GENERAL NEWS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16163, 18 March 1918, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

Vso have received from A.J.S. £1 for the lied Triangle I 1 und. The ferry steamer Miiraroa made a fast passage trom Wellington on Saturday night, arriving at Lytteltou at 8.'20 yesteruay morning. At Rotorua yesterday Sir James Alien stated that, it was intended to immediately provide accommodation for an additional iOO men at George V. Hospital for soldifers at Pukeroa, by erecting two detached wards. Art investment of £10,000 in the new War Loan is tti bo inade by the Auckland Education Board, providing tho Minister will give his approval. The iiidney will be drawn from the maintenance Viirid. One first offender, who was fined os, in default 48 hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness, was the only casa which came before Air T. A. li. BaiLy, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court oh Saturday morning. In Trerttham Cam') Ordors it is announced that two soldiers, having been convicted by District Court-martial on charges ot disobeving lawful mands given by their superior officers, haVd l)eon sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for two years. Their name* are as under: Private C K. MeCormack, Details; Private D. Christian, Detail*.

Kiirlbcr instructions issued regarding drc.H regulations State that officers in uniform must wear their Sam Browne |„.|U at all times when appearing m public places, including theatres, restaurant?. and hotels. It is also notified for Konernl information that jackets, liwern, and pantaloons, service dress, „ro iiwucd as universal garments for Now Zealand Forces, and that distinguishing braids and pipings are abolished.

The South Canterbury Development League as the outcome of suggestions bv Mr J allies Craigie, MP., has completed tho first stage of its organisation campaign, states a Press Association message it'ora Timairit. Brahches have been farmed at TiniarU, Waiinate, Pairlie, Temuka, and G^raldine t each centre showing great enthusiasm. The organisation how covers the whole of South Canterb'.irv. Strong committees havo beett appointed in each district, and a large central executive is preparing machinery for the active promotion of settlement and industrial expansion.

An election to fill an extraordinary vacancy in the Woolston Borough Council will be held on April 9th. Nominations close on April 3rd. I The tramway service on the Sumner line was interrupted, on Saturday evening for nearly an bonr through tho trolly-polo of a double-decker giving trouble near the Heathcote bridge. Tho week-end sale of home-made food supplies at the Red Cross Sales Depot, Cathedral square, was in charge of the New Brighton Red Cross branch, and resulted in the sum of £30 being added to the Red Cross Funds. There was a fair-sized audience at Everybody's Theatre last night, when Dr. H. T. J. Thacker, M.P., delivered an illustrated address on famous memorials in the Empire, in aid of the Bandsmen's Memorial, for which funds are now being collected. Messrs Dalgety and Co. and the Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency •Co., Ltd.. each gave £503 to the Red Triangle Fund, the money being paid over 1o the Dominion fund in Wellington. These sums were exclusive of what tho firms gave to the Auckland fund last year. Mr J. S. Evans, S.M., chairman of the No. L Military Service Board, writes correcting our report of an observation which he made at the meeting of the Board on Friday. He states that his remarks had reference to the liquor business, which ho said was not only lion-essential at present, but in many cases more or less an evil. Sergeant Copeland and Kid, who have been mystifying many people in Christchurch during the past few days, visited the Returned Soldiers' Club yesterday afternoon, in company with the manager cf tho Opera Houso (Mr W. Holsdon), and the club members and their friends spent a particularly interesting hour. Afternoon tea was provided by tho Women's National Reserve.

The master bakers of Auckland, ut a meeting held last week, dceided to increase tho price of bread as from to-day, whf'n tlie -lb l at' will cost old, instead of od ts hitherto. The trade states that the increase will bring Auckland into line with other centres, .states tho "Star." The chief reasons justifying tho increase are the increasing cost ot' manufacture, materials, and the shortago of labour, and therefore wages. Those l:akors utilising horse vehicles also had to pay more heavily for horse-feed. Looking at the position in a broad light., tho members of the Association considered tho increase reasonable in view cf the additional cost of all essentials to tho frcdl'. Tlio last iu-:rease of a halfpenny was made in November, ifjlCi.

