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Timaru Herald, Volume C, Issue 15290, 6 March 1914, Page 6

Dunedin's third Floral Fete, held on Wednesday, had some features that should be worth remembering now that it has been decided to make the Timaru Floral Fete an annual fixture. Seven hundred school girls, wearing their school colours, and without hats,, and led by the boys' bands of the primary schools, marched in procession to the Gardens through the city, thus reminding everybody of the Fete. Afterwards they gave a display of physical exercises, for which the school bands supplied the music. Fancy dancing and a maypole dance by sixteen school children attracted much attention, and a post office was pro-, vided in the summer house "where j post cards and other missives could be posted.- A_ souvenir programme which was issued was made more interesting by a statement of the receipts from the last Fete, and how they had been spent- The Fete, like its predecessors, was a great success.

Juarez, Villa's t)ase of military operations in. [North Mexico,, is described bv a writer in the Sydney "Daily Telegraph" as an unkempt town with a narrow, dirty main street faced by miserable buildings, of which the Customs house, a low, rambling, brick and stucco edifice, has been turned into the headquarters of General Benavideo, who holds Juarez on behalf of Villa. Dirty, slouching, half-breed soldiers. whose accoutrements include a filthy blanket, slung- around them, lounge all about this ut) and down the street, with their mules hitched to trees and fences, waiting for the most important of which 4 is to escort the General to the racecourse (the largest in Mexico) to inspect his army, but "to call this expectorating mob of vacrants an army is too silly fo> words." Saloon Veeners are bto hibited by martial law from selling limior. though the gam Mine" dens aTe always orojrrlod. Th* principal landmark La Juarez is

the cathedral, which during the last few years disturbances has been used nearly as often for military as for religious purposes. It dates from the seventeenth century, and its old bell is rung frequently by bullets.