The.Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) has received cordial letters from Sir Ernest Shackleton and Captain J. K. Davis, expressing" on their own behalf and on behalf of their officers and men keen appreciation of the hospitality recently accorded them by the Mayor, council, and citizens of Wellington."
A most unusual exhibit at the Tas<&--puna Show last week (says the Tiraaru Post) was a plant yielding both potatoes and tomatoes. The tomatoes had been grafted on to the tuber plant, and the result was the two products, both of good quality.
The Servian boys in England are making ra.pid progress in. English. The extent of their attainments may he judged from the following story, which is vouched for as authentic. One of the boys was asked to translate from Servian into English the following ■ sentence: " He gave up his life on the battlefield." -With the help, of a dictionary, he produced the version: "He relinquished his vitality on the bellicose meadow."
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 49, 26 February 1917, Page 8
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