THE WEATHER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1644, 30 November 1916, Page 2

THE WEATHER.

Hie Kev. D. C. Bates wires as folloivs at noon to-day *— ihe indications are for variable southerly breezes prevailing; there is a prospect of fair to cloudy weather; the night will probably be very cold, the barometer Ims little movement. The seas are moderate, and tides have a high swell.

The entries received for tin's year's show total 832, as against 815 last year, and 741 in 1014.

The recently-celebrated jubilee of Horn (lascjiiet, the English Cardinal, has revived the story reported by Reuter from Home. When Cardinal Hartmann, of Cologne, the doughtiest of Teuton antagonists, met Cardinal Gasquet some months ago, he said, in the course of conversation; “I will not distress your Eminence by talking about war,” and the Englishman countered him with the rejoinder: ‘"And 1 will not mock your Eminence by talking about peace.”

The Rev. Samuel Marsden has been credited with being the first missionary in New Zealand. The Hon. Dr. AlcNah, in a lecture at Auckland, said he was not the first clergyman to land on these shores, though probably few students of history could name an earlier one. Tin* honour, according to Dr McXal), tails to the lot of a French Catholic priest, who accompanied the Preach explorer D’Ervilio to Doubtless Day in December, It; year.- before .Maisdeti. The -first Anglican clergyman to land was the b’ev. .lames Pain, in 17f13. Tuesday next. December sth, will mark the appearance of a Him of great interest and power being submitted at tin* Town Hal! pictures, when David Wark Griflilhs great panorama of die American Civil Aar. “The Dirlh of a Nation,” will he shown. This is the biggest mid most comprehensive picture ever a I templed, dwarfing in spectacular efiects and number of people emplovcd all prevoiis productions by lids noted producer. The magnitude of this great Mini may lie gathered from the fact that it took 'he boiler port of a \car to complin.-. mol cameras were planter; for its scenes from the Atlantic, to the Pacific; thousands i;i players appear in it. and u cost nearly half a million dollars. David \V. Griffiths wdl be remembered by our readers as the producer of some of the tines) photo-play productions that; have ever been produced, and in* is looked upon m the phofu-drnma world ns a king of bis own calling, fie takes and re-lakes scenes as t bough films grew on trees, and in "The Birth of a Nation" be exposed something aver 100,000 feet of libit, of which he finally selected only about 0,000 feel for release.