THE OTAGO PATRIOTIC FUND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16433, 12 July 1915, Page 7

THE OTAGO PATRIOTIC FUND.

OTAGO PATRIOTIC AND GENERAL WELFARE ASSOCIATION. The hon. treasurers of the Otago Patriotic and General Welfare Association acknowledge the receipt of the following donations to the fund:— Previously acknowledged ... £43,410 9 8 Women's section Otago Patriotic Association, monthly contribution ... B 20 0 0 Otago railway maintenance office and permanent way staff, June contribution B 21 0 0 Traffic staff N.Z. Railways B 14 4 6 Staff Neill and Co. (Ltd.), fourth monthly contribution b 9 6 0 Portion Town Hall staff, June contribution ... b 3 410 Employees James Speight and Co., twentieth weekly contribution b 5 7 6 Employees Acetylene Gas Company w and B 4 9 0 Riversdale- and district ... B 12 4 0 £43,500 5 6

Otago Daily Times Belgian Fund (previously acknowledged) ... 16,222 16 0 Otago Daily Times general list (previously acknowledged) ... „ 17,818 7 4 Total £77,541 8 10 B Denotes Belgian Relief Fund; w denotes Wounded Soldiers and Their Dependents' Fund. THE OTAGO DAILY TIMES LIST. Previously acknowledged ... £21,010 12 0 Miss A. Gillespie, Oturehua ... a 0 4 0 Mrs G. Gillespie, Oturehua ... a 0 4 0 Exchange 0 0 6 Total £21,011 0 6 a To be devoted to the Wounded Soldiers' and Dependents' Fund. THE GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND RELIEF FUND. THE OTAGO DAILY TIMES LIST. Previously acknowledged ... £1025 0 0 BELGIAN RELIEF FUND. THE OTAGO DAILY TIMES LIST. Previously acknowledged ...£16,380 19 9 " Thomas' Wilson " 20 0 0 Second and Third Standards, Kaikorai School ... 014 3 Total £16,401 14 0 SERBIAN RELIEF FUND.

THE OTAGO DAILY TIMES LIST. Previously acknowledged £620 6 8 E. Hayes and Son, Oturehua ... 10 0 Thos. Gilchrist, Oturehua 10 0 John Nicolson, Oturehua 10 0 Rev. M. M'Lean, Oturehua ... 010 0 Total £623 16 8 WOUNDED SOLDIERS AT THE FRONT. TO THE EDITOB. Sir, —From time to time you have kindly permitted us to acknowledge money received for the provision of extra comforts for the wounded at the front. May we ask space to inform those who have sent us donations that our arrangements have been very complete since the first request for money came from the Rev. Chaplain BushKing? We arranged then, in view of Mr Bush-Kihg's probable departure' from Egypt, for the work he was doing to be taken in hand by clergymen of long experience who have the help of a body ot lay workers both in Cairo and Alexandria. At the -Dardanelles Mr Bush-King is making provision for immediate wants. We shall be glad of further funds, as we expect that still more will be needed, seeing that last week we have had two cablos asking respectively for £100 and £200 —£100 for Alexandria to be used by Chaplain Jilamires. and £200 to be used at Alexandria and Cairo under the supervision of Archdeacon Ward and Canon Hichen respectively. As our instructions are that the money is to bo used without any regard "whatsoever to a man's religious views, and no organisation possesses a better means of spending, money for our wounded, we confidently appeal for further help. In the administration of money entrusted to us there has been no deduction for expenses except £3 2s, charged by the Government when we forwarded money to chaplains through the Postmaster-general, and the Union Bank has kindly remitted money free of charge.— We are, etc.,

AY. CunZON-SIGGERS, Arthur H. Fisher.

KING EDWARD THEATRE,

A story of slum and society life under the title of "Lil o' London " is the leading film 'on the picture programme to be screened for the first time at the King Edward Theatre to-day. The subjcct was adapted to the kinematograph by Mr Harold Shaw, from the book of Mr Bannister Merwin, and it has been produced by the London Film Conipany in excellent style. The title role is piayed by M.ss Edna Flugrath. Die present 'drama, gives her ample scope as a homeless, starving girl in the great metropolis, and she is splendid in the closing scenes, which require more thar. ordinary ability to achieve the best result* One of the principal supporting ) itemsr is "Hogan's Aristocratic Dream," a highly amusing Keystone comedy, in which the now famous Charles Murray scores heavily. Another good comedy is "William ifcnry Jones's Court ship." The Edison Company is represented bv "The Phantom Thief," a drama partly written by Mark Swan, and completed by Miss Maude Clement Moore for a prize of 1000 dollars, presented by the Daily Mirror. Other numbers are: The latest "Topical Gazette," and a charming Vitagraph scenic, "Picturesque California." The whole of the profits this week again go to the Dardanelles Queen for the Wounded Soldiers' Fund. MEDICALLY FIT. The following men have passed as medically fit; John Buckley, water diviner, Dunedin. Basil Helyar Wilkinson (13th Regiment), shepherd, Dunedin. George Duncan Shand, station manager, Morhington. Henry Wilfred Bundle (National Reserve), solicitor and barrister, Dunedin. Robert William Kay, labourer, Sawyers' Bay. Arthur Patrick M'Guire (14th Regiment:, jockey, Dunedin. Em.il Johannsen, master mariner, Dunedin. MESSRS STEWART AND SEDDON. GOING INTO CAMP TO-DAY. (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, July 11. Messrs W. Downie Stewart and T." E. Y. Seddon, M.P.'s, will enter the camp at Palmcrston North specially devoted for the training of non-commissioned officers tomorrow. On Saturday Mr Seddon was presented with a gold watch from the staff of Messrs Findlay, Dalziell, and Stout, solicitors. «