NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1965, 15 April 1919, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Mayoress of Rochester has live brothers, each of Avhom has been Mayor of an English town. One of the greatest problems that is brought near by the end of hostilities is that of salving over 15,000,000 tons of shipping that lie on the ocean’s Jloor. Prince Edward Island is proud of her record of not having a single murder or manslaughter case in the whole of the province within the past live years. Of all the cities in the Turkish i . 1 Empire, Mosid is the one Uuu has ; been least touched by western civi- | Hsalion. It is built on ground that once was a suburb of Nineveh. Apart from its being an art centre, Venice lias a glorious history commercially as the leading stale of (he Avorld, when she oAvned 3,000 ships, Avhieh were manned by 30,000 men. The Chicago Daily Nows correspondent at Berlin states that he has road letters from me ex-Kamer to Doctor Scheidnuuin, of Berlin Universitv, in Avhieh the Kaiser says that the Freemasons started the war. America intended Avithdrawing her forces from the West .Front In -lamiaiy, 1010, because of the ■ wvihie losses. If the armistice laid not been signed the German armies would have been victorious, hue Social Democrats were respon.-iblc j;.i the demoralisation of the Ger- . man Army. For some I hue past considerable anxiety lias been felt regarding the schooner Awanui, which left Auckland for the Cook islands on 13(h December. As no news of the vessel had been received, the New Zealand Government arranged for the schooner Dawn to make a search, and the Acting-Prime Minister (Sir •James Allen) has just received cabled advice that the Awanui avms wrecked ;l j Alofi, Niue Island, during a westerly gale on 11 th -January. Her civw am safe, and the cargo from New Zealand has been safely landed, and also i-; thirty I<a; ■cT copra, have been - -aka I, Captain James V, d-oa, die P. Henderson and Compa.a,, earner Bhamo, which left Glasgow on die Islh March for Auckland, was formerly, as a hoy, resident at Baldutim with his parents, Mr and Mrs William Wilson, avlio now reside at Burke’s on the Dunedin-Port Chalmers line. Ho was on (he Wyndhaiu Farmer for a time, hut went to sea as a ship’s boy in the ship Kirk lock, for England, over twenty years ago. For several years hoav he has possessed a master's eerlilicate, and has not boon home since he left these shores as a hoy. The Bhamo should arrive at Auckland about 24(h April with 900 soldiers and a full general cargo. Among those on board is u brother of the captain, Lieutenant H. Wilson, who has seen service on Gallipoli, and in Egypt, and France, being decorated Avith the Military Cross and other honours.