WAR'S DURATION.

Evening Star, Issue 16264, 6 November 1916, Page 2

WAR'S DURATION.

GERMAN OPINIONS. NEW YORK, November 4. Mr Erbert Bayard Swope, who recently visited Germany, says, in an article in the ' New York World,' that the desire for peace in Germany, from the top to the bottom, is very strong, but there is no belief that peace is near. Optimists think it will be reached in not. less than two years; other opinions run as high as 10 years. CAMP APPOINTMENTS. Private R. W. V. Archer has been appointed bugler to J. Company, 20tk Reinforcemer.te. The following officers are transferred as under:—Second Lieutenant A. C. from C Company, 21st, to Mounted RiiTes, 26th Reinforcements; Second Lieutenant E. B. Davison from Specialist Company, 20th, to Mounted Rifles, 26th Reinforcements. Tho following temporary appointments have been approved by the Camp Commandant at Featherston : —2oth Reinforcements.— E Company.—Lance-corporals L. S. Davis and S. Tarver to be corporals. G Company.—l ! rivates W. S. Young, E. E. Berry, and R. J. Milligan to be lancecorporals ; Lance-corporals T. E. Williams, F. C. Burmester, and E. C. Gardner to be corporals; Corporals C. Preston and H. J. Sa'xton to be lance-sergeants. —2let Reinforcements.— " D Company,—Corporal J. Grant to be lance-sergeant; Corporal R. Niohol to be eergeant. H Company.—Privates W. R. Casey, G H. Gledhill, G. Nielsen, K. J. West, F. J.' Evetts, F. E. Harris, and W. Newett to be lance-corporals; Private D. G. Twyneham to be corporal.; Lance-corporals C. C King and W. R. Mapston to be corporals l ; Corporal U: R. Miller to be sergeant. Mounted Rifles.—Privates W. B. Pollard, B. M'Corkindale, L.. M'Williatn, and H J. Homer to be lance-corporals'; Lancecorporal H. Cash to be corporal. Specialist Cohipanj-.—Latice-corporal G. C? Lovell to be eergeant while employed wi electrical, duties.

OTACO PATRIOTIC AND GENERAL WELFARE ASSOCIATION. The- hon. treasurers of the Otago Patriotic and General Welfare Association acknowledge the receipt of the following donations to the fund Previously acknowledged ...£195,956 8 5

Combined bank staffs, monthly contribution ... u 10 14 7 Employees A. and T. Inglis, weekly contribution ... » 3 811 Anderson Bay district collection (per Mr G. E. Pearce) ... ' nvs 23 010 Mrs Jury w 0 5 0 Part August, and September collection (per Mrs A. A. Jackson)— Robinson's factory, George street n 015 0 Miller’s factory, Leith - street n O'lß 11 Employee- Thomson and Company n 1 0 0 Sundry collections ... n 14 15 IQ Part. South Dunedin collection, August and September (per Mrs James MorP tol .>) b 2 4 0 ‘Evening Star’ employees, October contribution” ... n 4 8 0 “No. 25,” monthly contri,lbnlUoll ii 7 0 0 Maclcnnan Patriotic Committee, proceeds of concert and gift sale w 40 0 0 Maori Hill monthly collecT , t j r ;l l b 29 11 '9 Public Appeal Committee (previously acknowledged) si) 5 0 0 Head office staff X.Z. Express Company s 1 8 0 Dunedin^ staff Bristol piaim Co., 4ord fortnightly contribution B 215 5 Employees Jas. Speight and Co., 87th weekly contribulioll - b 4 9 6 Office staff Jas. Spend,t and Co., 20th monthly contribution b 14 14 Q Dividend on preference shares, Sargood, Son, and wen Q c 125 0 0 i n , £194J247 16 0 Otago Daily Times’ Belgian fund (previously acknowledged) ... 27,174 18 7 Outgo Daily 1 nnes ’ general list (previously acknowledged) ... ' 27,848 1 7 Total £249,270 16 2 b Denotes Belgian fund; w denotes umunded soldiers’ fund ; s denotes Serbian hmd : s u denotes sailors’ and dependents’ tund ; Q 0 denotes Queen Carnival fund. WOrtK AT MORNINCTON. Nine pairs of socks, 226 handkerchiefs 54 service bags, 24 soap bags, li balaclava caps, and a number of cuffs wore packed last week and sent to the Early Settlers' Mall from the Mornington Council Chamber* -md the sum of £SO Iss 6d was paid over "for the funds of the Otago Women's Association. The pupils of the school sent their weekly donaticn—2 pairs of socks 5 face cloths, 6 handkerchiefs, 1 cake of soap and a donation of 2s 6d from Geoffrey Shortt for a soldier’s parcel. The candidates of the G.E.S, sent their week’s work-4 button bags and 16 soap bags, lhanks ato due to Mesdamos Ahdo and Stevenson for 42 service bags °and 2 balaclava caps. A large number of service bags and handkerchiefs are cut out ready to be made, and the services of ladies willing to help will be -reatlv appreciated. On Thursday Misses Rattray and Geerin will be at the chambers from 2.30 o’clock to receive donations of socks, balaclava caps, tea-towels, etc for the soldiers. The following have ’sent gifts : Mesdames Stevenson, Algie R Jackson, Jones, Waite, Miss Low, Miss Marcyn (proceeds of concert, £29) " ”, '' R "” Miss M‘Laron’. R.K., and Mrs Russell Ritchie.

HOSPITAL ship chaplains. I!ig following chaplains are appointed for duty on the hospital ship iMarama (second charter) Rev. \V. E. Gillam, Rev. D. Dutton, Rev. T. B. Segrief.