GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 6, 10 April 1916, Page 7

GENERAL.

Mr Henry Hayward, of Christchurch, announced: on Friday night, that he was offering £SO for a Xew Zealand National Anthom.

"I would willingly have given a pound, for ;i feed of fruit tlio other day." This (reports the Dnnedin Mas what a. sailor on the Aurora said the other inorning who:* a cast' of heads was pr.s.v.i nlmaH from the Plucky.' "What ho." said his mates, and -the-v forthwith requisitioned the cook's poker and prized off the li<!. "What delicious pears," agreed the men wiio had just come oil their seal meat diet, flavored by penguin liver, a la mode. The distribution of Havana cigars followed the,-pears',. and then sweet content illumined weatherboaten faces.

The Levin Chronicle states:, Harry .Joseph Lewis, ;i la<] of 14 yerfra of ago, was,, at Palmerston . North., .on February 14th, committed to the Weraroa Boys' Training Farm. For about a month Henry resisted the call of the glamour of the northern city, hut then gave up the struggle and fled northwards. He. was apprehended in his old haunts the other day. and in company with a policeman from Palmerston North returned to Levin by the Napier train on Saturday afternoon. At the railway station, while the constable was getting his bicycle from the guard's van, Henry seized the tide of opportunity at the full and bolting across the railway line, disappeared into the bush. The constable followed, bufc the oft 4in of runaway was too speedy, and as far as is known Henry is still running.