ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 173, 10 February 1915, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

It has-been decided to offer again for the cbinur.g reason a gua; antes ,; Id 'ii.v pound net n'turri on 'all apples' and" pears exported .from Now V•• 'iiiu 'to '"iiiw nia'Jcet', and t-> rc-

~ •■/ "'iij Otler, of ;i guarantee cf Id ; 'v pcund net rcMu'n, with a maxidv.m of £Vf>o payable tho;euiider, on shipped to Norcn America". There is ho limit in couuecfoii with ;--: ..uarantoo on and pcais. Both guaraut'es .are o'ffcred on t .e' .same terms" as those imposed in i l Jl.>.

In -eforence to' the £SJ carded .by , tbi Jidteibiiry. braneh for Chn-.k;.f;3 i..)i.itOits ior.tna men un H.M.fJ. New ' a-j-u-d, i.ut of Avlrch no acknenledgcment had yet been received, t'ie liov. Mr Chambers stales'that ho-has* h:L~i> informed on very good authority Uiar *'Voi - 3even,3learners '.'.ete cngajeU in Cririslma's gifts to tht >r/;>i hrdu JN'o'rth'Sea fleets"out of the ' surplus from" the contracts. He doubts •whether" the -money cabled would be spent .in'/thc directioji desired, and suggests' that all' future donations should IJe.e'iii-marked some 9;:c'e•il lund. , - •» ' , The - movement for the.vormat'on of. rifle cluljs ,ia increasing jn momen\ua (writes a Sydney correspondent). It affords' a welcome tor trie energies \ of. multitudes.-Avho wish • to qiia'ify for defending ' thei'*' country - .1 occasion slioul I aiis?, but who do ,', or do nU yet, /jliii'lpor for the ficnt. Evcu Hit. " , Tss [ im< , n ara forming a club, and ■ i J ftulp to make proficiency AAith the .iflo a-> gcncial as aaUH. the foun'.ijir pen. An aauit ujale f. julation of sfcilicl liilemon avjull lie'jiiiMieasur&bly bolter a-, a fi'cld fvoift \ hieti to draw volunteers tor the front than on'o which is so largely. unoEM. A as U'llkj 0.:.3c at pie&ent.