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Evening Star, Issue 16514, 28 August 1917, Page 4

An English and American mail will reach Dunedin to-night.

The Rev. Andrew Cameron, preaching at St. Clair on Sunday morning in-further-ance of the special appeal winch is being made for the £B,OOO required to build and equip the Presbyterian home for the aged, mentioned incidentally that seven of the lads from the Otago homes controlled by Mr Aselsen had gained commissions in the Army during thi3 war. Since the delivery of this sermon we observe by the casualty lists that one of these young officers has been killed in uction.

" They open Parliament with a prayer," said Mr R. A. Wright, M.F., at the opening of the new Salvation Army Boys' Home at Island Bay on Thursday, "and a very fine praver it is. There is a strangers' gallery there, where ladies and gentlemen come to listen to the eloquence of members. Strange to say, they only allow the ladies in to listen to the prayer. The men are not allowed in until afterwards, which is quite the reverse at Bellamy's, which has a sign up 'Xo ladies admitted.' Evidently Parliament thinks that the ladies of New Zealand are more in need of prayer than the men." (Laughter.) Fivo casualties among teachers serving at the front were reported at last week's meeting of the Auckland Education Board, four having been killed in action and one wounded. The names are:—M. M'Kinnon, Hclonsville; R. A. M'KJnnon, Iloto-o-Rangi; W. Carson, Waikokowai; G. F. Stevenson, Mount Maunganui, killed; D. T. M'Cormick, .Edondale, wounded.

The Public Service Association have decided to affiliate with the Workers' Education Association, the amount of contribution being left over for later determination (says the Wellington ' Post'). At Greymouth on Thursday James Thos. Corbett, who was arrested at Big River mine on a military warrant, was brought before Mr T. Hutchison, and charged (1) that he failed to give notice of change of abode, as required by the Military Service Act; and (2) being a Reservist under the Military Service Act he did, without the lawful written consent of the Minister of Internal Affairs, assume a name other than that by which lie was customarily known. The accused, who pleaded guilty to both charges, was sentenced to two months' bard labor in Greymouth Gaol. This was the first prosecution under section 42 of the Military Service Act on the West Coast. The usual calm serenity of the Makarewa township was rudely disturbed on Sun-day morning (says the ' Southland Times') when it became known that the locality, had been tho scene of the theft of a sum of several hundred pounds. Particulars are that about 3 p.m. on Saturday Mr Alfred. Pay, who is an engineer in the Makarewa Freezing Works, leit his home in the township, and, accompanied by his housekeeper, came into town. On returning home at about. 10 o'clcek, Mr Pay found a window smashed in and discovered that a wooden trunk in his bedroom had been prised open (apparently with an axe), and that from it had been taken a large cash box which had contained £3OO in gold, notes, and silver, besides life and property insurance policies, and the title deeds oT the pi'operty. The sad feature of the whole affair—and the one which classes the theft as despicably mean—is that the bulk of tho money represented the accumulated allotments, of two of ..Mr Pay's sons who have proceeded on active service, one of whom, unfortunately, lias given his life that some other being, unworthy of a better term, may stay here in peace and safety and be free to rob, as it were, the grave of one of his Erotectors. The other soldier Pay has een wounded lately, and it was the father's pride that, should this son come eafely home, he would have something to start off with. Now that hope is shattered by the action of tho thief.

