THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN WARTIME.

Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13432, 10 March 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN WARTIME.

■■ ■ ■ »f s One of the sequels to the war, says Bishop Welldon, will bo an enormously increased reverence for women. It is estimated that 870,000 women have been drafted into various trades and industries since the outbreak of war. Two "conscientious objectors" who were employed as gravediggers by the Sheffield Corporation left after* two days' work. They objected to death in any form.

Mr John Henshftll, of Lovenshulme, Manchester, who is eighty-six, works. ten and a half hours a day in a munition factory and walks eight miles a day to it and home again. The "war apple" of the fruit-grow-ing country has been produced by the King's Acre Nurseries, at Hereford. It weighs 34Jozs., and is said to be the heaviest the world has ever grown. A Los Ang?ies man claims to have invented a perfect war meal—five small tablets, each containing wheat, corn, oats, rice, lentils, beans, monkev-nnts* walnuts, olives, oranges, raisins, figs, prunes, pineapple, asparagus, spinach, lettuce, onions, carrots, and celerv.

Recently a 20-stone man appealed, ar. Lambeth for exemption because he was too big. Now a man appealed! because he was too small, saying he only weighed 6J stone, <nnd would be soon worn outin the Army. As with the big man, the tribune 1 ordered the small man to join up.

An absconding Dacoit who posed as the Kaiser is about to be tried in India.

The batUe-torn flag flown during the Rattlo ot' Jutland by the Chester, in which ship the hoy hero Cornwell 'waft mortally wounded, is permanently to be* pre.(-rved in differ Cathedral after. a formal dedication ceremony. The Berlin Kreuzzeitung says that Vice-Almiral Kirchhoff, addressing a people's meeting at Plauen (Saxonv), urged the speedy defeat of England and a resolution was adopted demanding that "the war be carried' over to. England herself."

From the report of the Roval Patriotic Fund Corporation for the' year \9lS> it is gathered that on December 81«t last £7OO capital remained to the credit of the Liglr lirgade (liahclava) Fund, that four men were on the books of the 4 ? 0 ? on that date - and that Llo2 had been allowed to them during the year

"The Kaiser's V lambs" and the pussy-footers of the sea" are the two latest American descriptions of the , German submarines. "I don't like being hustled," was the only complaint (according to the Liverpool Post) of a badly wounded soldier in a local hospital. "What do von mean?" he. was asked. The man "displayed tho corner of his 6heet, whjch bore in large Fetters the word! "Mortuary." It appears that there was a. temporary shortage of bed-linen. The Admiralty, for the first time, it-. is said, in its long career, is now suh■stitutinjr single sheets for the imposing double sheets of sumptuous letter paper hitherto in use, and "no matches are officially supplied for melting sealinc wax."