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Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14129, 4 July 1916, Page 2

Dr. A. K. Newman, ■ M.P., speaking at a public meeting in Wellington, said he fully agreed with six o'clock closing, and hoped the people of New Zealand would insist on its,being carried. General Joffre had predicted two years before the war, that the next war would be one of nations against nations. That prophecy had been fulfilled. Britain had -shown them an example in restricting liquor consumption; New Zealand had done nothing.so far. He would.vote for the anti-shouting measure to be brought before Parliament. Women were pro-hibited—-but men could fill themselves up to the- brim. (Laughter.) What' was sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander. (Laughter.) Ine legislation was lop-sided, and he often wished women were in Parliament,, to do away with it. The military leaders could not %in battles themselves—it lay with the men, who should be efficient. It lay Math them to say New Zealand should be a drinking or a s-.Vr country

aii interesting feain-o of tne public farewell tendered to tile Marlborough quota or the Eighteenth Reinforcements (says the "Express") was a speech made by Mr. Tuiti Mac Donald a Maori, whose nephew, Charles MacDonald, was a member of the draft going forward. Invited by the Mayor 5° sPeak to v the gathering, Mr. MacDonald came to the front of the rotunda and delivered an address instinct with the patriotism and vim that characterises the attitude of the native race towards the war He mentioned that Charles Mac Donald was a brother of John Mac Donald the first Maori to shed his blood in the great war now being fought for the cause of justice and liberty. This gallant soldier, a son of Mi-. Peter Mac-Donald, of the Wairau Pa, took nis departure from New Zealand with the first Expeditionary Force, and was killed in the fighting at Gallipoli. .1 be speaker made a graceful allusion to the Treaty of Waitangi, and the trust that the Maoris reposed in thei ■Lritish—fomeriy enemies, now true friends—as the guardians of the county and the honour of the land of the moa; and concluded by spiritedly adjuring his nephew, Charles, to be rarchhil.tp tne traditions of his race and to emulate' the noble example1 of that brave chief who, caNed on by a! British force to surrender during the last Maori war, stood on the palisade ot lus fort, and said: "I can never surrender; I will fight for ever and! erev and ever." The crowd cheered with much feeling and heartiness. i

Snow obstructs the passage of sound ; /lost helps it. In cold, clear, frosty weather, voices have been distinguished one and a half miles away.