HONOURS AND AWARDS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1390, 23 November 1918, Page 5

HONOURS AND AWARDS.

DECORATIONS FOR NEW ZEAL ANDERS. Included in a list of Now Zealand soldiers who have had honours and awards conferred upon them are the following:— M.C. Rev. Matthew Mullineux (Masterton), Captain R. M. Autill (Mastcrton). D.C.M. Private Thomas M. R. Richmond (Taikorea). BAR TO M.M. Sergeant A. D. Anderson, M.M. (Halcombe). M.M. Private Edward Holman (Palmerston), Sapper Gordon \Y. Mexted (Pahiatua), Private Thomas A. Strachan (Apiti), Private "William T. McClenaghan (Palmerston), Private Lawrence T. Williams (Pahiatua), Rifleman Theodore W. Voss (Halcombe). Corporal Christian J. Hall (Dannevirlce), Lance-Corporal Ivan W. Weston (Palmerston).

By Gazette dated November 15, 1918, Messrs A. W. Trass and \V. N. Brewer, of Ashhursi, are appointed trustees of tho Ashhurst cemetery, in place of Messrs G. R. Lovelock (absent from the Dominion) and G. Senile (resigned). The hospital authorities acknowledge with thanks the receipt of fowls from Mrs Kearney and a daily supply of jellies from Mr (I or wood. The receipt is also acknowledged from tho Rev. Father McManus of £1 and also some wine, and brandy for sick nurses.

Tho funcial of the late George Henry Redwood took place at Woodvillo on Thursday, tho Very Rev. Dean McKenna officiating. There was a largo attendance, including members of tho Woodville Borough Council (of which ho was formerly a member) and the Woodvillo County Council.

There was some excitement at tho railway station yesterday when about two hundred soldiers rushed the northern mail train. It appears thai an attempt war. made by the railway officials to hold back the short journey men, but these rather objected, and the result was they took the law into their own hands. 11)0 railway officials state that they had no notice of tho extra number of men from camp who would lie travelling, hence, the congestion of traffic.

We understand (he polico have, taken the names of several fruiterers for charging more than the maximum price for oranges and lemons, which is 3d each. Ai one shop no less than 3s was paid to a Chinaman yesterday for four oranges, and tin's coming to the knowledge of the |x>lice the offender in question had to refund tho excess paid beyond the- stipulated sum fixed by the regulations. Proceedings arc likely to follow. 'l'he public aro requested to assist tho police by at once reporting any ease where an excessive price is demanded. The edibles stipulated by the regulations include apples, oranges, lemons, vegetables and fish.

Few people in this country are a ware of tho cruel tragedy which occurred in the life of Gonoral John Pershing, Commander of tho American Forces in France, though it proved a great moral victory. On August 27, 1915, his wife and three of their four children—tho three girls—were burned to death in tho fire that destroyed the Presidio in San Francisco. Pershing was left with tho one child, Warren Pershing, a boy still in the toy-trumpet age. The general had received his orders to serve at tho Mexican bordor, and was in. El Paso, Texas, hunting a house for his wife and little brood when the news was brought to him. Such a shock might have unmanned a fibre less tough than his, and it might have destroyed Pershing had he not then been entering dutie3 of great public importance which demanded his whole powers. Tho discipline of the service saved him from giving way to despair, and he. conducted tho entire .Mexican campaign carrying a load of grief such as few men are ever called upon to bear.