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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1015, 17 November 1917, Page 2

the course of. li<» Icotu ot' the campaign on Ga Lieut. L). Douil related many ineiconneotcd with the daily life of Hi'. 1 i on the I'cniiiMila. Amongs! thent ovoral connected with the shortage ol hi the peninsula. On one occasion, hj i. padro asked for a drink of wain •ome men in a dug-out, wlio w'on ate to have a jar of the prcciou.Ile took a satisfying draught, and mi looking into the vessel, to his siir Hid disgust, saw a dead rat. in tho jar inimal had evidently jumped in t< i its thirst, and was unable to get out connected with u ease which is before the I Auckland .Magistrate's Court. A young i woman named Christina Kate McDonald ' has been remanded on four charges of having obtained four sums of money, total ling £75, from Kenneth A. McLeod by | falso pretences. The allegation is that the girl represented to McLeod, « distant I relation, that a wealthy uncle, who owned J valuable property in Auckland and Amen i ca, owing to being a naturalised American, was having trouble with the Government over the stamp tax. The money, j it is alleged, was advanced to tide the wealthy relative over a temporary difli | culty. The complainant aho alleges that i he spoke on the telephone to the supposed uncle, who promised to secure for him • position in the American .secret service and to give his wife 'an allowance and ; liouso in Auckland in return for his assist lance. As the money was not repaid, an. ' tho rich uncle did not materialise, com pin intuit informed the police.