TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14608, 18 May 1918, Page 6

TOWN EDITION.

The annual meetidng of the Farmers' Union, to have been hold to-day, -was adjourned until .Juno 1./ i. I'edstone.s' Tiniroto-Waivoa, MorereWairo.i and Const coaches leave town at 7 a.m. on Monday. The first half-year's interest on tho : New Zealand war loan raised last jvar j was payable this week. Tho total amount ! to bo paid to bondholders is approximately £340,000. '"There can be no crime more atrocious than the deliberate concoction of a criminal charge against an innocent person." — Mr. Justice Edwards at the Supreme Court at Wellington on Wednesday. ' Advice has boon received by the New Zealand Shipping Company that the Comptroller of 'Snipping m Lojvdon has increased the rates of passage money m all classes for United Kingdom, as follows: First class £40, second class £30, ( third class £16. ! "!)•<! not year sons allot you some of their u::J.t:iry pay" asked Captain Beale of an old lady m the Appeal Court at ' 3lnsterton. '"I couldn't use their money; suppose they came back crippled?" was the reply that came direct from the ■ lieart of the mother. A 260-ton auxiliary schooner, designed for Messrs Burns, PMlp and Co., .was recently launched at Sydney. The vessel is intended to maintain a subsidiary service round the Papuan coast, connecting with the mail steamers running between Australia and the Papuan territory* v A motion requesting banks m the city to arrange that during Christmas, New Year, and Easter holidays they be opened for a brief period to receive deposits only is to be moved at the next meeting of the cflMqil of the Wellington Central Chamflf bf Commerce. i It is freely reurtnH Tby returned soldiers that tlie rJBKion of their English brides m Aucklaflflß "was none too cordial (says the Manawatu Times). iSome of jibe Queen City's disappointed maidens are alleged to have made audible sounds of disapproval when their English rivals came down the gangway. A "League of Wives" was a suggesi tion of a speaker at Wednesday night's meeting of the Wellington branch of the Second Division League. He remarked I that by such organisation cases of hardship might be discovered and redressed which might otherwise pass unnoticed. The chairman commented that the executive would be pleased to take notice of the recommendation. There is aai illuminating sentence m the New Statesman which is worth italicising m these days of margarine queues and empty butchers' windows ; "It is literally true that there were at all times more people hungry m England m theyears of peace and prosperity that preceded tlie war than there are now m the fourth year of unrestricted conflict and expenditure." The lessened death-rate ■points tlie same encouraging moral. — Tlie London Observer. Writing, to the Otago Witness, a Gisborne correspondent states that Mr J. Turbitt, winner of the Gisborne Chess and Draughts Club's draughts .champion, ship, is an old member of the Dalziel nnd Hamilton Clubs m England, and has played .with such notables as Messrs Scobie, Connor, Stewart; etc., and only wants practice to be a top-notcher. -. He is at present engaged m a match of 16 games by correspondence with Mr W. E Cautwell, NW South Wales, and one of 14 games with Mr IT. JElgan, Melbourne, two prominent Australian experts. He now desires to "cross swords" with other JNew Zealand players. A soldier when on leave m England 1 and travelling from ona point to another is provided with what is known as a "journey meat meal card." The card entitles a soldier, when traveling, to a meat meal at any railway station, canteen or shop; Railway refreshment rooms are given authority to serve meat meals on meatless days, or meat with breakfast on production of the card to which are attached coupons. On arrival at the soldiers' destination the production of the card at a local food office is sufficient authority for his being provided with food during his stay m the town. • Recently Mrs Davey, the widow of a discharged soldier who held a run on the Benmore Estate, applied to the Otago Land Board for an advance to enable her to carry on the work of the farm. There is ho provision iti the Act, however, for advances to the relatives of deceased soldiers, and the board, thougih viewing the application sympathetically, could not comply with it. The case was accordingly brought under the notice of the Government, which has decided to make to Mrs. Davey the advance she desires, and an item will be placed on the Estimates next session to meet th© liability. It ia understood (says the Otago Daily Times) that, m conformity with this action, steps will be taken by the Government to prepare regulations to enable advances to be made m similar cases m the future.