NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1704, 26 April 1917, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Weekly Despatch says that the Prince of Wales having reached man's estate, the question ol his marriage is on everybody s lips. It is no secret that be long ago expressed his intention of refusing to lake a foreign bride. People talked airily of a Russian marriage, but (lm princesses of the Ilou.-m of Romanoff are now mil ol the running. It is staled that when the Prince, who is now approaching his 23rd birthday, returns from the war (hen 1 is reason Vo believe that Ins handkerchief will be thrown in the direction of a certain English girl. Such a decision, it is said, would be exceedingly popular.

“Do you know wlmt Gi'cul Britain Ims done for ns?" slated the Australian Prime Minister |o u deputation lust week. “She bus bought oar .19.15-1.(1 wheal crop for £33,000.000, which Is no less limn £lB,(100,090 more limn Australia ever got for a when I crop before. Then we have sold the 1910-17 crop (or 3,509,000 tons of it) for about

£32,000,000." Mr Hughe,-, added

“Wc urc selling some of that crop ai a higher rate to the East ami to South Africa, but they arc only small parcels. But not a bushel of it has gone away yet. Then wc have sold in the wool pool a limit £24,000,000 worth of wool at a higher price than ever before received. In addition to this, Great Britain has taken all our base metals, Altogether this means that Great Britain has advanced to us about £150,000,000, which is more than enough lo pay our total war debt up to date. Great Brilitin is now our sole customer, practically, and in addition, she is the only agency to which wc can look for funds.” Addressing the twenty-seventh Grand Council of the Australian Holy Catholic Guild at Sydney, Archbishop Kelly said; “The duty of all sections of the community in the great crisis is to stand behind the men at the front—(applause)—and make them certain that they are not forgotten. These are the men the country wants. Let us all be glad that Australia rose to such a height in the fulfilment of her duty in defence of the Empire. (Cheers), There should he harmony and goodwill amongst men. Our Catholic guilds should drop the word ‘sectarianism.’ Sectarianism is like , a wasp. It sucks the sweet 1 and honey of life.”