LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 71, 23 November 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

j i> ; ' : < (-isr . ,; ■ •,,, .' ... ... / , , At'the Supreme Court' at'Auckland pn Saturday, George Wh'yte sought dissolution of hi s mavi'iagfe 1 with Ethel •May Whyte, Frederick StaUtoh Workman being named as co-respoWdeiit. The parties were married in 1905 at Toko, in Taranaki. Evidence was given regarding the respondent's misconduct with Workman, with whom she was still living, and by whom she apparently had two children.- A decree nisi was granted with costs against the co-respondent. ' ;

. : The, most surprised man in Ballarat' the other day, says the Sydney 'Bulletin, was, }1 Corporal W. Dunstan; : ivho has just £<?t home, invalided from the Dardanelles, when he learned that he had V.C. But even his parents can't get from him any taje,pjf .whatjhe did. and the topic is now taboo in' the fairly "cH<tf£ When a local pressman called in the evening intent on an interview the warrior bolted from the house, and at a public reception in his honor he expressed the conviction that he was going to faint, and he had to be forcibly restrained by the Mayor from bolting home. He is only 20, and before;going to the war had been in a local glad rags shop.

Regai'ding the Moa Merger, the Inglewood Record argues as follows: "The reason the Empire is at war today is to affirm and protect, for all time, the right of a small State to govern itself in its own way.. Belgium is not so | large by - many „ degrees in comparison to Europe as is ; the ! Moa Riding to the County ofTarahaki; yet nearly the whole world to-day is;at war and''millions of'lives have been sacrificed because Germany chose to over-ride Belgium's right to self-go-vernment-, in' precisely the same Sway that the jTaranaki County Council is aiming to do ) with 'the Moa Ridliig. Yet these two men (Messrs J. Brown, chairman of the County Council,; and G. Capper, of the Kaimata Union), i nobly;permit the sacrificjeabf their sons to protectAßeflgium's right, out.to the Mba.Riding the very wrong from which they are willingly protecting a foreign country. No wonder the world is upside down when -such remarkable topsy turveydom is noticeable close at home!"

Advocacy of the Australian system of dealing with the returned' wounded and invalided soldiers was made by the Mayor of Napier (Mr J. Vigor Brown, M.P.) in a speech on Friday. Mr Brown explained that, when a ; soldier returned to Australia; he immediately got in touch with those in I command by reporting himself, and proved his identity, and* that he had returned from, the front. Within 2i hours that man could get all, the money he was entitled to. Australians got free passes over the whole of the railways and the trams, and they were treated in a splendid way. the| New Zealand soldiers were not treated in that way at all. The case of 'a young man who returned badly wouut'j. ed in four places is condemnation of the New Zealand Goverumo/it's methods. This soldier arrived in Wellington and on wishing to cc.rne to Stratford to visit! relatives he i\ad to pay his fare out iof the Bmf#j sum given him from his pay. IVJtforeoWj the unfortunate soldier has n»ot had a fresh uniform given him aii'd still ha» to get about in the one tie actually fought in. Paternal GoveJ&rment!