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Evening Star, Issue 15907, 13 September 1915, Page 4

The fish stall for the sale of the night's catch by the I'orfc Chalmers fishermen took £l4 9s 2d on Saturday in aid of the joint collection for the Italian Red Cross fund -and the waistcoat fund; the lied Dandies made a haul of about £l3 ; and the total result of the day's effort, coming mostly from sales, at the flower stalls, was £451 14s 2d. A private letter received in Perth from Corporal M'Lartv, Bth Batter v. Australian Artillery, formerly of the A.'M.P., Perth, thus pathetically describes the death of threo West Australian members of the battery—Sergeant 2*l. Tavlor, Douglas Lennard (of Perth), and "Stanley Carter (son of a Fremantle councillor)—at the Dardanelles:—" When the smoke from the bursting shell had cleared awav -Wallis ran up to see the damage. He found Mick Taylor crawling and dazed. Bill said:.' Are you badly hit, Mick?' 'No, Bill,' he said; 'I am only scratched. Look after Doug, and Stan.' We subsequently found he was wounded in 14 places. Bill Wallis then picked up Doug. Lennard. The poor lad had one arm off, one leg shattered at the thigh, and was internally wounded. He said : ' I'm done. Look after Mick and Stan; don't mind me.' Carter was leaning on a gun. He had a fearful wound in his side. Ho said: 'l'm sorry I'm moaning; I know it will upset the others; but I can't help it —I can't help it.' He died, poor lad, almost immediately. His last words were: 'Did they get the gun?.' Doug, was in fearful agony, but kept saying: ' I'm dying; but, by God, I'fl die game.' He lingered for two hours. It was a terribly pitiful thing to watch. His last words were: M died at' the gun, didn't I?' And so he went. . . . We buried the dear lads side by side at midnight. It was a real soldier's burial. The minister's voice was drowned in the crack of bullets whistling overhead, and thus we left them." The son of a Napier resident, writing to his father from London, where he is in training with the Royal Field Artillery, says: " There are 25 second lieutenants in our _ lot, amongst them men from Patascnia, Vancouver, Bombay, Australia, Penang, India, Ottawa, New Zealand, and South Africa." At a sitting of the Warden's Court this afternoon an application was received from Frederick Harrison (for whom MiBedford appeared) for a mininig license in the Mount Hyde district. Mr Hercus appeared for the owner (Mr Leslie D. Lister), who consented. The application was granted. The following is the list of additions to the lending library made during the week ended Saturday, September 11:—'Old Continental Towns,' Gallichan (W. M.); 'Brown's Slide Valve for Engineers,' Thorn (W. X.); 'War and the Empire,' Foster (Colonel H.) ; 'Gas Supply in Theory and Practice,' Webber (W. H. Y.); 'lndia's Fighters,' Singh (Saint N.); 'Five Years Under the Southern Cross,' Spun- (F. C.); 'The Friendly Road,' Grayson (D.) ; 'Through Unknown Nigeria..' Raphael iR.) ; 'The Real Indian People,' Thomson (Lieutenant-colonel) ; 'The Law and the Poor,' Tarry (Judge E. A.); 'The New Parent's Assistant, Paget (Stephen); 'Satires of Circumstance,' Hardy (Thos.). A letter written from Sheffield to a resident of Wellington on July 3 gives details of a. destructive Zeppelin "raid made upon Hull. It savs:—"As you will have heard, wo have been short of munitions, but we are getting plenty of men on tiie work now. Wb have had bombardments and air raids on the East Coast, as well as on the South and London itself. A whole street in Hull was. destroyed. A large drapery establishment was gutted. I believe that the young ladies of the establishment were Jiving on the premises up to a fortnight before the raid. Thsre were about 40 of them, and it was exceedingly fortunate that they had been, removed 60 providentially." The governors "of King Edward VI. School, Stratford-on-Avon, have decided to place in the principal schoolroom a suitable memorial to Flight Lieutenant Warneford, V.C., who was educated in the famous old school in which Shakespeare received his early training. Lieutenant Warneford's name has already been placed upon the school roll of honor, which contains the names of nearly 100 old boys engaged in the war. His TOother has sent the head .master her sou's portrait to bo hung in the school. On Sunday evening on the Portobello road a horse attached to a trap took fright at a cyclist. The driver of the trap, who was tipped out and was severely shaken, was conveyed, by motor to his home. After the horse lu>A been fixed up, prior to being put in the trap, ho played up again and turned a "seven" into the Bay, a drop of 9ft. " Our Own " -wires from Wellington : Mr H. J. H. Blow, Under-Secretary of Public Works, who is indisposed,'is'undergoing medical treatment at Rotorua. The steamer Riverine, which arrived at Wellington on. Saturday night from Lyttelton, will be delayed there for three four days while repairs are being effected to her machinery. The Oamaru Hospital will benefit to the extent of £I,OOO under the will of the late St. John, M'Lettn Buckley, of Redcastle. The price of butter in Dunedin will be reduced Id per lb as from to-morrow, and will be sold retail at Is sd. A Gazette extraordinary has been issued removing the embargo on the export of butter and potatoes from New Zealand. The new season's butter is now largely augmenting the supply, and it has been deemed advisable to permit of the exportation. The Australian embargo has already been removed, and butter is■ being exported from there. A fire-walking procession and carnival at Rarotonga a couple of weeks ago, winding up with a big ball, realised £450 for patriotic purposes. The procession . consisted of about 100 bare-footed persons, of whom a dozen were Europeans. The chief prie'st conducted the ceremony. The journey Over the hot stones was accomplished without discomfort by the' natives, but it Was understood that the whites found the. experience none too pleasant. , _Mr PauKn's forecast: —Strong - N.E. showery ; •

