GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume XLIII, 25 July 1919, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS

Tlio matron of the local hospital desires to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the following: From Miss N'oake and Mr. Sherwood, tish ; from Mr. Weii-, meat ; Mrs. Harnett, flowors ; Mrs. Cox, pickles ; Mesdar. cs Shield, .leli’eries, ’Wills, and Templer. vegetables ; .Mis. I’owdrell, fruit and vegetables ; Mr. J. F. Wiiliamson. vegetables ; Airs, Horner, lrs.il, jam, etc. Faring the hearing of a “habeas corpus’' case in chambers at Wellington on Saturday, Sir Eobert Stout, the Chief Justice, told a Scottish story. “It seems to me,” said His Honour, “the parties are fighting about nothing. It is like the old talc of the possession of a white thorn bush, which was not worth sixpence, at the corner of two farms. As the result of litigation both farmers concerned lost their farms and the white thorn bush went on growing.”

Gorman critics arc seeking to prove that Admiral .Icllicoe was wrong in not attacking the German licet in the early stages of the Jutland battle, but the position has boon admirably summed up in the following words. “The Huns had some SO destroyers to Admiral Jellieoe’s 40; a night attack would have cost him one-halt: his fleet, and with the British command of the sea lost the whole Allied cause would have gone by the board. Thus, the British would have been cut off from France. And we could not have sent a man to Europe.’’

The problems in connection with demobilisation arc so numerous and often so unexpected (hat the Defence Department is constantly revising and extending its regulations. It welcomes the assistance and iniative of all its officers, no matter what their rank, as the following extract from the latest Headquarters Instructions will indicate “If any regulation now in existence with regard to demobilisation or civil re-establishment of soldiers appears to prevent quick, smooth and efficient administration, and thereby acts disadvantageously to the soldier, it should immediately bo brought to the notice of the Officer Commanding District, and submitted by him to General Ilcdquarters for transmission to the Department concerned for consideration of its revision.’’