TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13697, 29 May 1915, Page 6

TOWN EDITION.

Colonel Chaytor is progressing favor! ably m the base hospital at Alexandria. I A piece of shrapnel caused a fracUire of ' his right ann during the lighting m tho Dardanelles. Colonel ltoliin has announced that within the next week or ten days about 140 sick and invssl '<__<"_ soldiers would be arriving m Wellington from the front. One young fellow wlu> volunteered for the front got a big disappointment at Dannevirke, when presenting himself for medical examination. It was discovered that he had been a territorial shirker, and was told to stand aside with a view to staying and doing the military service he had been side-step-ping. As hedges are thing.* of beauty besides being things of usefulness, the Wellington Education Board has decided that ''live" fences should be grown where possible, as .they would save portion of the cost of the ordinary fences, and the schoolboys could do a great deal of the work entailed m planting them.

To-day was a record day for enlistment at the Gisborne Defence. Office. Apparently the young men of the towsi are responding to tne urgent cajl. Up tv> 3 p.m. 25 men were registered, the officers having been kept busi 1 -- engaged throughout the day. Eight of 'to-day's applicants from the Coast were examined by Dr. Scott, its the absence of Surgeon-Captain Williams, and were passed as medically fit.

The Wellington Harbor Boasxl decided to take steps to establish a second p;itent slip m Wellington, si settlement having been arrived at with the Patent Slip Company regarding matters m dispute. The Board also decided to approach the Otago, Lyttelton, and Auckland Boards with a view to making joint representations to tlie Government regarding payment of harbor dues oh .transports carrying freight.

The special subject, "The . War, , its Origin, its Lessons, and Destiny j" will be continued by the Rev. R. Raine m. the Methodist Church, Bright street, tomorrow evening. Mr Raine will also preach at Mangapapa m the morning and Kaiti m the afternoon; Mr W. S. McKay, of Auckland, at Bright ' street, m the morning ;' Te Hapara,' Missioiier Ford m the morning and Mr Forge at night ; Mangapapa, Missioner Ford at night. Besides the thousands of women m Great Britain/who: have volisnteei*ed for war service, numbers of British wonlen have written from other countries offering their help. Several Canadian women have stated that they are ready to come over if their help is wanted. British women , residing m the United States are also keenly interested m the scheme. One woman s.nt a prepaid cable from New York saying that she would come sit once if she could bo oi any use. "Cine of tho things that we medical men should be proud of," said Dr Orchard at a farewell gatheriisg of the Christchurch Automobile. Association," "is the fact- that at the present time there are not enough medical men m the hospitals of New Zealand. It is a distinct credit to us that the hospital authorities are asking that no • more medical men should go to the war. In one sense this fact is to be deplored, but from the point of view of loyalty it reflects the greatest of credit upon the medical men."

So long ago as February Mr llilais-s-Belloc expressed the opinion that it was unlikely that -any new phase of the war would begin, to appear until June or July. Present appearances wossld seem to eontirm this A'iew. In the same address Mr Belloc pointed out Germany's lour vulnerable points. "Germany is vulnerable at the four eixternal corners of; her empire. She mast hold on to Belg.um, to l**"a_»t Prussia, ito AlsaceLorraine, and to Silesia. "The giving up of any osie of these , four strategical positions will be fatal to her, the embarrassment of holding the four is likely to prove her undoing. Shbuld the Allies continue to pin the enemy and cosnpel hint to shorten his lin<_, then that is the beginning of the end. '

The licensee of a Dunedin hotel found one day recently that there Mas on her shelves a bottle of stout that she could not usicork. Customers also tried aiid failed, and as all-comer, wanted a pull eomidoiie struck the idea, of charging 3d a' pull, the money to go to the Belgians, the man who drew the cork to get the stout as his prize. Tlie fun having started, cither .bottles, artfully plugged with wooden stoppers, were brought m, and. the threepences multiplied, and then a guessing- competition arose, tlie prize a bottle qf whisky, the proceeds to be given ,to tne wounded soldiers' fund. When/ the box was opened there was over £13 for the Belgians. Then the winner of the- whisky offored' the bottle by: auction. One man bought it at 235, ■ another at 10s aud a third at ss. At last the i whisky was given to be sold at a shilling a nip, aiid this fund was at last advice growing fast: Those who frequent the Waikanae beach regret that owing to the dry weather experienced m this district last year most of the irees planted on ( tho beach died. On Juno 10th next the Besich Improvement Society intend holding a planting day, when a number of trees will be planted of .the varieties that have been found , to grow well isi other localities experiencing similar conditions to those pertaining here. Messrs Williams asid Kettle, local agents for the well-known firm of Thos. Hortoh, Ltd. , nurserymen, of Hastings, have notified the hon. secretary of the Men s Bathing Sheds Association that they will donate a number of trees for. planting. When they arrive, the trees w"ll be planted under the direction of the Improvement Society by the members i.f the Bathing Shed Association, who will assist the former society on planting day. Mr Thos. Horton, managing director of the firm of Horton. Ltd., is. probably the most experienced, horticulturist m New Zealand, and the trees donated by his firm will be of the v/iry best procurable, which, given favorable weather next year, should provide some muchneeded shelter on the beach. The handsome donation -i-yill be warmly appreciated by tho public. \,

That the complaints that have come from some of tho men who were m Egypt did not apply to the force generally is shown, by the cheerful tone m which Trooper Ed. M. Stewart, late of tuhaha. writes from Cair6 to his brotohor, _\lr W. Stewart, 1 under date of April 16. He says: "I thought we would have 'been away from here last week, but we are still here. T don't think we will leave till the' Allies effect a landing m the Dardanelles. T have had a good look round Cairo. . . . Up till now this has .be£n just one bugle picnic, although I s*ead m the New Zeapapers about the hardships we go through, also about the bad' food, irregular mails, also about gift stuff beina; sold m eanteeiss. I have never missed a drill, and T am sure • I have not gone through any hardships, As for -the food, I have s only had bully beef and biscuits twice. WG always have plenty of fresh meat, potatoes, bread, cheese and butter, and very often vegetables — not bad soldiers' food, is it? I havo "received my mail regularly ererv fortnight : every letter and paper addressed to me T havo received. [As for gift- stuff being sold m ihe can- | teen that ia nil rot. nnd si few Red I'ed I agitators* started that. We have received all the gifts that 'were -given to us. but of course when they are divided amongst. 12.0 CX) niei^ you get very little per man. That is the' trouble.' . The people of "New Zealand should give their gifts to the poor of Great Britain and Belgium. We are well enough paid. . . . 1. am m ihe main body now. m "No. 1 ■ troop, nearh' all Gisborne boys." , . ' * ■

Mr A. L. Walker, professor of music, organi'-t and choirmaster fnr. the Baptist Church, has commenced the teaching of music; m Oi -borne The musical parts foi- a series of social evenings m connection with the "Rar'isi CJjurch are being arranged by Mr Walker.