A PIRATE'S FATE.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 3996, 20 November 1918, Page 3

A PIRATE'S FATE.

CAUGHT RED-HANDED AND SUNK Tho following account of a destroyer's fight with a German submarine has been received (says the London "Daily Mail" of September 14) :— The S.O.S. signal announced that a steamer had been torpedoed, and two destroyers hurried to the spot. They found the steamer rapidly sinking, and her stern was already awash. The crew had taken to the boats* .and were standing by, but there was no sign of, the enemy submarine. While one destroyer was picking up the boats the other circled round at high speed, ready to pounce on the submarine, which, it way thought, might be lurking about in the hope of gettjng one of the warships. As a matter of fact, she did break surface for an instant, and our ships dropped, depth charges where they presumed her to be. For the time being nothing more was seen of her. With the survivors of the torpedoed merchantman aboard, one o" the destroyers returned to the base, while the other remained in the locality. Perhaps it was merely a guess— more likely it was intuition—that led her commanding officer to suspect that the submarine was lying low, and in due course would come to the surface. And he was right. When she appeared the destroyer opened fire, whereupon she dived for the space of two minutes, and when she broke surface again the destroyer once more got off several rounds, which reached their mark. All the while the enemy was steadily sinkingl, and as the waters, closed over her there was a tremendous explosion, throwing up a quantity of oil and severely shaking the destroyer.

A motor jouvney that fcr pluck and perseverance will probably stand as a record for many a long day, was undertaken last week-end by two Hawera young ladies. A wedding was arranged to take placa in Hawera at eight o'clock on Monday, and on Saturday it was discovered that through an oversight the bride's brother, who was in camp at Featherston, had not been notified, and he was the only male representative of the family in the Dominion, it was essential that he should be at the ceremony. A young lady friend then volunteered to motor through to Featherston to bring him, and she, with a girl companion, left Hawera on Saturday night. They reached Palmersiton without mishan late that night, and early next morning set off through the gorge. At Pahiatua the car got bogged and had to be dug out, and this delayed thair arrival at Featherstan till two o'clock in the afternoon. They then discovered that the man they had gone fo' was on leave in Wellington. So the motorists went straight away over the Rimutakas, arriving in the capital city about 5.30. After locating their man and partaking of some very welcome refreshment, and re-filling the car, the home journey was commenced about 8.30. All went well till near Foxton, where a couple of punctures caused two hours' delay. No further trouble was met with until the benzine gave out just a few miles out of Hawera, and the party then left tho car and resumed the journey on foot. They had proceeded some distance when another car picked them up, and they arrived in Hawera just twenty minutes before the ceremony commenced. A CALF FOOD WITH NO WASTE. Most calf meals leave a sediment in the form of a semi-solid deposit in the bottom of tljg bucket. Thus the calf doesn't get a full feed and nutrition consequently suffers. Not .so with Ceremilk—the unique process of grinding by special heavy machinefy results in a wonderfully fins food—so fine that the particles remain in suspension in ±he bucket. • Thus the calf gets all the goodness and the work of preparation is far easier. Mr T. Johnston of Outram writes : "I have used "CEREMILK" now for two years and ' find it very economical. The calves j like and relish it and certainly thrive on it. I find it very easy to prepare j and as long as I rear calves, I shall continue using "CEREMILK." Try | "CEREMILK," equal to whole milk in nutriment. At all stores and facto •- ies. Local Distributors : H. E. Gillespie, Auckland Provincial Agent. i