NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1895, 26 October 1918, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES

In the North of England a lady, getting on towards the allotted span, has mended or paid for being mended in her own house over 12,000 pairs of socks belonging to wounded soldiers in adjacent hospitals. She employs a woman at a guinea a week to help her. And mending often means refooting, darning holes large and small, and washing and ironing. The socks come to her house by the sackful. On leaving Sydney for Melbourne on October lOtli, General Pan wrote “to the people of New South Males’ 1 as follows: —“At the time of quitting New South Males, I am glad to lie able to express to its inhabitants the deep gratitude of the French Mission for the cordial and spontaneous welcome which has been given us. AVe have constantly felt that we were surrounded by an atmosphere of sympathy, the sincerity of which was evident, and which went lo our very hearts. M e knew also that through our persons the greetings of New South Males went to France. And in the name of France I thank you.” Regarding the disposal of the German colonies in ihe Pacific, the annual report of the M ellington Central Chamber of Commerce slates: —The council has been insistent on the importance to this Dominion that the German colonies in the Paeilie shall not revert after the Avar to Germany. The attitude of the Prime Minister (the Right Hon. AV. F. Massey) has been most sympathetic and encouraging. His determination to do his utmost to impress on the Imperial authorities the Avish of-the people of Noav Zealand regarding this question givc> us hope that Avlien the terms of peace are under consideration the menace of a German base tor naval operations in Hie Paeilie avil! not be lost sight of. The Thames Btar says: —in reply lo our correspondent asking for the greatest number of hotels at any one time in Thames, we have, received three ans Avers. One can count 70 from Tapu to tin: Rob Roy, Another gives the number as 103 from Tapu to Boh Boy. The other makes it 82 from Tararu to the Boh Boy. This last stales (here Avere 20 from Tararu to the Moanalaiari Creek. Wise's New Zealand .Directory 1872-3 publishes a list of 78 hotels from Tararu lo the Boh Boy at ParaAvai, hut shows no hotels up Moanalaiari, Waiotahi, Karaka, or flape Creek, so that it is probable that the greatest number at any lime would he near Hie .103 as slated by one correspondent. Speaking upon lire question of peace, the Anglican Bishop of Auckland, Dr. Avcrill, remarked al a meeting of the Synod:—“A peace which only means Hie cessation of Avarfare until the present aggressors have made still greater preparation for securing victory and the domination of the Avorld would he criminal, and would hand on the legacy of Avar lo Hie generations Co come, and darken the lives of millions, avlio would live in anticipation of a repetition of the horrors which thegeneration lias experienced. . . . To attempt a palched-up peace would he disloyally to the thousands of men avlio have died in the hope and belief that their saeriliee Avould he a nail in the coffin of militarism. AVe have a duty to the dead and to the -relatives of the dead, and nothing but the accomplishment of the aims avlHi Avhieh the Allies entered the war can ever really enable us to say that the men did not die in vain.” Under dale Kilh inM., The Post's Sydney correspondent tints refers lo Hie “peace'' celebrations “on the other side,” Avhen the Botlerdam fabricator announced that (he Kaiser had abdicated and Germany had capitulated:—But it remained for (he country lo “go the limit.” Country centres do not gel their .news with Hie precision and elearne , -s of the city, and Hie count ry almost wholly decided that the Avar was over and that hoav avus a glorious opportunity for celebration. Bands paraded; processions were formed, the eloquence of local humbles Avas released iu Hoods equalled only by Hie good liquor which Howed. By Monday morning, most of the country towns were sober again, hut some refused to believe that the Avar Avas not over, and kept it up on Monday. Ncavcusllc shipping arrangements, for instance, were upset been use Ihe miners were “mafficking'’ on Monday and would not hew coal. The Maitland mining districts went mad. Everyone in Goulburn refused to Avork, and business avus at a standstill. It is reported that Goulburn is working to-day, but Avith a Avet cloth around its head. M agga and Bathurst spent a lively .Monday, mostly given over to argument, and Hie people of IpsAvieh, in Queensland, insisted on having a day of joy, no one being permitted to work.