TERRITORIALS AT TRENTHAM.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1912, Page 8

TERRITORIALS AT TRENTHAM.

The camp of the sth Regiment (Wellington Battalion), which commenced at Trentham on Saturday last, is Hearing its end. To-morrow morning will be devoted to striking camp, and in the afternoon a special train will convey the men to Wellington. They will reach the' Lambton Station about 4 o'clock, and. .march through the- streets, accompanied by tho band iind baggage -wagons, to the Buckle-street Drillahed, and there _be dismissed. The weather during the period of training has been, with one exception, ye% favourable and the result is that the men are in excellent spirits, and conscious of having derived a very fullineab'ur© of benefit from the the work they have had to undergo. Colonel Cha-y-±or. and Colonel Camp boll visited the tamp this morning./

Many' people were wide awake to-day to', „s'&?, a . young woman put into a hypnotic sleep by the compulsion of fixed stares- and w-siid passes of hand, by Professor Norwood, in a shop front of Willis-street. ' This advertising expedient produced a congestion which constantly threatened an accident. The meemeric power of curiosity made por- . tions.of the public indifferent to a risk of broken or mangled limbs by contact with passing cars. The crowd was densely packed on the roadway, right up to the tramway rail, and bicycles were mixed up in the surging throng. The clang of the car belle no more perturbed .the eager ' sightseers than the buzz of a fly. For all their interest in the cars, which insisted on a. right, of way, they .might havp been under the spell of the stare -and the-paesee. Sometimes a foot--board slowly grazed the edge of the con,<3cete mase of palpitating curiosity, but it spread no more alarm than a flick of ». feather could have done. The police ordered a " moving-on " to keep the footpath, reasonably clear, but they evidently considered that the roadway was duteide their province. An accident was possible every time a worried motorman, anxious about his time-table, t>et tikneelf to work his car through, the zone of danger. The pianist ie to be awakened from her sleep in the Opera House this evening. *' I'ho directors of the Staples Brewery Company have decided to #ive £100 to picture fund %' (* National Art