RECRUITING QUIET.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 4 September 1915, Page 5

RECRUITING QUIET.

LATE GENERAL BRIDGES

FUNERAL AT CANBERRA

SYDNEY, Sept. 3. The week's recruiting has been quiet One cause assigned for the decline is tne want of action on the part of the Government to dispense with Germans employed in the public service, letters on the subject have appeared in the press.

Prio» to the entraining of General Bridges' remains, a special service was held in St. Paul's Cathedral at Melbourne. It was attended by the Gover-nor-General, the Governor, Parliamentary, naval, and military heads, and a great congregation. Archbishop Clarke, in his address, paid impressive tribute to the late soldier.

Great crowds thronged the rout© from the cathedral to the railway "station, the military escort including., a company of wounded, soldiers. A' special train conveyed the coffin and many distinguished visitors to Canberra, where the fallen eoldier was'buried with full military honors on a crest overlooking Duntroon College. The pallbearers were Admiral Cresswell, the military, heads, Hon. A. Fisher, and Senators Pearce and Cook. General Bridges' charger was led behind the gun-carriage -bearing the coffin, which was smothered in beautiful wreaths.

The Primate, in a sympathetic address, said it was good that our soldier hero should have his last resting place' on a spot within the precincts of the college so dear to his heart. From his grave we turn to the high duty fronting us, our tremendous task for victory in the war. His voice and the voices of the comrades who fell with him call in triumphant tones to shrink from no sacrifice; we must finish, at any price, what they began at so great a cost. (Received Sept. 4. 10.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Sept. 4. ' Major-General Bridges is the first soldier. • killed .on the battlefield to be buried in Australian soil.