GENERAL NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 79, 7 April 1915, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

A patriotic song, entitled Hie Lads Who Will -Make the Kaiser Wiser,” composed at Wanganui, is said to he in big demand.

At the Clydesdale horse sales in Sydney in connection with the show bidding was slack. Lots on behalf ol Mitchell’s, O’Hrieu, and J. Charters (New Zealand) ranged from Sogs to 2dUgs.

11l reply to a ■correspondent who asks why ‘‘The Day” is at times spelt “Der Tag” in Herman and at other times “Den Tag!-” the writer of war notes in the Otago Daily Times .says: The reason is that the German language, being a highly inflectional one, retains ever the inflection for the Lnglish definite article “the,” an demonstrative. “Der Tag” is the nominative, and “Den Tag” is the oh- ( joctive case. “Der Tag” means simply “The Day.” “Aid den Tag” means “To the Day.”

Mr Andrew McParlane, of Alford Forest, Canterbury, had the misfortune to lose, through a gun accident, his well-known sire Arab Chief, a pure Arab he imported direct from Arabia about 10 years ago. His grandson, a lad of fourteen years of age, was out shooting birds between some trees, and Arab Chief, unseen by the lad, was standing at a gate near by, when a charge from the gun struck and entered the animal at the hack of the shoulder, inflicting a wound which resulted in the horse’s death in about an hour. “If Christ came to earth, what would He say to those w ho are responsible for the present cost of living, and who are exploiting the workers, despite the sacrifices the latter are making in regard to the war?”—lbis was the question the Rev. G. Moncton was asked to answer at a meeting in Auckland last week. Mr Moncton replied that Christ had come into the world to overcome the doctrine that might was right, and to substitute the .teaching that God’s will was right, and that right was greater than might. The great failing of the world to-day was that it had gone back to principles that obtained before the time of Christ.

A torching and entirely spontaneous and uncontemplated tribute to the late Bishop Grimes was paid by the congregation which crowded the Barbadoes street Cathedral at Christchurch at the 11 o’clock mass on Sunday week (says the Press). After the mass, as the people were beginning to go out, the organist, Mr Thorley, played “The Dead March in Saul” as a recessional. The movement from the church immediately ceased, and the whole congregation to its feet and stood still till the llnale of the noble composition was . reached, and then, instead of leaving the building the whole body filed past the Bishop’s tomb at the Chapel of the Holy Souls, falling to their knees to say a brief prayer as they passed it, and in a few moments the chapel was ablaze with votive caudles lighted by the kneeling people.

Frankness in speech seems to be a characteristic of the present era of Australian Governors. The latest manifestation of this quality comes from the new Governor of Victoria (Sir Arthur Stanley). His Excellency presided at a meeting held in Melbourne some days ago for the furtherance of a movement to provide suitable entertainment for the men in the military training camps. He warmly commended the movement, and added some remarks that merited attention. Said he: “Lectures with coloured lantern slides of Jerusalem are all right for Sunday-school scholars, but the soldier if he has this offered to him, will probably take his hat and come into Melbourne, f hope the management will be in the hands of those who know what the needs of the soldiers arc. The proposed recreation hall is bound to be a great /success if, instead of being controlled by goody-goodies, it is managed by tiiose who understand the soldiers’ Wants in the way of energetic entertainment.” Needless to say, some people are quite annoyed at his Excellency’s straight talk.

At Rahotu yesterday, a meeting was held to discuss the proposal to establish co-operative feezing works in North Taranaki: Mr Quinn pointed out that even if the works were erected at Lepperton, it would entail very little extra inconvenience to coastal people, while people of Whangaraamona, Ohura, Kawhia, and South Taranaki had also to lie considered.— Mr Willcox then moved that it was the opinion of settlers of the district that co-operative freezing works should he erected on the best site the provisional directors could provide.— In seconding the resolution, which was carried, Mr Gibson expressed the hope that the experts appointed would be endowed with a large amount of commonsense, without which an expert would be useless. The following shares were applied for: P. Willcox 20, T. Fleming Id, E. Duggan 15, T. Harvey 10, H. Hopkins 10, G. Gibson 5, B. A. Lavard 5, A. Thomas d, N. C. Morgan d, R. W. Dawson 5, A. Mouldey d, W. B. Dawson d, R. L. Eustace 2, H. A. V. Jordan 2. R. K. Jordan 2, and W. Rothery 2; total 113.