OTAKI NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 50, 28 August 1911, Page 8

OTAKI NEWS.

', (« TBLSaftAffl-SPEOIAt, TO THB tOSt.) OTAKI, This. Day. 1 ,The weather for some time past, with '>'the exception of an occasional day, has ibeea simmerdikej bub yesterday saw a lighb shower*, with an, easterly '•.wind, prevailed/ The weather was in■clmed to be colder. . Further investigations have be^a made by the. polka regarding the missing fflan •■Smith, but no trace has been found. A •box, containing more money, ha«, hmv* ;ever, been discovered hidden, in his -ihop. One' of the most interesting lectures 1 yet given at the C.E.M.S. ffieetiaga was "<m« by Mr. A. Bacchus on '"Militarism. dn New Zealand." He pointed out the ■. growing isolation of the Dominion, and \ •„th<r ev«r increwing menace of the yel-'-low nations in the Pacific. He urged .ihfl adoptkm of conscriptioa fft the con/^iflentAl form of three years' enforced. Service in camp and batrack, and con- ' 'Hfertcted that in France and Germany it '■was found that these three years 'in no way interfered with the business or j professional career of the citizen, but, ©fl th« other haod, greatly improved the .Jnorald of the nation. ' \\> is stated that Mr. W. Murdotk .will not enter ih« political arena, as he «t first intended, for the Otaki seat. Messrs. Field (sitting member), Byron . Brown, C. A. W, Moacfetofl,' aod fiotiertfiOH (the latter unknown in this portion of the electorate) have 'anaotino^d i Ahemeelves definitely. Messrs, Moncktflfl And Robertson have made preliminary speeches, while Messrs. Field and Brown ' { will he in the thick of the fight at an «ariy date. It is generally considered iha* the election wilj be a clo»© one, and 'that the finish will be fought out 'toy Messrs. Field, Brown, and Moncktoa. Mr. A. M'Bain, head teacher at the 'Manakau School, ie again indisposed with ao cia-sfcanding leg complaint, and it is more than probable that he will, be obliged to undergo an operation. Mr. H. George, another Maflakau resident, t» aJteo ill, flnffering from appendicitis.