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Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 79, 7 April 1916, Page 5

The Boy Scouts will give n contort nut.l demonstration at Bak-httha <m Empivo. Oa,V\ Harvest are to lie helii in the local Metho<iist <vn Sunday next. Rev. Mr Webstov, «t Nti*"ling, is tlio evening preacher. The animal meeting of the Tahat'ika Collie Club will be held in Mr .las. Friend's paddock on Wednesday, April lit. The nrofits will be devoted lo the, Our reports of the send-off lo soldiers in the Oddfellows' Hall last Monday night and the public meeting held at Warepa on Wednesday night to discuss the recruiting question will be found ou page :!. under the heading of ''New ZeaTo all lovers of good clothes we appeal. Economy is the general note throughout the Dominion at the present time, and a well-tailored suit or costume spells strict economy. It will last you twice as long as the cheap made garment. Everyone hi Balchitha and district knows that I cater for high-grade tailoring. 1 solicit your patronage now for your Kaster costume or suit. Patterns of newest fabrics from Clias. G. Kirby, tailor, Balclutha.*** The danger of riding a motor cycle at night without lights was made evident to a Balclutha youth cycling from Milton on Sunday last. When approaching Balclutha the motorist; who was going at a fair speed, skidded on a stone while turning a sharp corner. His bike made a bee-line for the embankment at the side of the road, and the rider was propelled over the handlebars into a friendly hedge, from which he luckily escaped'with a severe shaking.

The annual meeting of the ladies' hockey club will be held in the Borough Council Chambers on 'Monday evening at 7.15. Excursion fares to and from luvercarglli will be issued on April 12 and l:i, on the occasion of the .Southland Hating Club's autumn meeting. Full particulars will be found in our advertising columns. The monthly meeting of the Balclutha D.H. High School Committee, which was to have been held last Wednesday evening, was postponed for a week, there not being suflicient members present to form a quorum. At the next meeting the annual report will be presented. A large number assembled on the Balclutha station yesterday afternoon, when the local recruits left' for the north to undergo training prior to proceeding to the front. On the call of the Mayor (Mr U. Stewart) three hearty cheers were given for the men as the train moved out of the station. Attention is drawn to an advertisement in this issue relative to a sale of valuable furniture to be held in Mr Duncan's premises (next the Oddfellows' Hall) on Friday, April 14. Goods to be sold comprise articles won by the South Otago Sports" Queen in the recent queen car:;ival competition. I

At the conceit on Monday night Mr 1). Stewart again expressed' his belief that the war would be over at an early 'late. For a number of reasons (he said') lie felt very confident of that, and believed the thought must be a comfort to mothers, whom he did not blame for loving their sons. An early peace would in no way rob those now enlisting of the honour due to them. They were doing their duty, they were enlisting, and enlisting without compulsion, and that was all that could be asked of them.

.Mr D. Stewart (.Mayor;, when speaking at the patriotic concert on Monday, took an opportunity to welcome, in a h'w graceful words, Sergeant Gold to Balclutha, and referred to the pleasure the townspeople had in counting him a fellow citizen. The speaker also congratulated the new recruits, and said that there were two families represented among them to whom he must reier—the dones, of Kosebank, who had sent two sons and were now sending another son, Oswald, anil the Halls, of Riverside, wdio had sent and lost one son, and were now sending his brother Laurence.

The entrance of a man accompanied by a draught horse and a 'bulldog through the doorway of the Oddfellows' Hall during' the progress of the patriotic entertainment to the departing recruits at Balclutha on Monday evening made it appear at a first glance as if an enthusiastic recruit for the artillery branch had been obtained, and that he was prepared to back up his claims by supplying his own "neddy" and taking his own bow-wow as a mascot. However, it appears that the intruder is not enlisting just yet, probably because he lias dependent*—the horse and the dog. The seipiel will probably be heard at the next sitting of the local court, when the leader of the draught and the bully will j be asked to "please explain.'' A very pleasant social and dance was held in the Ratanui school on Friday night (March 14) to bid farewell to Lance-corporal Samuel McDowell, who will shortly leave for the front. The vocal items were supplied by Mrs Perry, Misses Xind, Harrington, Shaw and Newman, Messrs Shaw, White and Over- j ton. At the conclusion of the musical' part of the programme the chairman (Mr Overton) presented the departing j soldier with a wristlet watch, suitably inscribed, at the same time wishing him good luck and a safe return. Mr Davis also spoke wishing him Godspeed. Lancecorporal McDowell suitably returned thanks, after which an excellent supper was handed round, and the floor was then cleared and dancing indulged in for an hour or two, music being supplied by MY Terry (piano) and Mr Overton (violin). in his address at the patriotic concert on Monday evening Mr D. Stewart (Mayor) said lie had. been taken severely to task by the Lytteltou Times and other papers for venturing to assert that | the war would soon be over. He had i been told that his statement would dis- | courage recruiting, and he had been i asked what was the good of recruiting ii the war was to be over so soon.' The | speaker said that he thought that any I newspaper man of intelligence should I have recognised that it was just when ' victory was in sight that we should do i our utmost to impress the enemy. Every man we could get should be sent to the front in order that the enemy might not be encouraged by any slackness of ours I to continue a ' vain resistance. The j nearer peace was the greater the need for an overwhelming display of force, and that force must be maintained during negotiations and until peace was . actually signed and sealed. (Woods' Great Peppermint Cure I For Coughs and Colds never fails.