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Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16477, 23 February 1918, Page 11

A TJrewera Native woman on .visiting ■tea-rooms at Gisborne the otiher day for refreshments suddenly noticed, her, imago _in a full-sized mirror/- • and Straightway went up to shake; hands and rub noses; Hej;- faoe- icamei: : in*o contact with the- glass,---and": ceeded up the stairway 'ih : disgust,- remarking in her native tongue on the ntiarveLous works of the pakeha. ; The Japanese iS&eaniship Oonipany, Japan's largest' maritime corporation, nas increased its capital from £0,404,000 to £10,000,000, and will buud ou large steamers aggregating 300,000 tons as an addition T<o its existing fleet of 102 vessels, totalling 440,000 tons. The London "Times" gives a description of the 1914 bronze star, which is to be issued to all offioers, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and man of tike British and Indian. Forces, including civilian medical practitioners, nursing sisters, nurses, and others employed witlb military hospitals, who served in France or Belgium on the establishment of a unit of the- British Expeditionary Forces between August sth, 1914, and midnight of November 22-23, 1914. Two cross swords with a scroll inscribed '-'Aug. 1914 Nov," intertwining, and encircled by an oak wreath, with, tha Royal Cipher at the base, are embodied in it. At the topmost point of the Star is a crown., at the top of which is a ring for the riband. • The riband is red, white and blue* shaded and watered.