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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16607, 3 December 1919, Page 2

Mails dispatched fro Tit New Zealand on October 18 arrived in London on November 29. .

The Governor-General, in the course of speeches at functions at Greymouth, referred to the great resources and possibilities of the West Coasty which would rapidly develop as soon as its present isolation was replaced by adequate means of transportation.

The euchre party held at the Kawaroa Park Pavilion on Tuesday evening was very successful, 27 tables being engaged in play. Mrs. Land secured first prize for the ladies 51b. box of tea) with 13i games: Mrs. Bussell and Mrs. Nodder tied for second prize (251 b bag of flour); in the play-off Mrs. Bussell won. For the men’s prizes Mr. Crockett and Mr. Hewitt tied with 12 games each; in the play-off Mr. Crockett took first prize (61b box of tea), Mr. Hewitt taking second (261 b bag of , flour). For the aggregate prizes, Mrs. AVoodham and Miss Elder tied for tbe ladies with 32J games each. Mr. Millman won the men’s aggregate with 32J games. After the cards supper was served by the ladies’ committee.

How comes it, asks the Saturday Review, that the Briton reserves all his power of being disagreeable for his own countrymen? When abroad fighting the German, his bravery, humanity, pleasant manners, his ‘ gentilesse” (to borrow a Chaucerian word) aro “sung and proyerb’d in the streets” of every capital in Europe. When he comes home, with all his blushing honours thick upon hhn, he turns into a surly, quarrelsome ruffian resolved to live upon the largesse of his neighbours, or by threats of starvation to wring from them exorbitant wages. AVhat is the explanation? Partly, no doubt, it is due to the high prices which have been brought about by the strikes of the stay-at-homes 1 partlv to tbo gross adulation bestowed on ‘ him by politicians for doing his duty. Speaking in the South at the end of last week the Prime Minister said that one reason why he was touring the country at present was to oppose the rising tide of Bolshevism. (Appiause.) Mr. Holland was the leader of the newparty the Parliamentary Labour Party which was not representative of Labour. One choice expression by Mr. Holland was that Mr. Lloyd George was one of the “incomparable mountebanks of Britain.” He also referred to Mr. Hughes and Mr. Holman .as “the indescribable Iscariots of Australia.” That was the language of Mr Holland, who .wished to control the public affairs of New Zealand. AVere the people going to allow that party to hold the balance of power in this country during the period of reconstruction upon which it had entered?—(A’oices; “Never” and “No.”) That was the question the people would have to put to themselves before they recorded their votes. Ho repeated that he did not admit that the Parliamentary Labour Party represented Labour. To say such a thing was to say that the labouring people were disloyal, and they wore not, for they had done their part noblv in the war. AATiting to the Christchurch Press under date of November 24, the Ven. Archdeacon Ensor says:—“Very reluctantly 1 write to remove an impression that may bo made by the report in your issue of this morning that I am making a money claim against the Department of Public Health in revenge for the death of my daughter. My reasons for taking legal action against the Department are as follow:—Correspondence between the AA aipu Hospital Board, copies of which the board liavo agreed to. furnish mo, convince me that some protests, personal deputations, etc., have - hitherto produced little beyond -promises, and the state of affairs is hidden from public knowledge in the pigeon-holes of the Departmental office; because from Hicks Bay to Gisborne I was implored by people who made it their business to interview mo to take some steps to awaken tho public to the state of things that has gone on for years and still obtains; and lastly, because after the evidence of my own personal investigation I promised by my child’s grave that I would force aside all thoughts of the hatefulness of dragging personal affairs into the public gaze, and would take such steps as will make it impossible that any nurse shall be exposed to conditions which caused the death of Mrs. AVingfield and her daughter in the last epidemic of typhoid at Te Araroa, which _ have now claimed Nurse Ensor as a victim, and aro responsible for Nurse Jewiss lying in a critical condition when I left. Should my claim be successful, no one who knows me will need the assurance that , the money will go intact to some worthy object as a memorial to a brave woman of whose record her loved ones are proud.” Sykes’s Cura Cough will cure your cold, cut away tho phlegm secretions and give instant relief to your sore throat and chest. Prove it for yourself. Sold anywhere. Is 6d. hfil