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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 140, 10 December 1918, Page 8

Mi.:_ A. A. Parian, of Cuba-street, ■Wellington, has received the following brief bat.interesting letter from his son, •who was at the time of siting (21st July) a prisoner of , war at Meschede, Ctermany-:—"Once again I -write my weekly note, and am pleased to say. I am' in the best of health., The life here is a very lazy one, as we^have no work to do, being n.c.o.'s, but, nevertheless, it is very, monotonous. During this r last, week I have received four parcels, one containing about \6lb of biscuits. These biscuits are. about 3in , square and an inch thick; and when dipped in water and left in the ann: for an' hour or two 'become soft, and are just like new bread. They are very wholesome and satisfying. We receive them' during the summer month*, bat the other nine months of the year we receive 4lb. of' bread each week. The second parcel" contained a '7 o'clock' safety razor, shaving soap and brush, tooth paste arid brush;.'towel aridi toilet soap. Parcel No.: 3 was -two shirts, two singlet*, anda pair of underpants. No. 4 was a grocery parcel, containing 1 tin beans, 1 tin bully beef, 1 tin vegetables, 1 tin milk; 1 tin jam, 1 tin butter, ilb biscuits, lib .rice, £Ib sugar. Jib tea, soap, toothpowder, shaving soap, salt, pepper, and mustard. We are to receive, three of these grocery parcels every, 'fortnight; so, on tb« whole, I won't be doing so badly if they turn up O.K. There are two.of us New Zealanders and an Englishman and Scotchman messing together, so of course we share all we get."

Owing to the epidemic having dislocated arrangements in connection with the. Wellington District Methodist Synod, which commenced its session at Newtown this morning, all special functions have been dispensed with. By passing hurriedly over certain unimportant matters it is hoped to complete the session to-night. '

Nearly fifty of the boys who are boarders at the New Plymouth High School returned to town last week after a stay of a fortnight at the North Egniont. Hostelry. Shortly after the outbreak of the. influenza epidemic the school was closed, and most of the boarders returned to-their homes. The-others proceeded up the mountain in order to b? isolated from the danger of infection. The headmaster (Mr. W. H. Moyes) was with them. That the step taken was a ..wise one was nroved by the fact that only*one mild case of influenza was reported among the 40 or 50 boys. According to a Press Association cable message there is a heat wave throughout the Commonwealth. Bourke (N.S.W.) tops many ( high registers with 115 degrees in,the shade. . "Nenr Zealanders always think of Samoa with a tear in their eye"—playful remark of I>r Solf, the German Governor of Samoa, to a party of New Zealand Parliamentarians during their visit to Acia in 1903.: The tear has teen wiped off. Messrs. C. W. Price and Co., 60, Lamb-ton-quay, will sell fnrniture in their room* to-morrow, at 1.30 p.m.; on Thursday th»y will cell furniture at 23, Glen-berrie-tento*, »t 1,30 p.m.