LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 June 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The estate of the late itr John Ourling, grain merchant and niiTW, «i South Australia is valued' at £1,65J4.G20 in South Australia and the Victorian portion at £421 A 369. A hurricane in the Ottawa province of Canada did damage to the amount of 500,000 dollars. Two more steamers have been secured in iGreat Britain to enter the New Zealand frozen meat trade. They will arrive in August and September, an<T take 300,000 carcases ol meat. On Saturday evening when the news arrived that some of £he Maori contingent had been wounded, a party of Maoris" in: native dress, which means mostly bare skin and paint, gave hakas and other dances in Oxford-street, and took up a collection for the assistance of those Maoris who may be wounded at flie front. The Australian military authorities warn the public regarding cables from alleged soldiers in Egypt asking for money. Numbers have been received asking 'for considerable sums and have aroused suspicion. It is pointed out that soldiers receive pay and all necessary comforts and have little need for additional cash. The Telegraph Department Notifies as lollows:—"Cable messages (E.F.M.). Owing to frequent changes in the hospital addresses of .wounded soldiers of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces it has been decided that from Saturday, 26 June, that all messages inquiring regarding wounded soldiers should be addressed care Basenz, Alexandria instead of code indicator of regiment or unit For example "il/549 Rankin, Baeenz, Alexandria." The iNew Zeaand advance base Alexandria (Basenz) will direct to correct address.