LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 71, 23 July 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Church of England social has again been postponed owing to unforsccii circumstances, and will now he held on Tuesday week, 3rd August, in the Parish Hall.

It lias been decided to send the Trentharn Regiment (the Earl of Liverpool’s Own) away as’ a complete unit, and the regiment is being provided with army service corps, ambu-

lance and signalling sections. The total personnel of the regiment will be -2100.

On Sunday the Salvation Army will conduct tboir Social Sunday, to ho followed by a special meeting through the week, when the annual social report will be delivered, and his Worship the Mayor will preside. Social subjects will be dealt with on Sunday. both in the morning and evening.

The .Manaia Witness states that Mr Kenrick, S.M., remarked at the sitting of the Manaia Court last week that be had been receiving telephonic messages up to 10 o’clock at night from territorials asking for exemption from attendanace at second camps. So bad had it become, that he had to cut the wires off. and in that way escaped from the infliction.

In the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon, the Prime Minister read a message from the Lord Mayor of London, thanking the New Zealand people for their gift of £1.5(3,000 towards Belgian relief. Mr Massey stated that the Government had arranged to contribute £120,000 per annum towards the relief of Belgian people till the end of the war.

Slips are numerous between Otnoana and Moeroa freports the correspondent of the Argus). The distance is about 8-i miles, and there must be fully 80 slips between the two pi acts. On several properties slips have resulted in Joss to stock. Mr J. Red lost 100 hoggets and about .50 head of cattle.

A private in a British regiment engaged at the Dardanelles, in a letter to his' parents in England, says: — “There is one hymn I shall never forget. Just previous to an important attack, a voice in one of the colonial trenches struck us “Jesu, lover of my soul.” Soon the whole line of trenches was singing this grand old hymn—not in unison, but in harmony. We who were listeners imagined that a large church choir was singing, but the grim reality of ' the situation opened up when the Queen Elizabeth, as ii all had been arranged, commenced shelling immediately the hymn had ended.

On the way across this time the Australian reinforcements struck an “exchange shark” at Aden, but after being taken down several times they found a way to go one better, and beat him at his own game. The circumstances were these: On arrival at Aden it was fop ml that the natives who came to sell fruit and cigarettes were afraid of paper money. The “shark” knew this and putting out in his boat with a large stock of silver* he offered to give 17s for the Australian £1 note. The men wanted fruit and

cigarettes, and so for a time exchange was on. the shark smiling as he thought of his fat commission . But he had not heard of tin* Australian

Ids note. It was discovered that he would pay 17s for every Ids note on the ship. He left assuring the men that he would bring more silver at live o’clock. but he did not come.

The T*ninn Company hopes to got the Pateena away to Melbourne tomorrow with a new crew, reports the Press Association. The Kohuratahi branch of tbo Overseas Chib is at present arranging a monster “King Kole Karnival in aid of the Local Soldiers’ J)istross Belief Fund. Candidates are being nominated. and the function reaches the climax on November 12 and 13. Tickets may be obtained from the secretary, Mr G. S. White.

Mr John Petrie, secretary to the Scottish Society requests us to state that in conversation with a representative of this journal referred to yesterday he said that In - Soc iety had never discussed what was to i e clonewith the Fund now being raised and there was no mention of a separate Fund in the Committee. He had only heard such a suggestion from outside. He desires this to he known.

Douglas settlers are very indignant that they have not received any mails since Tuesday night. They say that although there have been large slips on the other side of Douglas there seems to lie no reasonable cause to neglect Douglas when the road is clear and motor cars can run out. The hardships of the settlers are many, hut the heartbreaking hnale of one man’s effort is worthy of record. He drove from PiiniwiiaKan as far as possible, and then rode on to Douglas in the hope of gett’ug mails and news there. After his hard and long ride, he found that there was no service of mails to Douglas became the line was blocked. It is surely a chance for some of the Departments to show their latent resource by getting the mails- to Douglas even by means of cars or other conveyance.