TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14626, 8 June 1918, Page 6

TOWN EDITION.

•Since the Avar began 1169 British newspapers, including 140 dailies, have increased their prices.

Redstones' Tiniroto-Wairqa and Mo-rere-Wairoa and Coast coaches have town at 7 a.m. on Monday.

A Dunedin correspondent telegraphs that it is understood that Mr. R. W. Holmes, 1.5.0. (Engineer-in-Chief of Publio Works) and Mr. B. M. ' Lichfield (Government Auditor of the Bank or New Zealand) will soon retire from the Pu" l : c Service.

Under the Rent Restriction Act, states the Labor Department, a landlord may -.barge 8 per cent, on all additional improvements whether mad© to laud or dwelling; and the rent can be raised at r.ny time to equal 8 per cent, of the capital value, as on August 4fch, 1914.

The Wellington City Council, during the last 12 months, issued 203 permits for the erction of new buildings, compare 1 with 222 the previous year. The total estimated value of the work for which permits were issued was £296,425, against £160,098 for the previous year.

The Canterbury Chamber of Commerce has passed a motion recommending the Government to take the necessary steps to counteract the anti-militarist, tiroGerman, and nnti-war propaganda which ih being preached and spread broadcast throughout New Zealand.

At 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning, Private John Tarbet, of the Wairarapa, a returned soldier, walking m his sleep, fell off a fire escape connected with the Occidental Hotel, Wellington, and broke one of hia legs. He is now m the hosp:tal. He fell a considerable distance, and his escape from more serious injury was little short of^miraculous.

"Every family should make some sacr'fice: we had a case before us the other day m which nine sons had gorte to the front from one family, and yet you have two sons and neither has served," said Obtain Beaie m the Military Appeal Court, when a mother admitted that neither of her sons had gone to the front.

Memor'es of the famous clipper ships were recalled by the arrival m New Zealand some time ago of the four-master John Ena. The vessel, which was built at Glasgow, m 1892. is one of the fastest sailers m the American marine. On her last run to Auckland she averaged 126 miles per day. while she holds a record m a vovaore from the Hawaiian Islands to the Delaware m 84 days, aj

I nos season's app'e crop is probably the best that Nelson has known. The glut period is past, and the position as to prices is now satisfactory. A beneficial C'iircunistance is the greater demand from Auckland. For choice apples delivered at local cool stores growers have*- received excellent returns. War conditions are against planting, and as a conssequence the outlook is not good for the* disposal of nursery stocks of fruit trees m large lines (according to the Colonist). .

Speaking, at the dairymen's smoke concert at Auckland on TtifeMay, Mr. J. H. Hayward referred to the 'great part the merchantile marine was playing m the present war. "We must not forget what, we -owe to these men," he said, "and. we must not forget their dependents;- The merchantile marine has carried ; our produce, • and many a brave sailpr vbas gone to his death through enemy; 'action." We owe a debt .we can never pay to every soldier, sailor, and blueiacket of the mercantile marine, and I think it is a. matter for the nation and everyone of us as individuals that we look after their dependents."

How impressive is Prince Lichnowsky's brief description of his departure after the declaration, of war ! "A special train took us to Harwich, where a guard of honor was * drawn up for me. I was treated like a departing Sovereign. Thus ended my London mission. It was wrecked, not by perfidy of the British, but by the perfidy of our policy." These words are written with an iron pen on the rock of history. Contrast this grave courtesy with the broken windows of the British Embassy m Berlin, and the hustling of Sir Edward Goschen and his* suite to the station by back streets m cabs, accompanied by "police ! Contrast it with thet.' incredibly mean insults heaped on M. Cambbh, who was not sent to France, but 'to Denmark, m a train for which a gendarme on board called on the French Ambassador to pay, his cheque being refused, and German money (with difficulty collected from the suite) insisted on! Can caddishness go farther? Perhaps, yes, m the rudeness and threats addressed to a helplfess lady, the Dowager Empress of Russia. — Saturday Review. , „ . ■