LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 89, 16 August 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Wellington Press Association telegram this afternoon states: Sensational rumours are current, alleging an officer of the Telegraph .Department Stated that the Government had received a very heavy list of killed among the' Fifth Reinforcements.. Mr Massey’s cOninient to-daV was. that the story was an absolute fabrication and (•Hiel' &mv: and' was /also a ' severely punishable offence. -MeMassey, at the’New Zealand .Natives Association’s concert hist night, warmly, praised the splendid ’ services of. • New Zealand s woirieii ill'various kinds of war work. Hfe"s«id that Though Ne>\; Zealand respited. plenty;of men,for the reinforcements, the Dominion, wanted no hysterics and no vain-glorious boasting. Chinese editors do their best to soften the blow when they return manuscripts. The rejectionslip of the Tiiiii-Pfkc > reads: JJkp . pjji* hldnoffred-.hrotheii of blip, apt! mooli. ii_Ybffr slave'boys deeply, ,at' your feel. 1 kiss the earth before you, and I ijeg t6' lw ? kindly permitted to live and to talk.' YOnr honoured manuscripts had de'ignCd to cast its light upon onr eyes; With' rupture we- have ~perused itNever have we beheld sW’h , Wit, such pa'th'os, such learning;' such excellence:. With fear and' trembling , weyetmn the manuscript. Did we dare to, phblisiv it. the-President would iss.ue li decree ordering iis to make your Jewel as a model and never dare to publish anything 'inferior to it. Our long experience in journalism teaches us tnat such pearls can lie produced only once in a thousand years. That is why we must return it. We crave your forgiveness. Behold- we are at jour feet.”