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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 177, 26 May 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

A vi.-itor to a small country town lost hih dug. an annual which he prized very much. Hushing to flic oVi'e of the local new-paper, lie handed in an advertisement, offering fifty pounds' reward for the return of his dog. Half an hour later he thought he would add to his advertisement the word-: "No quest.ens asked." N> he hurried off to the offive again. When he e,,,t there ihe pl.ee was emptv save for a small bov, who luo sulky. "Where's th(. staff?" asked (he tourist, silaneing round the deserted room. "(Jut looking fur y.mr dug: - ' was the aggrieved retort. NOT EASY. fuvalid : "] r.omeiimes f, ~j inclined to bh>u my brains out." I'Yiend : '• 1 shouldn'l advise you t<i try it. old elrap; ymi 1 now you're a bad -hot, and there's nothing much to aim :tt!"

A few weeks ago a gentleman was showing an American lady some of the sights of London, and among other places pointed out the Ileuses of Pariiament. "Well, new." -he exclaimed," what a line building! It nin't the gas works, is it?" "ft is. madam," he replied, :: of the. whole Itritish nation."

An important discovery has been made hy the police in the French Concession at Shanghai. At the bottom of n well on tlie premises of a German named Nielsen eight cases of llotclikiss 05 millimetre shells of a kind useful for arming merchantmen were found. Nielsen recently liecame prominent in connection with the seizure of a large oonsgnment of small arms destined for India. Other discoveries ire untVi pated.