The directors of the 'World ' (Sydney) have decided to further postpone the issue of tho paper "pending a satisfactory outcome of tho war" (says the 'Australasian Journalist'). They have been impelled to this course partly because of the less favorable business outlook owing to war conditions, but chiefly because of the riskiness of paper supplies. Regular shipments are out of the question, but in any case it is estimated that on present rates (freights being so high) the paper bill for the first year would cost £25,000 more than would have been the case under normal conditions. This in itself is so big a handicap that the directors think they can best contribute to tho ultimate success of the venture by "marking time " for yet a further period, wearying though tho process is. It n? understood, however, that the plant is now complete, and that everything is in readiness for a move when the right moment arrives.

| I'rom Belgium, from the dread days of i August, 1914, comes a story of vengeance, terrible and sublime. In a village near Namur, in a peaceful villa, lived with his widowed mother a young Belgian manufacturer. The mutual devotion of son and mother was known to all the countryside. One day in August the German troops entered the village, and their commander ordered the young man to bring out his car and drive him to a neighboring village. The young man, who could not bear to act as guide to the enemy, refused. Thereupon the com-mander—-ho was a colonel—drew his revolver and shot down the young man's mother, who was standing near. The son turned deadly white, and for a moment it seemed as though he would leap at the murderer's throat. Then he. recovered himself, and said: "Good! I shall drive you." The colonel and several other German officers entered the car. The son of the murdered woman took his place at the steering wheel. Soon the car was running on top speed. Then suddenly, just as it reached a temporary bridge over the Mouse, the driver gave a sharp turn to the wheel. The car was flung into the river. All the occupants were drowned. Mr Hugh Mitchell, secretr.Tv of the Country Queen Executive, informs us that ■the whole of the proceeds of the sale of the motor car won by that executive will be handed over to the wounded soldiers' fund. A little Irish terrier belonging to the Wellington Infantry has attracted some attention from soldiers- on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Lieutenant A. Oakev. in a letter to his sister. Miss H. F. * Oakev. of Cnnstchnrch, states that the dog ha.s'heen through three charges, always at the head of NcwZcalandsrs, and en one occasion v.as Tile first to reach tho Turks' trenches. It wis found barking at the Turks when the infantry arrived with the ktvotiet. "I can vouch for this." Lieutenant Oakev says ' I know the dog and tho owner we'll." ' '■ I can lik the bull's-eve at 600 yard* " saw Mr W. T. Jennings in the House of Representatives the other night, '-J have three sons at the front, . . . and lam willing to go and serve mvc?]f." He did not believe we had been 'told the whole truth aoost the war, and we would yet have to make big sacrifices, and if his services were required they were at the dispoaal of the authorities, as they had b»er in the Maori War in 1869. At Moray Place Congregational Church Jast night the orea-nisi. Mr 1) Cooke played t-lio late Mr James Jago's favorite sacrett solo, 'The- Beautiful Braver,' and during the dismissal oE tho congregation Mr Cooke aso played Signer SquariseV