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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 29 January 1914, Page 5

When a. horse at Ballarat saw an elephant for the first time it dropped with fright. The elephant was in Wirth's circus street procession, and as the huge beast approached the horse began to tremble violently and displayed obvious signs or terror. Then it dropped dead.

LordSuffield, in his "Memories," tells a curious tale of the origin of the V.C. When the, institution of the Victoria Cross was first suggested both officers and men were averse to it. General Sir Evelyn Wood wrote of an officer who "never tired of telling" how, when the men of his battalion were ordered to nominate a private soldier for the Victoria Cross, they unanimously chose a man who was trusted for his steady conduct and honesty to carry down the grog-can at dinner time to the trenches, and who, except for half an hour each tiay, was never under fire.