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Grey River Argus, 15 February 1915, Page 4

Entries for the sixtji annual festival of the Christchurch. Literary and Musical Competitions Society, are now being- • received from all parts of the Dominion, and a successful season is assured. Intending competitors are reminded thau entries close <m Thursday next. February ißth. A boxing match at Sydney Stadium between Dave Smith (New Zealand) and Fritz Holland (America), lasted 20 rounds and was won by Smith, Holland predicted a fairly easy win for himself. It lias been calculated by an officer with a turn for mathematics that the weight of bullets required to kill a man in this war is something like l(581bs v or 12st., more than the weight of the average man himself. This is in spite of the immense improvements in modern weapons as compared with those in use in previous great wars. In the first line of defence or attack a soldier of tens fires 400 cartridges a day. That good mt/ney can be earned on. the wharf during the best months of the year was made evident in the the year was made evident in the Magistrate's Court the other morning (says the Wellington "Post"). The defendant in a maintenance case Vas a wharf labourer, and Inspector Hendrey said that it had been ascertained that during the last three months he had earned an average of £3 4/7 per week. The defendant endeavoured to make it plain that he had been particularly fortunate. There is at present on view in Messrs Howe and Sowman's (tobacconists) win dow, Lambton Quay, a piece of plating from the rull of the s.s. Walkure, which vessel, it will be remembered, was captured by the French gunboat Zeelee in Tahiti. Daring tlie bombardment of of Papeete by the Scharnhorst and Gntescnau a projectile fired from one of the big guns, after passing through the Zeelee^ntered the Walkure, which was alongside, and blew out a large piece of plating. The plating was picked up a mile inland. A fragment of the -shell which was found on the Walkure is