LATE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1917, Page 4

LATE NEWS.

[PEE PBESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYBIGHT.] A Plea For Help, London, Jan 28 Mr Hayes Fisher speaking, said the loan mast be raised by the combined efforts of millions of citizens. The war will not be finished in 1917 unless we were prepared for still greater privations. The cost of the war to Germany was about the same as to England. We would emerge impoverished naturally, but Germany would be bankrupt. British money would be forthcoming. If we only thonght of tbe thousands of splendid lives already given and of the five thousand in the country to-day who had lost an arm or a leg, the 2,100 men in France who had lost their eyesight, and of the millions ready to give their all in freedom’s cause.

Men Wanted. Sydney, Jan 29 Brigadier General Antill, writing from the front emphasising the necessity for more men, says the next six months will be the most oritioal time in the war which is going to be won or lost daring that period. There is no doubt about that. The leakage and casualties in France have been very great. Federal Politics. Sydney, Jau 29 The Herald, in a remarkable leader on the Federal political situation, expresses a weariness of finesse and intrigue preventing the formation of a national party. It declares it is an organised attempt to prevent Mr Hughes from going to London as the Commonwealth’s representative and it has become apparent that influential Liberals are lending themselves to this unworthy soheming. It is even suggested that Mr Tudor’s foroes offered to give loyal support to the Liberals if they wonld only consent to take over the Government and tarn Mr Hughes out. From SamoaAuckland, Jan 29 Albert J. Arlow, formerly commission agent of Auckland and lately in business at Samoa, arrived hy the island steamer last night under sentence by tbe military authorities on charges, not divulged. He was committed to Auck ! md gaol. A German n. < brought from the island under escort, It is understood he is charged with being in possession of firearms.

At Eore Gore, J,id 2.1 At a largely attended meeting at Rivirsdale to consider organisat : on in respeot to the agricultural industry on Sunday nigh f , representatives of praotically every settlement of Waimea Plains attended. It was resolved that this meeting of the people of Waimea Plains urges Government tnat the calling up of farmers and those engaged in ibe attendant industries be stayed until the oi’garnation Cabinet had p ooiised to insti* tute was working sufficiently well to

maintain farms at their present p.oduction conditions. Yesterday, with a maximum temperature of 92 degrees, wae a record hot day for Gore fir up.vardsot seven years. Another Sedition Charge Christchurch, Jan 29 • Peter Scott Ramsay,, a young mac, President of the Anti-Con3criptioa League, who was drawn in the first ballot, was arrested yesterday and obarged in court to-day with seditious utteranoe*". He pleaded not guilty, and asked for a remand till Thursday on bail, and to be tried by a jury. The Court granted the remand till Friday, but refused bail, and said there waß no jurisdiction as to trial by jury.

■ —— .. A Tonga News Auckland, Jan 29 News from Tonga reports the disappearance from the stores of a German firm of a case of rifles, which ia understood to have caused further restrictions ou the liberty of German residents.