NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1295, 10 September 1914, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

“Taking into consideration the unsettled conditions caused by the war,” says the Labour Department’s report for August, “the general state of the labour market for the month can be considered as satisfactory. The building trades are normal, and there is reported to be a fair amount of contract work now in hand. The tailoring trade has been very busy, and a considerable amount of overtime has been worked to cope with the demands made for clothing for the Expeditionary Force; this also applies to the bootmaking factories. Retailers’ reports are of a varied nature. Storekeepers and grocers bad a busy time at the beginning of the month, owing to purchasers laying in stocks of flour and sugar, but at present the business is normal. Jewellers, fancy goods dealers and drapers report that their turnover is considerably below the usual standard.”

Germany cannot win, writes Tohunga in the Auckland Herald. She may tear little Belgium and devastate France. She may enter Paris. Her Uhlans may swim their horses in the Bay of Biscay. IS one the less she is doomed. She was doomed from the very moment that Belgium defied her, condemned from the instant that Britain refused to watch liberty trampled upon by the “ War 1,0 rd,” sentenced when the instinct of Russia felt the cause of the great challenge and called the Foies to fight for a self-governing Poland under the Tsars. Over a hundred battlefields, through a dozen campaigns, by the light of a score Louvains, and amid the darkness of uncounted defeats, the battle may go but the end is cettain. Our British idea will triumph not only because it is right, but also because it is fitting. When the right is weak it is struck down, its victory being that before it falls it bugles its message for all to hear and thus plants its idea in the fertile soil of sympathetic minds ; but when the right is strong in the hearts of men and nations, it can no more be kept from the world than can the sunshine and the rain.