GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14524, 21 August 1911, Page 5

GENERAL NEWS.

RAILWAY STRIKE ENDED, The mcist important news m the :< *}XcrvJd v? this morning, and the mcc*. pleasing, will found in ;Lc cln.-o of the sencs of tr>h!o t.osir.g the Revolt of Labour *"; ii li_n;.• • The news came t-o hnad- ;.i'r.-r midnight that tho -great and disastrous rai'wr.y strike hud bscn settled, and tha_ men v.*-er© instructed by their leaders to resumo work immediately. FOR DR BARvJASDO'S h'o?<°tS. TO-NICHT'3 CONCERT. Apart from ihe artistic merits, from s musical point of view, of the concert to fco given in the \ v csicy Hali this evening by the' Garrison " Band, *he worthy cause for winch it is given Bftonld in attract a large and sympathetic audience. Few institutions of our groat Kmpire are moreworthy of support than tiie great hi-, stitution with which the .name of Dr Barnardo is- associated. Since i*s «'•]- ception nearly 70.0C0 children, a kr-rc-percentage of whom would lunv> to swell the ranks of the r.i.u., have been cared inr. trained, and sent, out into the wond to bec«?»i-'» "Mim citizens of the Empire; and it much for tho character of the training that of tho thousands of bovs and girls sent from tho Homes to (Vi»d»' go , less than 93 per cent, do' \veii." buch a work as t'.iis is not merely of parocmal intercut. It i s empijcbuildins work of the best ki-id Over 9000 children are nor,- in residence in the Homes, and an avorajia oF nine per .day are bein s received. Even to feed tins large family requires some £2lO per day. The appeal made throuau the columns of the " Kc-.-aM " for for this cause has coiled forth ■ rous response, and tho kiudlv ol T ~r of the Garrison Band to further assist t!>o fluid by a concert- is one that ei«.,i'd meet with ready support. Ev"~thrng has been done to provide n pi-'a-gi'amme worthy of tho occasion ; it hut remains Tor tho public to sho-v tl""'r appreciation of the action of the hand by attending m such numhers as n<av ensuro a good round sum beinq added to the fund.