WAR-TIME HAPPENINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13353, 2 December 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

WAR-TIME HAPPENINGS.

"I hope a bomb will drop on you and blow you up," said a man to the chairman, the Earl of Kimberley, of the Norfolk Appeal Tribunal, at Yarmouth, when his appeal was dismissed. A great many landlords at Whitby. have reduced the rents of their houses by 50 per cent., and altogether the great distress of the lodging-hous:* keepers lias been considerably alleviated.

Women of South Africa have just forwarded to Lady Jellicoo several thousand pounds to be distributed! among thoso who were rendered widows and fatherless through the Jutland battle.

The American fruit food economy hint that vegetable marrows grown with radio-active ore tasted like pineapple lias bean tested by a British nurseryman, who failed to discover the pineapple flavor. The flagpole supporting the German flag raised by a hyphenated hotel proprietor at AYoodport, New Jersey, to signaliso the arrival of the Deutschland, was shattered to splinters with axes by his neighbors. A painter who appeared before the South Shields tribunal told the members that if he were not hilling Germans he was killing germs in various public places, such as schools. He was granted a month's exemption. If the rulers of Europe had been vegetarians there would have beei no war, according to Mr Samuel Donniss. who has just been arrested in Now. York for the eighteenth time for rebuking a woman for buying meat. A number of conscientious objectors at the barracks at Chatham were being removed to another place when a party of soldiers, hearing of their departure, waited for them, and gave them a farewell with flour and soot. Private_ Arthur Harrison, of Barnsley, who is now in a Manchester Hospital, spent five days, badly wounded, in a shell-hole in the thick of the recent fighting, and when he at length .