Page 6 Advertisements Column 1

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2311, 19 November 1914, Page 6

The Opposition candidate for Avon (Mr. G. W. Rueeell) appears, not to have had a: very happy meeting on-Mon-day .evening. '-'His position is not comfortable," ' says the Christchurch "Press," "for he is anxious to get Mr. Sullivan's vQtes, and at tho same time to appear,to sympathise with the Social Democratic aspirations, one of which is to put Mr. Sullivan into Parliament. His speech, like that of the other .'Liberals/ was for the most part on the familiar lines of inaccurate abuse of the Government. There is really not a single argument in his speech.which we have not disposed of oyer and over again. Wo may note, however, that ho did one thing that the member forChristchurch North shrank from doing; lie did refer to tho defence system. His reason for doing so was characteristic. Mr. Sullivan, as a- Social Democrat, stands'for the repeal of the Act, and what more natural —Mr; Russell being the Mr. Russell that the voters know so well—than that he should pose as an outraged patriot? For our part we do not think anybody will see any difference whatever between..Mr..Sullivan's desire to kill the Act openly and Mr.' Russell's avowed willingness to chloroform, it." ■' . -. The granting of a six-day week to hotel workers throughout New Zealand is to bo mado an issue at the coming eloetions by the Hotel Workers' Union. The local'eecretary (Mr. E. J. Carey) states that steps are being taken to ask all candidates whether they will pledge themselves, if elected, to- vote for a Bill conceding to the whole of the hotel workers in New Zealand a six-day week. During the Maori' War (1846) (says a correspondent of the ."Rangitikei Advocate"), the Boy Bugler "Allen" was i tomahawked while sounding the alarm to the soldiers in camp, who were all asleep, and when giving the alarm his arm holding the .bugle was cut off. The young hero immediately seized the bugle with the other hand and blew a second warning just in time before : his left hand was cut off. A sustained-search was made some years ago by two friends of mine for the grave of this Boy Bugler, their object being to erect a monument .to-'tho.memory of that bravo boy, whose deathless spirit,' I'm . proud to believe, animates our boys to-day who have just left home and mother to fight for thai "bit of bunting and all that it represents."

The'Massey Government had settled the Wailii striko in a way that reflected great credit upon it, and its suppression of the waterside workers' striko would stand!to its everlasting credit.— Mr. A. H»rri6, M.P., at Devonport.