GENERAL NEWS

Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 18383, 3 July 1917, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS

Tlie discovery in Budapest that o0 } - 000 pairs of soldiers* boots were made ■with brown paper soles resulted in the arrest of 18 bootmakers-, 179 factory managers, and 96 other persons.

"I'll Help my friend all I can } " remarked Mr Hanipson to Mr Moresby during the hearing of a case in the Morrinsville court on Tuesday. "I thank him for his gift," replied Mr Moresby, and then he added, with a (smile "but

beware of the gifts of the Greeks."— Local paper.

Where do Wellington's outuof..work men come from? Seventy-one men had to be found work by the Staite Bureau last month, and they hailed from the following places: North Island) six; South Island, twelve; Australia, four; Great Britain, 43; others countries, six. —Dominion.

At Ngatea (Hauraki Plains) on Wednesday, July 11, at 11.30 a.m., the N.Z. Loam and Mercantile Agency Co. will offer for sale 350 head of mixed oatitJei, including 100 dairy cows. The local representative is Mr George Foote Mclimes, Rawe Rawe, by whom entries ■will be received. The launch will leave Shortland on morning of sale at 9 a.m.

A* the Central Matft, Thames, an auction sale of bankrupt Btock will be held' ob Thursday, Friday, and Saturday next by Laidlaw Hobbs and Co., and judging by local comment iC is evident that Thames may anticipate an unusual bargain campaign. The whole of the stock must be disposed of to close the estate, and 4 wiU be submitted wifhout reserve. The sale starts at 2 p.m. on Thuifiday next.

On July 4th, 1776, delegates of the various American colonies adopted the declaration of Independence as follows;

"We the representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the rectitude of our

intentions, eolemly publish and declare that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, Free and Independent States." To-morrow is the 141 st anniversary of that famous declaration.

A Thames soldier, writing from England, says that a number of German prisoners were put on to plant potatoes. When an examination was made, as they were mating-such slow progress-it found that the wily Fritz Had cut out all the eyes "fromi. the seed potatoes, so that they could not possibly sprout. The Anzacs wanted to square matters with Fritz for his treachery, but the Germans were placed urider the guard of British Tommies.

Mr A. 0. Macdiarmid, "well known Sere as engineer in charge of the Hauraki Pump, has been spending a brief holiday in the Waikato. He was present last week si his brother's installation for a second time as. W.M. of Lodge Alpha, Hamilton, and passed through Auckland on his way | back to Whangarei Heads, where he is employed at the freezing works, on Friday last. His many friends here will be pleased to learn .that he is as portly as ever, and is in the best of health.

It is commonly supposed that all American inventors become millionaires.

But a marvel of mechaaiism whose development was accompanied by tragedies in two lives was the Paige 'type-setting machine. Mark Twain promoted it, and the speculation bankrupted him. James W Paige, the inventor, is } according to the ''American, Printer," now an inmate of the poorhouse at Oak Forest, Illinois. The machine contained 150,000 parts, and its complexity and coeit of construction prevented its being a success commercially.

"If you want to see a muddle you ought to see a camel convoy under shill fire," writes an Australian officer from Palestine. ''The natives who lead the camels run away first shot, and then the white men try to induce by all the profanity that they can muster those accursed animals to hurry out of range or under tfie cover of the hill. All the time good lives are being lost trying to save the convoy, which perhaps has the water supply of thousands of men. in the tiring line away from the water, and they are dependant on its reaching them^'