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Taranaki Daily News, 31 December 1919, Page 4

Lientenant-Coihmander Bottrke, V.O, , spoke at Wellington on Monday nighty a with great pride and pleasure of tdq meeting with the late Licutenant-Com< mander Sanders, V.C., D.S.O. ("Mystery V.C."), at a London club. He and his friends, he stated, were fortunate enough to induce Lieutenant Sanders to tell the story of liow he and his crew in their disguised vessel stood the enemy's galling fire for 35 minutes and allowed both the boat and her crew to be badly shot up, before they thought that the sub* marine had been lured close enough to make dead sure of her. Then they opeui ed Are and made sure. (Applause.) The following communication has been ' received by a leading Dunedin house X from a New York firm:—"Your latter of August 7, directed to our New York office, reached us on September 12, and we could not place Dunedin in any country that we knew of, unfortunately, not having an atlas that would indicate cities without referring to the, countries, We Consequently assumed that it was Scotland, and sent your letter to our English, agents for their attention. They have just returned it to us With the information that they have called up your London office and were informed that Dunedin is in New Zealand. This* therefore, accounts for out delay in replying to your letter."

The "Dover fare" was one of the in* ventions of the war, and one which laao small measure helped to end it. The Dover flare, according to Jjieut.-Cotf>« mander Roland Bourke V.C., D.5.0., who is now in Wellington, is a calcium light which is of 1,000,000 candle power, and has an illuminating radius of four miles —a light which makes considerable demands on the imagination. It was the light which guided the Vindictive to the Ostend piers in the great raid of la»t year, and it is learned from the visitor that a double row of Dover flares farmed a wonderfully-illuminated avenue across the English Channel towards the) end of the war. With nets stretched below, hung with contact mines, a®d Dover flares above, the Germans were given BO chance of getting through the Channel-

There was an unusual occurrence at Mr. J. D. Wills' farm on the Lake Road, Hawera, on Friday, by which he lost a valuable cow and himself had a narrow escape from a serious accident («ays the Star). It appears that one of the elec< trie wires which go through his paddocks had got off the cup an looped down in contact with the iron pole. Thus apparently the current ran down Intb the wires of a fence which touched the pole. The cow, rubbing itself on the wires, received a severe shock, and w very badly injured. Mr. Wills, seeing the animal struggling, went across and took hold of one horn to pull It away from the wire, and received alio • a shbtk which threw him into the,air and fortunately away from the fence. Nothing could be done for the cow, whioh ■died from the shock. Mr. Wills, though somewhat shaken, was not hurt. Toe occurrence should act aB a warning to those farmers across whow land tile electric wires are carried.

Our leadership for style, quality and value will be 'maintained during. Htnr Year, and you will be making no xoititake in making this your footwear home (or 1920. By a continuance of our policy of gelling the right goods at the right prices, we will endeavor to deserve your patronage. Foster's Boot Store, Strata ford,