1 Whilst the north-bound express train standß at Oamaru on Thursday the Governor-General will present the military medal to the father of Private J. Kennedy. Mr R. A. Wright, member for Wellington Suburbs, is quite an adept at telling stories to small boys.. He told a good one to the boys of the new Salvation Homo at Island Bay anent the value of obedience. When he was a small boy he lived on the West Ooast, in Hokitika, at which time all the world was rushing there to get the gold that was in the ground. In those days men without any skill at all could make a pound a day with a cradle, which threw off the earth and allowed the gold to sink to the bottom of the cradle through a false bottom. On one occasion & ship arrived off the, port crowded with men who were anxious to get ashore to make their fortunes, but the weather was very rough, and the signals told the captain that the bar was unworkable. The men, feeling they were wasting valuable time, pleaded with the captain to take the vessel m; but ho was determined to rim no risks. They then asked to bo allowed to-row ashore in one of the ship's boate. At first the captain refused the request; but the men were so insistent that at last, after warning them of the danger and that he took no responsibility for their rash act, allowed them to lower the boat and leave for the shore. There were 12 men in the boat. When the boat reached tho broken water she capsized; ten men were drowned, and onlv two were saved. The whole tragedy took place before the eyes of hundreds of peoplo who were watching on tho chore. Of the two men saved one happened to got bis hand or finger foid of the boat's rudder, and was thrown ashore with tho boat; the other was saved by a dog. It was a fine big, bravo dog, which went into the water and pulled out one of tho men from a watery grave. As a reward for that act the Hokitika Council solemnly decided that the faithful animal need never again wear a collar, nor need his owner pay a dog license. Speaking at the girls' banquet before the members of the Auckland Y.W.C.A. last week, Miss Griffin, the newly-ap-pointed secretary, said that it was her good fortune to be in New York when America declared war. The country went into war in the most solemn and dignfied spirit. They were the purest and warmesthearted of all the Allies, and would fight to the last man and the last dollar. There was no glamor about their attitude. It was most solemn. In the universities every girl signed a bond to live a thrifty life and to help the country in every way possible. A great number immediately took up gardening, and had gone home to increase the output of food in the country.Many took up cooking, to be able to cook for the soldiers. This was the spirit of all the women tho speaker met—a desire for service on very practical lines—and it was the outcome of the very live club life lived by the women of the land. Wo understand (says the London 'Daily Chronicle') that Dr Stuart Hold en and Mr Arthur Mee, the authors cf ' Defeat or Victory ' of which nearly a quarter of a million copies have been sold, have resigned their connection with the Strength ot Britain Movement, and the public may look forward before long to an interesting now development of tho Prohibition crusade.

At the Mosgiel Court yesterday, before Messr* A. F. Quelcii and J. F. Leary, J.P.s, three young men—Thomas Hore, Thomas Tobin, and Herbert Lindsay Bruce—from Dunedin, were charged witn assault on Mr D. M'Fadgon, the caretaker of Wairongoa ground?, with tho theft of his watch, and with drunkenness. On the first charge they were fined £2 each, on the Boconcl Bruce was fined £l, and on the third thoy were each .fined 10s. The defendants went out to Wairongoa Springs on Sunday, and in spite of the recent announcement that these grounds were now closed to the public, insisted on their right of entry.

One result of the Australian strike and the consequent dislocation of shipping is that the members of the ' Very Good Eddie' Musical Comedy Company, whose Dominion tour concludes at Timaru next week, are threatened with an enforced period of idleness in New Zealand.

The nomination of Mr W. Davidson for a seat on the Teachers' Court of Appeal was made by the Head Masters' Association, and the Dunedin branch of the Educational Institute left the matter of nomination to individual teachers. The nomination of Mi*s M'Kenzie was made by individual teachers.

Christchurch dairvmen on Saturday evening decided to reduce the price of milk to 4d per quart as from September 1. , A large and representative deputation of women in his constituency met Mr D. H. Guthrie, M.P., at Feilding, and asked him to support 6 o'clock closing. Mr Guthrie. in reply, said he favored closing from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. He said that Sir James Allen favored temperance, but if the hotels were closed at 6 o'clock the military authorities would bring pressure to bear for wet canteens at Trentham. Sir James Allen would sooner resign than grant that. The deputation asked that as an alternative a referendum bo taken, but Mr Guthrie declined to alter his mind. The annual home mission meeting of the Dnndus Street Methodist Church was hold last evening. Mr E. Rosevear presided over a large audience, and gave a concise summary of the objects of the fund. The general secretary (the Rev. T. G. Brooke) then delivered an address on 'the backblocks of the King Country. During the evening a solo was rendered by Miss"Clement and a selection by the choir. Tonight Mr Brooke will speak at Ravensbourne.

The takings at the Masterton patriotic shop during the past five weeks have amounted to over £2,000.

The Kaitangata representative of the ' Balclutha Free Press' states that the whitebait have commenced to run in the river there, but so far they have not been reported as present in the river at Balclutha.

The No. 1 Otflgo Military Sea-vice Board sat at Palmerston yesterday morning and at Oama.ru in the afternoon, when a considerable number of appeals were considered. In one of the appeals at the Palmerston sitting the Chairman (Mr Widdowson, S.M.) said the board fully sympathised with the appellant, and" recognised that his was a hard caso. They were now up against a very hard proposition, and the position was that all available First Division men nvust go. The hoard prcjwsed to adjourn the appeal for two months, but the appellant would be expected to have arrangements made to go to camp at the er.d of that period.

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