WITHIN THE DOMINION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 7 December 1915, Page 7

WITHIN THE DOMINION.

RETURNED GALLIPOLI MEN.

AWAIT ENGLISH EMIGRANTS,

ALCKLAND, This Day.

Some excitement occurred on the waterfront at nine o’clock this morning, when a number of wounded men, back from Gallipoli, assembled to express disapproval of men, who might be eligible for military service in England, emigrating to the Dominion. The steamer Eemuera berthed an hour earlier than they had expected, and by the time the demonstrators gathered in any force the bulk of the passengers had come ashore. While the people ashore and passengers were intermingled some immigrants were subjected to uncomlimentary remarks. Among the first-class passengers it was asserted there were twenty to thirty men of military age; none of these were assisted immigrants. All the men spoken to by pressmen denied having loft England for other reasons than economic conditions prevailing 'there.

“AIT EXAMPLE O? UNITY.” CALL PARLIAMENT TOGETHER. A MASTER TON SUGGESTION. MASTERTON, Dec. 5. A semi-public meeting organised by Mr. H. C. Robinson, solicitor, was held here last night, when addresses were delivered by Mr. Hugh Morrison (farmer), two representatives of Labour (Messrs. Rod. McCrno and Rippon), the Mayor, and Mr. Robinson. The addresses were of a patriotic order, and appealed for unity in respect to the war. The following resolution was submitted by Mr. Robinson and carried without dissent: “That this meeting desires that New Zealand should set an example of unity to the Empire by organising to the full all the capital aud man power of the country for the purposes of. the war, and requests the Government to at once call Parliament together for that purpose.”

AUSTRIA’S CHERISHED MONUMENTS. WELLINGTON, This Day. A statement in the cables to-day that the bronze statues in the Francesean church at Innsbruck are to be melted down for cannon is most significant. Twenty-four of these statues stand round the church guarding the magnificent tomb of Maximilian, each is so arranged that a torch can be inserted in the hand, Much above life size, they are superb specimens of the handicraft manship of the middel ages, and they represent the supposed progenitors of the Hapsburg family male and female, and go as far back as the semi-mythical King Arthur of England, and Godfrey Bouillon, King of Jerusalem. The Church with nearly the whole Of its nave is taken up by the tomb and these gigantic statues is one cf the most striking sights on the Continent. Thta the Royal house of Austria shuold consent to the destruction of these chers.ihed monuments of its family speaks volumes for the straits to which the country must {be reduced'.