NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1401, 22 May 1915, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A correspondent at Waituua West gives an instance of dairying profits in that district: He had 65 cows grazing on 65 acres during the milking season, obtaining a return of ,£l7 per cow for milk alone, the result, he says, of heavy culling and good pastures. Those German fumes (says “Ariel” in the Dunedin Star) will roll right round the world and will suffocate a great deal ot German trade, Britain, geueious, and easy-going and forgetiul of injuries, may quickly tall back into her old ruts ; but, you mark my word, Canada won’t forget those fumes. The German commercial traveller will, after the war meet them iu the doorway of every office he enters. The nation that murdered their gallant boys will be outside the pale tor many a year to come. The Nelson Mail reports a gold rush at the Howard River, where there are now about 80 men engaged on different claims. The locality of the rush is in a tributary of the Howard, known as Louie’s Creek, about three miles up the river. Men have been working in the vicinity for about the last 15 months with varying success, and within the past month or two a gradual rush has set in. It is re-

ported that several of the men have obtained good gold, and a a representative of the Mail handled a three-ounce nugget which had been found there by a lucky gold-seeker. The details of the money voted by the British Government for war expenditure are given in the London Morning Post of March 2nd. The journal says : —“Before the war broke out Parliament voted ,£80,400,000 for the army and navy during the current financial year, which will not end till the end of this month (March). But since the outbreak Parliament first gave the Government a credit vote ot ,£100,000,000. Then it gave a second vote of £225,000,000. But it is reckoned that be fore the mouth is out the extra war expenditure will amount to £362,000,000 tor the eight months of fighting, a"d so a iuither £37.000,000 Was needed. Parliament voted that. Of the £362.000,000, the army and navy have approximately taken £275,000,000. Of the balance, £38,000,000 has been advanced to our colonies ; we have lent Belgium £10,000,000, and advanced ,£BOO,OOO to Servia, and further advances are under consideration. The remainder has gone to miscellaneous services. Now, up to March 31st, the war will have lasted 240 days, and the average expenditure, in excess of the vote in peace lime, is roughly £1,500,000 a day. The Government, however, asked for another vote of credit for ,£250,000,000 to go on with from April Ist till the first week in July. Parliament granted this sum, the largest single vote in the annals of our country. The War Office will be spending ,£1,500,000 a day, with a tendency to increase. The Navy will cost about ,£400,000 a day. Thus the aggregate expenditure will be ,£1,900,000 a day, and by way of margin the Government reckoned our war expenditure at £2,000,000 a day.