HOPING FOR A FIGHT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 182, 9 April 1915, Page 5

HOPING FOR A FIGHT.

EARLY MOVE CONTEMPLATED. BY THE MEN AT ZEITUN. . ZEITUN, Feb. 28. "It's prop/arly hot, and getting hotter. W© hope that Dame Rumour has not added another lie to her already heavy list, and that an early move is contemplated. The rapidity with which arrangements ar<3 being made point in that direction. Brigade and divisional training has benefited all the troops immensely. It give's confidence in working together with large bodies of solditers, and strengthens march discipline. "The Mounted Brigade were away along the lsmailia Canal.towards Suez, for four days last week. This was merely for training. On the return they 'attacked' tbia camp. Our unit wa s in defence. The action lasted all day, and ended with the honours fairly evenly divided. The Mounted Brigade enjoyed their trip, and took every advantage of ■observing the country on the route of march. Our boys of the infantry are back from Suez. They have all heard rifle-fire, and seen shells burst. This Canterbury men saw a good deal of the principal action, and the 3rd Auckland Regiment (Major Dawson) were also engaged. The men have come back more than ever sure that the Turks cannot bring a force to penetrate th>3 magnificent defences at the Canal. They cannot speak in high enough praise of the Sikhs and Gliurka Regiments. The Ghurkas, with their bright eyes and gleaming knives, our fellows declare to be bornfighters."

In a letter to the Standard, Mr. R. &. Abrahams sums up Palmerston as follows: "No trams, no library, 710 baths, no confidence in anybody or anything. '•' The discovery made by the local Superintendent cf Telegraphs that a water bottle on his table had acted as a lens concentrating rhe sun's rays and setting Are to the table created much interest in th e city and district (says the Lyttelton Times). People saw in the occurrence a possible solution of many mysterious outbreaks of fire. More than one farmer told of fires being caused among dry grass by bottle or bits of glass focussing th e sun's rays, and one or two incipient fires have been traced to the same cause.