NEWS AND NOTES

Nelson Evening Mail, 29 May 1916, Page 7

NEWS AND NOTES

'Passengers from the West Coast had an old-tima experience the other day, says the Press, consequent on a large landslide having occurred oil. the Otira Gorge below the roadman's huts. The weather was fair in- Greymouth in themorning, but" rain was encountered at Moana. The passengers coached from, Otira' to the landslip and walked the remainder of the distance —about six miles— to the Arthur Pass railway station. The train had been kept back. Amongst the passengers from the Coastwere a number of soldiers returning to Trent-ham after being home on leave, and also a number of recruits bound, for the traiuiiirr camps. Some of the passengers from Christchurch went on, but theladies returned. The train reached Christchurch on time, having made up on the way the time lost in waiting at Arthur's Pass. .

[ Everyone knows the part -whick I Krupp's plays in equipping Germany and j her allies with munitions, but how many i are aware that the money with which the great firm was placed on a sure [ foundation, if not actually founded, came'from Birmingham? Alfred Krupp I came to 'Birmingham about 1840 with -an I introduction from Dr. Siemens to Messrs Elkingtou and Mason, elecfcrop-latcrs, the j predecessors of the present firm of El- | king ton and Co. He oifered to them a i machine which he had invented for 1 rolling the metal ".blanks," from whicii j spoons and forks are made. Eventually j he sold this to the firm for £IO,OOO. ! With the money thus acquired Krupp I proceeded to Essen and la,id the foundation of the great fortune he ttfterwards acquired. In one of hi/» letters-irom "Somewhere on. the front," where he is- acting as chaplain to the New Zealand Mounted Brigade, Chaplain-Captain Grigg, of Leestoh., tells of a boy about 14 who ran away fromi Canada with the soldiers with the object of "seeing life." Captain Grigg''says: "Yesterday niornbag early, as I started out, I met a.soldier coming with a little boy dressed in uniform, trotting along by his side. As thev passed me-at a little distance the little chao saluted-me ina very smart military style. I returned the salute and went on. When I came back I heard about him. He was still in the camp, and the officers did not know what to do with him. Later on an officer brought him for me to see and question. A doctor happened to be in my tent, so he told iis that he wanted."to see the war and the fighting so he left.honie.in Alberta, Canada." In answer to my questions, he told me that he ran away to Quebec, and stayed there for some time. Then he got into a shin, and some boys hid him. away and he reached Europe. He managed to get to Ypi'es, where he stayed some time, and, I believe, saw a good deal of fighting. Then he got on a train and w-en down to Marseilles, and travelled by steamer to -Salonika.' He stayed there a* little while, and then got aboard ship again and reached Gallipoli. I am no* sure, but.l think it was at Gallipoli that he was wounded. A shrapnel bullet struck him in the wrist, and- as his arm was broken a good way up -from where the bullet struck, him, the doctor thinks he must have fallen down and broken itafter He -was struck -fey tkQ-lbnflftS, P could not have been properly set,, as it was mended all,crooked, and I suppose always will be so. I believe he is pretty rough in-his speech when he is with the men, but- when he.addresses officers he is great in his- politeness. T ask<*d , him tfor the addresa of Ma.iparents, anc{ he gave it me right off, and I have written them, telling all about the boy."