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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 263, 23 October 1916, Page 2

Some feeling has been raised in parts of the Tauinarunui electorate owing to the frequency of Germanmade articles being obtained. Two instances have been brought under the notice of Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., and present a ludicrous aspect, were the matter not serious. At a patriotic gathering in one place there was a “patriotic tree.” Purchasers were astounded to find the toy’s, etc., were all branded “Made in Germany.” A mother had a son killed in the Somme fighting, and a letter of condolence was sent to her from, a patriotic society in which was a memorial card, in the corner of which was, in antique type, “Printed in Germany.”

It is stated by the Gisborne correspondent of the “New Zealand Herald” that a Queensland buyer has spent £6OOO in the purchase of Aberdeen-Angus cattle in tbt Poverty Bay district, and on Saturday next a herd of 115 stud bulls and heifers is to be shipped to Brisbane, this being one of the largest shipments of stud cattle sent from New Zealand. Last year the same purchaser took 50 head from Poverty Bay, and the cattle found much favour in Australia, being a breed that splendidly stands the droughts common to Queensland, and having the further advantage of maturing early.

The shorter days of autumn (says an American correspondent) have brought about an abandonment of the daylight saving plan in the Canadian cities and towns that had adopted it during the past summer as an experiment. Such a difference of opinion exists as to its merits, and so much sentiment to the effect that it is merely a curtailer of the hours of sleep, that it is doubtful whether it will be voted into operation again another year.

Mr. Herbert Shortt. cx-l[ayor of Eastbourne, who has been spending a holiday in Australia, returned to Wellington last Monday. “1 would not live in Sydney for all the l< a in China,” said Mr. Shortt. '“lt’s cured me of Labour Government for all time. The situation is so bad that I don’t know whether it is altogether quite safe. On Sunday week we saw a crowd of some thousands chasing five policemen in the Dominion, and the policemen had to run for their lives. There was an anti-conscription meeting on at the time; and something must have started some of the ‘roughies,’ but in the end there w’ere about five thousand people after five. I give you my word I was told by an M.L.A. that at one time there were between 40,000 and 50,000 Germans in Australia armed and ready to rise. The plot, I was given to understand. was nipped in the bud. and the Germans concerned had all been disarmed. Then there are these I.WAV', men, who threatened to burn down the - whole of Sydney and from all accounts are quite capable of attemptingVo do so.”