NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1647, 7 December 1916, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

It was reported at a meeting of the Central Committee of the English United Tanners’ Federation that the Government, required a further 1,000,000 pairs of Russian Cossack boots, 2,500,000 pairs of British Army hoots, 100,000 pairs of field service boots, and 1,000,000 pairs of boots for Italy, as well as a further large quantity of sole leather for repair purposes.

A London costermonger and his wife deposited at the cashier’s office at the General Post Office a fish basket containing the hoard of their son, who had been called up. With the contents they bought £SOO War Savings certificates in their son’s name. The “hoard’’ was as follows ; —Gold, £OO 10s; silver £ll3 10s; Treasury notes, £2lB 10s: bank notes £SO: bank notes £5; total, £378 10s.

In a village not a hundred miles from Hawera, on a recent Sunday, a memorial service was held for a. fallen soldier. The church was packed to the doors, and the pastor was naturally delighted to address such a large congregation. However, his pleasure was of short, duration, as on the following Sunday a number of empty seats met his gaze, and in tones of subdued anger he asked {he congregation if they considered it necessary to bold a memorial service every Sunday to secure a large congregation.

Acting as chairman for ten minutes once a year, for seventeen years, is the record of the clerk of the Stratford County Council (Mr C. Penn), says the Eltham Argus. When (he annual meeting takes place the chair is vacated until a fresh election 'takes place, (he County Clerk occupies the chair for a few minutes and calls for nominations. After a chairman has been elected the clerk vacates the chair. That explains Mr Penn’s experience.

‘‘What is a proper interest in work?” asks Sir Chiozza Money in the British Citizen. He supplies the answer as follows is., apd can only bo, that interest, which arises from the understanding of one’s work, the knowledge that it is good afld useful work, and last but uot least, some real voice in the work. The captain of industry of the future will he a gentleman leading gentlemen, with the authority and status of the captain of a

crickr! eleven —no more and no less.” “Lord, remember the Athenians" —such was the mnemonic that the Persian king of old ordered his slave to say to him every morning. “Lord, remember the English!” is what Germans are now exhorted to say day by day, hour by hour, “so as to keep continuously alive tho full wrath of our being and the inextinguishable will for victory over all our enemies. What is being demanded of us has never been asked of any nation in the world; but, on the other hand, the calamity that Hire,nlens us has never before hangover the head of a great, self-con-scious, ami powerful civilised people. ‘Down with England!' is the only watchword which we must preserve in our hearts until all Germany foes lie in the dust.”

A large number of convalescent British soldiers and vohmtai'y helpers have been busily engaged in cutting up and fashioning in various designs the vast quantity of wire taken from fallen Zeppelins. It is estimated that there are nearly -10 miles of material available for souvenirs. Some of the wire lias been made into dainty broodies, prettily mounted. Small finger rings are also being woven; but the greater portion of the wire was cut into short strips and sold in sixpenny envelopes, stamped by the Red Cross to guarantee the genuineness of their contents.

“We are,' 1 says the Countess of Warwick, “on the eve of events that will demand of evolution (hat. it mend its paces or become revolution without more ado. The international crisis and the national makeshifts must have proved to the dullest that the world is out of joint.” She says this in a. preface to a book by her, “A Woman and the War." I have felt more strongly than ever in the past two years that we are in danger of accepting as something outside the pale of criticism the judgment of those who lead and sometimes mislead us.

We must not," says Lady Warwick, “give our rulers a blank cheque; their best efforts tend more to rouse onr suspicions than to compel our confidence.”

Sheffield manufacturers, in view of the dangers of German competition in the war-aflcr-thc-war, are urging on the Government the imposition of a protective tariff with a view to conserving the city’s trade. They claim to have indisputable evidence that large stock's of cutlery are being aeciunulated in Germany ready for immediate clumping at (he first opportunity. In 1013 the value of the cutlery imported into England was £151,000, and of this £113,000 worth came from Germany. The position after the war will thercfoi’o he most, serious if Sheffield manufacturers, owing to depleted stocks, are unable to compete with Germany’s Hooding of onr own and other markets.

The r('fin'd for the sale of War Savings Certificates among provincial 1 owns was hold in July i»y Sheffield, whicii has a population approaching (iOOjOOO. with nearly £120,000 a week. In August the figures fell below £18.500, and Ihe latest return gives tin' total as £7,700. “There are many causes, ■’ said a prominent official. “Holidays have not been foregone as was expected. Cases are common where theatres are attended every night, and week-end country revels are indulged in with unfailing regularity. Greater suras are being spent on drink, but doubtless the winter season will end much of the revelrv.”

Reviewing the work of the Maori Mission at the Presbyterian General Assembly, Sister Edith spoke very emphatically against the doctrines of Mormonism. In her work at Nnhnka she had to light Mormonism that had been established 20 years ago by missionaries from Utah. The Mormons did not teach the natives (ha) God was a Divine spirit, bill He was depicted as something material, something such as electricity. In reply to their teachings, the Maoris argued that Solomon had many wives, and God was not angry with him; Lot only had one wife, and she was turned into a pillar of salt ; Job, too, only had one wife, and he had trouble enough. (Laughter). Thai was the way (hey thought about the marriage question. She was glad, however, to say fhat Mormonism was not gaining ground in Nuhaka, though their efforts were unrelaxed.