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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10957, 23 December 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

Constable (trying the good old test upon belated person who presists he was 'ner' shobrer in 's life'): "Can you say "British Constitution?" Belated One (with strongest 'Diehard' convictions): "There ishn't one now." Crantara was a military signal employed by the Scottish Highland chiefs. It ' was a- firebrand or wooden cross, which after being dipped in the blood of a goat, was sent by a swift-footed herald, who delivered it without a word save the name of the place of rendezvous. The fleetest runner of that hamlet was instantly despatched with the signal to the nest, whence it was borne to a third and so on until every village within the chief's domain had received the summons. It was last circulated :.'. A woman who has smarted a jiu-jitsu sr-hoo! in London is doing a rushing business, accoiding to the newspapers of that city. One of her pupils is a woman of 65 years, who has a great fear of being robbed. She feels quite, able to take care of herself now, she says, and, incidentally, she has got rid of her rheumatism. Self-supporting women who have to go about alone, and even schoolgirls, who have found that ihey need to be able to protect themselves from annoyance, are taking the course.