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A witness at the Auckland Police Court on. Tuesday claimed £1 Is expenses for giving expert evidence. The Magistrate allowed the fee, and the witness promptly requested that it should be handed to the Belgian Fund. " That is very good of you," commented Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M. Already the young ladies at tho Government Printing Office have made and despatched a case of clothing for Belgian children, valued at £60. Now the staff of the office is holding a sale of flowers on Saturday next. Lady employees, with badges, are going to bombard the city on Saturday afternoon in the intereste of the Belgian Fund, and Mr. Wailace, of Messrs. Thompson Bros, and Mr. Jacobs, of Messrs. George Thomas and Co., have consented to auction flowers at street-corhere on Saturday night. Flowers for button-holes or table decoration purposes are asked for, and the lady employees will make them up. For the convenience of sympathisers coming in by train, persons authorised to receive flower* will be stationed outeide the main entrance from 7.30 to 9 o'clock on Saturday morning, or flowers and any greenery may be left with Mr. Colin Campbell, care Type Store, on Saturday morning. The hon. secretaries are Messrs. Alf. Feldwick, Government Printing Office, Wellington, and Herbert Carter, Hautana-square, Lower Hutt. Dr. Eric Mackenzie, son of Dr. Wallace Mackenzie, has accepted a com* mission as lieutenant' in the K.A.M.C., and is at present stationed at Tidworth Park, Salisbury Plain, where ho ha* charge of a section in the 39th Field Ambulance. Lieutenant Mackenzie, lv a letter reCehtly received, says: "Tho officers here are all ripping ; they handle the men splendidly ana are awfully good fellows. Any idea that they drink alco hoi is quite wrong. We all, to a man, drink ginger beer at lunch, and at dinner a few may drink one glass of beei nobody more. We have 3000 R.A.M.C men here, all recruits since the war. This section goes to the firing line with the first division of Kitchener's New Army, and wo are more pleased with our position than if we had been eenl to a base hospital, as. We are really sol* I diers. I mean, we do drill and maiii tain an iron discipline. We really do, and we are as severe as possible with the men, and inflict maximum punishments for all offences or slackness. How ever, we do all the work with the men, and theh, off parade, play games with them and shale all hardships. They aro becoming wonderfully good soldiers in a short time." Concerning the new service from New York to New Zealand via the Panama. Canal, some particulars of which appeared in Tuesday's Post, the chairman of the Auckland Haibour Board (Mr. J. H. Gunson), in the course of an important statement, referred to the visit of the A. and A. Line's chartered steamer Purley (4600 tons), now expected, at Auckland, as a matter of considerable importance to the New Zealand trade, inaugurating as she does the new service from New York, via the Panama Canal, to Australasia. The Purtey is thus one of the first vessels on the regular trade line to pass through the Panama. The time occupied from New York to Auckland, which is- the first port of call, will be about forty days. This is a striking contrast to the old service via the Cape of Good Hope, by which the first calls were made at th© Australian ports, and which occupied seventy to eighty days to New Zealand, as against the forty days represented by the new service. "The possibilities," he continued, "are unbounded. The Panama will open tip to New Zealand trade an equally direct route for the East Canadian traffic from Montreal and other shipping centres— a business which is rapidly developing. It ehould be possible under favourable conditions for New Zealand tt> considerably develop its export trade under these conditions." There was much discussion at last night's meeting of the Victoria College Council on the following motion, moved by Sir Robert Stout : "That this council regrets that the convener of the Mathematical Professor's Committee* should have been appointed by a telegram forwarded by Professor' Picken." In the first place, the Chairman (Mr. H. H. Ostler) stated that the telegram was forwarded at the request of the Finance Committee, which had been considering the appointment of Professor Pieken'a successor. Sir Robert Stout, however, eontende'd that the committee had actea incorrectly, and claimed that the telegram should have been forwarded through the usual and proper authority, the Registrar. It was wrong procedure to allow Professor Picken to communicate with gentlemen interested in the ap« pointment of his successor. The Chairman replied that/ the committee had considered it right to consult Professor Picken, and the latter had sent the telegram simply because he was well known to Professor Whittaker, of Edinburgh, to whom it was addressed. Mr. C. Wilson said the action was> lament* able and improper, and, in his opinion, the committee had committed a grave error. Other members of the council could see no impropriety in the committee's action, and on a division being taken, the motion was lost by 8 votes to 3. There is no doubt that expert German opinion is deeply anxious about the future of German markets (writes The Post's London correspondent), and those who are interested are issuing warnings to German exporters not to alienate foreign sympathies any more than can be helped. The heal of a large German exporting house writes in the Berliner Tageblatt : "It will need enormous efforts' for our export trade to recover even some part of the markets that were open to us before the war. England and all her colonies, France, Russia, Belgium, Japan — what vast territories are covered by these names, and what a very large part of our export of about £500,000,000 went to those parts of the world ! Of course, not the whole export to these countries will cease, but we may be sure • that they will not take from Germany anything but what they cahnot get! at all elsewhere, or can only get on very much less favourable terms. ... . It seems that everything ought to be done to render the reduction m the demand of these countries as small as possible. It is important already to observe that it Would be a mistake to take measures which might influence the populations of the countries affected in their behaviour towards Germany. It is to the interest of German industry that anything like a boycott of foreign goods in Germany ehould be most earnestly deprecated." We have landed a supply of soft collars in a neat stripe—black on white, brown on white, helio. on white, etc., only 9d each. Silk collars Is each. Geo. Fowlds, Ltds.— Advt. A happy journey. No bother with baggage. Just check through us. We collect, check, and deliver. It facilitates checking if we take out your ticket. The N.Z. Express Co., Ltd.— Advt. j The following will be of special interest to tho ladies of Wellington. Reports received from headquarters stftte that there is going to be a great scarcity of Kid Gloves during the next year or two, owing to the fact that the animals aro being killed off, and the enormous quantities of skiiiß iti process of cleaningtanning, and dyeing have been neglected and spoiled. Already prices abroad havo advanced 50 per Cent., and in some cases the prices have been doubled. Our readers will be glad to hear, though, that they will not bo affected to that ex« lent if thoy buy their Gloves early at C. Smith's, Ltd., of Cuba street, who wore fortunate in getting their full shipments before tho war affected the trade. —Advt.