fimeral march out of resp-sct to tho lat« Mr Jago. who had been a prominent member of the choir. The inquest concerning the death of I) r t-atchelor will be continued on Wednesday afternoon. " •> In addition to the Classes mentioned in our last issue, the following Estimates were passed as printed before the Ho'.se oi Representatives rose on Friday nhht • --Public Buildings, Domains, and V?ain-ienar-.ee of Roads, £123,750; and Native .department, £25,563. Tho money collected at Port Chalmers ior_ the recent Queen Carnival amounted it is said, to about £2,000, and with the exception of the Borough Council's contribution of £250 and two lesser sums the money -was all made up of shillings and sixpences. ' 7-; A -J Sre l S0!1 tek .2 1, a"i states that "Daffodil Day on Saturday, in- aid of Christmas presents for Nekon soldiers, was a Dnlhant success, £250 being netted. On Saturday afternoon some 50 members of the Otago Motor Club, under their captain (Mr A. E. M'Dougain, journeyed to Look-out Point and busied themselves with_ improving the Main South road. Considerable quantities of sharp metal had been placed on this road, which has plaved havoc with motor tyres, and this 'the '•navvies" undertook'to blind with clay. Their efforts, in addition to being successful, were highly praiseworthy. L3=t_ evening the Dunedin Fire Brigado received two calls, one at 7.2 from the Kowo street indicator, and the other at 28.32, from an indicator in Cumberland street. : Both alarms, however, proved to bo false.

A young man in Grevmouth was ranting on the paucity of war news the other evening, although he had nothing to sav about the quality or rrtiantitv "of the liquor in his glass, says "the 'Star.' The headings in the papers were all wrong, misleading; in fact, there ivas no news from the front, lie complained with a bumptious air. A gentleman, over the military age, who had entered the room, took young man to task. " Look here, ' said he, pointing to a two-column casualty list in the evening paper, "is this not news for you—has it no* message —is it. nothing to you that your brothers are daily giving up their all while you •stay at homo and complain about lack of news? Your place is in the trenches, where you will get news first hand from the Turkish daily bulkt(ins)." When Professor J. Macmillan Brown was in Now Caledonia he found the trench were rather downcast bv the turn of events on the Russian front. They appeared to think that Russia was not the strong Power that everyone thought her, that the ■ steam roller was being pushed farther and farther back. The professor endeavored to assure Frenchmen whom lie met and expressed such views that the Russian move was the- right one, a repetition of what had happened in Napoleon's days, and one fully serving the purpose of -the allied British 'and French j that, indeed, it was in his opinion perfectly well understood by General Joffre, and in accordance with' a definite plan arranged well before it took place. The French seemed to think that a great movement on the west should have taken place before this, but the professor * believes he was successful in convincing them that when General Joffre and Gen* eral French together took that move westward that then would be the best time. _ New Caledonia had contributed most liberally in men to the war, and among the keenest of the men who'went voluntarily to fight for Franc© were Germans and men of German descent resident in New Caledonia.

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