Local and General.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 300, 21 November 1918, Page 4

Local and General.

There are fifteen cases of cerebrospinal meningitis in Trentham Camp. Thirteen cases are serious, but all are improving. At the Napier Police Court this morning, before Mr. R. W. Dyer, S.M., Sam Johnson, alias Fred Johnson, was charged that at ! Puparoa he did assault and rob one Puicha Horan of one cheque for £3 10/-, and one cheque £3 13/6, and two single notes, total amount £8 3/6. Remanded to appear at Gisborne on the 28th. inst. A publishing house in Edinburgh, Scotland, has an important project under way for manufacturing paper from bamboo in Trinirad. About 1000 acres of land near St. Joseph! (seven miles from the capital at] Port of Spain)) have been _ planted in bamboo, and a concession has been obtained giving the firm the right to cut bamboo from the Gov- , eminent forests. | The future of Trentham has been decided. There is to be a hospital for returning soldiers there in which will be 1000 beds and accommodation for the staff. The erected buildings, with necessary alterations, will be used in addition to the equipment and ordnance store®, which will be at Trentham. There is no decision yet as to Featherston. —Press Association. > The red flag was somewhat in | evidence in the Armistice Day celebrations (reports the Grey River Aigus). Making its first appearance at the head of the procession, it was speedily removed ; but later attracted attention when the procession halted at the Post Office. There was only a handful of persons ranged round it, though a returned soldier with a wounded arm was the bearer. The railway men who were compelled to work on ‘the day of the declaration of peace to meet the exigencies of the service, were paid double rates for that day, and in addition they will on a future occasion be given a day’s leave, the management fully appreciating the men’s loyal and steady observance of their obligations to maintain a regular passenger service on an occasion which was practically a universal holiday. The official history of New Zealand in the war will be compiled in three- volumns, the first dealing with Gallipoli, the second with Egypt and Palestine, and the third with France. A part of thq first volume is already written by an officer who served oh Gallipoli, and it meets the approval of Sir James Allen, i Probably the rest of the volume will be entrusted to the same hand, havo hppn eAni; General ii d LoJo 1t I asking them to recommend writers for the other volumns. —Press Association. bavs a Southern Writer: Nevei has there been such a wholesale sniastiinsr ot dvnasttes. never such a helter-skelter scattering of royale I lit, ge.” The U ne 1 I I I g ’ has fallen on most incredulous and unsympathetic times. I’ueivive Kings and Crown Princes are scampering all over Europe. In tins rout Germany is the amazement of the' world. Evei-v throne is marked either for the museum or t'-ie auction room. 'I e al t II the Hohen-zoiim-ns are cleared out, root and branch. The shutters are up on the erstwhile imperial palaces, and the lesrend Tchabod. everywhere visinlc. rem mas the bewildered stranger that there is a God on the earth The Raise rd om is dead bevonrt trie possibility ot resurrection bomewhere a tragic figure seeks sanetuarv tor a head upon which ell of an outraced humanity, but there is no loncer anv Kaiser. Where now are li j j a 1 glory of the .AH llie-nest the menace of “The Gilt the “mailed list and the impious challenge nnriod bv trie hish-priest of Odin it U H h ? Surely there is a jtidcineni. abroad the f it!- hich all the solemn diunitv and rectitude of our human tribunals is so much legal tinkering.