New Zealand

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 89, 10 September 1914, Page 5

New Zealand

■■ ■—— .i" HIGH MOMM-Ssa.OLSJilJr.ii iUiPOiil'V By Telegraph.—Press Association.Wellington, Yesterday. The High Commissioner [reports from London, under date September B.—it is officially stated in Paris that the left whig of the Allies, t of which the British form the centre, U making progress without much, opposition, against the , Germans, whose right wing. Suis-been hurled backward twelve miles. The main, battle line extends from Paris to Verdun, 150 males. The opposing armies number two and a half million. There is now little doubt that the Germans arc ■ withdrawing troops from France and Belgium. The ipeaple of Liege were ordered to remain indoors during the transportation. A newspaper of high standing in .Homo states' that there is nj Russian army of a quarter of a million in France. -There is no confirmation here. ' The Russians moving with- irresistible I'force, captured Dikolarcff, a triple-ring-ed fortress l in Galicia, and are striving to cut off the remaining Austrian army. Reliable!.—The Anglo-French hajve taken many prisoners, including a battalion of infantry and a mitralleuse i company. j , / CTOGRATULATJONS TO THE - 1 -' / MET. . J , . (Wellington, Yesterday.' Tn reply to a congratulatory mesisag* to thft Brltislii fleet on its success 1 in Heligoland) Bifiiht, fcisi Excellency the , Governor has received the following rculy front tllie Secretary of State for the Colonies: "Please accept and convey to the Government and the people pf New Zealand the warm thanks of the Lords and Commissioners of the Admiralty for their message of eongraitnlation. It will be much appreciated by HjJfiS,', New Zealand, to whom it has been com" lmmicAtal.—Marcourt.'' TRADE'PROSPECTS GOOD. v : Wellington, Yesterday. The New Zealand agent at Vancouver reported to the Deportment of Agritailture on August 5 that thovU the war continue the Dominion iconic ex- ■, , T>cct, provided the trade routes we-rei kept reasonably safe, greatly oxi-ended. business in New Zealand ,pTod>ucL ; >, especially dairy products and meat,. It is ©xnerfed 'that easterr Canada will find ready markets in) Britain for all foodstuffs and British ' Columbia will then look to New Zealand. CONFERENCE OF OFFICERS. Wellington, Yesterday. 'A conference of 'the senior -offi*-rs of tne expeditionary force opened nt the fkurrison Officers' Cluiu • this roomings General Godley presided and tba' conference wn« attended' 'by offiecw frrynv the Auckland,-Wellington, Canterbury! and Otugo districts. The proceodingfl, which were conducted in eamem, had 1 relation to matters connected with the expedition, and is expected to be concluded tWs niternopn. GUNNERS OVERLOOKED. I. (Wellington. Yesterday, In publics gifts l , the artillery brigade I encamlped at Polme.rflton North has so ' far been totally 'neglected, while other I units, both at Palmerston and elsewherg, haive had presents showered ! mpon them This is accounted for by I the fact that the ..artillery brigade is a ' national unit drawn from all over the Dominion, while other unite are. essentially, local ones drawn from districts. Ebey' are in hopes that the. ©versisfht will" be remedied, particularly in view of General Godley's remark that the artillerymen we.ro as fme a lwlv of «ne» as he had Been anywhwrc in the world. The address is care of Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co., Wellington, who w3* forward gifts to the snip. TIIK NAVAL BRIGADES. MINISTERIAL GRATJTUDK. Wellington. La>st NisH. In The House of TVprevntaHven tonirrht, ulien discussine the position of the iii' n in the forts, the Minister for I Defence said he desired to acknowledge jthe spb'ndid way in which the members of the old naval had come *o the assistance of the coantry in the jrej sent crisis by manning the i ort* GIFTS FOR ARTILLFRVMKV. ( In reference to the suggestion t'lat j gifts sho'dd be sent to srt'lleryimPn i f I is stated that the following gilts wtviM 1 j piwe highlv acceptable:--One type ■ > writer, gramajhone with seVtinns, prr- : ! iodiWil,-. pairs of boots, four hievcl"* . ! field •»}.! >-<">, fruit, cokes, pipe-covers to jVc-v 'it khlics bein" b'orn abo'tt vhen " ! smo l 'v ;. "'Oh, rit'lina. your cough sounds most .lien'fnl.' Yi'iT have to take «ox»tnrnc, Fn> . .IT.'; r,"< i mr mothcT (o sf-nd to f'p eW-ti. F.,-- Woods' Great Peppermint Ortf<- <* Mii'v-v gives it to m* and to Til'y n Wl.. pj we have n cough or ». cold— ..' r " No' iVs not a bit bitter, ynu silly! l * i UN rhe. niepst and best ev»r pold.". 5 '"> J" I "Vttvr «ooks sjwtf the broth" but » ■" ' «+iM < g.n »ake • cup of delicious "Cfefflnp"' ■