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The .Woodville Examiner learns that a Pongaroa settler and his son are at the front, the father being among the wounded. .'The farm is lx>ing managed by a IG-yeor-old- son. The mother is at present in a. imrsing home, having recently given birtli to her thirteenth child.

Issy Smith, the Jewish-soldier who I-recently won the V.0.,.. was well known in AuoklaJid, butunder his j ring name of Jack Daniels, says the j Star. He was employed working the toboggan at the Exhibition, and, satj iffying the Northern Boxing Association as to his bona-fides, was matchetl j.'to box Jim Hagerty, who was killed -a fortnight ago. for the ]»ght-weight championship of New Zealand. The arrangements," however, fell through, •and Smith left for Axistralia, where he had several fights, with varying 'success. The. last heard of him was that he had left Australia, for London, •so evidently he enlisted there.