NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Our Annual W.C.T.U. Convention. —We have not yet received notice ol the date of Convention, but on referring to our last Convention number of the White Ribbon wt see that “A hope was expressed that as next Convention would be held some time in February, delegates should be appointed in good time, and notification sent to the inviting Unions (Napier). ’ * Reports. — We trust that the notices inserted by Miss Powell and Mrs Hill in our last issue have been acted on by the various secretaries and treasurers throughout the Colony. It is to be hoped also that the local superintendents

will send their reports to the N.Z. superintendents of their respective departments, so that everything may be ready for Convention in good time. * The “ World’s ” Convention. —The opening ceremony took place on Oct. 23 in the Pavilion of the Horticultural Gardens, Toronto, at 10 a.m. A large flag of the United States was on one side of the platform and the British flag on the other. A large banner filled the middle back-ground, on which was painted in water colours a globe belted with white ribbon, and below it a wreath of holly leaves and buds, and within it the motto, “ Christ for the world.” The galleries were curtained with Union Jacks, and below the balustrades were the flags of many countries. The appearance of Miss Willard called out vociferous applause. * Toronto. — l ncomplimenting Toronto Miss Willard spoke of it as a city where no saloon-keeper could be a member of the City Council. And this is true, she said, in all Ontario. Even the policemen are largely temperance men, and drunkenness and idleness are almost unknown. * Addresses by Miss Willard. —Two addresses by Miss Willard, one delivered before the “ World’s " delegates at Toronto, October 23, the other at the National Convention, Buffalo, October 29, are to be printed in separate pamphlets.

Auckland Tailoresses Union.— We are glad to notice that a question at issue between the Auckland Tailoresses Union and certain employers was satisfactorily settled, owing to the efforts of Mrs Hendre, Secretary to the Union, and the Hon. Mr Jennings, president. The points at issue related to the rates of wages to be paid in the tailoring and shirtmaking industry, a “ log ” having been prepared by the Union and submitted to the employers. This was accepted by some of the latter as fair and reasonable, and the Conciliation Board was moved in order to bring the other employers to the same way of thinking. Both the Auckland papers congratulate Mrs Hendre on the tactful manner in which she acted on behalf of the Union. * Women’s National Council. At the next meeting of this Council papers are to be read on the six following sub.

jects: — 4l Education,” 44 Prison Reform,” 44 Parental Responsibilities,” 44 Local Government Reform,” 44 Marriage and Divorce,” 44 Economic Equality of Married Women.”

The Woman’s Bible. —The New Age says:—“Mr Mark Guy Pearse lias been improving upon 4 The Woman’s Bible ’ in his account of the interview between Eve and Satan. 4 The devil,’ he says, 4 did not give the apple to the man, but to the woman, because he knew that the man would have eaten it all himself, but that the woman would go halves.”