UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA.

Nelson Evening Mail, 17 May 1917, Page 1

UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA.

SECOND EDITION

STATEMENT TO REMOVE POSSIBLE MISUNDERSTANDINGS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association , (Rec. May 17, 2.50 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 16. . The United States has notified the Russian Government, in order to remove possible misunderstandings, that the American Mission going to Russia - is interested in nothing but affording such assistance to €ae Russian Government and people as may bo helpful. s> COMMERCIAL. STOCK AND SHARES. (Special to Mail.) WELLINGTON, This Day. ' £ B.'.d.' National Bank 5 7 0 Bank of N.Z. Ist 12 2 6 ' Bank of N.Z. 2nd 17 10 0 Equitable L 15 0 National lst 3 15 0 National Mortgage 2nd 3 16 6 Plato s. 1 18 6 Investment 11 4 Trust ' 7 1 0 Wellington Gas. Ist s. 14 a 6 HuddaT-Tarkev Ist. 18 6 Huddart-Parker 2nd 19 3 N.Z. Shipping CbT ■prc'f. 10 13 6 U..S.S. Co. ord. s. 2 7"6 US.S. Co. prof. 1 .1.-4 Kaiapbi Woollens ord Ist. 6 12 0 Kaiapoi Woollens, 2nd; 7 0 0 Lhmgton, ord. Ist 6 0 0 Llungton 2nd . 6 6 0 Llungton pref. Ist 3 16 0 Ivlunglon pref. 2nd 4 10 Westport Coal 18 0 Stockton, pref. - l! £ Ward*. 5 15 0 Murray Creek '< . 1 13 | Talisman i -ic a Waihi seller id <; Junction . 14 "'

The aiitumu of the! year is usually uie .'m*oW favourable,.season for •and, as in other places, this ha., been rather, more prevalent in Wellington this .y«ar' than is generally the ca h e, says tho 'Dominion. ,How many cases there are in "Wellington at th 0 present; time is not known, but there are in the .. ■General. Hospital 19 cases, mostly children. Children are most vulnerable to the disease, which in its initial, stnae. is sometimes' mistaken for an ordinary sore throat. With the disease prevalent, parents should take no risks in the case via persistent sore throats, but should seek medical advice at once. Horace Leaf, spiritualistic lecturer, of Westboume Gardens, and Mme. Star J, otherwise Olive "Bush, dressmaker and milliner.' of St. Stephen's Square, 'London, were charged-')at Marylebone' on, Saturday with professing to tell for J tunes, and (Mime. Vox, Mme. Leslie, and •Susan {Fielder were brought up on w mand for similar offences, says the London Daily x.iail of 3rd March. Detec-tive-Sergeant Hambrook, who arrested . Leaf, whose age was given as 32, said he found letters saying that the accused was a, minister of different spiritualist societies,. and therefore exempt from military service. Mrs Annie Betts said Leaf told her Ihe could see the form of Elizabeth,, who was very agitated, as it was tho first time he. had been able to communicate with her. He also.described a, crowd: of spirits that were beside her, including her grandfather Edwai;d, he runcle John, and her aunt Mnr'a. Leaf, who admitted that ho professed to • describe people who had "passed, oyer." sometimes beins" successful and sometimes unsuccessful; was fined! £>&- ' . > £5 5s costs, or two months in the aerovo,, division. Mme. Vox was fined £15.v.W\... <£S 5s costs, the magistrate savin? the*.. pitiful rubbish and talk was worthy of a wandering* gipsy. Fielder, whose dtuct the magistrate regarded as dangerous and wicked, vvas sent to prison for two months, and a similar sentence | was passed on Mme. Leslie. Mme. Stan was remanded ,-oti bail. >