NEWS AND NOTES,

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1389, 22 April 1915, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES,

Mr Roosevelt, writing to a Washington resident, characterises America’s failure to take a stand on behalf of Belgium as a peculiarly ignoble abandonment of national duty.

The following letter has been received by a Gisborne paper ; “Sir, —The country lady who sat in her motor car in Jront of a club at 9 p.m., and for five full minutes blew a continuous blast on her electric horn, might kindly note that this laudable practice to recover husbands ceases alter 6 p.m. in this town.’’

Trouble has occurred on a threshing mill in the Waimate district (says the Tctmika Leader), The union organiser, in the course of his rounds, called at the mill and enrolled all hands excepting two men. who absolutely refused to take tickets. The rest of the raeu gave the two a week in which to consider the position, at the end of which time, the men being still disinclined to join the union, the rest promptly retused to work with them any longer. Rather than replace the two non-unionists the owner decided to pull the mill in.

Private Sir Herbert H. Raphael, M.P., the banker and one of the wealthiest men in the House of Commons, who has a fine house in Cavendish Square, stepped out briskly with D. Company of the Sportsmen’s Battalion when they made their route march through London (says a Home paper). He is rapidly getting fit, the marching being an admirable antidote to the debilitating influence of the House, and be is remarkably popular among his comrades, who vote him a good fellow.

H.M.S. Kent, in smashing the Dresden, avenged an old friend and paid off a debt to the sunken Monmouth. Those ships were on the China station together, and during a typhoon in July, 1908, the Monmouth did the Kent a good turn when the latter bad dangerously dragged her buoy in Hongkong harbour. The following year the Kent went ashore in the Gulf of Pi-chi-li, and again it was the Monmouth that answered her wireless and stood by for the 34 hours the storm lasted.