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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13602, 6 February 1915, Page 5

A list notifying ttie discharge of 115 men from reinforcement drafts for the New Zealand expeditionai'y force uas been issued at the Trentham camp. "Medically unfit" was given as the reason in the great majority of cases, and "Dismissed 'the Force" in five. It was also notified that three men had been sentenced to l detention for 168 hours, and to forfeit eight days' pay."

."What! A man in an impecunious position like this fellow incurring a debt of £11 for a funeral !". exclaimed the magistrate at Christchurch, when judgment was asked for in an undefended claim. The solicitor for plaintiff remarked that he believed tha-i. it was for the funeral of his mother-in-law that the man ran up such a bill. "Mother-■ll-i/iw!" lub Worship exclaimed again, "all. the more reason why he should have got it done cheaply.*"

An mnusing story was going the rounds of Fending Show. A resident li:!-:l |x;i-aua<h v J his wifo lo enter some ccoking in the home industries section :it t lk? rhsvr. Slu* accordingly made two plum puddings fro.n the same mixturn and sent them; up f-.i:- xidjudication. judye »f her fiu-priso when it was found that one had g-.tincd a first prize wlu'le the other had not oven been commendrd. The exhibitor is now wondering if judges, of cooking at least, a.re itv fallible.

The beer question is still occupying attention in New South Wales. At Kurri Kurri the beor strike has been revived. AfUu 1 a fortnight's struggle, the publicans reduced the pint to the old prke, three ,])enco. The mm axe now on strike for half a pint for three-halfpence. At Balgovvnie and Corrimal the hotelkenpers have capitulated by reducing the charge of beor to 3d. At Bulli a beer I strike has been started, and it is expected that no one will drink beer till the prices are brought down,