NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1638, 16 November 1916, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The story of the Angel of Mons has in some sort a sequel( writes a London correspondent). A Maori in a base hospital in France was to have his leg amputated. The chaplain was asked to toll (he patient so as to prevent the operation being too great a shock. “He was very weak,” said the chaplain (Canon R. E. Roberts, vicar of St. Mark’s, Peterborough), ‘‘but quite calm and brave, and I prayed with him and advised him to pray immediately before the operation. When 1 next saw him be said, “1 did pray, and as I was going off under (be chloroform a man all in white, and with a, beautiful face, stood on my noffi side, and he look hold of my hand, and said, “Don't worry, you're all right,’ and I feared nothing.”

About £ 1,00(1,000 a week is spout directly or indirectly in trying to check the ravages of insect pests that prey on the crops in the United States. The posts, eat, according to Government estimates, above £l(i(),(>()(»,000 worth of food annually, which brings their cost up to over £200,000,000 a year (dear loss. In every Slate effective war is waged on these posts. Every weapon known to science, is employed. But no sooner is a particular pest conquered in one part of the country than il appears in another. Emphasis has been placed in recent years on insect destroying birds, and these are being protected in all kinds of ways. Laws against the use of bird feathers on bats are pari of tiiis protection, and in many State forests areas have been established as bird refuges.

Wanted Known. —You ennnot buy your groceries to better advantage Ilian at Walker and Purrio’s. Prices are low and finalities high. Why bother making cakes when there is such a good assortment at Perreau’s ?*