LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1476, 23 November 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Cable advice has been received that the 7th Reinforcements have arrived safely at their destination. The annual installation ceremony of the Otaki Masonic Lodge takes place Ibis evening. The local lodge will be represented by several brethren.

The Rev W. Rowe, of Foxton, conducted the floral and evening services in connection with St. Paul’s Methodist Sunday School anniversary at Palmerston on Sunday.

The Creneral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. by 96 votes to 58, passed a resolution making elders eligible for the moderalorship. The Welsh Regiment during the great offensive in September in Flanders found two German wo men in a German dug-out which was fitted up with mirrors and plenty of luxuries.

The nine education districts into which the Dominion has been divided by the Council of Education are Auckland, Hawke’s Bay, Taranaki, Wanganui, Wellington (with Marlborough), Nelson, Canterbury, Otago and Southland.

The Utile town of Wallingford, Berks, one of the smallest boroughs in England, has brought the total enrolment under the colours to over 1200. There are now not 50 eligibles of enlistment age In the district, and the majority of these are engaged in Government work. The death occurred at the Palmerston North Hospital yesterday of Mr William Drummond, who has been a resident of this district for a number of years. The deceased had been in bad health for some time past, and was recently removed to the hospital. The body will be taken to Dunedin for burial.

Mr Leopold de Rothschild, interviewed on the occasion of his birthday, said the war was a tremendous strain. In the west it was a gigantic task, but there was no reason for being pessimisticKverything would come light. Lord Beaconsfield had said that it ever Britain was dragged into a great war she would be certain to win, as her finances were inexhaustible. That opinion we may view as still true.

Last year an anonymous writer “Uncle Tom” In the Wellington Post advocated that the children of Wellington, instead of spending money on fireworks on Guy Fawke’s Day, should devote it to patriotic purposes. The idea was keenly espoused by the children, who made a big collection throughout the city, realising This year “Uncle Tom” again stirred up the children, and on Guy Fawke's Day they raised over ,£9OO.

During last week a lady called at the Palmerston Patriotic Recruiting Office with a bunch of flowers, and stated that a buttonhole was to be given to the first man who enlisted that day. Shortly after a man came in and enlisted. When his papers had been signed, he was given the flowers, and his remark was, “Tell the lady who sent these that I am a married man, and enlisted because there are so many shirkers in the street I live in.”

Mr Winston Churchill, who recently resigned from the Cabinet, has left London to join the Oxfordshire Hussars in France. Mr Churchill is a major in the Oxfordshire Veotuanry (Territorials). Before he took up politics he was a lieutenant In a Lancer regiment. He saw service in Cuba (with the Spanish Forces) ; was attached to the Malakand Field Force in 1597, and was present at actions in Bajaur, being mentioned in despatches and receiving a medal with clasp; served with the Tirah Kxpeditionary Force (clasp).; served in the Nile Kxpeditionary Force, and was present at the Battle of Khartoum (medal with clasp) ; served in South Africa (medal and six clasps.) Writing from the Island of Lemnos to friends In Wellington, Private H. May says: “It was very funny to read an article in one of the Home papers cracking up our lot for what we are said to have done in our last advance, when we used the butts of our rifles as clubs, aud with each swing knocked over several Turks aud put the rest of them to flight. It was written by Ashmead Bartlett. Goodness knows what the peopie must think of him. He might give us a little truth.’’ Wheu Ashmead Bartlett reaches New Zealand on his lecturing tour —it he ever does reach the Dominion—he will probably discover that his measure has been taken. One of the Australian wounded, recently returned from Gallipoli, is the authority for the following rather startling story. He states that he was talking to a superior officer in the trenches, when another Australian came up. “You don’t need that overcoat,’’ said the new man. “Will you lend it to me?’’ “Certainly!” said the officer. While the newcomer was putting it on the officer shot him dead. “Do you know what you have done ?” said the narrator of *his ; “you have killed an Australian.” “Take off his coat,” said the officer. They did so. The man was a German, and his pockets were full of bombs. In the trenches that he had intended to blow up there were 1000 men.

Mr H. W. Richmond has donated 24 dozen tomato plants to the local Ladies’ Guild, to be sold at the Show, in aid of the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund.

R. W. Bro. A. McFarlane, Provincial GM. of the Ruapehu Masonic district, will pay an official visit to the local Masonic Lodge this evening. Brethren and visiting brethren are cordially invited to be present. A preliminary announcement is made by the All Saints’ Ladies’ Guild of a bazaar they are holding next Tuesday. Many excellent things will be on sale. Further particulars will appear in Thursday’s issue,

We are asked to state that there will be a practice by those taking part in the Patriotic Concert in All Saints’ schooroora at 7.30 tomorrow evening, and that practices in future will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays at 7 30 p.m. in the same building. Messages from the Balkans indicate that the Allies are too late to save the Serbs. It appears that they have been cut off from the main Serbian army, which must bear the brunt of the Bulgar-Ger-man invasion. The Serbs, however, seem to be still able to help themselves, for they report an important victory over the Bnlgars at Leskovalz.

Surgeon General Henderson, the new Director of Medical Set vices, desires it to be clearly understood that the district examination of recruits was purely a perliminary one, and men could not be finally accepted until they passed the test at Trentham. Men, therelore, should request their employers to keep their position open for them until they were finally passed. Employers by doing so would be greatly assisting the Department, and he hoped they would do so, as it was only the men’s due. The “cocktails” who cleared out by the American steamer the other day should have their names carefully recorded—they are all known at the shipping office —so that when they return here after the war they may be effectively blocked from sharing in the advantages won for us by our boys at the front. Not one “cocktail” should ever be allowed to own laud in this country, have a vote, or join a union or Friendly Society. All contemporaries in favour of this are invited to signify the fact in an unmistakable way. Let the word go through the country. — Rodney and Otamata Times. Superintendent Wallis, of the Pahlatua Fire Brigade, stated at a meeting of the corps last week that if the owner of stores and motor car sheds, where petrol is kept, would place a few sugar bags filled with sand handy to their respective buildings, it would be a great advantage in case of an outbreak of fire. He added that sand was ranch belter than water for smothering a petrol fire. He had heard of some cases where sand was kept In a handy position to benzine sheds, and he thought the Information might be useful to motor car owners in the country as well as In the town.

Mr R, Pollock, representative of the Mother Goose Pantomime Company, was in town yesterday making arrangements for the appearance in Foxton of Stanley McKay’s popular company, which is now under the direction of Mr George Stephenson. Playgoers will remember with pleasure the two previous pantomimes, “Little Bo Peep" and “Humpty Dumpty” which were under the same management. We are assured that for tun and variety “Mother Goose" is well in front of both of these. The company arrive in Foxton on Thursday, December 2nd, playing in the Town Hall the same night. Those who wish to secure good seats are advised to book early at Teviotdale’s, where the pain is now on view.

One of the proprietors of a business not a thousand miles from here, being a single man and eager to volunteer lor active service, advertised throughout the Dominion for someone to take his place during his absence, the salary offered being somewhat in the neighbourhood of half a thousand sovereigns a year. The advertisement attracted nearly half a thousand applications, over 300 of them being sent in by unmarried men. The advertiser’s volunteering ardour was somewhat damped by the knowledge that, while he was prepared to risk the smashing up of his business in order to fight for his country, some hundreds of men were equally prepared to jump into his job. He has decided to wait a while before again advertising.—Southland News.

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