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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL ♦ To-day the Prince of Wales celebrates his 21st birthday. In Wellington a partial holiday is being observed by the City Council offices, the Harbour Board, and members of the legal profession only. Work on the wharf is practically at a standstill. Flags are flying on gublic and other buildings. It has been decided to hold the annual conference of delegates of the various acclimatisation 'societies of New Zealand towards the end-of next month. A sitting of the Court of Arbitration will bo held at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning to dead with the case of Jansen v. the Huddart Parker Proprietary (a compensation case), and an application to amend the Dominion plumbers' award. Speaking at the Manawatu Show yesterday, the Prime Minister detailed the steps the Government had taken to bring back steamers to New Zealand to take away our produce. "We' had to pay for it," he said, ' "for, make no mistake, shipping owners are not philanthropists, and wanted to ,be paid for what they did in these times. But we had to get the steamers back." (Notice has been given by Councillor Bennett of his intention to move at tomorrow night's meeting of the City Council : "That a special committee Ibe set up to confer with the heads of departments with a view to making a definite recommendation to the council as to what holidays shall be observed by the various departments under their control, the committee to report in one month." The grain business at Bluff (says the Southland News) is running under severe pressure at present, and all the grain sheds are rapidly filling \vp, several of the smaller sheds being full to the ridge poles. The Katoa, which sailed last week, took, however, 21,000 sacka for Sydney direct,_ and this relieved the pressure for the time, but the gaps are again being quickly filled. Merchants at the port state that it is the busiest time they have had since the Boer war. A brief sitting of the Court of Appeal was held this morning, when there were present his Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), Mr. Justice Edwards, and Mr. Jußtice Chapman. Further argument in the case of M'Millan y. the Commissioner of Stamps was adjourned to 27th September. The Court adjourned until 10 o'clock on Saturday morning, when judgment- will probably be given in the case of Cook v. Donaldson, a Friendly Society matter from Napier. The death of James Way on Saturday evening, in his 74th year, severe the last link of the 70th Regiment wijt,h tho Taranaki veterans (say 6 the Daily News). As a private in the 70th he was engaged in the East India trouble, and afterwards landed in Auckland in 1863, taking part in. tho Maori War in the Waikato and Taranaki districts. When the 70th was ordered Home he obtained his discharge and settled, in New Plymouth. Deceased was one of the oldest 'Foresters in Taranaki, being a member of Court' Taranaki, and also a, member of the Veterans' Association. He leaves a widow and married sons and daughters to mourn their lass — Alfred Henry William (New Plymouth), Arthur (secretary of the Racing Club, Marton), Ernest Feilding), Mrs. <J. Phelps (Ashburton), and Mfs. R. Evane (New^Plymouth). Recent Australian files containing casualty lists include the name 'of Clement Edgerton Wragge; of the Queensland portion of the Australian Expeditionary Force, among the killed. He was the eldest son of Mr. Clement Wragge, the well-known meteorologist, who is at present residing in Auckland. Pte. Wrag;y> was one of those on the yacht Ariadne when she was wrecked on the New Zealand coaet between Timaru and Oamaru. For some time he was in charge of the observatory on Mount Kosciusko. Later, ho assisted in the surveys of the Scottish lakes, under Sir John Murray, of the Challenger, and more recently, when ho had finished his medical course at Edinburgh, he returned to Australia with the object of accompanying Captain Scott on what proved to be his last expedition to the Antarctic. Mr. Clement Wragge has another son at the front, who is a corporal in the Ambulance Corps. • "There was a time when the Maori race and the Pakeha race did not meet in patriotic celebrations," said Dr. Pomare at the Town Hall last night. "We met in those days for other reasons, sometimes to our detriment, sometimes to yours. And, looking back at those days, we of the two races can feel pride in the battles well fought and peace well sealed." Dr. Pomare referred to the extraordinary ability of tho English race to make patriots of the peoples who had come under their sway. Indian troops had fought like heroes in the north of France; Irishmen were using for the defence of Great Britain rifles sent over from Germany ; the loyal people of South Africa were fighting for the Empire ; and the Maoris had sent 500 men to the front. These men had been intended for garrison duty, but, at their earnest request, were to be allowed to go to the front. Every man of the 500 wished to go, and more would be sent. Watching Maori hakas in the Town Hall last night one's thoughts went to the conditions of warfare, obtaining when the Maoris were a. "savage" race, so savage that they never attacked an enemy till the ceremony of the haka was completed and the enemy was ready to fight. Some thoughts such as these must ha.ye occurred to the Hon. Dr. Pomare for he made ironical reference to Germany's "kultur," which was displayed in the use of gas and devices •which surpassed • aoiy savagery of which the Maoris could at any time have been accused. Tho spirit of chivalry which actuated the Maoris in their warfare was exemplified by an incident in the Waikato campaign. The Maoris learnt that the British troops were short of provisions, so they sent thirteen canoe-loads of kumeras down tho river to their ■enemies. On another occasion Hone Heke's men captured some British transports, but as soon as Heke heard of it he said : "Take tho wagons back ; how can you expect me to fight men with empty stomachs?" The 1915 Golf Championship Meeting, which was to have been held at Napier this year, commencing on 6th September, has been abandoned owing to the war. Fashion" is emphatic that the tight skirt is a thing of the past. Kirkcaldie and Stains's ladies' tailoring section is ready to make tho new type of skirt «it a reduced rate for a short period. Ring iSdiO and make an appointment. Kirkcaklic and Stains, Ltd. — Advt. For Camp Life. — Has your soldier friend a slenping bag? 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