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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 212, 25 August 1911, Page 11

“His face was very red, so I suppose he must have been drinking,” declared a lady witness at the Gisborne Magistrate’s Court. “I don’t know,” remarked the Magistrate; a lot of people Irave red faces, but don’t drink.”

A clause in Mr. Lloyd George’® National Insurance Bill enact® that “any workman who become® repeatedly’ unemployed through lack of skill or knowledge may b» required to attend a suitable course of technical instruction, and if he fails to do so or to profit by such instruction this fact may be taken into account in considering what is suitable employment for him.”

General Zurlinden, who has twice been France’s War Minister, declared in the course of an interview that everything was readj* for hostilities with Germany. There will be no repetition of theuncertainty and disconcerting delays of 1870,” said General Zurlinden. The Germans will find our army just as ready as theirs. Our mobilisation, our concentration, our transports, and railways, are all remarkably well prepared. Ourinfantry, cavalry and artillery have* all been trained for a big war. They have all been put oh the defensive, which alone can en surer success, and they burn l with the desire to shout again the old battle cries.”