NEW ZEALAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 3, 21 August 1914, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND.

THROUGHOUT THE DOMINON.

V£P«B PBEBI A6BOOU3HON 1 The Pahiatua and Akitio district between thorn have ■subscribed nearly £IOOO. j'SijShiatua ladies hope to raise,'£2oo Jor the Liverpool Fund. They have decided to open ..a fund for loqgl distress immediately resulting from the war.

The Hawera County Council decided, to contribute £250 to the Patriotic Fund. If the occasion demands it another like'amount will be given later on.

Farmers and workers at Geraldine are pulling together to carry out the extra -food growing! to be given to patriotic uses, the wheat being for England, and the roots to relieve local distress. About twenty workers at a meeting on Wednesday agreed to give labor on farms, or otherwise. A cable message has been received in Wellington that the companies' rate for war risks to and from the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and the' Atlantic have been reduced in London. Ordinary marine insurance rates have been increased up to as high as 50 per cent, consequent on the removal of buoys and the extinguishing of lights on the coasts. The directors of tile New Zealand Shipping Co., Ltd., have decided on behalf of that company"to contribute £IOOO as follows:—£500 to the Empire Defence Fund, £250 to the Poor of Great Britain, and Ireland Relief Fund, and £250,, to the general New Zealand fund for the relief of troopers, comprising £he contingent and their dependents. The West Coast Competitions Society at a meeting held to-night, decided to hold the festival, as fixed, from September. 21 to 28. Splendid entries have been, received. It was deided to jinnd over the net profits to the Patriotic Fund.

Although rumor has made free with the destination of the First Expedition which left New Zealand at tne end of last week, official reticence upon the subject is still maintained (says the. Dominion). The 'Prime Minister stated on Tuesday evening that • the date of the departure of the main expeditionary force had not yet been determined. It would depend largely, he upon the Imperial authorities.'!*

TRANSPORTS FOR OUR EXPEDI

TIONARY FORCE

L,j ,i, . Wellington, August.2o. The Premier stated yesterday that the transports -for the Expeditionary Foypfi,. would be ready. a£ : the end of the month, hut no particulars would be given as to when arrangements would be completed.

SDHOOi-BOYS' SUBSCRIPTION.

Abandonep football tour.

The, schools in Taranaki will be closed next week for the term .holidays. The senjor boys of the Stratford District High School had ara, football tour to Wellington, including matches with WangaInui and Palmerßton. They, however, abandoned tliis trip to enable them to subscribe more .freely to the War Fund, and to-day the sum'pf £8 13s was handed over as a subscription from these boys. The Stratford school,teaches the, .usual school subjects, and this action of the boys indicates that tlio forming of national character is . not forgotten.

WAR GIFT AUCTION i SALE.

A special reminder is given of the important Gift Auction Sale which will be held to-morrow, Saturday, August 22nd, commencing at 1.30 p.m., in Messrs Webster, Dobson ,and Co's Stratford sale yards. The sale is being conducted by Messrs Newton King, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd, and Messrs Webster, Dobson and Co. in junction, and the services of these •linns are given entirely free. Cattle, horses, pigs, poultry and live, stock and merchandise of every description has boon contributed towards the salo and there is yet time,, we might remind, any who would like to contribute and have .pot already done so, to forward their offerings to. the yards or to the offices of the various firms. It is a matter for the conscience of every individual living under the protection of the British liag and desiring to continue in the freedom which it affords to le,nd all the aid he honestly may at this most critical time in the Empire's affairs. There is no doubt to-morrow's salo will be an" important one, and .as it is to be conducted as a genuine auction sale with no re-selling of lots, buyers should turn up in large numbers.

MR MARTIN DONOHOE.

Mr Martin Donohoe, the "Daily Chronicle's" war correspondent, from whom a good deal is being heard, is only 45 years of age, but he has had a long and interesting career. He was born in Gal way (Ireland) on November 10, 18G9, and began his journalistic career in the "Courier Australian" at Sydney in 1892. Subsequently he took a, prominent part in exposing the notorious impostor De Eougemont. His first experience as a war correspondent .Was in >frho ißoor war when he represented the London "Daily Chronicle." Ho acted as an assistant galloper to Hector Macdonald in the figl{t at Kood-

ocsborg Drift and witnessed many -of the most important actions of the war. Taken prisoner by the Boers, Mr l)o----nohoo was released on the fall of Pretoria, in the Russo-Japanese war hewas attached to the first Japanese I Army and accompanied Kuioki through Korea and Manchuria, being, present at numerous battles. Alter the,war Mr Doiiohoe travelled extensively in various parts of the world, and in 1909 witnessed the taking of Constantinople by the Young Turks. He escaped-from Lisbon with the first definite.,account of the fighting in the Portuguese Hevolution of 1910. Subsequently lie followed the Italian-Turkish war in Tripoli and the Balkan war. TWO MAPS. "Nach dem Sturm." This is the title of a startling publication issued ! in Germany a few years ago. It is intended to be prophetic. Really, it shows the tremendous confidence of the military caste in Prussia. With the publication are two maps of the world. The first is entitled "Before the Storm." It depicts the world exactly .as it is at present, with the British and French polonies marked in red, Russia green, the Triple Alliance blue, and China and Japan yellow, and America purple. The second map represents the world as it will be (according to Germany) "After the. Storm." The first thing noticeable is that England and France and shorn of the whole of their colonies, and all that remains are two little red.spots, representing Great Britain and France. France loses, none, of her territory in Europe, but all her colonies are, colored blue,to show that,the Triple Alliance has annexed them. Curiously enough, this coincides with what Sir Edward Grey stated in the House of Commons. Australians coloured yellow, to show that the alleged "yellow peril" has crystallised into fact. Africa is nearly all blue, with the exception of Cape Colony and the Transvaal which will be an independent republic. Canada is coloured purple, to show that the United States has possession of the Dominion. Ireland is an. independent State. India goes to Russia, with all the debatable land between the Caspian Sea and the Indo-Chinese peninsula. With this readjustment, .Germany's ambitious dream of a great colonial empire is presumed to be consummated. •

The following table shows the rifle in use by each of the belligejapnt nations, the calibre and the . sighted range of the weapon*— i . u " '■»

Country. Arm. : . Calibre.. Yds. Austria \'Mannliehei\ . ■ .315' 2100 Belgium Mauser ' .301 2300 France Lobel .315 '. 2100

Britain Lee-Enfield , ,303 '2IOO Germany Mauser. ■•„ :■■■ .311 2100 Russia 3-line •• .299 3000 Servia Mannlicher 7m.m. 2187

The Egmont jClub have arranged » grand social in aid of the Patriotic Fund to be held in the Club rooms on Tuesday next, August 25th. Mr St. George (Examiner Trinity College, London) has kindly consented to contribute several musical items to the programme. The affairs should be a most- successful one.'