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Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 118, 17 November 1908, Page 5

Owing to the Rev. F. W. Whibley's attendance at the meeting of the Synod, which opens at Napier on Thursday, there will be no services on Sunday next at Waitahora, Mangaho, and Mahgatoro. A man was "tried" at tho Old Bailey. On the first witness being called the prisoner asked: "My lord, is this man going to give -evidence against me?" "Yes," .was the reply. "Then I plead guilty — not that I am guilty, but I wish to save him from committing perjury." The captain of a battleship now in commission in Home waters, writing last month to a friend in Sydney, says: "I was most interested in what you had to say about Mr Deakin and the Commonwealth contribution to tho navy. It is most extraordinary how blind the present Government (English Liberals) are to the German peril, especially as so many German, officers openly talk of war with us in 1910. What people don't realise is that it is absolutely necessary for Germany to find more rooni for her rapidly expanding population. At present. German emigrants move to British or American territories, and become Anglicised, or Americanised, as the case may be; but they are lost to the Fatherland, and this is very galling to them, the more so as they seo Great Britain holding all the best territories in the world, and doing little to populate or develop theni. The working classes in this country., too (England), do not seem to realise that tho reduction in our shipbuilding programmes and cutting down of our active service votes are responsible for a great deal of the unemployment. ! (Continuation of news on page 8.)