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Observer, Volume XXXV, Issue 44, 10 July 1915, Page 20

Attention is directed to the advertisement of the Co-operative Terminating Building Society, which appears elsewhere, concerning applications for shares in the 29th and 30th groups.

No doubt all home gardeners will avail themselves of the lecture to be given on horticulture by Mr A. V. Dinnan (Instructor in Agriculture to the Board of Education) at the V.M.C.A. on Thursday night at 8 p.m. A cordial invitation is extended to the public.

This from the Waikato "Independent":—"l have a son and' brother at present fighting the country's enemies, and I would sooner see them shot dead rather than that they stay at home like some of the Cambridge farmers' sons. I would be ashamed to come into the town were I the father of such shirkers!"—A speaker at Saturday's meeting of farmers.

Sir Robert Stout has been lecturing vividly and ably on his favourite theme "The Outlook of Brotherhood in the World." As usual he was very fine. Note carefully these words of his: "What of the future of human brotherhood? It looks to many as if the fountains of the deep of everything contentious, wicked, and cruel, were broken up, and that a great wave of vindiotiveness and evil had submerged the world. Even then can we not send out a dove to

see if one spot of dry land of human love may not be discovered?" With the dove hovering over his revered grey hairs, Sir Robert Stout, the apostle of the Brotherhood of Man and a seeker of the one spot of the dry laud of human love, sentenced to a living death for the term of her natural life Alice Parkinson, of Napier, who had been grievously w.ronged, and who slew her betrayer while suffering the greatest agony of mind possible to a woman. This against the decision of a jury who had discovered the "dry spot" spoken of, and who understood the horrors of mind Alice Parkinson suffered. One would be glad to know whether Sir Robert really does feel in his heart the very beautiful thoughts he expresses.