LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 June 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

The National Bank of New Zealand Limited has received a cable message from the London Board advising that the annual meeting of the (bank will be held in London on July 4th when it is proposed to declare a dividend of 6 per cent for the half year and a ibonus to shareholders of 1 per cent on paid up capital (£760,000) equalling 13 par cent for the year ended MaVch 31. iFifteen thousands pounds sterling had been odided to the reserve fund which will thon stand at £700,000, and £42,100 had been carried forward. The directors further allocated £4000 to tile officers' pensions and gratuity funds and a bonus of 10 per cent to the staff.

Some discussion took place in Parliament in connection with the allegations made about tho food on Transport 49 andi the conduct of the officer in command of the men, 'Major Brere. toil. In supporting a number of members in demanding a civil inquiry Air S6atha.nl declared ihtat he was a stickler for discipline, but the laying of the letter (in whicJi the complaints were made) on the table practically condemned the writer to military punishment. His idea of military justice Was a very poor one indeed). "I have a great admiration for the ibrave soldiers," added Mr Statliam, "but wh«n 71 comes to a question of justice the (military mind is not specially fittedi for administering it."

A raither unusual claim dor expenses was made by a complainant in the Juvenile Court, Dunedin, on Wednesday (says the Otago Daily Times). When asked if he claimed expenses he said he wished to be paid for the loss of two music lessons as the result of the injuries received to his head through a shot from an air-gun fired by another boy. The Magistrate (Mr H. Y. Widdowson, 5.M.,) allowed him expenses to the extent of 10s 6d.

it is stated that a- party at. Stafford have pumped the water out of one of the,old shafts that was sunk years ago on the excellent ldad of gold~Tliat mn through that locality, and have •finuk n good payable wash. If this is correct (says the Grey River Argus) it is good news for the district, and! the find will in all probability again put in motion a large area of country, about three miles, between Stafford and Cfillagban's.

Word was received this morning <f,rom the Minister of Defence by Mr Harwood that his son, Private T. A. Hiurwood, was wounded on June 14th. This ia the second time Private Harwood has been wounded. The first occasion was albout last Christmas time.

In spite of the ibad weather on .Friday there was quite a good) attendance at the Women's Red Cross Guild. !jhose present were Mrs Pink, Mrs Vincent, .Mrs Phillips, Mrs Kingdon, Miss Jlitciiings, Mrs Ricliter, Mrs Goldbiuith, Mrs Kcedwell, Mrs Mclntyre, Mrs 1. Hook, Mrs Cork, Mrs J. Prouse, Bliss Sedcole, Mrs Kirkcaldie, Miss Parsons, Miss Wet6on, 'Miss Glassford. Mrs Plaster, Miss Parsons, aind Miss Weston were in charge of the Redi Cross shop on Saturday and were very successful indeed as they made a total of £7 10s 3d. The following seinit donations of produce, etc.—Mrs Pink, Miss P. Prouse, Mrs Clark, Mrs King, don, Mm H. Murray, Mrs "B&nnett, Mrs Pengelly, Mrs Goringe, Mrs Goldsmith ,Miss Parsons, Miss Weston, Mr lvess, Mr J. C. Milnes, Mra Eccleton, Mrs Richter, Mrs Brown, Mrs Keedwell, Mlrs J. Prouse, Miss Sedicolo, Mrs Kirkcaldie, Mr Butt, Mrs J. R. Parsons, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Plaster, Miss Adkin. Mrs Walkley, Miss Smith. There hlas been a good deal of poultry promised for next Saturday.

Some time ago, says the Auckland Star, the Government became proprietors of a timiber mill in the Waitakere Ranges belonging to 3>r Rayner, and also purchased the property of the Mountain Riinu Company at Mtonaku. It wa6 understood at the time thlat the object was to supply timiber for the Railway andi Public Works Department, but latterly there has been a new development, as a retail depot has been opened at Onehunga for the purpose of disposing of surpiue timiber. The explanation is that the mill owned •by the Government, being at a considerable distance from the unairkete it was necessary in order to dispose of the surplus timber to advantage to open a depot near a centre of tradle. so as to be in a position to deliver from the mills to prospective buyers.

lifajt curao is there, alter all, oil the Anglo-Saxon which bids liim always but/t in? i say curse, because 1 would nather believe it is a curse than a dussiro for gold and oil. there is, alat, a good deal of the Teuton in'the AngloSaxoa—the Teuton, who is a being rather neglected in nature's distribution, and rather guaoeless and heavy, yet is so supremely satisfied with what he is that he w,ants the whole world to be what he is. Also he has invented a horrible system which makes of hie country a horrible amt-liiil, and is so well satisfied with and/ so admires that system that he wants to iorce it on all, to make the whole earth an ant-hill, find of all of us a swarm of horrible ante. Accidentally, for the noliee, the Anglo-Saxon, or part of him, is fighting bhajt Teuton •Sort by the side of glorious France (who nevef for an instant failed to see the peri> and its horror). . But, in spite of that, I em s«rrv to say the Anglo-Saxon is «■ litt!" like the Teuton. The difference is mainly in the fact that what he wants to force down other people's throat is not so horrible as the Teuton nostrum. But lie does hove a tendency to force. He 'Butte in land calls it fate or manifest destiny.—James Hopper in Collier's Weekly.

The German account ot the Karlsruhe air raid states "tJiait Frefach airmen dlropped 29 botmbs. The material diamage was not .great. Thirty men, five women and seven- children were killed and 48 men, 20 women, and 79 children injured, many severely. The Australian Government has purchased fifteen steamers ot 8000 tons each. The vessels will be a nucleus of a Government shipping line to carry Australian pioduco to Loudon. it is computed that tiio cheese factories in tne ifiketahuna district (says tho Express) have last (season made a contribution of £5787, the difference between the price paid by the Government for cheese requisitioned, and the j average London market price.