New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 43, 7 October 1914, Page 6

New Zealand

■MH QBE MAN LLOYD MAIL ■ BOAT IN TROUBLE. I lf«E PINI AMOOIATPIOH 1 r Dhaedin, October 7, former resident of Dui'-'din, writS to a relative under date SeptumK 7th from Iloilo, Philippine Islands, Hr S: “The North German Lloyd nmilBat Prinzess Alice, from Europe via Hez to the Far Eat, switched off to for safety and cleared alteiHxds for Shanghai. Later she was Bn steaming in the direction of GerB. Xcw Guinea, and subsequently jB-ned up at Lamhoanga, Philippine Hands with ft hole in her. She then H*nt to. Copu, where she is resting or Handy beahh while being pitched up." B je writer does not mention how the Basel was damaged. I THE MOTHER-CALL. ■ When farewelling the ExpeditionBy" Force at"Weilington, on SeptomBr 25th, His GoTern * B gaid: “The time was not* so very ■ng ago when the sight of troopships I g Zealand harbour denoted Be arrival of the Old Bmntry. To-day the story is reverKd. England Jm of all her Bns to-day, apd yQ un S • t)ornin ' Bn is sending; to the pother Bountry her hqst.” ■Vr back, in ijhe, ages, ■ ip, Alhiop’s sea r girdled isle,, Ihe old’ Mother her chi^en ■ said with a sweet Mother-anule ■'This (4$ is tqq srpali to content ye, I shall seek out new lands for a ever a qatiqp tqitfanßgr Apd in qpest of adventure to T.qqm. Si <Go forth ye, my 'children, then, ! bravely r And search out a new resting place; give thee for heritage only The stout' daunlleis heart of thy race. ‘Yes I ye yvi\\ find an£ conquer Fair lands under far distant skies, And %e yewjllr H and wisely, And your nise.’ “Yet it may he that some day, your * molhgp Sppe beset, shall bo threatened by And And thajTfiaU ye- will answer, she The.p forth’ went the children, Emd ever They spread o’qr the seas and the 1 ! is4> ■ • And grew and waxed strong and resourceful, But forgot not the land of their I hio. - Then it seemed that the mother spoke truly, For other great najjiqqs tjj-ose, And menaced her honour and freeAnd forced her in warfare to close. And so then the call of the mother I Went outover mountain and flood; On the world-wide winds it was wafj * ■" 1 1 • r a- . ted, And was heard by ’the listening ‘ ! bropd.

In far distant lands it was echoed, This deep. mothercall," • !An<l tljg “culjs,” they arose and they cqjuel ’VYq are loyal children -And so from the Northlands and • Southlands, And out from'the East and the West, The message went back to the mother; “We come! and we bring you our hest,” Thep $ murmur, deep-throated and solemn n Went up from Dominions widespread, And they rallied, these “cubs,” round the mother, • %awn homeward by love's golden thread. f From Canada’s•snow-coyqred prairies, From India’s sweltering sjjns, Front’'Afric, Australia, New Zealand, They - came with" their horses and guns. . , , And they shewed to j)hq nfijncms fu(l ' 'surely That though they were dwellth-s afar, , : ‘ They were onq \yith the mother i;i trouble, ,And eager to aid her in' war. —^ponyaious.