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Taihape Daily Times, 23 November 1917, Page 4

iSays the Belfast Weekly News:— Charged at West Ham with being an absentee, a driver in the E.F.A. was liberated in order that he might get married. It is understood that no further punishment will be inflicted. Leaving 118 children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, Rabbi Barnett Wolinsky died in New York recently at the age of 113 years. He had three wives, smoked all his life, but never drank. As showing that the work of shearing may be carried out by settlers and old-time shearers, a few days ago when the roll was called on a Castlcpoint station, in the Wairarapa, only two shearers responded. However, in a few hours over a dozen neighbours, all of whom have a knowledge of shearing, had filled the boards,, and work proceeded merrily. The most delicious Sauce in the world.—Lotus Yorkshire Relish.

An advertiser wants work by the day or week, at cleaning or sewing. At the Ashburton picture theatre an irate person demanded to know what the extra penny (amusement tax) was for, whereupon a'lady who overheard him promptly replied: "Oh, that's for the £400,000 bonus to Civil Servants. '' We have to thank Mr. E Goodbenere, secretary of the Feilding Jockey Club for the usual press courtesies" in connection with the Fielding Spring meeting, which takes place on Saturday, Ist December. With fine weather this is one of the most enjoyable meetings in the Province. Particulars have just reached me from America of an interesting test case which concerns the famous German raider Emden (says a writer in the Pall Mall Gazette(. It appears that an English merchant vessel was proceeding through the Atlantic when she encountered the raider. The captain had with him his wife, who was shortly to become a mother. Learning of the danger in which they stood, the woman put off in a small boat to intercede with the Emdcn's commander. Following his gallant custom, Captain Muller granted her request. Moreover, he gave her a paper on which he had written that, in place of destroying the vessel he presented it to the little child who was shortly to be born on board. The authorities now question the validity of this document, and this forms the subject of the case which is being tried in New 7 York. All through the season the potato beds in front of Buckingham Palace have attracted keen interest. Those same borders usually produce brilliant crops of scarlet geraniums, but times have changed, and potato growing has become an obsession. The interested public passing through the park gazed with rapt and unabated interest from the time of the burial of four ewt. of potatoes till uoav, when the crop is being lifted. They are concerned that the results have not been as satisfactory as could have been hoped, for the green ' fly has been busy in the patches, and a sigh is heaved for the might-have-been cheery geraniums. Potatoes lifted, cabbages are to* try their luck in close proximity to the Palace, and under the aegis of a marble Queen ' Yietoria, looking down from her lofty pedestal.