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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 101, 26 October 1914, Page 6

News lias been received in Christchurch' of the death, m Europe, of the Mother-General of the Sacred Hearb Order of Nuns, who have establishments in New Zealahd at Timaru, Wellington, and Auckland. The late Mother belonged to the Stewart family, and waß through New Zealand only last year. The recent Dominion Conference oi the New Zealand Farmers' Union decided to urge the Government to make provision for the registration of a brand to be placed on cull dairy cattle. The matter, sayethe Minister of Agriculture, will be considered when an opportunity of amending the provisions of the Stock Act presents iteelf. Mr. Pollard, of the "Delta," Marlborough, has offered £3000 towards the purchane of a public park for Blenheim, and £1000 towards the improvement and beautification of the grounds. The portion proposed to be purchased— Waterlea. —is the property of Mr. Robert M'Callum, and is valued at £110 per acre. It, is within a few minutes' walk of the town. "Gardener" writes to The Post :— "lt is a little hard on those few folk who possess gardens in Wellington to see their valuable plants dying for lack of water, and at the same time see the way the watercarts waste it as they do. Why, sir, I often find it difficult to crocs tho street by reason of mud and puddles made by the utterly reckless way in which the precious stuff is slopped about. Often the watercarts continue to spout their contents over* roads already thoroughly soaked." Tenders are called by the City Council for the erection of a stable and other buildings at the Botanical Gardens. The site this time is not on tho Karon-road, but in tho heart of the Gardens itself, away in a gully where the buildings will be not, only unobtrusive, but embowered in greenery as much as possible, and, in any case, made inoffensive to the artistic eye. It is the intention of Jhe council to so arrange the stable that it will be an adornment father than otherwise to the Gardens. Blessing and opening at Goro of the Roman Catholic Church of the Blessed Sacrament by Bishop Verdon took place yesterday, says a Preea Association" telegram. The foundation-stone was laid eighteen months ago of a fine edifice, which has cost £5000, with seating accommodation for 650. Dean Burke, of Invercavgill, preached in the morning, and the Rev. Father Lynch, C.SS.R., in the/ evening. ' There were very large congregations, and the offertories, totalled £750. Delighted German infantry, according to the Berliner Tageblatt, captured a football from the Royal Scots and tried to play the Association game. Their efforts were so ludicrous and so disgusted two Royal Scots officers and three men who had been taken prisoners, that they offered to teach them. Eighty-five Germans delightfully accepted this offer, and the Association rules were explained to them, with the result that the German are getting more injuries in the game than in battle.. ope'aking to a Manawatu Standard reporter, Mr. P. E. Baldwin, who has returned to Palmerston North from a visit to England, said that the worst horses he saw_ were those used to draw the commissariat wagons in London, and the best were at Marseilles, the French soldiers having suberb mounts. The Australian mounted men, whom Mr Baldwin saw in Sydney, and the New Zealanders are extremely well mounted. At Bombay a large encampment of Gurkhas was inspected, and in their lines were some hundreds of mules for the transport service The cigarette of Sir John French \says the Westminster • Gazette) should become as historic as the cigar of Moltke at the battle of Koniggratz. He "seemed" very satisfied as he walked through the lines smoking a cigarette," runs the personal account of Sir John French. At tho crucial moment of Koniggratz Bismarck grew nervous. He offered Moltke a cigar from his case, watching him. The quiet soldier examined, smelt, selected the very best. Then Bismarck was reassured. So perhaps Sir John French's cigarette was one of the little personal touches that count. How a deserter of twenty years ago had to get official forgiveness through the medium of a Police Court Magistrate in order to get back to the ranks was manifested at one of the London Police Courts last month. John Day, a boot laster, had surrendered himself to the police as a deserter from the Royal Garrison Regiment since May, 1894. After being remanded for enquiries, it waa now stated that he was not wanted, because the Garrison Regiment was raised for the South African war, and had since been disbanded. Mr. Clarke, Hall said there was nothing for it but to discharge the man, as his regiment had no existence. Daiy : Thank -you, sir; that's all I wanted. Now I can go and enlist somewhere else. I am going* to the front somehow. The chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board, Mr. J. H. Gunsou. stated to a Star reporter that the volume' of shipping at the port had become normal, and the volume of shipping for the present month promised to be quite equal to that of the corresponding period of laat year. Thero was a serious diminution in the numbor of vessels calling at the port during AugU6t and September^ but since then advices had been received from abroad indicating most of the services had been, resumed. It was, therefore, anticipated by the board that the shipping figures in November and December would be very satisfactory. Had no improvement taken place the position at the end of the year would have been represented by a considerable deficiency. With the revival of the tonnage of shipping in and out of the port, the position at the end of the year, considering tho special circumstances, should be satisfactory. "Your article 'Water at 4d a Quart,' is admirable, and greatly needed,"writes "Observer" to The Post. "I have lived in Wellington forty years, but have never had Unadulterated milk. In spring, when grass is plentiful, it is rather bet> ter, but directly feed becomes short this milk is plentifully watered. I am afraid to ask my small grandchildren ! from the country to stay with me, as, after the good, honest milk they are accustomed to. town milk always disagrees with them. The cream (so called) is still worse, and in summer becomes putrid in a few hours, and moat offensive, i am told gelatine and cornflour 1 is used in its composition. I know that it hangs in ropes from the spoon. In spite of occasional fines (very intermittent)Uho milk vendors are' making huge profits out of "the cow with the iron tail." One lady (up too early) saw from hor window a milk cart stop at the water-trough opposite. The man, after allowing the horse to drink, calmly dipped a tin measure into tho sahie trough and then doctored the row of cans in Us cart. I wonder how many delicate babies have died owing to this wicked traffic in milk and bad water. I confess lam hopeless about it. The thing is taken up ; a few are fined ; and, then tho whole thing is forgotten, dropped ; and so wo go on ; and the babies die, and the milk v dors flourish! Alas!" Summer-weight pyjamas in finely ! woven material assure comfort to the over-tired nerves. In large choice, from 6s lid to 12s 6d. Geo. Fowlds, Ltd., , Mann.ers-6treot.— Advt.