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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 48, 25 August 1914, Page 6

Although merchants have been compelled to revise their price lists of imported groceries (telegraphs our Dunodin correspondent), they continue to supply these at reasonable prices, and so far there has not been the slightest suspicion of exploitation. The destruction of tho cruisor Amphion has revived the discussion as to the best means of destroying floating mines (states a cable message to tho Sydney Sun). It is pointed out that where mines are laid on an extensive scale the plan of permitting condemned hulks to drift into them is exceedingly slow and costly, besides being an imperfect expedient. Engineors agree thtifc concussion in the vicinity of the mines is all that is required to explode them. Before tho war iB over aeroplanes will probably be heard of as being engaged as mine scouts for battleships, dropping dynamite and thus creating a safe path. Farmers throughout South Canterbury (says Saturday's Timaru Herald) are still anxiously looking for the rain which often threatens but does not come. The winter-sown crops .ire now showing well above ground, and though they can hardly be said to have suffered much yet horn the long-continued dry spell, they would be all the better fora good rain. The ground is now very dry. and tho subsoil would be all the better for a good soaking before the summer sets in. Some fields which are being ploughed now are turning up all right, but in others the soil is caked and turns up in groat clods which will take a lot of .working before seed can be sown. The pastures also stand in need of rain now. At many homesteads in tho country the supply of water has run short, and carting this* indispensable commodity has had to be resorted to. Quite a stir was created in. the camp of German reservists at Fremantle last week (says a Melbourne papel 1 ), when a certain prisoner was brought in by the guard. As soon as he made his appearance the rest of the prisoners stood to attention, and made it known that the new arrival was a German of high rank. It appears that he is a German baron, who has in years past served as an officer in the German army. A little time ago he applied for a position as coachman to a well-known Fremantle merchant, and he was engaged. He left out the "yon" in his name, and became known only by his two Christian names. Those who came in contact with him found him to be most interesting. He could converse in five languages, and was well versed on all topics of the day. It is understood that he endeavoured to obtain a passage on the Gorman steamer Stolberg, but he was unsuccessful. The linking up of Petono with the bays on tho eastern side of the harbour has been a protracted undertaking, owing principally to differences of opinion among the local bodies interested regarding the road between the Hutt pipe bridge and the Waiwetu bridge. For 6ome considerable time the cost of this portion of the scheme was the bone of contention, and the difficulty was eventually overcome by a conference of the bodies concerned. At this conference the City Council agreed %o contribute half the amount requited, while the remainder was apportioned among the Petone, Lower Hutt, and Eaetbourno Borough Councils and the Hutt County Council. It will not bo very long now be. fore a commencement is made with the construction of the road, which has been undertaken by the Wellington City Council. The road will, according to the engineer of the Lower Hutt Council (Mr. W. J. Roche), meet all reasonable requirements, except perhaps with regard to the width, which will be 25 feet, with an additional 8 feet for the footpath. Nothing can now be done, however, to rectify the matter, as the width is controlled by a resolution passed by the Lower Hutt council laot month. At the Supreme Court this morning the hearing of the divorce action Linda O'Kelly v. Edward O'Kelly waa fixed for Fnday next, at 10.30 a.m.