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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Annual Convention. —The twentysecond annual Convention will be opened on the afternoon of Wednesday, February Kith, in Christchurch. * <> New Zealvno Officers. One further nomination has been sent for Corresponding Secretary, viz., Mrs Cowell, I letter known to White Ribboners as Miss Twcmlow. The Australasian W.C.T.U. Conventions. —The White Ribbon Outlook reports that the several State Conventions have been successfully held. (Queensland celebrated its coming of age. Miss George was eleeted ( orresponding

Secretary for West Australia. In South Australia, Lady Holder declining to longer hold the office of President, Mrs L. W. Nicholls, for nine years Australasian President, was elected to till the position. M ake \ Peace. —In the report given, at the World’s Convention, of Temperance Work in Mexico, it was reported that when President Diaz was told that there was no place in the school curriculum for scientific temperance instruction, he promptly replied, “ Make a place. When in “ enlightened New Zealand shall we have an equally emphatic pronouncement from our political chief V The Gemma:. Emperor ani> Temperance. Tht* Baroness von Hausen spoke of the interest taken by the Emperor in the Temperance movement. He has ordered every soldier to be supplied with a little manual entitled “Alkohol und Wehrkraft (Alcohol and Bearing Arms), and as in Germany military service is required of every male citizen, this means that Temperance sentiment will be widely disseminated. N.Z. Women Writers. The Authors’ Board, formed hy the London Lyceum (Ladies) Club, issued in November la*t its report on tin* first batch of manuscript* submitted lor consideration by women writers in all part* of the Colonial Empire. The report states that, for excellence, New Zealand unquestionably stands lirst. .‘l(Ht manuscripts in all were sent in for approval, and of these eleven have been selected a* excellent. Among this eleven are four New Zealanders. They are : Jessie Mackay, of Christchurch, Alice Eergu son, Martha X. Myers, and Hilda Carr Rollett, all of Auckland. Ten New Zealanders are included in the twentyone writers whose work i* commended.