TO-DAY'S PAPER

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2435, 14 April 1915, Page 5

TO-DAY'S PAPER

SOME LEADING FEATURES. LEADERS— Pn^o The Financial Situation 4 Notes of the Day 4 Progress of the War 4 GENERAL— War News 5 A Shopping Week 8 Hutt County Affairs !l Conciliation Council 9 Alliance Convention •• 8 Land Valuation Commission's Repart fi Election Petitions 7 Prepare for a. Rainy Day B N.Z. Soldiers' Dcaiths 6 Tragedy in Auckland' 6 LETTERS TO THE KIHTOU 8 ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES ... 7 LAW REPORTS 9 FARMING AND COMMERCIAL * LOCAL AND GENERAL t PERSONAL ITEMS r, ENTERTAINMENTS 3 BHIPPING'IND MAILS S WEATHER i and 5 .WOMAN'S WORLD 2 StORTS— The Turf 7 Athletic Sports 3

Mr. George Nash has announced that ho will again bo a candidate for the Hospital and Charitablo Aid Board to represent Wellington City. The Rev. Fathers O'Sullivan, Roach, and Kelly, of the Redemptorist Order, have arrived in Auckland from Wellington to conduct a mission. A memorial service to the late Bugler Duncan Gordon Mackay, a member of the third reinforcements of the Expeditionary Forco, who died at sea on March 14, was held nt.St. David's Presbyterian Churoh, Khyber Pass Road, Auckland, on Sunday morning. Deceased was leading bugler in the Auckland Highland Rifles, and was also a piper in St. Andrew's Pipe Band. Members of both those bodies attended the service, which, it is understood, is the first of Its kind in connection with men from Auckland who volunteered for the front. The sermon was preached by the Rev. J. M. Saunders, M.A., who pointed out that the deceased, having died on the way to the front, bad given Wb life for his country equally as much as if ho had fallen in battle. Captain E. A. Bclcher, formerly headmaster of Christ's College, Christ-church, who was appointed to the 9th (Service) Battalion, Difko of Cornwall's Light Infantry, in January, has been promoted to the rank of major. Tho battalion is at present at Falmouth, and forms part of tho 103 rd brigade.