Local and General

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 January 1913, Page 2

Local and General

Grandmothers of Chicago aro in Jiavo a. clubhouse of their own, as they consider they aro the most neglected portion ol ; the population' and are not welcomo at young people's clubs. The .Manchester Guardian says the New Zealand Premier is commuuicating with Mr Lewis Harcourt (Colonial .Secretary) and the Uritis!r Admiralty on the subject .of an important change in New Zealand's naval policy--shortly to be announced—enabling a scheme of co-op-erative defence in the Pacific to be brought into operation sooner than was.exp'jct-jd. A rich American visitor to Paris whose name the police give as Mrs Fanny Borgeifo, committed suicido by throwing herself from a thirr!Uoor window in tJio Hotel Saiuto Anne. .She fell on the roof of i p.issing motor-car, rolled off into the ■street, and was rim over by a taxicab. Mrs Hergiere, who wais 4i> years old, <licd later at the Charite .Hospital., to which she had been taken.

Some striking chnnce.s have been ! »ade in the revised edition of the Hible by the American Baptist's Society. The names •■'Adam" and I "ftve' , are excluded, and the words substituted "man" and "woman. ;J The di.aiiges. and they are rather Humorous, are based on a claim that the (substituted words are more direct translations than the Tension authorised by King James. Tn the "(>w Bible the story op Jonah and Ihe whale is ch.angvd. S o that the «-<>rd.s "great fish" take the place of "whale," "carved" replaces "graven," and the word "immerse" (in parenthesis) follows the word ''bap'i*'l'' in every instance. "The Cho'.-oJati' Soldier" in Froiuh no longer happens in the Jisilluins. The mating,.r o f the Apollo Theatre writes to Miy that the iintiineliness fit' jokes about comic .Serb and Bulbar warriors has struck him, anl with the consent of the .authors- h? doo,s not explain whether he in-

eludes .Mr H.-niard &liaw among tli • latter-lie h:u< removed Uie'place of Hie musical roinedy from the Hal K-ans. v.-here duly 100 real drninn is

now hfiiijr played, to :v\ imagimiry '•oiiiilry Unit no ono will ho ;iblo to discover on (lie map. Paris wili now ho ;,hh lo laii./h' ov.-r tho piece \vilh.nii having iho uncomfortable IVoliil.i: thai if' Illicit ]„' UlDllcrlit t,, ! "' hunching ; ,|, |, ro , Ui |; olls v . ]loSp roo-ut achievement .are no 1..,,, „_],;,,„ matter. liio lit aiiiiciit 01 tiio jMU'iyu :u •i;;cuo., wm> v.e.e proivnimi in l!i. '■"iiyaiian oiiieer., uoni going Lu liiv has cc-anoned ct/iics.doraL'ii; noarluumings. Once u hen a uuruiiii attache ueumidcd when Lli.jy >»'ere. going ui the iienL Lo really M-'i> and ieam things, a li-htning-•••harged cloud darkened for a nioin '■•nt i.li(. .uji'iiialily oi tin., general .i and In., : ■You Mirely don t expect us to show .vou how w<.; make war., do you-'" 'The attacliiit. '"•'""d ».. t .i,i to have had a wor.se time. tli.au the eoiTespoiident-i " I hey were," one eornvqioiide'it >ays, '\sii!i.jeeL to treatment that. ;:fn\vver well-uieiit ioiie.l. has anion ii''d to certain h iliatioji. l.'p t<, ihe time that ih,» armv I'viche:! ChaiMdalja lilies, that 'lie Sorv.au army had overrun Xortlien. Macedonia, and lli.il; (he Greek armv liad occpiod Salonika, the foreign milk'ir.v atiacluv - uioliilised, kliakied ;ind ]>!need on a war looting, and'oslentation.dv moved ahonl i'roin placo to place— had not even hoeii within tiio sounds of the o;uns. M

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