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King Country Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 1155, 31 December 1918, Page 5

The Rev. F. M. Beattie is to be ordained and inducted in the Presbyterian church, Te Kuiti, on Friday, January 3rd, at 4 p.m. In to-day's issue Mr Graham bas particulars of the sale of motor cars, garage, and accessories, on account of Mr A. McKay, of Pio Pio. This is an absolutely genuine sale, and has only been placed on the market on account of the dsath of Mr G. McKay, junr. Full particulars can be had from lV>r Graham. A high grade toilet powder is a source of great comfort to a tender skin during the hot weather. Mr Giesen draws attention to bis large and varied stock of these lines, in hia replace advertisement in to-day's issue. Mention is also made of a large assortment of tooth brushes and dentifrices suitable for artificial or natural teeth. The inventor of the explosive bullets -to destroy Zeppelins referred to in a recent cable message is doubtless -says the Post —Mr John Pomeroy, son of Mr J. B. Pomeroy, a fish merchant, of Invercargill. In July, 1908, Mr John Pomeroy gave a demonstration at Pollhill Gully, Wellington, of a new explosive he had invented, which he claimed was as powerful as lyddite, and was specially valuable for exploding shells. He illustrated this with bullets fired from a Martini-Henry rifle. The bullets were bored inwards from the nose for about half an incb, for the reception of the charge of thirteen grains of the explosive, a red-coloured paste, the ingredients of which were kept secret. A ksrosene tin filled with water was used for the purpose, being placed at about twenty yards* distance. The first bullet fired by Mr Pomeroy threw the wter in the tin in a shower 20ft into the air; the whole tin was torn open at the seams; and tbe sides were riddled with small holes. Later Mr Pomeroy proved thßt even impact with a piece of canvas would explode the bullet, with remarkable results. Mr Pomeroy, who had been working on bis invention for six years, subsequently left for England to get it accepted by the British War Office or the Admiralty, bue evidently the authorities did not approve of it for the charging of shells, having more powerful explosives available. When the Great War broke out, however, the Inventions Board sent for Mr Pomeroy, and his invention was applied to bullets, the successful results of which had already been demonstrated in New Zealand.

What some people would describe ' luck" befel a man named Ernest Stevenß, who a few days ago accosted a motor cyclist in Wellington named May and endeavoured to sell him a roll of cycle tools which should rightly have been in the tool bag of May's machine. An argument followed, and became so warm that a constable 'intervened and eventually took Stevens into custody. • He was brought before the Magistrate's Court, charged with the theft of the tools, which were valued - at 27s 6d. May, who is a member * of the Army Ordnance Corps, said that the last occasion on which he had used the tools was about a week previous to his meeting with Stevens, but on reaching his home at Shelly Bay he found that ths flaps of the bag wera undone and the roll of tools missing. He had advertised for the missing tools, but had received no answer. Stevens had bailed him and offered him the roll for 12s 6d, stating that he had bought it for 5s from a third person, named but not produced, who had found it near the Baßin Reserve, but was later apparently willing to accept 5s and no further trouble when Constable Holmss appeared. Accused bad nothing to say, and as the explanation previously given was not considered convincing, he Was sent to gaol for fourteen days.