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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 804, 29 April 1910, Page 6

Last evening a meeting of fie Southern Cross Lodge, L0.0.F., was held, N.G. Bro. Bodley presiding over a large attendance. Two new members were elected and one proposed. The special business was in connection with . the ninety-first anniversary of the foundation of the lodge. Recruits for the Territorial Army were coming in at the rata of over 1000 a week, said Mr. Haldane, in his statement on the Army Estimates, while the Regulars.were "chock-full," and they had had to Refuse recruits. About .£IOO,OOO additional has been provided this year for manoeuvres. ' An area of south-western England will be taken up in the autumn fbr divisional training, in which for the first time certain Territorial units will take part. In August the degree of efficiency attained by the Territorials as a coastdefending force will bo t tested in conjunction with Regular troops and in co-operation with the Navy. Colonel .Sir David Bruce, head of the commission dispatched eighteen months ago to investigate sleeping sickness in Uganda, has with Lady Bruco returned to England on the termination of his mission, which has resulted in the stamping out of the epidemic, as no fresh cases are occurring. Tho mission made its headquarters at Mpunu, six miles from the northern shore of tho Victoria Nyanza. All the Inhabitants were removed from' the infected area, and hundreds of tho victims of the discaso were taken to ond their days in a great isolation camp. Lady Bruce actively assisted her husband, taking hor regular turn at the laboratory work. ']