THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN WAR TIME.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11578, 23 December 1915, Page 7

THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN WAR TIME.

Only 296 freshmen matirculated at Cambridge University, as compared with 1110 prior to the war. At a farmer's Red Cross sale at Uffculmo, Devon, an egg la ill by a fowl which had been given for the good of the eauso was sold over and over again till it had realised £1 9s fid. Thero is such a slump, in crime in Staffordshire that when the recorder and seventy-five jurymen attended cjuartor sessions this week there was only one prisoner to try.

The German Central Trade Union annunces that thero are an immense number of butchers, in the German army." This was made quite clear more than a year ago in Flanders. Our local greengrocer (says a correspondent of the "Spectator." is fond of telling her customers that she lias " one son in the Dandelions and another in the Geraniums"—otherwise tho Mediterranean.

Sing a song of sixpence (says the "Irish Grocery World"). That's the price of lump; Everything; advancing with an awful jump. Tea another foui'ipence, Tho' we're not dismayed: We mean to face tho music And hold tho Empire's trade.

Second Lieutenant Popo Stamper, who was poisoned with gas while gallantly leading his men inio action at Loos, has recovered, and returned to duty. Mr Pope Stamper was a popular "hero" of musical comedy before he joined the Army at the beginning of the war.

Formers in the Darlington district are running so short of labour that it is only by the employment of children they are able to gather the autumn potato crop. The roll of the Army and the wages offered in construction camps are given as reasons for this state of things. A wounded officer from Loos, who unow in a London hospital, has told Mr Watson Rutherford, M.P., that when his battalion captured a German trench they found sixteen men who had been working: four machine guns and every man of each group of four was chained'to the gun ! Mr John it. 0. Chambers, one of the oldest assistant schoolmasters in Middlesbrough, has been accepted by the "War Office for service in the ordnance department at Woolwich. The school, which he leaves after twenty-three years' service, boasts of over 200 old scholars with the colours.

The German Emperor, when flitting from one battle front to another, ries with him a collapsible house, fitted with a bedroom, a study, and a diningroom capable of seating twelve persons. Erected, the house resembles a Swiss chalet, and the parts are so constructed that they can rapidly lie put together. A travelling kitchen built in a motorcar accompanies the house.