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Iho lrnr.ato has appointed the X.M- Canon H. 1). l Wton , of gt ° n'^ r ' nst:!hlil^- 'the Hospital Ship Manuna. Canon Burton was :i diHplain in tlm South African Colonol. l] ie Defence IMinister has signified to the Primate his consent to tho. request' of t]io bishops, that a second Anglican diaplain be appointed to ihe oamp at Trentham. riio Adjutiuit-Gonoral lias ulso intiuiated tlia" a ohapjain will bo reqtiii-ed^foi- the oamp at Tauhweni\<:u\ The Prinvte hopes to ko:\mjv the :"!-vict»K ot Are]i(ieacon Kvan.s, of .New PljiuoatJi. HicPwev. CHouchiii,

of the Diocese of Auckland, has been appointed chaplain to the 7th Reinforcements.

"The men who stays at home, that is, the man of military age, who has no obligations to keep him back, .s» not a man at all, in my opinion, was the remark passed to a New Zealand Times reporter by a wounded soldiei who returned to Wellington from Galinoli by the Maitai. The speaker was wounded severely in the head m the heavy fighting against the Ink. at Ouinn's Post, and lie is mo>t anxious to return to the firing line, but his wound is of such a nature that he is partly deaf and his eyesight s affected. This trooper expressed his hatred for tho Germans, and stated that he had evidence of the cruelty practised by the enemy on , harmless women and children. , At said, he saw*a woman who had both her hands cut off at the wrists by the Germans before she oscrt P ed_ fiom Berlin after war was declared,-ivh^te her little girl, aged about eight yeais had both her eyes gouged out. 1-he soldier also said that this woman s husband was placed against » waU and bayoneited by the Germans in her presence. . • : '

An illustration was afforded to the (Wo Daily Times last" week by a Dublin resident of the manner m which a city firm is disposing, m, certainly a Wall ./way,'of German goods, under the pretence that they are British The wife of the informant of the Daily Times desired; to purchaso a card of dress studs, which are commonly known as "domes.", was assured by the shop assistant that thos* which were, offered to her were of British manufacture-that, in.tact, that there were none but the British make in tho market. She purchased a card. On returning home she compared' it with a card* of German manufacture which sho had previously purchased. She discovered that the cards were, in fact, originally identical, but that the card she had most recently pin-chased had had both the tor>. which bore no distinctive German tnark upon it, nnd a small portion atthe bottom, upon which were printed 'tli" -words '.'Made i" Germany,' carefully cut. off by wnai£. .of a sharp knife or scissors.- To acid insult to miurv as « were, she had to pay for tho card-of German "domes" twice as much,- she subsequently found, as a card of British; 'domes-' of the same size would -cost her.

London papers relate tho fo lowing. —4. party of New Zealand wounded from Walton-on-Thames and another from St. Thomas's Hospital vvere taken for a drive to Lontherhead recently. At tea a soldier rec-dgmsed another who h,d carried him wounded off the field at the Dardanelles. Until that day he had never since seen his rescuer or kno.vn Ins -lame, ;-nd the meeting was most touching, the rescued man, with tears in his eves, shaking the Stands of liis feiiow colonial and thanking aim r..ost heartily.