MAIL NOTICES.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 280, 7 December 1916, Page 4

MAIL NOTICES.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8. Nelson and district offices: Per Pateena,-at.3.80 p.m . Wellington, Northern and Southern Ofl;ces: Per Wairau. at 3 p.m: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9. Nelson and intermediate offices: Per motor-car, at 8.30 a.m. Wellington, Northern and Southern Offices: Per Pateena, at 3.30 p.m.

An ex-resident of the Pohangina distinct. Lieutenant John Gordon OliffJVlcCulloch, R.N.R., has been swarded the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism during1 the Jutland.' fcattle. He appears to have acted with great courage, and skill after a portion of his ship was set on fire by an enemy shell. The orders say: '"His prompt action and example had un■doubtorUy a good effect on the large zuimber of very young men stationed there." Lieutenant Cliff-McOnlloch had retired from tihe Navy a3 medically unfit, and was farming in the Pohangina district when the wan tiroke out. He jumped at an opportunity of getting away on the; Philomel shortly r. after «s an intelli-1 gence officer, and e.ventuallv signed on with the Grand Fleet. He is well-1-nown in Dannevirke, where he was farming for a time. "She drives me to drink," said a defendant in the Auckland MagisIr.ito's Court the other day. "He is •not. much of a man who is driven to drink by a woman," retorted. Mr C C. Kettle,*S.M. "Well, what else can he" do, your Worship?" asked defendant plaintively.