SHOW PRESIDENT'S SAD NEWS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 102, 27 October 1914, Page 8

SHOW PRESIDENT'S SAD NEWS

(IT TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) GISBORNE, This Day. Mr. Witters, president of the A. and P. Association, was recalled from the show this afternoon by the sad news from home that his little boy had been drowned in a water trough.

There are still thirteen cases of measles under treatment in the Wellington Hospital. All tho patients are Auckland members of the Expeditionary Force. Private Charles Dudley Moore, of the Yorkshire Light Infantry, who was at Mons, and is now in hospital at Lynn,' had the misfortune to be wounded half an hour after he went into action. "The shrapnel shells of the Germans," he says, "were bursting over the trenches where we were lying, and I was struck in the foot with a piece of. shell which took the sole of my boot clean off. Five minutes later, when 1 I was trying to help a fellow near me who had been hit in the shoulder, I was struck in the right thigh by a pellet from a shrapnel shell. I . fired one more shot after that. I aimed at the driver of a German machine gun and hit him. This was my first experience of actual fighting, and I can tell you it is a funny sensation at first to see the shells bursting near and around you, to hear the bullets whistling by you, and to see men being killed and wounded near you ; but you soon get used to it all. It tries your nerves a bit at first, but you soon get in the way of it." - f At the annual general meeting of the Wellington Philosophical Society to-mor-row evening, at the Dominion Museum, a number of interesting papers will be read Mies E. M. Pigott, M.A., will desenbo tho development of tho ovule and embryo of Notopanax ajrboreum. Dr. J. A. Thomson will give an acoount of additions to our knowledge of recent Drachiopods of New Zealand. Mr. J. 0. M'Dowall will submit a note* on matad beer. As usual, the meeting will be open to members and friends introduced by members, On Wednesday evening, in the Sydneystreet Hal], Mr. H. E. Holland, tho Social Democratic candidate for Wellington North, will open his Parliamentary campaign, when he will outline the policy of the Social Democratic Party and its effect upon the political and economic condition of the people in New Zealand generally.