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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 133, 7 June 1915, Page 6

The mails which left Wellington on 30th April, per R.M.S. Maitai, and which arrived at San Francisco on 22nd May (three days late) reached London on sth June (six days late). ' Application is to be made by th© Na- ' pier Borough Council to the trustees of ■ the estate of the late E. W. Knowles for a sum of i £10,000 towards the erection and equipment of a free libraary. At the annual meeting of the Hawkes Bay Licensing Committee, held in Hastings, Mr. L W. Fowler moved : "That the Government be requested to j close both the public and private bars of all licensed hotels at 6 p.m. during the currency of the war." The motion lapsed for want of a seconder. An interesting discovery wbb made by a picnic party on Ward Island last week. While exploring the island a young penguin was captured in a tunnel. It was about 9 or 10 inches high and fairly tame, although, when caught, it made vigorous pecks at the fingers. Subsequently a nest of penguins was found in a deep hole in a rock on the island. Visitors to the island are requested not to interfere with the birds. The Prime Minister (who is also Minister for Agriculture), remarked, in the course of an interview on Saturday that a very large number of dairy factories all over New Zealand were installing cheese-making machinery, with the object of producing cheese instead of butter It was pretty evident, therefore, that there would be a big falling off in the manufacture of butter and a corresponding production of cheese. " It is, of course, only the result of the high price of cheese," remarked Mr. Massey. The time wili 6oon arrive, states the Officers' _ Advocate, < when a New Zealander's invention will enable the operator of a typewriter in the Wellington Post Office to actuate in Christchurch, Auckland, or any_ other distant city, a machine which will turn out a type-written copy of the message without further human attention. This invention, by Mr D. Murray, formerly a journalist engaged in Auckland, has been adopted by the British Post Office and the Western Union and Western Electric Telegraph Companies of America for use between points where heevy traffic has to be handled. Samples of paper clothing for the soldier in the field have reached Wel« lington. They have* been sent out to I the local branch of James Spicer and ■ Sons, the inventors and makers, and j take the form of a waistcoat and waders. They are made of n, particularly tough paper specially prepared to keep out damp and_ cold. The waistcoat is worn under regimental clothing and tied with light cotton tapes , Its weight is inconsiderable, and when rolled up measures 9 inches long by 1 inch in diameter The waders are made of the same material. The soldier practically puts v his legs into paper bags, and he can wear them over or under his puttees as the case may be. The boots, of course, are worn over the wader, which reaches to the thigh. A written agreement to elope, signed by a married man and the wife of another man, and stamped with a penny stamp, was produced during the hearing of a private prosecution in the Auck' land Magistrate's Court on Friday (says the Herald). The case was one in which Walter Harold Mills was charged with having failed to account for part of tho proceeds of the sale of a fish business. The woman who signed the remarkable agreement wa« the wife of the man to whom Mills sold the business, but the agreement, she said, was only signed in fun. She had told her husband all abont it and that was an end of the matter. Mills stated that the woman really wanted him to go away with her He had kept the letter because he thought that it might do him come "good, although he had not tried to blackmail her. The Magistrate commented unfavourably on the transaction. The Mayor's War Distress Committee met to-day, when there were present the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke), R«v W A. Evans, Messrs. J. Baldwin, W. H. Moston, E. C Jack, and W. A. W. Grenfell. The statement of accounts shewed that the receipts to date were £3568 9s 7d and the' expenditure £521 15s 3d. Relief authorised to-day involved an expenditure of £32 4s. A report covering all the cases being dealt with by the committee and fresh applications made was considered and adopted. The Mayor told a Post reporter that the greatest discrimination was exercised in dealing with applications for relief This fact was vouched for by the satisfactory state of the fund, in spite of the long duration of the war In addition to paying rent in nepdy cases, the com miltoe dealt with cases of unemployment attributable directly or indirectly to the war, and its operations extended to the dependents of British reservists and others who had gone to the front from New Zealand. The last issue of The \Vellingtonian contains an interesting letter from Dr. J. F. G. Richards, Lieut. R.A.M.C, No. 15, Field Ambulance, 2nd Army British Expeditionary Force, in which he says : "In tlie first two months of the war I was stationed at Sheerness with another civil surgeon in charge of the military hospital. We had j very good work there, but t was anxious to get abroad and was glad when 1 was attached to the 14th General Hospital. We went to Ostend, where wo saw the Belgian army retiring from Antwerp and the Naval Brigade that had helped to relieve the pressure on them. Next We ware at Calais, then at Boulogne, and finally at Wumnieux, whence after three weeks' work at high pressure I was sent to a field ambulance at the front. Save for a few weekswith artillery brigades and an ammunition column, I have been attached to an ambulance ever since. We collect wounded at night in horsed ambulances from the regimental outposts, take them back to our own dressing stations, re-dress them and keep them till they are removed by motor ambulance We do a good deal of work among the Flemish people here, and have inoculated large numbers of them against typhoid.' 1 Every morning is a warm morning to those ladies who have purchased padded Jan Silk Dressing Gowns at Kirkcaldie and Stains', Ltd. Remarkably handsome shades — embroidered 425. See some ! — Advt. The nip of winter's frost cannot touch the hand that wears one of Fowlds' woollen gloves. Woollen, Is. Geo. Fowlds. -Advt. Business men ! Private citizens ! We can help you. Wo forward parcels anywhere, distribute goods, check baggage, move furniture safely. N.Z. Express Co., Ltd., 87-91, Customhouse-quay.— Advt. When those alert operators at the various wireless stations within range of the Lusitania received that sharp, short, signal (...—•-——...) which, translated, reads "save our souls, \ it marked the beginning of a world-wide, horror, tho greatest on record in the history of piracy. The news of so great a catastrophe flashed over tho entire civilised world caused a sudden chill of greater hatred towards a so-oalled kultured enemy adopting such barbarous mothods of destruction. In a few weeks' time Some thousands of Now Zealand's picked men will leave to follow those who have already provqd, themselves to equal tho best of British soldiers — men who aro worthy of the grentest support, possible, not only against a strohg foe but ill-health ; also those who have not boen provided for will do well to see the soldiers' outfit in C. Smith's No. J fcindciw.—: Advt