Notes and Comments.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2489, 7 November 1914, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

To-day's Anniversaries'. Admiral Sir Martin Frobisher died, 1594. -,™ o ast executi on at Tyburn, London, 1/H3.

England's Glory wrecked at Bluff, tool. 1 Q £ anadiall Pacific railway completed, Li Hung Chang died, 1901.

Quo Vadis?

Many are the speculations and rumours regarding the destination of our main expeditionary force. Rumour has it that it has been diverted from Europe to South Africa, another rumour adding to this that all the New Zealand horses had been landed at Fremantle. as they were not needed for use against the Boer rebels. This is wrong on the face of it, for guerilla warfare in South Africa is just what would require horses. Now that developments have taken place with Turkey, we would not be at all surprised if the New Zealanders and Australians were landed on the shores of the Red Sea or at Suez and sent right out to the Egyptian frontier, to oppose the inarch of tho Turks towards the Canal, which Germany is most anxious to control what time valuable and much-needed food stuffs are coming through that great highway of the world's commerce.

Political Possibilities,

The Parliamentary curtain has been rung down upon the last session of the present House, and members are all back in theit-electorates seeking to make up for lost time in a campaign that concludes with the general election on December 3. Mr Massey fires the first shot in his electorate on Monday, and probably he will elaborate the policy just issued by the Government in the form of a manifesto as a setroff by the Government against that of the* Opposition enunciated by Sir Joseph -Ward the other day. The Government can lay claim to the passing of as long a list of Acts as any of its predecessors, and it will score with the reforming r/ducation and Upper House Acts. In the fight for re-election now on, Mr Massey is sure to be returned for his seatj Mr Herdman is a certainty, for he has made himself stronger than ever with Wellington folks. Mr Eraser cannot be disturbed, nor Mr Hemes, nor Mi Allen. Tho only uncertainty is Mr Fisher, for Mr Fletcher has strengthened his forces during the three years so that one of the toughest contests in the Dominion will wage in the Wellington Central seat.

Our Expeditionary Forces

Our Government is taking ite time in lifting the prohibition imposed upon New Zealand papers against publishing any news concerning our main expeditionary force?i. This is not fair to the many thousands of parents and othej relatives who are represented on board the twelve troopships no* steaming over the Pacifio for Europe. For instance, it is well over a fortnight since our boys reached Hobart, yet the Government did not let us know about that interesting event. And on Monday last the Government received word that our expedition had finally sailed, "all well/ from the last place at which they were to touch —yet this interesting item is also held back. We are the first to make it known, and all we hold back is the name of the final port of departure. Now that the three German raiders that were being hun f i by the Australian squadron in the bouth Sea Islands are reported to be on tho coast of South America—away off the track of our expeditionary force—we do not see why the Government should allow newspapers to report the departure of the fleet from Wellington and give us authority to publish tlie log of tho voyage across Tasman Sea.