NEW ZEALAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 31, 23 September 1914, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

A special meeting of the Pahiatua Lodge of the Manchester Unity oi Oddfellows unanimously decided that a levy of Is per momber bo struck t. assist the Patriotic Fund. The prop >s al emanated from the District office, Wellington. The Premier intimated in the House of Representatives last night that the official send-off to the troops from the various centres would take place tomorrow (Thursday), and he proposed to ask Parliament to adjourn for that occasion. OFFICIAL. High Commissioner's report: — London, September 21 (6.15 p.m.)

Official.—Madras offers a fully-equip-ed hospital ship, with 300 hods for the use of the Indian Expeditionary Force. London, September 21 (8.10 p.m.)

Since the last report received from Sir John French several further counter attacks have been made and successfully repulsed.

JOTTINGS. The ill-fated AEI, and her sister ship AE2, were the first submarines built for tlio Royal Australian Navy. They are of the same typo as tlio E class of submarines in the Royal Navy being 176 feet in length, 22* feet in breadth, and a displacement when submerged of 800 tons. They are fitted with Diesel oil engines of 1600 horse-power, giving them a surface speed of 15 knots, and with electric motors for propulsion when suomerged at a speed of about 10 knots. The AEI and AE2 are each fitted witli threo torpedo tubes forward, and carry quick-firing guns on disappearing mountings, and are identical in every way with the submarine E 9, which torpedoed the German cruiser Hela off Heligoland last week. They were built by Messrs Vickers, Ltd., at Barrow, and were commissioned early in the present year, for their long voyago out to Australia.