LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 28 June 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"Lady (to returned soldier): "Have you ever killed a German?" Tommy: "'Ave I? 'Ave I? Believe me, mum, I sleeps on a mattress as is stuffed with the whiskers of Germans I've killed."

"How long have you been farming?" asked counsel of an appellant at the Military Appeal Board at Palmerston recently. "All my life —as long as I can remember, and a bit before that, I think "

Messrs. Ward and Co., will hold their usual sale at the Tui Street Mart, to-morrow, when a horse, saddle and bridle, saddle and breech-

ing, a nearly J "hew fertiliser drill, 300 cases of fruit, and sundries will be submitted by.auction

A speedy- arrest was made by the Hawera police- They deceived a warrant for the : arrest of i>a vreservist. at 5: o'clock and within half an hour they had apprehended their man, who is alleged to have failed to report at Hawera to proceed to camp.

A person arrived recently at Geneva from Budapest declares, says a Central News correspondent, that he recently sold a suit of clothes which he had worn for two yearrs for 800 kronen (rather more than £33). The suit originally cost him £4.

Three justices of the peace, an official shorthand writer, five court clerks two counsel, and two solicitors with their clerks were required at Middlesex Sessions (London) recently in a case in which the only point at issue was whether a cealing in the kitchen of a house should be white-washed. The argument occupied two hours

One of the war tragedies of hourlyoccurrence in Germany took place in Berlin a few weeks ago. A workman's wife, having received official notice of her husband's death on the western front asphyxiated herself and her three children, leaving a note which said that her bereavement, added to the woes of existence in Berlin to-day, was unbearable.

The Minister of Internal Affairs was approached recently and asked to give permission for a kinematograph film being taken of the incidents connected with the highway robbery near Greymouth, in connection with which Eggers paid the extreme penalty of die law. While the Minister could not prevent the film being made he held out no hope to the applicant that, if it were taken, it would be passed for exhibition" by the film censor