LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9104, 27 September 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Minister of Defence has received information that the second portion of the Twenty-eighjth Reinforcements has reached its destination.

Tlie Wellington Cricket Association passed a resolution last night in favour of resuming -representative matches.

The Wellington Education Board, has decided 'to ask two teachers ' who desire to retire to superannuation to withdraw their resignations owing to tho shortage of teachers.

Old linen is very much in demand at- the County 'Hospital,' and • the Matron would be greatly obliged if residents, having, any', to spare- would send it .to the institution. •

At Dunedin, yesterday, Albert Brodie Hall, tobacconist, was fined £25 and'costs for keeping a common gaming house, and his female assistant £5 and costs for assisting in keeping /the house.

Men who have been. re-classed as Cl by the Military Medical Boards began to mobilise yesterday at the new camp provided for them in Featherijton camp, where they will undergo speoial physical training; with a view to being made fit for active service.

A Gisborne telegram gtates that, questioned yesterday regarding the case of suspected small-pox, the Mayor stated that medical opinion was divided, and it was-'necessary to await developments. Meanwhile all precautions were being taken. ' „ . ;

Four Ashburton men who have been invalided home 'arrived--at Ashburton by the express from. Christohurch today. Their names are:—Lieutenant E. T. White (Allenton), Privates A. W. Bright (Third Reinforcements), W. J.Lennon (jNlinth Reinforcements), C. Williams (Ninth .Reinforcements). They were met by the Mayor (Mr R. I Galbraith), several councillors, and Mr I C. W. Nicoll (secretary, of the War ! Reliof Society), and numeroue friends, 1 and given a hearty welcome. All have seen "considerable .service, and were wounded. Lieutenant Brophy and Private Wilkinson will arrive at a, later date.

It is no' longer " the men of the hour " in America. In tact,. according to a woman's 'paper, it is nob man's hour a^ all in business. It is the woman of the hour to-day, we are told, and for American women the clock has struck 12 ! In man's imagination Liberty waa always v goddess, und not a god. And this has come true in real life. The American goddess of Liberty is upholding Liberty's torch now. She is doing it, not by standing at ease, with one arm thrusting up the brand of light, as in New York Harbour. She is doing it with the shovel and the hoe, by running eleavtors in hotels, and counting out money in banks.

At the Addington market. yesterday the following salea were made on be* half of Ashburton County farmers: — Fat Cattle —For Ashburton client, 4 steers at £10 to £12 sa. Fat Sheep— Wethers: For Watson Bros. (Methven), 60 at 46s to (54a; Henderson Bros. (Methven), 55 at 46s to 555; R. Iteddicliffe (Ashburton), 96.,.at 49a to 51s 3d; J. G. Lilley (Lyndhurst), 56 at 43s to 48s Id; R. W. Baxter (Seafiold), 38 at 45s to 48s Id, 2 hoggets at 40s; W.H. Stoddart (AVillowby), 8 at 48s; M.fMcLeod (Methven), 50 at 41b lOd to 44s Id; H. J. Crothers (Lauriston);, 38 at 34s to 36s 6d, 24 hoggets at \32s 4d. Ewes: For H. Frampton (Willowby), 52 at 34a 4d to 48s 6d.'

Every militant mutfrage disturbance in Washington (and there have been many of them in recent months) is planned, rehearsed, and fetaged by the National Women's party,' like the big scene in a "movie" 'melodrama. Then it is^'put across" on'programmevtioie, when the suffragist captains are certain thai the newspaper - correspondents' and camera men are out in force, when advance ' notices have drawn a crowd to the spot., and when the votehunters aro sure they will get their moneys worth in publicity. Miss Alice Paul and Miss Lucy Burns are the stage managers, and wrote the"'..scenarios ; Mrs Abbey Scott Baker, queen of Press agentessos, commanded the array of fair scribes, who spread the startling details, and made sure all newspapers and Press Associations were kept informed.

" There is more double-distilled, concentrated, triple-expansion, foiircylindered humbug over relief work by society women than is to be founjl elsewhere under the canopy" of heaven (says the San Francisco "Argonaut"). Nine times out of 10 it is a mere excuse for self-display, for pleasure, and for vanity. Women who could draw cheques that would relieve the unbearable misery of 1000 families, and who would never know even that they had spent the money,. are" found knitting unwo'arable ' stockings, cultivating ridiculous garden patches at immense expense, organising elaborate devices for extracting nickels and dimes from poor people,, for which they and not the poor , people .will, get the credit, and screaming their activities to high lion yon. They are snread like a miasma over civilisation."