LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1620, 5 October 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Presbyterian Ladies’ Social Guild spent a most enjoyable afternoon at the residence of Miss Duncan veslerday afternoon.

M. Pichon asserts dial over one hundred Herman submarines were “bagged" nr sunk during the past I went v months.

The ( L )ueen of l‘>lu‘ South ami the. Awalimi, (mill hemp laden, sailed for Wellington on Friday night. The Queen oh (he South is due haek agaiu with genera! lu-uuhtihv morn-

The local Patriotic. Concert Parly proceed to Levin this evenin';' for the purpose of repeating the concert there to-night in aid of tin 1 Levin Patriotic Pund. 'fhe parly will he conveyed to Levin in motor cars kindly placed at their disposal hy local residents. According to our Levin contemporary, then 1 is every prospect, of a hamper house to greet I he performers.

A deputation from the Waterside Workers’ Federation asked the Minister for .Marine to hold a public enquiry concerning the bursting of sulphuric acid drums on the Monowai at Auckland, whereby a number of men were injured. The Minister said there was no provision in the Act for a public marine enquiry, but he would enquire if a Royal Commission could he appointed. At the Levin Horough Council meeting <m Tuesday night, when the cost of living was under discussion, Councillor Herrick (says the Chronicle) agreed that there was much room for improvement in the quality of milk —especially to factories. He heard of one factory manager who informed a supplier that he (the manager) would rather die than drink tin* milk the supplier brought in.

Alucli crcdii is due io Ah- [>. (;. •Jackson Cur ;(rr.-i (he del,nils ol' I he public reception lu ChaplainCaplain i)ore on Tuesday night. The sluc’i* decorutions were llie \\;ork of ■Miss White, who wus also responsible lor Ibe musical programme The la. l.y members oC Sh. Mgry's ('liiireb supervised (he refreshments, and Air .Smith cancelled the picture entertainment in order to allow the reception to be held in the hall.

The Ke\. I\. -i. Campbell's story oC his .Spiritual Pilgrimage fias been published. It seems to confirm the \ie\\ taken by many Nonconformists that Mr Campbell was uever a .Nonconformist. At least the book teveals that he has always retained m all its essentials his love for Catholicism. He confesses that from Jus (Ixiurfi days his spiritual (lature has been closely associated with Anlgo-Catholie saerameutalism, and the imperative ueed for - sacramental life was (he real cause of his withdrawal from. 2yon-’ conformity.

yon a good stock of accessories for your Spring Cleaning? If not, we have them here —everything you may need, at moderate figures. Call at Walker and Furrie’s, Foxton.

Cha [>lii in-Capi ilia Father Dore was accorded n civic welcome* in the Square, Palmerston N., yesterday, before a large concourse of people.

A recent casually list includes Rifleman Hoy (diaries Tucker, who was killed in action on the 15th instant. Killeman Tucker was the eldest sou of Mr and Mrs Tucker of Rongotea, and a grandson of Mrs M. A. Burgess, of Rongotea.

Among the large audience to welcome 'Father Dore on Tuesday night, lew displayed keener delight than the pupils of SI. Mary’s school, who kept their gaze fixed on the face of their beloved priest. The womenfolk of St. Mary’s, too, young and old, showed by their countenances the warm place Father Dore has in their hearts.

Mrs Luke, (he Mayoress of Wellington, who spoke at the reception to Chaplain-Captain Father Dore, in tin* Town Hall on Tuesday night, made a very favourable impression upon the large audience. Her perfectly natural manner, happy disposition, and keen enthusiasm in tier self-imposed and arduous work oil behalf of our sick and wounded soldiers should prove an inspiration to every woman who heard her. If she ever comes to Foxlon again, Mrs Luke can be assured of a very hearty welcome. Wellington has good reason to feel proud of such an tin--cilisli woman in tin* present crisis. Sin* is a born leader and organiser.

A proseculion under the l War Regulations Act, Ihe iirsl of its kind, was heard before the Magistrate ;i! Lumsden lust week. A company, styling itself the Anlsraiasian Picture and Vaudeville Company, was murine the south part of the South Island with pictures and vaudeville. The company advertised that hull' (he proceeds would go p, the Wounded Soldiers’ Pund, alter expense's had been paid, hut to do this they required to have a permit under the Act, which has lately come into force. They had no permit, and consequently were before the 'Magistrate and lined £l, with Court cost s.

Mr P. -1. llennessy. speaking: at the reception to Chaplain-Captain Core on Tuesday night, said it did not require the war to reveal the true Christian character of Father Oore. Some time ago the body of a drowned man was taken from the Manawatu River. In the ordinary way the body would have been put in a pauper’s grave. Father Dore appealed to the church charitable society to give tin 1 unknown man a decent Christian burial. He pictured a home somewhere at the other end of the world from whence' the man came, and whatever the Society might do In' had planned and carried out the funeral arrangements. In the latter respect, Mr Hennessy said, the undertaker, Mr Richmond, made no charge for his services, ’fids act is characteristic of Father Dore.

As was done lasi year, the ladies in 1 lie Wellington Military District arc* arranging to send a Christmas "ill to every man from the district, at present serving in France. In order to d<> this something- over 7,000 pa reeds a re vo<|uivc*d. and Mrs Luke, Mayoress of Wellington, visited Foxlon on Tuesday tor the purpose* of explaining tin* position to the* l;idie*s oi' this dislriel and solicit ing their support. Mrs Luke spoke* at the* we'le-ome* accorded Chaplain-Captain Do re in the Coronation- Hall on Tuesday night. The Christmas gift pi-oposed is to lake the t'orni e»T it parcel containing the foliowing: Pair socks, handkeredtiel, plum pile lei ill” - , tin meat. pair laces, and a packed of cigarettes. The* cost of tin* parce*! is ss. The parcels will he* made up in Wellington, and for each live shillings sent there* a pa reed will he forwardeel.

German prisoners, buoyed up by the airy imagination of the* W e>11 1: Bureau are* sadly disillusioned, it sennas, when they line! that London still stands where it Hi el. “A short time* ago (says the London correspondenr of the Birmingham Daily Post.) a wounded German otlicer arrivenl at Charing Cross, manifestly c-heered by the prospect of seeing London largely in ruins. His first disillusion was at the terminus itself, whie-h he* had been told was a shape'le'ss mass; and, as he passed through Trafalgar Square and towards the West Fuel, ami his English guard, in answer to repeated questioning, pointed to building after building which the* unverameuis Wolff had dee-hired to he* destroyed his gloom grew deeper, and he* seeme*d a stricken man. If a man of his education and position e-ould have bee'll so grievously deceived,, wlmf e»t the* masses in Central Germany, wheise powers, of belief in ollicial intelligence are an important psychological factor in the war ? ’ ........ .