LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3013, 26 February 1917, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

English and 'Australian mails reached Auckland at midnight on Sunday, and were not oxpected to be sorted till this morning. The Wellington and southern portion of the mails will react- ho-e tomorrow morning. Tho Manuka," frotn ; Sydney to Wailmgfon direct, ;s duo j here to-inorro<v morning also. | Some of the discharged soldiirs who : have takes up iacd are doing fa'X-' well in several MtUeineatg visitrd »v Mr. W T Jennings, M.P. for IWanul. At Manaeivui a party of eighr, essoldiers, ail of whom are Anzac-s. have 'been milking cows this season, and thoy have an average holding of 70 aoree. One of the ciea was a very serious cob case when he returned by the ,Willochra on her first trip. In tho Divorce Court on Saturday, before Mr. Justice Chapman and a jury of twelve, the hearing commenced in the case of John Henry Pearson, a blacksmith's striker at Petone. represented by Mr. T. M. Wilford, 'for the dissolution of his marriage with' Dorothy Pearson, for whom Mr. D. M. E'indlay appeared. Harry Wiggins was named I as co-rospondent. and was represented by Mr. R, Kennedy. The cross-exam-ination of the petitioner had not concluded when the court adjourned at I p.m. I

"We have had somo very interesting men here to lecture to us," says a New Zealand officer in n letter from France to a friend in Chrisfcchurch. "One wjiose particular 'stunt' is intelligence, had given a. series of lectures on the strategy of war. He has a tremendous lot of tickets on Joft're, and he affected lis all with bis own optimism with regard to the general position. His chief point is that territorial conquests have little value unless they are accompanied by the destruction of the defending armies—i.e., that, notwithstanding tho German successes in the East, and especially in Rumania, it will all boil down to a question of men, and that we are in an undoubtedly better position than the Bosche. He showed how Joffre r s strategy has been to account for the Huns with as little loss of men on our side as possible. In these days it is quite oheerful to find one so absolutely optimistic about the general position." The recent discussion in the House of Commons on tile elleged operations of an American Meat Trust in New Zealand once more focusses attention on the subject. "Inquiries made in Dunedin by one of our reporters show unquestionably that American meat firms are now operating in the Dominion," says the "Otago Daily Times." "vvnefner or not they are actually Branches of Armour's and Swift's, of Chicago, cannot be definitely determTnea so easily. The presumption is thift they are. The only way this could be' ascertained, our reporter was informed—as he was informed some months ago, when he prosecuted similar inquiries—would be to find out who retails the meat when it has reached, the London market. Still, it is suggesteff that the firms with American oapital now operating here are unlikely to be able to do any harm while the war conditions last." Referring to the work of the Industrial Efficiency Board in Christchurch, Sir. tT. Frostick, one of the members of the board, said he anefhis colleagues hope'd that all men above military age would conceive it to be a national duty to offer their services to the State gratuitously in cases where their financial position will permit them doing so; or, m cases of men who had retired from active business, to express their willingness to ro-enter tho ranks of labour in occupations for which they are physically fitted. It mIgBFKo also necessary —and probably would be necessary^—to organise woman labour in such occupations aB would relieve men fit for military service, or national service other ffiian miEfary. The following members of the Wellington Automobile Club kindly lent their cars for the use of the members of the N.Z. Society of Civil Engineers .at the motor outing whioh took place on Friday at Wainui-o-mata:—Messrs!, W. G. Foster, O. B. Buxton, W. Mantell, W. Brown, H. W. Laurenson, H.' Evans, W. R. Morris, F. Townsend, C. H. Izard, W. P. Lodder, H. Lloyd, A. Dougall, and A. M. Taylor. •£t~Saturday's session of the Methodist Conference it was announced that Chaplain-Captain Grigg was due to arrive in Wellington by the Manuka tomorrow. Just landed,„a .big range of heavy Tweed Trousers—los. 6d.—at Geo. Fovrlds, Ltd., Manners Street.—Advt.