There was nh attendance of about 100 at the annual church parade of the St. John Ambulance Brigade yesterday, the parade, being t,o the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church. Among those present were : —District Superintendent Thomas (in charge), Assistant-Commissioner "\V. . Me Kinney, members of the District Staff, the Christchureh Ambulance Division, under First Officer Ralph: the ■Chrislehurch Nursing Division, under Ladv Superintendent Mills; the Selwyn .Nursing Division, under Lady Superintendent Russell; and the Avonside Nursing Division, under Ladv Superintendent .Rhodes. The service at Ihe church was taken by the Rev. J. .f. North, ivho preached on "Piety and i'itv."

The huiit, one of the rarest of llative birds, aiict extremely prized by the oldtime Alnol'i chiefs ior its tail feathers, is almost extinct. Same years ago search was lhade in the btlsli 011 tho Ruiihillu and Kaimanawa Ranges lor specimens to place ill tho bird sanctuaries at Kapili and Little Barrier Islands. . The search, however, was unsuccessful. For several yc&l's past it has been believed that huias still existed in the more remote snots 111 the bush country about the Jieadwators of the Wahganui river, and confirmation of the opinion is now to hand. Last week, while motoring over the Okahukura Hill from Matiere, Mr B. A. Deattie, stock agent for Dalgety and Co., saw two huias, states tho \\angamji "Chronicle." Natives in the Pipiriki district state that the huia disappeared from that localitv about eighteen years ago, when thero was a big demand for tho black, white-tipped feathers for headgear decorative purpose in connexion with the visit of the present King and Queen to tho Dominion.

T have gone into partnership with £1 ait v La uder, but it isn't for profit," says Charies Chaplin in the cOuise of a personal letter to Mr W. Barribgton Miller, cf Lauder is at present in America organising a million-pounds war relief fund. Being desirous of enlisting Chaplin's aid, the Scotsman visited the £C reen star at his new studios at Hollywood; Los Angeles. It was there decided that the best method of helping the fuiid along would be to produce a film comedy witli both Lauder and Chaplin in it. "For two hours we worked bufore the camera on an impromptu story that the staff drew up," writes tho film comedian. "I had laughed at Lauder in London a few years ago ■ Lauder says ho has tometiines laughed at me since then but neither of us had met nor, worked together before. There is onlv one scene in the picture that wo did, aiid throiigh°ui mostof it Lauder wore lny make-up, jvlnle I danced round in his kilts. But I °,T m 1 not a Scotsman, because I can t roll my 'r's.'" The comedy will be released in Amcriea as a special feaiute, from which £200,000 is tho expected return. The Whole of this sum •A e ;l to Lnudoi s "-or fund, together with the proceeds of the sale 0 f 50 000 gether" tw "° come:li »ns taken to-

EVahs writes to the Wellington, "Post" from Petone making co.iiplaint that German prisoners of war \t- e ' OL ' OIVIU ° medical treatment in the Wellington i J ublic Hospital in the same ward as other patients. Xub only he says, <io the other patients have to sulfer the indignity of mixing u'itii these men, but the prisoners are not under any regular guard, and, being convalescent, Jiavc free access to other parts of the hospital. Visitors talk lreely to them, and reeentlv a naturalised German who was rtlsi a patient used to spend hoUfs a day conversing with them. The correspondent states that he was so indignant chat, though sutternig severely, when ho found out thß state of affair's, lie at once left the hospital. Mr Evans, who states ho has had eleven years' Imperial service in India and had two years' service in Egypt, says that stich treatment of prisoners is unheard of in tho Imperial scrvice: oven ordinary prisoners in peace time being kept apart, and if sick attended by orderlies, and not by female nurses; no says that one of the nurses, who had lost a brother at the front, felt very keenly having to wait cn the prisoners. The letter goes on to scv that there was nothing to hinder the prisoners escaping if thev so desired. Another phase of the matter which increased the writer's indignation was the alleged turning out of tho hospital of an elderly man who was suffering severely from rheumatism while the German prisoners, who were able to walk about, wero still kept in the hospital. Want a Truss? Let Loasbv Pi yon. Large assortment just landed. Why suffer? Come and :, ask Loasby about it." Advice and medicifie* 6d ; children, 2s. 1 Messrs T. Armstrong and Co., Ltd., extend an invitation "to ladies to inspect the beautiful new millinery just placed on view in their respective show rooms. Ladies wishing something quite exclusive for raecs and Easter wear should make a point cf seeing the latest models. The linn's famous low prices are, as usual, in evidence. 1

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