TO-DAY’S WEATHER.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 145085, 9 September 1916, Page 2

TO-DAY’S WEATHER.

Mr. Bales’ forecast for tho -twenty, lour hours from 9 a.m.. to-day,, is as follows: Tho- indications are for westerly moderate to strong freshening, squally at times with southerly tendency alter, about 20 hours; weather cloudy, to overcast with, scattered showers; the barometer has a falling tendency, butrising soon ; tides considerable, ' sea good swell.

Residents of the Frankley Road district are requested to attend the patriotic meeting, which will take place at the school on« Friday evening, the loth inst. The meeting is being called to go into the matted- of- holding a function for raising money for some patriotic purposes, and it is to bo hoped that .every household will h e represented. ■

A touching incident at the inaugural mooting of the honorary reserve of the I) Battery Field Artillery, in Wellington on Thursday was the calling of the 1869 roll, says' the Kow Zealand .Times. There Was no response, all the foundation members of the battery having joined the greatest of all reserves, that “beyond the veil.” When the 1873 roll was* called, however, four veterans answered “Hero, sir!” Colonel Aloorhouso (then only a plain, ordinary gunner) was one, while the other three were Messrs. J. Robinson, E. 0. Gannaway, and AV. A.. AVaters. Loud applause greeted each answer to the rollcall, and the applause was warmly renewed when it was seen that one of the veterans was wearing a badge indicating that he had offered his services in the present war.

Captain C. E. AV.-Bean, the Australian press representative with the Australian forces in France, writes .alter one night’s engagement lato in August: “This morning 3 niysoif saw the stretcher-bearers bringing in/. tho wounded under a white .flag*. This is permitted by both sides jn this section ot tho front, and moans an enormous mitigation of tho wdrst sufferings of war. The work of these Australian stretcher-bearers is simply glorious. Owing to tho difficulty of currying the men through tho trenches, they normally carry them over the top. Tho journev takes them, sometimes, a mil© through shelled country. Snipers may spare them, but tno artillery does not. They go, at a slow pace, straight ahead through tho shellfire, not oven turning a head. I am speaking of what 1 have scon.”