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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 259, 29 July 1919, Page 6

Nearly the whole of New York's negro population turned out recently to pay a last tribute to Lieutenant Jim Europe, who had been murdered. He was leader of the baud of the city's black regiment, known as "Hell fighters/' llll d ' le mn JJ° jazz music famous the world over. Ho was acknowledged as a leader, benefactor, and true friend of he negro race. It is stated in a. London paper that, "aespito a diminishing income ( and an increasing expenditure, St. Mary s Hospital. Paddington, has decided to increase the salaries of its nursing staff, and to reduce their hours to an average of littysix hours a week. The new scale tor ward sisters begins at £50, ai)d liicreases to jtSO a year; administrative sisters will uot .675, -CSS, and XM. Probationers who receive a special course of niidwiferv to qualify tlicm f° r t' lo ccrtincntc of the Central Midwiyes' Board, will, in (heir four years, receive .t'93. Ihe London Homeopathic Hospital has also 111croascd salaries oil the tame lines. Apparently there are in England about 31':!) demobilised nursing waters, and it will take some time for these to be absorbed. either by hospitals or in private nursing. , Every social function can be rendered attractive by a plentiful display of flowers. Our luncheon and dinner-table decorations are exquisitely beautiful. Miss Murray, Vice-Regal Florist, Willis Street, Wellington.—Advt. Woods' Great Poppemint Cure, For Coughs and Colds, novor fails.-Advt.