PATRIOTIC AND RELIEF FUNDS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14150, 29 July 1916, Page 2

PATRIOTIC AND RELIEF FUNDS.

■Horso flesh was selling six weeks ago in Cologne at irom 2s 6d to 2s 9d alb, ais compared with 9d a year ago and 4d bef6ie the war. Mo*b of it is obtained from worn-out aira^ noises, which are sold to the butcifyi^ at -the average price <of £20 each. The butchers are accused oi making- exorbitant profits. In Leipzig hoi se meat costs 2s a ib. Befoie the war it could! be had for 3d. * i

''Professor D. B. Watea?i captain of tin? Tunnelhng Company tbdt went from hew Zealand, writes from Fiance,v tinder, date May 3'2th, to his orother,,Mr J. B. Wateis: ''We aio still m the same1 place giovellmsj away underground look-, ing for the wilyß.un He i$ about as hard to find as a 1 patch ot scheelite. So fai* we leckon the hoiioui,? are with xis, as >vo have hit him ,twj^e and he lias hit us only once." r

RED CROSS FUND.

">,Mis W. Lock acknowledges:—Mrs. A. P Lucas, 1 pair socks. ' Received at tne depot*-,—Murclnson branch, Mis. E. Noins (Waiwick Junction)., I pau^Hed and 1 pair armlets; Mrs. Kidsbn, old linen; Mrs. A. "Willrie, old linen and 5 face cloths; Brightwatei branch, per Mis W. Colt, R^d Cross Guild 8 pairs pj jamas, ]8 handkerchiefs, 3 pairs mittens, 4 ward bags, 2 pans sheots; Mi's. Clay, 2 heads wool, Robbie McNicoT, 1 scaif. Mis Fled, Jones flannelette; Mis F Robertson, sen , 2 face cloths, Miss L Sommeiville 4 fa?e cloths, Mis. Rowbotham 6 face cloths and 6 waid bags, Mesdames Kempthome, Tunnicliffe, sen., Dishei, Giftord, F Rutheiford, G Silcock old lmen *

Flowers foi Wellington —Mesdames Langbem (Stoke), Redgiave, Andiews, Best, Emmett, A. G GUI (Wakapuaka), Angus,,and J. H. Cock, Misses Gibbs, Barnett (A,tawhai), Jones, Giaham, Bray, Bond, and Burnett, Messis. Wigzell, Pettit, and A G Glasgow