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Taranaki Daily News, 10 May 1916, Page 5

A oownrdly and most unprovoked, a»» snult is reported to have been committed on n returned soldier in Manaia a. few niphta ago, by three men, who were entire strangers to hjm (reports the Witness). Xext morning tlie badly \l*ed soldier encountered one of His assailants, and, after assuring himself of his identity, punished liim severely. T-ater in the day he canio in contact with the other two, and after accusing them of the cowardice and immanlines? of their conduct in appropriate terms, proceeded to operate on the more formidablelooking of the two, who, however, strenuously declined combat, taking refuge in - threats of law and police, both availing themselves of the first opportunity of making themselves scarce. Some 200 miles to the south o( Bluff is Campbell Island, an old-time sealing and whaling resort, which is now an extensive sheep station. The island has an area of about 43,000 acres, and at , the present time carries fiBOO sheep and 1559 lambs, a total of 5359. During thi past seven years tbo station (which was' leased by Captain Tucker, Qisborne), has been controlled by Norton Brothers, seven in number. The Bluff Press states that the whole seven returned to Blui by the Rachel Cohen an Monday to go tty the front with the Seventeenth Reinforcements. The seven brothers iaunadiately set about enlisting, and ia «• 4°- - ing they created a New Zealand record. They were the sole population of Campbell Island, and so they have the magnificent response of 100 per cent, of tha total population. They -will \t attached to the contingent from Pieton, whence they all hail. For Children's Hacking Cough,) Woads' Great Peppermint Cur* KAEBOL, sold in Od, 1 8 , and li Qt boUlti.—Sykes, Chtmiab