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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12398, 13 November 1908, Page 5

It is dimcult in. Germany for a profession rogues to enter a family as a ' domestic servant. There every servant has^a character book in which tho mistresa must enter the. dates of the coming and leaving of the servant, with her character while in the service. This the girl is obliged to take to the nearest police station and have it dated with the official stamp, thus preventing the manufacture of bogus recommendations.

The New York "Herald!' states that Mr Holland has invented a submarine which is declared to be capable of crossing the Atlantic. It is reported that the rights have already been sold to a foreign Government.

A man called at; Scotlarid Yard, requested to -sec some official in charge, and .then dictated an elaborate . account of the method iii'-which. the Kent murder was committed, as he had it revealed in a dream. The statement was taken., down with ; all solemnity.

Tho captain of a battlcshi]! now in' commission in Home waters," writing last month to a friend in Sydney, says:. ."l was most interested in what you had to say-about Mr Deakin-and ther Commonwealth contribution _to the navj". It is most extraordinary how blind tho present Govern,mont (English Liberals) arc. to. the German peri], especially as so many Gorman officers openly talk of war with ms in 1910. Wftat people don't realise is that it is absolutely necessary for Germany to find moro room for* her rapidly expanding , population. At present German' emigrants move to' British or American territories, and become Anglicised, orAmericanised,' as tho case may be ; but they are lost to tho Fatherland, and this is very galling to them, the more so ~as they see Great Britain holding all the best territories in tho world and doing little to populate or develop them. The working classes in this cowntry, .too. (England), do not seem to 'realise that the reduction in our shipbuilding programmes and cutting down.pf our active service votes are responsible for a great deal of the unemployment."

.a^^^atH The TfloiiotrGHßMD MOKAPUNA Will Travel this Season from Stoke to Belgrove. and other districts if sufficient inducement ofEers. 'i. Mokapuna, 7 years old, is from Tama- , Hinemoa, from Eostrevor. On both the I sire and dam side he is bred from the best 1 blood, Tama-Hinemoa being a grandiea of To\rton, aud . Bostrevor a grami-^ daughter of Traducer. Fees £A 10s ; gioomage ss. All fee's to be paid on or before 9tk January,-1909. J. E. EDEN, Owner, 3891 Brightwater. • . To. Tbatel This Seae»k jgff O'CTATOB, WMMP By Iniperius (imp.), freu Nellie, by Duncan Gray (Arab). Iwperius by Director, from Mondane, by Whipple'e Hambeltonian. . . This celebrated' trotting stallio* will travel the Waimea, Moutere, Motueka, and Eiwaka districts. Fee, JB3 single mare ; reductiem for two or more mares the property of one owner. Dictator was a brilliant performer, and made the N.Z. record for two miles on a grass track. He has sired the b»st and - most useful horses in Nelson axd Marlborough, and among those of his stock ate the names of Dick Fly, Dick G., Dick Stevens, Tutu, etc. . . Breed from a sire that has proved himto be a good performer and stock getter. „ THOMAS EOUGHTON, 4123 Spring Grove.