LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A cablegram from Washington states that the famous tenor singer, Signor Caruso, has accepted an offer of two hundred thousand dollars for thirty performances in Buenos Aires at the close of next season. This j the highest on record, and is twice Ins salary when singing at the Metropohtan Opera House. ! i To enter a first-class smoking carriage and to iind snugly esrmicecl tluM-o a young lady who looks no more than twenty is nowadays not worthy of remark. But when, as on a -Now Plymouth train recently (states tne Wanganui Herald), the young “lady brought forth a cigarette and smoked it repeating the action again anc again, the surprise of the men in the carriage, though not openly manifested, was very real. Maize in many disguises.—Com has a hundred ami fifty disguises. Some enthusiasts claim two hundred. It appears in the role of anything from candy to soap or soit pillows to gnu powder. A few of its uses are alcohol, cloth, gun cotton, corn meal, rubbers, grits, machine oil, starch, fuel, molasses colouring glucose, car springs, roofing, oil cloth, wax, printer’s ink, i paste, potash, heels, wheels, linoleum, , paper. In other words, we eat corn, | wash with it, lie on it, shoot with it, drink it, wear it, oil with it, walk j on it, ride on it, read from it, hum it. and write with it. A Press Association telegram from Wellington to-day states that His Honor Mr Justice Chapman dismissed the appeals of Chan Lee Hop and his wife, who had been fined in the Magistrate’s Court, the woman ioi landing in New Zealand without complying with the regulations and the man for aiding the woman to do so. The male appellant, who was nnnatnralised, procured the naturalisation papers of Ah Young, went, to Sydney and married the appellant, then returned to Zealand under the name of Ah Young, being allowed to land on showing Young’s papers. Merchants in particular are fully acquainted with the determined efforts being made by the Japanese to open up fresh markets while they have the field to themselves. A Sydney firm, reporting on the rice market, informs a Dunedin house that it is nearly as cheap to buy rice from Japan to-day as it is to buy from India, for freights from India are something like £6 or £7 a ton, whereas from Japan they have, for certain reasons, been kept down to as low as from £1 to £2 a ton, to enable rice speculators and merchants in Japan to get rid oi theii holdings. The Japanese Government is working in with its people, and making the Imperial subsidised line carry produce to an almost nominal freight.
One often hears of the men in the trenches in France being allowed iuilough, and visiting London, hut this evidently does not apply to gunners, who have to he specially trained for the work they have to do. The work of the big guns is all-important, and every gun at the front is kept at high pressure in battering down wire entanglements, smashing up or smashing down entrenchments, or forming barrages of fire to prevent the enemy bringing up suppoits. gunner who has relatives in Oamaru, and who (says the Mail) has been through the whole of the campaign from Egypt to Gallipoli, and from Gallipoli to France, has nevoi had a dav off, and yet has never received a scratch. In writing to his relatives 1,0 savs he would welcome a wound that would give him respite from the dreariness of his enforced attention to his gnu, which has been barking away at the enemy ever since he began’ to assist in pointing it at the Turk or German. This soldier leio New Zealand with the Main Expeditionary Force.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 40, 14 September 1916, Page 2
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