INTERESTING ITEMS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 216, 29 May 1915, Page 3

INTERESTING ITEMS.

German stamp collectors are eagerly buying up the stamps of the Gormen colonies which are now in £orfeigu pos* session. The priee-s that they ate paying do not seem to show much deuce in the recovery of the colorie.-\ Bobert Fitzsimmons, ex-chamtioia heavyweight boxer of tho world. i« about to be married for the fourth time. He says he will ask '.'J'iHv 51 Sunday, the American evangelist, to perform the ceremony. Following on the general -, 30 ni ie'e price of commodities, it is atfunitucod (says the Lyttelton Times; that ihi charges on freight carried coastwise an intercolonial steamers hav.3 been increased.

On their return recently from a m.i& tary camp, some young farmers tooS with them a British flag, which the? placed at the entrance to the loeu'j creamery, requesting every supplier to salute it as he passed through the gates in the morning. All went well until a German youth appeared on the ecet!P» He refused to salute the flag and returned hurriedly to tell his father of the occurrence. Tho latter remarked? "Leave it to me," and the next trip to the creamery was made by him. Tip. father drove past the flag without saluting, despite a warning that it was injudicious to show contempt for the flag under which the man had prospered. During the next 24 hours a number of things mysteriously happened which caused a lot of hard thinking on the part of the farmer. A gate came off its hinges, cattle suddenly escaped from paddocks, milk cans appeared io become endowed with life and spilt; their contents, the horse beeame patriotic and bolted, overturning the cart, and it is asserted that even the cows refused to' yield their milk. At 1 ' aiy rate, the son of the Fatherland was one of the first at the factory the Bert morning, and as he passed the flag he saluted it with a fervour that could not bo.excelled by the most patriotic John Bull. .