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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 17, 3 January 1920, Page 6

A sentence cJ 20 years’ imprisonment has been passed by the Assize Court in Brussels on the pork butcher Claeys for supplying the Germans with goods to the value-of 10.000.000 f. (£lOO,OOO pre-war) during the period of occupation. Dr. Galippo has informed the French Academy of Science that in Egyptian papyrus 20 centuries and more old he nad found living mici—organisms. These microbes, subjected to the usual test of heat,-re- ’ mained as active as ever. I The Secretary of the War Office announces that General Lord Byng, G.C.8., K.C.M.G., M.V.0., has been permitted to retire from the , Army with a view to his assumption of the position of chairman ofUnited Services Fund, which has been appointed to administer "the fund formed out of the accumulated profits of Army canteen trading during the war.

Just as this morning’s mail traim-for. south, was getting near the top of Te, , Ante Hill, many passengers’ attention was drawn to the fact that a horse was struggling along on three legs only. The fourth leg was broken and one passenger remarked that he saw it a week ago in the same condition. The bone is on a hill property, on the western side of the railway line, about 300 yards below highest point of Te Ante Hill, Hasting side of the incline. The owner probably is not aware of the condition of the unfortunate animal, which should be destroyed. Captain Richard Steele, in command of the British Indian steamer Hatimura (originally the War Opal) which arrived at Lyttelton on Sunday from New York, had many thrilling adventures through the war period. Vessels of which he had been in charge were thrice torpedoed and mined on two occasions. Moreover, he was blown out of his ship in the English Channel bv the explosion of a depth charge, being afterwards picked up by a destroyer. With the exception of the captain, the chief officer, and chief engineer, the < Seers who wen? on boa.-, w’aea the War Opal vas here before have transferred to other ‘ •. -