BRIEF MENTION.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 673, 27 August 1917, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

INTELLIGENCE AND HUMOUR, British piano makers are engaged in scientifice res.:,:arch to prove that the notion Unit Gorman pianos are better than British is a bogey. Wilfrid Hawkins, a child of (I, mauled by a. hear on Brynmawr show grounds’ five weeks ago, died alter several operations. In the last “push" the tanks used two million gallons of petrol, says the Motor for June, Fifteen chaplains have been killed in Fiance during the war, 7 have died of wounds, and 5 have died of disease, states Mr. Macpherson. Willow, before the war, used for cricket hats, is now used for artificial limbs for soldiers. For diving into the Thames fully dressed and rescuing a boy, Constable Thomas Heame was presented with 10£ by Sir John Dickinson at Row-street, London. "Actors and actresses are nol devils and they are not angels—they arc just men and women,” said .Miss Ellen Terry in opening a, bazarr at Holloway recently. Of 5,000 tons of hay barely half a dozen bales were left after a lire at Grangemouth, on the Forth, on June 30th . The National Economy Exhibition in London there is a French market, where portions can be bought of anything—half a chicken, a rasher of bacon, half a cake, and sc on. English women, are being taught to buy in the French way. Losing both arms in a, motorlorry collision, George Castle, a Newark coal merchant, was awarded £IOOO damages against Mas. Di'ing potato merchant, of Nottingham Prince Charles, second son of the King of the Belgians, has become a, naval cadet at Osborne. Lord Liverpool now GovcmjorGeneral of New Zealand, has been madc( ai Privy Councillor. As a. simple way of preserving the memory .of fallen M.P.’s Mr. Churchill suggests a name-plate' on the back? o ft he seats they had in the House. Schoolmistress: “You dirty boy! Why don’t you \va,sh your face, and not let.it show l what you had for breakfast this mo r ning ?” Small Boy: “What wjais it?" Schoolmistress: "Eggs.” Small Boy: "Wrong! Eggs wa,s yesterday." > ' Forty-three pure-bped dairy shorthorns realised £5,720 on July 3rd at Mr D’Arcy Taylor’s sale at Marshfield, Gloucestershire*. ; “In what direction ’ does the village lie, my Mend?” “Well siF, it’s liable to lie in any old direction that comes handy, but at this time of the year it’s mostly about fish." , ' i. Dr. Edgar Browne, Liverpool eyo specialist, son of “Phiz,” the if*, lustra tor of Dickens’s Works hag died ;aged 75. l ' ! ' A Tommy homo on leave from the front wais telling of some of the horrors of war. “I have seen sights round Wipers and Hurras,” he said, “that would make m angel weep: “And," he added, impressively, "I ’aYe , weeped.” ( : Midshipman D, A, Gyles, D.SkC’,, R.N., one 'of the heroes of. H.M f S. Broke, is appointed acting, sublieutenant - < Mr W. J. Siddajl, well-known in Invercargill musical-circles, has received the appointmjebtof conduc-

tor of the 16th Waikato Regimen Band. '

Her Brother: ‘’Does Bobby seem to inherit any of his father's artistic temperament.?” His Slater; ‘Not so fad; Wit I suppose I ought to touch wood.”

No one ought to keep a. horse that is beyond serviceable age, .says the British Ministry of Food.

Gertrude McDonald, a girl char 1 ' ged at Liverpool with being in soldier’s uniform, said she would not wear her own clothes ,and was remanded.

A motor-ciu lowed by another dowjii a (sleep! bill at Knock, County Mayo, dashed into the porch of an hotel and killed the proprietor, Mr P. Cannon.

“Is Mary jealous of her husband?” “Jealousy? Why, on their, wedding trip, she wouldn’t lot him admire the scenery," 1 ;

David Davies, '“the Dartmoor shepherd," has 'been sentenced at Manchester to three months’ hard labour for being in enclosed premises with a skeleton key.

For buying two shirts from the backs of soldiers he met in the street, Henry George Derrick, 29 was fined .Co in Bristol on June 29. He took the soldiers into a yard where they removed - the shirts they were wearing and received 6s.

Stranger: “I noticed your advertisement in the paper this morning ■for* a man to retail imported canaries,” Proprietor of Bird Store: “Yes sir. Arc you looking for a job?” Stranger: “Oh, no; I merely, head a, curiosity to know how' the canaries lost their tails.” 1 1