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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 94, 16 September 1914, Page 8

An amusing incident is reported t6 have taken place near Westport. The Territorials are on guard along the orach, and manuka scrub grows near t£ the i.t-ach. About midnight the. smitry btavd foci'"teps, anl at once cn::l----li'ngwl. He gjt, no rcn »• '-.ii I called out, "Who goes there?" ■ There was a movement in the scrub, and the sentry called out, "Speak, or I'll fire." {lectin;; no response be fired, and was a hravy thiul. lie called hi.; mats, anl on investigation it was round that there.' try had shut a cow. "New Zcalander* wid lie wanted.'' remarked tin' Mayor of /upland. Mr. C. J. i'mr, O'M.G., at i- dinner which v.as tendered to some of the members -of the Expeditionary Force in Auckland on Friday. "Germany has a great, fighting machine in her army. She has received a check, but the 3,000.000 German soldiers in the field will t ike some crushing. Then the fact that '!■» many has a large fleet must not be discredited. God Almighty, however, never yet favored the liar and the murderer. Xo words of mine can adequately express our loathing of those responsible, for the I ruthless sacking of Louvain, the murdering of holple?9 women and children, arid the sowing of the sea with mines to the danger of innocent men as well as belligerents. Never has lirilain waged a juster war than this. The Empire to a man is behind the King in this war. (Applause). Our Allies, . the Japanese, are gentlemen compared to the Germans. The Japanese have kept to their bond and have respect for 'a scrap of paper.' We must learn to be a little nicer to the Japanese and try not to be continually holding up the yellow peril. The action of Japan has been such as to entitle her in future to our respect,"