New Zealand

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 163, 16 December 1914, Page 5

New Zealand

SAIUiRS FORSAKE THE SEA. By Telegraph.—Per Press Association. Duncdin, December .15. Five deserters from the Buteshire appeared in the Police Court this morning. Four left the ship with the object of enrolling in the expeditionary force. Two of them would have been valuable quisitiong, one having served 14 years in the navy and reached the highest noncommissioned rank. The other had been refused at Home because he was over age. The Magistrate ordered the men to be placed on board before the ship sailed this afternoon. NEW ZEALAND CONGRATULATIONS. Wellington, Last Night. On December Sth His Excellency the Governor despatched a cable message to the Secretary of State for the Colonics, asking him to convey this message to Field-Marshal Sir John French:—".New Zealand desires to heartily congratulate you on* the honor which His Majesty the King has conferred upon you as Com-mander-in-Chief of all bis Majesty's forces in the field." ' To.day His Excellency received the following reply:—"Please accept my wannest thanks for the kind and generous message from New Zealand. I have a vivid recollection of the splendid work done by New Zcalanders under my com* mand in South Africa. (Signed)! I French." EVEN NAMES LOCK. = " For some days people have been talking over the following:— JOE F R E F R B N C' H It is something like an acrostic. In the days of Rome it would have been regarded as an augury. Spel it from left 'to right and then from top to bottoms The union of mimes is a happy filing if one looks back at the union of general'ship. When Sir .Tolm French began his perilous detachments from tlie Aiene is) "the rale for the sea," be evidently knewt his Joffre. And .TolTre (knew his French. And now, as one notices, even their names lock in friendship. x BEAUTY IS ONLY SKIN DEEP. "Beauty is only skin deep," bo runs the old saying, and it behoves us to make that skin,, the outward manifestation of beauty and. of health, as pure and healthy as only soap and water and right living can make it. A skin which, glows with health is a beautiful feature to any man or woman, and a soap which creates absolte skin purity is l beauty's greatest asset. Such a soap is now available to the general public. Rexona soap stands for Purity, Cleanliness, Health, Beauty. By its use the, hild-like bloom is preserved to aoohV age, the texturQ^f&e^jfjMHjiJMjjH efined, wo^^gtt^^^^^^^^^^^^^H