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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 13 July 1915, Page 8

Possibly the murmur of the sea may be due to. the mermaids. ' "Any luck fishing?" "Well, I caught the 6.30 train and a; bad cold." If marriage is a lottery, why are love letters allowed to go through- the mails? "Do you think" he has the 'brains of the family?" "Quite likely. They must be somewhere." "Dead men tell no tales," observed the sage. "Maybe not/' replied the fool. "But their tombstones dp." However patriotic the young Maoris mayVbe (telegraphs tlhe Gishorno correspondent' of jthe Christchurch "Press"), it is not always aui easy matter for them to carry out their wishes, as some enta ha*ve" strong objections to their children going to the front. At' Nuhaka last week one parent spent over £sl in telegrams in* trying to' stop her son.. Bven;tuaTly she thought she had' prevailed upon, him to remain at home, but to maike doubly sure she clutched ; his coattails ;-as he was assisting to launch a boat that was to take tho other troopers away. At the right moment the young man slipped' out of his coat and left the old lady still clinging to it. Nothing daunted, she wailed into the water right up- to her neaki, hut the son was too quick, and 1 was soon- on.his way to.Na- | pier. , Whether he will ' eventually get aWay with the contingent Temairis to b<»