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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11473, 27 February 1918, Page 6

For two hours a soldier at Bristol kept the police at bay when they endoavonred to secure him as an absentee from the army. He climbed on to the roof of a house and pelted the official officers with bricks and other missiles. Then a tire escape was brought to the scene and the capture effected. Tbo prisoner was carried oil' to the police station on the lire brigades engine. In sore plight from labour shortage, a district farmer with a ripe field of grain made a ronnd-up of anything masculine .possessing a pair of hands, states the Wyudham Farmer. His commandeer included an itinerant dealer in skins and hides, the resident pulpiteer, » flUxmiller, and sundry neighbours. Splendid work was accomplished by the team, the parson and the pedlar proving second to none among the stooks. Referring to"a man who had imposed on R. Hannah and Co. as a Gallipoli hero and obtained employment in a case before the Supremo Court in Wellington on Friday, Mr A. W. Blair said that as hn accomplished liar lie was a finished artist. He got as far as Egypt under an assumed name us the member of a ship’s crew and was invalided. “What was the assumed name?” asked the judge. “James Allen, ’’ replied Mr Blair, whereupon there was a simmer of merriment. A little exchange of words on the drink habit enlivened proceedings somewhat in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Friday. In the course of his cross-examination of a witness, Mr H. F. O’Leary asked him how many drinKS he had hud. “One or two,” replied the witness, who added that he had been under the influence of liquor once only in five years. “Does it take much to knock you over?” queried counsel. Witness: “Yes, I am a big srtongchap like yourself, Mr O’Leary.” Counsel: “Well, we will have a test some day to see. ’ ’ The joke was flicked at a parson that, when he received a call from a wealthy parish, his small sou remarked that father was in the study praying for guidance but mother was upstairs packing. “I can tell you a better one” retorted the parson cheerfully. “It happened in .America. A young clergyman whose stipend was OOOdoI. yearly wss offered a parish that paid aOOOdol. He sought advice from his Bishop but in doing so he ventured to assure the prelate that he ‘felt that it was a call, m’ lord.’ ‘Call?’ echoed the Bishop: ‘mv dear boy it is a yell. ’ ’ We pay the highest market prices for cream, because our turn-over is very large, and our working costs are therefore exceptionally low. We specialise in home separated cream and we are ready to sell you a Separator, and buy your cream. Write for particulars. Maoriland Dairy and Produce Co. Box 185. Wanganui.*