate the climbing of Mount Cook, but also-Silvbrhomb; Tasman. Lindenfelt,v Haast; rHaidihger, and the. (darter W but,’; was built m Dunedin, of r though test wood obtainable, taken to pieces, 1 numbered, and transferred to The Hermitage. 10 material' was theft ?: 'cartedV to Blue Lake and from there packed on horses to.the Ball Hut. ■ /From this point the work jiaS ‘tn .be done entirely by human effort. There was some.d.ffi-cutltvj-Jn..finflii3g a :man with sufficient Skid, • &hu liluck to take charo-6 of this- l arduous- wovk, but. for* tum/telV: M. K. Smith was persuaded to undertake it/ ■'Mr Smith has had much working built the Malte Brim end the Ball PFlitsV 1 He wks able to. secuie a gang of men of his own type, «ho, it is' ! m>pcd, enabled to finish the hut duribg. this season. It is the highest : m -V Australasia. <, being situated at an altitude of 7000 feet. t il* '■

An . Auckland Press Association message this afternoon states: Two deaths from infantile paralysis were recorded to-day, both being children from country districts, hour additional cases were reported to-day from the rural area. The total to date is 420, and the fatal cases 12.

The “Gazette de Lausanne'’ says that young Armenian girls sold recently in the market place at Constantinople only realised a lew shillings each. The Young Turks are congratulating themselves now that the Armenian nation has been massacred, on the accomplishment of a “great national achievement.”