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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1914, Page 6

! The Hutt County Council's overdraft at the Bank of New Zealand now stands at £6487 10s. The limit is £8000. A fountnin which has been Greeted fit Parkukariki for the public benefit, in memory of the early settle™, will be opened with BOVne ceremony next Saturday afternoon by Mr, \V. J. Howell, a member of the Hutt County Council. Tho cost of tho installation wa^ borne by various settlers, and the Hutt County Council has agreed to supply tho water flee of cost. The Inspector of Rifle Clubs (Colonel C. B. Wolfe) is to inspect the Rifle Club Reserve Corps, 10-moi'row night. A further issuo of equipment will be made prior to the parade to those men not yet in possession of same. Lieutenant T. J Davis, ot the Reserve of Officers, well known as tho successful instructor of the famous Wellington City_ Rifles military teams, is actively assisting in the training of the company. A class for noncommissioned officers has also been commenced. Ruskin might have welcomed the pro spect of a Euiorwan war, for he had little sympathy with the ideftls und aims of the pacifists (remarks a London journalist). "All the pure and noble arts of peace are founded on war," he told the members of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, in 1865. "No great art ever yet rose on earth but- among a nation of soldiers. There is no art among a shepherd people, if it remains at pence. There is no art among tin agricultural people, if It remains ut peace. Commerce is barely consistent with flnfe art, but- cannot produce it. Manufacture not -only is unable t6 produce it, but invariably destroys whatever seeds of it exist. There is no great art possible to a nation but that which is based on battle." , Unusual interest attaches to the Upper Hutt Town Board election next Wednesday week by reason of the fact \ that a poll will also be taken on the ' proposal to raise v loan of £1400 for tho purpose of acquiring Maidstohe Park for a public recreation ground. The property is owned by Mr. Phillip Davis, who recently offered it, to the Upper Hutt people at the price mentioned. It has an area of about twenty acres, part of which comprises a beautiful scenic, reserve. The park is' generally considered eminently suitable for a recreation ground, and the board holds the view that the venture is a good one from every point of view, including financial. On the same day a poll will also be taken on the question ot raising £300 for the purchase of lite brigade equipment. During the recent visit of a British squadron to Kiel, the Kaiser, as an honorary Admiral of the Fleet, visited the British Admiral (Sir George Warrender). During his stay on board the King George V., his flag was, as is customary, flown. When the English squadron took its departure the Kaiser, in return for the complimentary visit, offered the light cruiser squadron attached to the visiting force the privilege of passing through the Kiel Canal. Au inflexible rule on British ships compels all _ captains to keep tho lead going whilst entering or leaving harbour. As a consequence, on the return of the squadron to Portsmouth, the Admiralty were in possession of a chart of the canal, carefully compiled by the navigating officers. The value^f this mistake of the Kaiser to the British navy is incalculable, fot the soundings taken showed conclusively that the heavy Dreadnought battleships of the German fleet are unable ,to negotiate the canal, • as the depth of water available is insufficient. This knowledge has, no doubt, enabled Sir John Jellicoe to dispose his fleet to the best advantage, allowing the pre-Dreadnought vessels of the second fleet, under Sir Cecil Burney, to watch the canal entrance for the older, and numerically smaller, squadron of German ships capable of negotiating its waters. •- 1