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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 87, 11 October 1915, Page 6

Stud sheep snipped by the Marama to the Panama Exhibition at San Francisco have arrived in excellent condition, with one exception — the Eomney ram Westminster Fourth, the property of Mr. G. E. Allen, of Masterton. This animal died on the voyage. The sheep sent forward through, the Department of Agriculture consist of Romneys, Lincolns, and Corriedales, and ■numbered over thirty. Not a little excitement jvas caused at j Napier breakwater on Monday' by the ! actions of an amateur fisherman casting his line from the Glasgow Wharf (says the Hawkes Bay Herald). The water was practically alive with herrings after refuse from the Paloona, lying alongside the wharf, but apparently regardless of this fact, the fisherman was casting and recasting his line. At last 'he got what he was after and pulled in his line. Nicely booked on the end was a pound note, which had been floating about in the water. When the steamer Indian Prince was sunk in the Atlantic by the German Kronprinz Wilhelm, Bhe had on board five passengers. Mr. John Clegg, of Dunedin, who lectured on his adventures at the Town Hall on Saturday, showed .a tiny bag which he declared contained a few coffee and cocoa beans — all that now existed of the Prince's cargo, which was worth £125,000. He and Ms friends brought away a few mementos of the lost vessel. What he himself secured was, of all things, a bath towel, which afterwards secured a companion in the j shape of a bit of soap from the Kronprinz. The ladies who were with him brougnt two or three spoons and a few brass buttons. All theie quaint reScs of a great adventure were displayed by the lecturer. Generally speaking, the crowd kept good order all along the route taken by the five thousand soldiers on Saturday. Mounted artillerymen and police kept the crowd well back to the kerbs, but as soon as the horses passed the people surged back to the troops. The course of the military was not, however, impeded. There appears to have been a muddle at Waterloo-quay, where next-of-kin of the men were to be specially accommodated. More tickets than actual relatives applying for them are believed to have been issued. The consequence was the area specially set apart was overcrowded, and, moreover, the crowd outside smashed up three barriers and defeated the very object that the issuers of tickets had in view. It is stated to be common knowledge in Sydney that a number of men have deserted from the Australian forces afier they have spent months in camp and been clothed, and fed, and trained there at the country's expense. They are occasionally brought to book, and after suffering the ordeal of a Court-martial are sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment, which are almost invariably reduced. " The conviction is growing," says the Sydney Daily Telegraph, " that it is higfy time more drastic steps were taken to deal with men who have made a convenience of the military camps of the country and have displaced the endeavours we are making to effectively deal with' the Empire's enemies. There is a very firm conviction that deserters —it is not suggested that the proportion is great — have been treated with a degree of leniency which almost amounts to a reproach on the efforts the Commonwealth is making to keep our units at the, front adequately reinforced." Some fourteen or • fifteen years ago (telegraphs the Auckland correspondent of The Post), the Auckland Harbour Board, at considerable expense, erected a palatial building overlooking the harbour as a residence for the Admiral of the Australasian Naval Squadron. No Admiral, however, was ever induced to take up his residence in the building,., and the result was that it remained empty and an object of ridicule. In order to make the best of a bad bargain, the Harbour Board, some eleven years ago, leased the "white elephant" for the purposes of a boarding house, and as "Glenalvan" it has since that time been one of the best-known boarding establishments in the city. 'The new Jermynstreet eastern outlet scheme, which the City Council is now carrying out, with the view of relieving the congestion in Queen-street, has made it necessary that the building shall be removed, and the Harbour Board recently sold the property to the City Council for £12,260. Yesterday the building, which contained some sixty rooms, was sold at auction for removal, and it was knocked 'down for £500. With the demolition of the building, one of the most familiar, but most unfortunate, of our waterside buildings will disappear from view. Leaving London for the Continent at the end of July, Mr. John Clegg (who lectured in the Town Hall on Saturday night) had extraordinary trouble in col lecting a useful amount of gold coins. He found, even at a time when 'financiers and others still believed that war would be evaded, that the banks would not pay more than five per cent, of a. drawing in gold. But he gathered in driblets by many quaint devices. One 'was ,to pay his board with a "fiver," for which his landlady had no change. He suggested in an audible voice that the other boarders might help her out of the difficulty, and they did to such purpose that he picked up four pounds in goid. The money he had with him proved a constant anxiety in his subsequent adventures, and he had some trouble at one stage in persuading a kindly Italian friend, who suggested that it was much too heavy for so old a man to carry about,- that he preferred its weight to the convenience and possible wortWessness of the Italian notes, which the new acquaintance wanted to give him for his sovereigns. Notwithstanding the burden and the anxiety, the gold with which he had armed himself proved time after time to be the onljr thing which carried him and hte two friends through, for paper money and credit notes alike were found unacceptable. At the meeting of the Victoria College Council on Saturday night, the Finance Committee recommended the purchase of a lantern without kinemato-' graph attachment for the Arts Building, and to empower Professor Marsden to procure from Messrs. Turnbull and Jones 23 cells, the whole to cost not more than £100. The report was adopted. The whaEng season in Cook Strait is now apparently over, no fresh captures being reported during the past week or so. The Perano party expect to conclude operations at the Te Awaite whaling station about the end of the present month. Very good quality bow and wide-end ties, Is 9d to 2s Gd j Tussore handkerchiefs, at Is 3d j Tussore soft collars, Is, are a few of the popular fancies stocked at Geo. Fowlds, Ltd., Manners-street. — Advt. Work good, charges reasonable, promptitude ! That's our service. We pass entries, forward parcels, move furniture. The N.Z. Express Co., Ltd., 87-91, Customhouse-quay. — Advt. The moving pictures have developed to such an extent during recent years that now we are able to see actual reproductions of events from all parts of the world. It. was stated a. few days ago that, in spite of_ the war pressure in France, the Pa.ris fashions were still keeping- up, and similar styles to those screened are now in view in C. Smith's Millinery and Mantle Showroom?. There are smart model bats from 17s 6d to 47s 6d each, and dainty white pique costumee at 32s 6d each. C, Smith, Ltd., gßbjfcfifcreek ThA.Dnjßsans.— Advil^^^ •