NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2651, 27 October 1923, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Followin'? is n letter written by n Biri Siri hoy to n Baptist missionary in Eastern Bengal, Tndin :—“T hei’eby take the liberty to seize tlfe bull by the horns and grasp time by forelocks and lift hands of supplication to the feet of your honour will do the needful, and snatch self and family members from ihe clutch of hard-earned poverty and drive wolf from the door to right about. Your honour must be knowing Hint T have ere this full many a lime and oft brought forth supplication for a post as a hand under your honour’s kind control. But an ill wind blows no goods, and I am still left to starve in peace. Such a berg of miseries collapses me, and runs riot unless your goodish promptity. I am’ head over heels fearing to befall and going to-wall inveteratelv, also dogs. Trusting that your honour can soon give me a decent handsome post that adverstiy may no linger pitch into me.”

A new permanent church is lo be built at Paihin bv members of the Williams family to commemoraie the centenary of the arrival of two of New Zealand’s greatest missionaries, Henry and William Williams, known to the present generation as Archdeacon Henry Williams and Bishop William Williams, first Bishop of Waiapu. In announcing the gift of the church in his address to the Auckland Synod last week, Bishop Averill said that the Maori race owed more to the courageous and successful work of these two pioneer missionaries than it could ever acknowledge and it would be an honour to the Auckland Diocese and especially to the Bay of Islands, to have a permanent memorial to the work and worth of these great men on the spot which was,already sacred to their memory.

“It is easily seen that the Labour Party is not in power,” said Mr Bennett, in the Conciliation Council dispute between the shipowners -and seamen at Wellington yesterday. “From some legislation just passed it looks like it,” said Mr Smtli, employers’ representative.. “I wish to goodness they were,” said Mr Young. “The talk of this table would be different. —no free speech then,” remarked Mr Smith. Mr Young: “No, not for the employer. We would do the same as they did in Russia —send the employer to work, or else disfranchise him.” “Well, that, would be no hardship on some of ns,” said Captain P. A. Paterson.

Auckland buyers of fat cattle are still operating extensively on this coast and there was considerable competition at the last Feilding sale for fats from this quarter, a wellkown Auckland buyer bidding keenly for anything good. It is reported that he has since been operating nearer Wanganui. Taking previous years for a guide, the fact of an Auckland buyer operating so late in the season is a very good sign for beef growers and it looks as if the present high prices for fat cattle will be well maintained until' well after Christmas.