PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 5003, 18 October 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. TV. D. Lysnar returned to Gisborne by the Aralmra yesterday after a visit to Southland, where he addressed a meeting of farmers on the meat question. Messrs. D. Kirkpatrick and J. R. Murphy, of Gisborne, returned by the .Arahura yesterday after a visit to the Hawke’s Bay ?how. where Mr. Kirkpatrick judged the Lincoln sheep section and Mr. Murphy the Shorthorn cattle. The Bishop of Waiapu will arrive in Gisborne by the Ripple to-morrow morning, and will he the guest of the Vicar at NVaerenga-a-hika. On Sunday morning His Lordship will hold a confirmation service at TV ae-renga-a-liika, and in the evening lie will preach at Makaraka school.

The Pos-tmaster-General of London states that since the beginning of the year literature filling on an average about 600 bags a week has been handed in by the .public at postoffices for free transmission to sailors and soldiers. A new definition of drunkenness was given by a military witness in the Upper ELutt Magistrate’s Court last week, which the Magistrate, Mr F. V. Frazer, described as not at all a bad one. A man may be considered drunk, said the witness, when he cannot answer a question, cannot stand on liis feet, and does not know his whereabouts. “Reinforcement drafts are coming in wonderfully well,” said Sir James Allen, Minister for Defence, at Auckland a few days ago. “It is, indeed', most inspiring to see the way the men aro turning up now. They are men of a fine type, too, quite in earnest about their work, and, though making great sacrifices, they are coming in to’ do their duty, and they will do it,” \ ery considerable reduction in orders for military uniforms will probably be effected during next year, information to this effect having been transmitted to the contractors by the Minister for Munitions, the Hon. A. M. Myers. The reduction is likely in view of the fact that there is an amply-sufficient supply of uniforms in stock and on order, and in view of the pressing need for executing orders for the civilian population of the Dominion. Mr Myers stated that % thig would enable clothing manufacturers to devote their activities to the domestic requirements of the people of the Dominion, to whom the difficulties of importation had been the source of considerable concern.

The courage of the British soldier was referred to by the Prime Minister at a gathering at the Auckland Orphans’ Club on Saturday evening. “The British soldier is as valiant and courageous as any troops in the field,” said Mr Massey, “and he has shown no deterioration from the spirit shown by his fighting ancestors. While in Britain I heard of an incident not reported in _ the cabled, new’s. Nine hundred British troops with 70 officers were put in to hold a precarious position for four days, during the retreat in March. They did their work, but only one officer and 70 men came back. That illustrates the mettle of the British soldier better than anything I can say.”

“If fighting were going on here m New Zealand, money for the Red Cross would be directly •forthcoming without question,” said Mr. P. H. Upton, in addressing a meeting ot business men in Auckland. * J.here would not be any need fer entertainments or other popular methods under which people expect when they subscribe to the Red Cross ! We ought to do for the men who are fighting so far away what wo would do so gladlv for them if they were fio-htinsT and dying here m our own country. It should no longer be necessary for us to go to a man, and, bv sheer force of argument compel him to contribute to this noble iuncl, nor should it lie necessary for us to have to trv to'convince him Ox a duty whitch it is his privilege to perform-

Tam “arrived” at numbers of shops in London last, month. The scenes that followed in some districts outrivalled those associated with the o-reat sales of the large Mest End firms. Who discovered, that jam was on sale is not chronicled. But the news was circulated wnh the rapidity of wireless. It passed from street to street and house to house. Whole families- were organised mto foraging units. Any and eveiybody at home was pressed mto service The result was that shops which ac tnrily lad "' er „ e i e o d °S with customers. Everyone asked for the one thing and where there was any choice it lay between strawberry and raspberry. Nothing .else was demanded, and no other business was r, possible till supplies gave out. oi the 1 manager or proprietor had to cmmi fl a o> and announce Sold Out. une manager told a newspaper representative he never remembered such a push to his stores even m the worst of the queue days. It was simply a scramble.

'Hie sequel to a remarkable expedience by a former resident of Cential Otago has recently been brought to ]i<dit It appears that some thirteen rears ago the man concerned had. a vivid dream in which he was ibroug into touch with the suffering caused bv a 'great war ten years hence. In that war his son, according to the dream, was to die m action Eh man was so impressed with the dream that he wrote, the facts down on the door of a shed and told his friends about it He later *®" moved to the North Island. The dream came true in the shape of tie present struggle, and he recently received word of his son’s death on the field. A resident of the Central Otago town who knew of the dream sought for and found the shed, now mounted on a sledge, in another P ar , of the district, and was able to react the, scarcely .decipherable writing recording the facts of his friend s strange prophetic dream.

A soldier stumbled on a unique manner of satisfying the demands ot the law at the Upper Hut Court last week. A defendant in a c-ivil case was disputing certain items in a currier’s claim, and called o testify that one charge of ten suitings should have been debited to the soldier, and not the defendant. The soldier having given evidence to this effect, Mr. Mazengarb, wno was appearing for the plaintiff, promptly asked that the witness be .imned as a defendant, and judgement . given against him for the amount which he bad* admitted owing, The Magistrate agreed to do this unless- tne witness paid the amount 'before the conclusion of the case. The witness then left the Court, and returned a few minutes later with four hallcrowns, and discharged the liability. It subsequently transpired that lie met the plaintiff himself outside and borrowed the amount from him as on urgent” loan!

A rather dramatic incident occurred at the Patea railway station one afternoon last week after the arrival of the mail train. LieutenantColonel C. H. Weston, of New Uymouth, has just received a hearty welcome from some local friends wheii Corporal P. H. Tinney of Taranaki representative football fame, waimly Greeted tho colonel. The latter stared hard for a moment and then, shaking Corporal Tinney by the hand exclaimed: “Why surely you cannot be the corporal who helped me out of action on October 4 last year? Corporal Tinney assured him that ho was 1 and the pair spent the lemamin" 'moments before the tram left • ° V,„rtin<l over the anxious time Se* ne g ar ° Gravenstafel , exactly twelve months ago. . Corporal Tin- _ -rriav be mentioned, was on ?hat ocSsfon making his way to a that oGcasKj being woundd i e - Sm + be Gravenstafel battle, when the German barrage on the nay. value of Coldenza as an influenza Z?molel .cure is -11 known. Price 2s 6d. Prepared only by A. W. J. Mann, Chemist.-* Phosphorous and Quinine- fortifies the system against influenza and colds.' 7 A very flue tome. Pl '— 2s - Obtainable from A. W. J. Mann, Chemist-.*