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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 86, 8 October 1914, Page 6

The Postal authorities notify 'that the transmission of mails from the" Dominion to Austria, \Aii6trian agencies, Germany, German agencies and colonies, Hungary, and Luxembourg is suspended. Tuesday's westerly gale did much damage in the Hawkes Bay orchard districts. In some places early stone fruit trees were almost denuded. The New Zealand Trotting Conference will hold a special meeting in Wellington on 23rd October to consider applications for the new totalisator licenses provided by the amended Gaming Act. Reporting on the petition of Miss Jan«?>t A. Finlayson, who asked for relief m respect of the loss of status as a teacher in the Island Bay School, the Education Committee of the House of Representatives yesterday recommended that, although the time has passed in which the petitioner had a right to appeal, the Minister should grant her leave* to bring the case before the Court of Appeal. A sitting of the Juvenile Court was held before Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., to-day. A lad fourteen years of age appeared on two charges of theft. He was deemed to be a child not under proper control, and he was committed to the Wellington Receiving Home. The father was ordered to contribute towards his maintenance. Three other boys, all about ten years of age, were convicted on each of two charges of theft of money belonging to tho City Corporation. They were each ordered to receive four strokes of the birch. Thus the London Mirror :—": — " I hear from Paris that racehorse owners havo been badly hit by the war. Mr. James Hennessy's thoroughbred Lord Loris, which won the big steeplechase in Paris and the big hurdle race at Nice, and was worth at Heast £10,000, has been commandeered by the Government, who paid the owner £66. 'Ultimatum— an appropriate name— belonged to M. VeilPicard, which was valued at £6000, -was taken over by the military authorities at the price of £72. Trianon, which ran second in the Grand National, was sold for the same price, and Sardanapale, the most famous crack of the year, has not been requisitioned, but will be reserved for stud purposes." The noise made by a pa*sing motorbicycle frightened a number of troop horses at Lyall Bay yesterday afternoon, and stampeded them. A trooper named Henry Ingram, who was holding several of the horses, was thrown and trampled on, and had to be removed to the hospital, where it waa found that he had sustained a cut on the head and a severe injury to the knee. The stampedec^ horses were joined by a number of others which, becoming alarmed, had broken away from the lines, and the lot set off in a mad gallop towards Newtown. Several made for the Park and others traversed Danipl-street and Mem-street, and on to Riddiford'Street, where one horse fractured its shoulder, and had to be shot. Search parties of troopere were despatched after the runaways, which were eventually recaptured. The injured trooper, who is a single man, 39 years of age, is progressing favourably. A movement is progressing — according to the Hon. J. T. Paul in the Otago Daily Times— which may put new life into the Labour movement. He says : "Comparatively few people in New Zealand have any knowledge of the Workers' Educational Association, a movement which has been most successful in Britain. Last year it was established in Australia, and doubtless would have also become an institution here had the original plans been carried out. The object of the parent association then was that Mr. Alfred Mansbridge, the main directing genius of the parent body, should visit Australia and New Zealand and establish branches of the association. The strike dislocated our lines of communication, and Mr. Mansbridge got no further in New Zealand than a visit to Auckland. Early next year Mr. Meredith Atkinson, director of the tutorial classes at the Sydney University, hopes to help us forming branches in New Zealand." Having withstood the effects of the weather since being wrecked at Gisborne without toally disappearing, the Star of Canada was this week given a more severe test, with the result that the remains of the ill-fated steamer will soon disappear. The funnel of the vessel, which has stood oui prominently, indicating the scene of the wreck, has been removed by a charge of gelignite, fired under the direction of the harbour engineer, Mr. J. A. M'Donald. Seventyfive pounds of explosive were used, and the report when the charge went off was heard plainly four miles away. The funnel was shot skywards, and fell into the water, the inside cylinder falling outwards. Except for a small portion of the ironwork that was at the base of the smoke-stack, the structure was completely removed. The remnants are loose and the first big sea will probably complete the work. A charge of 121b of gelignite was also placed alongside tho foremast some distance under water. The explosion gave the iron mast a decided list, and shattered the wooden topmast. Although the spar did not fall it now remains in a very shaky condition, and it is anticipated that) this, too, will fall with the first southerly blow that occurs. That a church service was never meant to be a fancy dress parade is the declaration given in a pamphlet ju&fc issued by the Redfem Congregational Church, Sydney. People who are not very well on, the pamphlet asserts, often absent themselves from public worship because, as they urge, the churches are too respectable, and that they have no clothes, and that their dress is not good enough to let them associate with the average churchgoer. "What have we to say to these people?" the pamphlet proceeds. "Is it really true that men and women must absent themselves because of the poverty of their wardrobes? Surely not. There may be churcheß in which those who are not well dressed are not made welcome. There may be a few churches scattered here and there that are unfortunate enough to be patronised by little cliques of snobs, who do not desire to be associated, even in worship, with those who happen to be less exquisitely robed than themselves. A man need not stay away from church because his coat is a little bit shabby. A woman need not be debarred the privilege of worship because she cannot afford to array herself in the latest thing. After all, a church service is not a fancy dtess parade, and people do not go to church nowadays— whatever they may hay« done ih the past— either to show or to see the best hats or smartest suits. The best hats and the smartest suits are to be seen elsewhere— on the promenades and at, the garden parties. The average worshipper of to-day is a very soberlydressed person, and in almost all of the churches those who are plainly and ( poorly dressed may be sure of a welcome. The church that does not want the pnor has somehow strangely forgotten its Christ." So excellent in style, fit and finish are the ready-10-wear suits I'or men now showing at Kirkcaldie and Stains, ! Ltd., that only tho practised eye can detect that they are not siiits-to-mea-sure. Cut in the latest styles from English, Scotch, Irish, and Colonial tweeds at prices ranging from 49s 6d to 1056.— Advt. Ties that will finish the dress of Wellington's best dressed men, 2s 6d to 4s lid. Dainty designs and plenty to chocx-o from. 000. Fowlde, Ltd., Man-ncra-street.,— AArt,