BELGIUM GARDEN PARTY.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2499, 9 November 1914, Page 3

BELGIUM GARDEN PARTY.

A hnal reminder is given of the Belgian Fund gardo uparty to ho held at Mrs Dormer's, "Moturata," on Wednesday, intending tennis aucl croquet players are asked to bring their racquets and mallets. An excellent amateur photographer will take photographs of groups or individuals at a very reasonable charge (proceeds to bo devoted to the lund). A motor lorry, kindly lent by Mr Broadbelt, will leave the Square at 2 o'clock, and at intervals during the afternoon. Return fare, sixpence. Also a motor-car, kindly lent by Mr 1. It. Perry, will leave the Square at the same hour; return fare Is 6d.

John McC'orniack, tho celebrated Irish tenor, owes his liberty to the timely hint of a fellow artist. Shortly before peaceful relations between England and Germany were ruptured the tenor was about to leave Ostend, where he had mad« a, tremendous hit, for -Saltzburg, when ho received a wire from Ldi Lehmann, the German dramatic soprano, with tho three words, "Do not come." The genial Irishman took tho hint, and remained out of German territory. A few days afterwards the Festival at Salzburg for which he had been engaged, closed /suddenly, the German musicians musicians exchanging their instruments for rifles and others becoming unwilling guests of the a-Kiser.

A v prominent member of the Social Democratic Party in Wellington state that the Social Democrats and Liberals did not intend to split their votes ■in connection with the Wellington Beats, as a satisfactory understanding had been arrived at in connection with the running of candidates for the various seats. For instance, the Liberals will not put up a candidate against Mr A. H. Hindmarsh for ■Wellington South nor Mr P. T. Moore for Wellington Suburbs, while it is understood that Mr D. McLaren will be given a clear run in Wellington Easb. Labour, ou the other hand, will support Mr R. Fletcher, the Liberal candidate for Wellington Central, against the Hon. F. M. B. Fisher.