SEVENTY IF A' DAY

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4930, 25 July 1918, Page 4

SEVENTY IF A' DAY

AND LOOK AT HIM 1”

“He’s a wonder, isn’t he? Looks the picture of health, and goes to business every day!” When asked the secret of his youth, he always says: ‘"'Good digestion. I eat well and sleep well.” Simple, isn’t it? But anyone can havo a good digestion, a hearty appetite, and strong nerves by taking Wilson’s .Malt Extract. Wilson’s Malt Extract is Nature’s tonic food —the concentrated essence of the finest malted barley. The diastase in it assists to digest the food, ainl to derive fnl] benefit Horn the meals. Apart from that, it has itself great stimulating and tonic qualities, which give strength and vigor, and tone up the whole system. For worried business men, people run down, elderly people, there is nothing better than this great tonic food. But be sure to get Wilson’s. It’s the best. All Chemists _ and Stores. With or without Cod Liver Oil.*

The small boy is provided for in the new Hutt Road by-law. It is provided that it shall, be an offence against, the by-law if anyone ••wantonly or maliciously disturbs any inhabitant by ringing any door-ijoll, or knocking at any door of any house adjoining the road, or by blowing an/- trumpet or horn, beating any drum or gong, using any other noisy instrument, or ringing any hell on the mad.’'

It is stated that- the Second Canterbury Military 'Service Board will have a novel appeal to decide at its next sittings in Ashburton. A Second Division reservist, who was drawn in the last ballot, has sent in an appeal, the grounds of which are that he objects to leave New Zealand while alien enemy subjects are allowed to wander' about mi interned. The reservists explains that he .is just as loyal as any other subject, and his appeal is being made merely as a protest, and not on his own behalf.

In the course of a sermon at the Christchurch Cathedral Bishop Julius told of a visit he paid recently to Quail Island leper station, for the purpose of confirming one of the patients there. The bishop described the man's pitiable rendition. Nevertheless lie joined in the musical part of the service", and was quite cheery and bright. The bishop said he could conceive of net-bug mote lonely or more pitiable than this poor Jeper.

“One of the most difficult tasks 1 had (luring my stay in Peru was teaching ;;n old man to wheel a wheelbarrow.” remarked the Rev. H. A. Job at the Workers’ Educational Association at Christchurch. Wheels he vent on to say. were unknown, and he tlmrofore contrived a wheelbarrow himself, but try os he would the old men, tine to thei- traditional custom, would not use it properly.

New materials and extraordinary designs, though- supposed to be fashionable, have failed to oust the neat, weil-made ladies’ hand-bag from its place of preference, and to-day the leather hand-bag is more popular than ever. To thos-e who buy at the Beehive it is also the cheapest. Twelve d'ozen bags purchased as travellers’ samples at 7s 6d to £1 Is ore being sold at 4s 6d to 15s. No bargains comparable to these are being offered in the town to-day. The Beehive, has also a great variety oi babies’ band-knitted and crocheted coats, bonnets, boots, etc.*

'"■Let me appeal for the young iad >' teachers who are sent to the country schools, stated Aliss Aitchison at, a meeting of the "Wellington Branch of the .New Zealand Educational Institute last evening. I -‘think it should be obligatory upon the education boards to provide proper accommodation . AVe know of case' "here one country teacher bad to share her [>ed wit* a baby. How could she obtain the nccessafy rest under those circumstances. ' There is another case of a girl who had tp sleep in the kitchen for many month'. Alany girls have to live miles from their schools, and- others are accommodated in private boarding houses frequented by a rough class <>f men.”

Writing from Sclieveningen, Holland, to relatives in Auckland an 'Old Contemptible,” who was taken prisoner at Mons in August, 1914, says:—'•'They have made great improvemens, in all the prison camps this past year, and treat English with a little more consideration than what they did before, but God knows what would become of them were it not for the pa reels from home. I hope before very long to he able to give you a little idea" of what we have suffered, and what 1 myself have seen others suffer. Nothing is too bad for the ’Square Head,’ but I wish to forget it. To me it seems out of all reason that such a beautiful country—and it is beautiful — should be inhabited by such uiiscrupifeous people. • We have a saying here which we have always carried through that Dante's Inferno, and i that is, ‘keep smiling.’ ” •!

■Shearing in Peru is evidently not u very speedy nor a very workmanlike operation according to the Rev. H A. Job, who gave an address i.n tin* country at the Workers’ Educational Association on Saturday evening. Shears, said Mr Job. were quite unknown. Even knives were not used, but rather pieces of sharpened hoop-iron or broken bottles. “if a man in the off season found a brok-

et beer bottle,” said the speaker, amidst laughter, “he would wrap it up and guard it carefully ti]j next . Needless to say. there are up such feats there as shearing 100 saeep a jay. About the most I ever lunid of a native doing was 12. Al- ”>• I need not say that'the sheep are r.ot very handsome creatures when they are finished.” Mr Job incidentally remarked on the amazement he himself, caused by shearing with a ;>air of scissors, and passing through, a score or so animals a day.

fine phase of tapu is told hi a storv by Air Elsdon Best. “One Tokoa warrior of parts,” h e says, /• v ls . taken captive by a party of ( icmie.s under the chief Te Putu, one mie- morn some 150 years agoknowing that his feet wore already treading the broad patch of Tane to the spirit world, ho rushed at Tc Putu, drew his tete, a bone daorger, and stabbed him to the heart. As he did so lie shouted: ‘Tena te liuka tv Tokowaru 1 Tena e rangona! Tena e rangona 1’ (‘Behold the last man slain by Tokowaru! It will be told through all the changing years!’) As the rushing blood flowed from the 'dagger wound, Tokowaru caught it in bis hand, and smeared it over bis head and body, knowing that the tapu of that blood would save him from degradation of the oven. The nextinstant. Tokowaru, of the sons' of Raukawa, lifted the old, old trail to the Spirit World. The killing of Te Putu was spoken of down the changing years, I ’., concludes Air Best, ‘for ° three months ago—six generaafter —old Karaka Tarawliiti, a descendant of Tokowaru) sat on the bank of the Waikato River, at HuntVW, and told me the tale- / Broncho Breebhes at W. H. Campbell's. best quality, 57r 6d ; * • Prompt Settlement on the onot, Fa ; r treatment from .the Standard Insurance Company, Ltd—C. G. Bloore. Agent, Tire, Marine. Accident. —Advt,

According to the Government Statistician, Gisborne js the dearest place, in New Zealand in which to purchase groceries. / ' v It is reported that many of the • .winter-sown crops in the Ashburton County are likely to be a failure, and in some eases farmers are making preparations for ploughing them in, • amWye-.sowing in the spring. Mrs M. MoLachlan, of Lowe street, has been advised that her son. Bombardier E. McLachlan, who has been an inmate of the No 1 General Hospital suffering from an injury to the knee, was transferred to the convalescent hospital at Hornchurch on July 17.

A big Maori Inn is to bo held at Or ilia, Kawakawa, Bay of Islands, towards the end of next month, to discuss matters relating to the Treaty of WaiJtaigi, and political topics affecting the Maori race. A representative gathering from tribes and hapus tin eughout New Zealand is anticipated..

There is nothing better to keep out the cold these wintry days than all wool colonial underwear. Messrs. C Rosie and Co. have good stocks of these in all grades and sizes from 5s Gd for all wool knitted underpants and from os fid for pure wool undershirts.*