NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1497, 15 January 1916, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Mr Ashmead Bartlett, the wellknown war correspondent, will arrive in Sydney from San Francisco on February Bth, on a lecture tour of Australia and New Zealand. The extra express trains which have been running on the Main Trunk route between Wellington and Auckland have been discontinued from this week, This means that there will only be one express daily from either way. A sergeant in Lord Liverpool’s Own writing from Heliopolis Camp on November 20 to a friend in Christchurch says: “We were in camp only one day when we were informed that our battalion, with 5000 Australians, had been chosen to move off at once. Our first battalion, which had just been vaccinated, missed it. It is an honour to be sent out so soon. The idea of getting into action is grand ; I feel first rate over it, and the boys are just delighted.” The Daily Mail, in a leader, advocates compulsory war loan investments, also limitations of imports by licenses and permits and the compulsory limitation of the rate of living. The Mail believes that drastic compulsion of money for rich and poor alike would meet with less opposition than the Compulsory Service Bill. It announces that the Treasury Committee is organising a campaign for securing surplus wages and profits under compulsion if voluntaryism fails.