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Nelson Evening Mail, 24 July 1916, Page 3

A resident of a €hristehurch suburb Uie other night entertained a friend (savs the Press). He showed him his house and, among other improvements, jointed cut how an electric power point had been installed from which— though ut was against the rules—his household drew power for ironing at mght. JrLe iid not know, however, that -he was entertaining a member of the Electric Liohtir-g Committee of the Borough Council', and his scheme was brought to io-ht at the council meeting, and steps taken to counteract the dodges he had so innocently shown his visitor. In the'Teilding Star recently there appeared a paragraph in which it was stated that a girl who had been deaf av.d j dumb for years recovered! her speech momentarilv and stated that the war would | «nd in September. A Palmerston mill- , Itarv man whoss work leads him into the I country offers a pathetic parallel which jhe gleaned from a Uax-worker m the Levin district. 0c was sitting on the box-seat of a coach on his way to a railway station when the flax-worker fell through the door of a hostelrv, recovered himself and clambered on to the- seat beside the soldier, whom he regarded for a time with silent awe. At last he tug-Ed his sleeve and whispered hoarse., lv- "D'vou know when the war s to "end?" •"Hl.ive-.i-t the faintest idea said the military man. in his best redtape manner. "Well." said the flaxworkor. "I do. Me old man, who s been deaf and dumb for ten year, covered hi, spoke the other dav before he snuffed it. Ho says day after Christmas. I Manawatu Times.