BAND IN ROTUNDA TO-NIGHT.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2576, 6 March 1915, Page 2

BAND IN ROTUNDA TO-NIGHT.

The I'Vildiiij!; Brass Hand will render ii* programme- of music in the Kotundsi. this evening, commencing at 7.3D. The items will include a special march. "The Spirit of Napoleon." by Adrian Hope, copies of which were presented to the baikl by Messrs Begg and Co., of Wellington. The march will be given as the opening number to-night.

A Masterton member of the Expeditionary Force in Egypt writes : "New Zealand butter is now sold, at Cairo, and dispensed at the. best eat-ing-houses there."

During 1914 the number of persons arrested in Wellington for drunkenness was 2551 males and 392 females. In Auckland the number was 1774 males and 219 females, Christebureh 1003 males and 189 females, and Dunedin 853 males and 58 females..

The Petrograd Evening News publishes an account given by the land agent of Count Sviatopolk Czetvertinsky in Poland, who relates that the wife 'of Marshal yon Hindenburg. who is accompanying her husband as a nurse, took an active part in pillaging the count's estate. After she had taken away all the valuables in tho manor house she ordered it to be tired. Protectant against aliens iy not only costing Canada a . very great deal, and involving the maintenance of a guard of fully 10,000 men scattered all over the Dominion, but it is exposing us tv the danger of trouble with our American neighbours (.writes (h<- Catiadiiiu correspondent of the Ota go Daily Times). Djiring the past moiiTh two' Americans came over from the city of Buffalo to shoot ducks along the Niagara river. To do thi« wouid have been illo«nl at tins season In- even n Canadian. 'Ihey were discovered by a Canadian patrof, ana were called upon to come ashore and cive themselves up. Instead, they tried to escape. The soldiers fired, killing one of the men, and wounding the other. This incident created a bad feeliim along the adjacent border, and has been made the. subject of a demand by .the American (Joyernmciil that compensation he pai<l by Canada, and tho soldiers puu-ish'-d. There i s every willingness to compensate'those, who hnve suller<Ml, and meanwhile the men who did the shooting have been placed under arrest,; but these duck punchers might hnve been enemies belli on mischiol, and in that case, the soldier s would have been commended.

"I don't mind the. autumn coming on," said a man tho other day; "every cooler day hero means a wanner day in Europe- where- our boys are fighting for our Empire. How eagerly those soldiers have been watching for signs of spring and sinnrner. There arc oilier signs which Feilding men have been looking forward to—signs of iiutumn as ievideuced by the new autumn showing of Ready-tailored Suits at MnMoim.min's. Turn to his advertisement elsewhere in this issue.

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