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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVI, Issue 14909, 29 November 1912, Page 6

By subdividing and reletting about 2000 acres of municipal reserves at Raincliif, of which the leases will expire next May, the Timaru Borough Council hopes to increase its revenue by £SOO a year. The reserves were inspected yesterday by Councillors, and found to represent a much more valuable asset than they had suspected. We hope that their fortunate escape from uuequal hostilities with--a bull who resented intrusion on his domains did not make the Councillors too sanguine of the augmented value of thenproperty. £SOO a year would be a useful addition to the borough's revenue. It might allow the Council to do.something more for our streets.

The latest news makes it. appear impossible tliat the war can last much longer. The "pestilence that walks by night " is still striking down", its hundreds daily behind the lines of Chataldja, though the colder weather has brought some reprieve. Adt-ianople, whose gallant resistance long after its defence was supposed to -be hopsless is one of the brightest episodes of the war, from the Turkish point of view, is reported by Mr Bennett Burleigh, the veteran correspondent, to be in flames, as the result of a new military horror, inj flammable bombs dropped by aeroiplanes. As tha XurkiaH commander

admits that a large part of the town lias been ignited, its surrender may be reported at any time. The Turkish army at Chataldja, on which depends the burden of defending a, once powerful empire and a capital city which has not witnessed an invader for four hundred years from final conquest and humiliation, is affording a spectacle unique in history. Its soldiers have to he trained in the most ordinary military .movements, and are even being taught to shoot, in the presence of the enemy. Preparations so long deferred are pathetic, in their tragedy, but the same potential tragedy would be forced upon New Zealand if the anti-militarists could have their way.