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Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14774, 30 November 1915, Page 4

To-day (SI Audiew r » Day) was observed a-s a bank holiday.

During April, May and June 194,076 marriages were solemnised in England, which is a record.-

New Zealand hemp, which is required for munition purposes, is being eagerly s-uglit after in councilieu with Army and Navv ei nt.acts.

The liussiau lied IVj.,-. tv-iie y p-ih-lishes alit if Ui Sisters of .deny wn > '* have perished in the bem ardnujit ho-pitul.s by the Austrians and Germans. At the request of the Carnival Executive, the tramway service will he extended each evening during Cue currency of the Carnival. The last cars from town will m consequence leave at 11 p.m., and 09 Saturday at 11.110 p.m. Ten Japanese castaways, blown off the Japanese coast in' a gale three months ago, were rescued by a fisheries patrol boat off the coast of British Cilumbia. In a small, dismasted schooner they had drifted across the North Pacific. For 60 days, subsisting on a little foid and only rain water, the Japanese sailors fried to reach land. At the end of July the schooner went to pieces on a reef, and the men drifted on to an uninhabited island of the Queen Charlotte group, on the wreckage of their vessel. They lived by fishing, keeping up fires day and'nighL Finally two of the men made an dir; to reach an inhabited island on a raft, and were picked up.