In these circumstances the O.C. is pleased to grant an extension to all ranks until twelve midnight.

P. PIPSKY,

Captain and Agitant.


A Super-Mormon.

"A Nelson soldier in a letter states that General —— informed his unit that he had 2,000 wives to ship out to New Zealand, and another 2,000 would be ready to leave England during the next few months."—New Zealand Paper.


There was an industrial freak,

As a labourer sadly to seek;

But he leapt into fame