GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1916, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

A sailor who was present at the Jutland battle said: "We saw some funny tilings. The guns were ear-splitting, but I was sure I could hear a lot of men laughing. When I asked what were laughing at, one replied, 'Look at the old Warspite!' She was careering through the water with a Genjian submarine hooked right jip to her ram. It was like a dog witn a salmon in its mouth." CHILDREN WILL TAKE COLD. Children are always taking cold but Chamberlain's Cough Remedy quickly cures them. It is in eases of croup and whooping cough that this remedy is most Valued. Mothers of eroupy children know it can be relied upon for quick rel:ef. It liquifies the tough mucus of whooping cough, making it easier to expectorate and renders the paroxysms of coughing less frequent and severe. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is safe for the youngest and most delicate child. Sold everywhere. A soldier writes 1 , from "somewhere in France":—You should see the rats we have down here. Big 'uns, little 'uns, fat 'uns and thin 'uns, blacks and browns and greys. They are of enormous size, too. Some of them are almost as big as cats and rabbits, and one of the men says he saw one of them getting round in an overcoat, it was such a size." HER FIRST PIE. They had not been married long, and it was her first pie. He helped himself to a second piece, and smiled sweetly into her anxious face. His health was precious to her, but such heroism stirred her very soul. All doubts of, his love vanished for ever. She did not know that deep in his pocket nestled a little tin of I)r. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules, which digest what you eat, and so the peace of one happy home remained unbroken. Pie has no terror when Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules are at hand. Price, Is Gd and 2s 8d per tin. Obtainable everywhere. As the North Sea is shallow where tlie great Rattle was fought—only 29 fathoms north of the Horn Reefs, sinking to 17 ana then to nine to th« south of them —the'truth as to the German losses must soon be known (writes Mr. David Hannay in the Field). The mere breadth of such a huge ship as the Hindenburg, which wo claim to have destroyed, is about 10 fathoms, that is, 00ft, or half the depth north of the Horn Reefs. The muss of wreckage such a craft would leave must he easily detected by airships and - dredgers even if part of it did not project above the surface of the water. THE GOLDEN AGE Lies not in the past, but in the future. It is our endeavour to move with the times, and to keep our plant and methods abreast of them, so that business men or householders employing us get the benefit of our t up-to-dateness and our progressiveness. Whatever we do —whether moving furniture, passing entries, sending parcels in or our of New Zealand—it is done in the best and quickest manner. The New Zealand! Express Co., Ltd. . An Onehuiiga lady, wflio taccnUy sent some toys Home for the children of Belgian refugees, lias received a touching letter of thanks from the mother of one ot the recipients. She asks the donor to "exuse her baid Englisch," and goes on to say, "It was willi very great pleasure I receive your very nice ball, my little girld, who is 2 years and fl months of age, is very happy, and she like it very much. She papa is at tlje front since tlie beginning of the war, and has already been wounded three times. But, never mind, we are full of confidence, and we hope the war shall be soon finish, and then papa will come back quite well." It was the steamer Hesperus That sailed the wintry sea, ' But the skipper bold had an awful cold, And was sad as sad could be. But his daughter fair, with the golden hair, Said, "Father, no words could be truer; N T o cure on earth haj half the worth Of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure." 2 To Grocers—Your customers want Desert Gold, the Queen of Teas. Whole<al« agents Wright. Sta"he«son and Co., Ltd., Wellineton, J