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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14572, 6 April 1918, Page 6

TOWN EDITION.

Tokomaru Bay : Arrived «it 2.<15 p.m., Koutunui Irom l.'isl.ic.rm\ The Kev. VV. A. Kfiiy, ;*->:si.*Un*l ninm! of St. Murk's Anglican Cliurcli, . WeiliugLui. na.s I"<vii npj>oiiit'-d to the charge of hi. Sopuli'lire's Church, Auckhiud, rendered vacant by the death of the Rev. A. 11. Colviie. Additional rules for mariners who may J-.iivc to approach ports in the war area .•.io published in this weeks Gazette, l.let-.iikd information is given regarding lie mea-3ure.« to be taken iu entering' '.American ports, where nets and other. . devices lor the protection of shipping ! 1 ave I>eeii installed. j Information has been received in Dunedin that Lieutenant Wilfred J. Sim, son of Mr. Justice Sim, has quite recovered from his wounds, and has bueu awarded the Mil'tary Cross. He is now at the front iuland from Salonika with his regiment, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. At ii meeting of the Maori Parliament lisld recently at Kiwitahi, the Ministers | were asked to frame laws 'to- meet the requirements of the Maoris, the draft to be submitted to the united tribes for consideration. It was resolved to inform the united tribes that from now onwards all dogs must be registered. The next session will open on September 14th. At , Mokoia, near Hawera, there were j 53 breaks in the telegraph line wire within a length of half a mile. The reason of the breaks, without exception' was not the recent gale itself, but the number of pines (pinus insignis in most cases) growing near the line, which were blown down bodily or had great limbs broken oil — the trees and branches being hurled with great force against the wires. "We must tight on- to the end, gaining strength in men, morale, finance, and munitions, until the Allies are able to dictate their own terms. Let us show by our response to the appeal from England that we aro mindful of the issues at stake. Eveiy man who stands aside in this hour of the nation's peril • has no riglit to the name of Britisher." — The Hon. A. M. Myers an tlie war situation. The mati*on of .Jhe Children's Home acknowledges the following gifts : — Mrs. Watson, children's clothes; Mrs. A. Seymour, children's clothes; Alexandria tea rooms, cakes; Mr. Hawkins, cakes; Mrs. Watson, vegetables ; Mrs. Spencer, groceries ; Friend, box cakes ; Mrs Friar jam ; tlie Gisborne . School Committee, buns ; Mr. Ford, buns ; Baptist Church, cakes ; Mrs, Whiteley, cakes and milk ; and gift from Mrs. Lindon. One and a-half pounds of nitric acid is required for thejirod'uction of a pound of smokeless powder. It takes two and a-half pounds of Chilian nitrate of soda, costing approximately 6d. as well as a quantity of sulphuric acid, to produce I one and a-half pounds of nitric acid. These "figures are interesting, 'as it is [ computed tliat nitric acid coaid bo ob- | tained from air and water for less than Id per lb by means of the direct arc | process by the utilisation of tlie. power I wliich could be derived from the Bowen. Falls, in Mifford Sound. i "1 do not think that any of the people of this community have any idea of the I real meaning of, and the great necessity j for, saving and thrift," said Sir Robert I Stout at the Wellington Supreme Court j on Tuesday. "The result," he added, "I i greatly fear, will be that, when the war is over, we shall see great poverty and .distress in this country. Thousands of people, I say, are doing as you have been doing — sp2iiding their money and 1 paying no attention to the future by making provision for what is called by some pdopta a 'rainy day.' " During tlie first week of the relief party's work at Raetihi something like 2& truck loads of clothing and other goods arrived for distribution amongst the homeless. This entailed a tremendous amount of work, and it says a- lot for the local helpers, Salvation Arniy representatives and Y.M'C.A. men. that the great number of cases and packages were handled and the contents distributed with such great facility. Twenty saddles and bridles have been received by the Y.M.C.A. authorities from the Defence Department, and have been sent up to Raetihi. In connection with the question of a common command for all the Allied Forces in the West, it i.s interesting to recall — what, indeed, is rarely remembered — that, after the fall of Napoleon, the army of occupation in France was placed under the command of the Duke of Wellington. It was arranged that Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia should each furnish a contingent of 30,000 men, and the smaller German States in tho aggregate a like number, which, by common consent, was placed under tlie supreme command of the victor of Waterloo, avlio established his headquarters at Cambrai. . Parliament is to meet nexit week for the prime purpose of passing a Finance Bill providing for war expenditure and fcupplies generally. There will be, of , course, the usual ceremonial incidental ' U> a session of Parliament, but formalities will .be reduced to the lowest limit. The Governor-General's speech, it is said, will be a marvel of brevity, and little ,time will be lost over the Address-in-Ropiy — tliat is so far as the Government is concerned. The mover of the Ad-dress-in-Reply in the House of Representatives will be either Mr J. P. Luke, the newly-elected member for Wellington v North, or the representative of the Southern Maori district — Mr Uru. I was amused (says "Clubman" in the Pall Mall Gazette), while talking to a big tea merchant in the city, to notice the way he spoke of the one and only consignment of China tea that has I recently come upon the market. "Choicest" was not good enough. He alluded to the blends as "Superbly choicest," "Extra superbly choicest/' | and so on. When I smiled at these i etymological monstrosities, he replied : | "Oh, don*t think these are my own ! descriptions. They are taken from tlie J labels on tlie imported tea chests. ! When a first chop, tophole blend is indiejtted they have an even more flowery ! way of labelling tliem. They are then 1 'Hand-picked by the fairest maidens in ; the East !' "