War Notes.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 114, 7 October 1914, Page 2

War Notes.

TE MAORI ClO TK WAR (For the Bulletin). Tcnakoe, jj„ s a lidita, I ], t ,ww:i varii i„ you; W e talk aU.ui l e pakeha an' how U way lie do, It worry n, an.;,, rook like rain; no ki>oi we work to lay. Xo goot le plow, i terr vmi what—wiluiwwii huiotav. To ,pakeha Ik ketta light an' ora ferra ko, I ipeen fow n to te Parimont an' hear te korero, Pill Mawscy Lerrum ora lu-wali—l hear _'im what he say— I link ten niurion' pakeha tey tiiiim "peep poo ray." Te pakeha he not too pud to wake t.e' iprurry light He dance te haka for te war; lie shrout rikc miiy ting (Te white nuin haiku prurry rot—lie sing •'Cjor save te King.') Jly prutter Paru lie te one, no fry en him, you know. An' s'pose lie terr his tribe to come t'ey get te gun an' go, 'Nif te Kaiser see tein dance te haV.i, 1 peen say. Wcrr, 1 pet te prurry- Tohcrman cr-i.ir rike Horr am" ran away, 'Mow, s'posei to White man's .catch t ■ pioki- an' newwa kill 'im ted An' nif he got no shark an' upud, an' nif he got no pod, ■He giw 'im prenty pi'ankit, anf he giw 'im prenty kai, jla' ho worry kino t'at ferra an' ho newwa ret-'im-lie. My poy lie read urn ora newsh —you know ihe peen-a-school— Am' t'at te way I terra you, te white ma,ii prwry f*o). Te Maori te make te proper Ike, an' t'een to mate te stoo, He 'kill his ferra ted an' t'en he eat to logger too. i FffAY THE ITvUKL WAR.

0 Cod of Love, look from above, Aind stay tliis cruel war.

long years ago Thou gav'st thy soil To sue us simiLTHi every one.

I'liy message at his lowly ljiri.li Peace and goodwill to all on earth. In olden days strange deeds were done, Great battles were lost) and won.

]>ut we have surely learned since then That Thou hast nobler work for men. ■ I think the world should now be wiser, There many be who blame the Kaiser I scarce can tell who is to blame, Cut peace we all desire. Ton know it taks ao little flame To start a mighty, fire. 0, God of Love locVk from above And strovi llii ß cruel war. * " _ -3.M. llangorei, October 2. PRICE OP THE WAR. ~~ THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCES. Sydney, September 25. Although we are a light-hearted people in Australia, predisposed to look at the sunny side of things, we are being forced to realise that war, means sacrilice and loss. Only a small portion of our defence resources has as yet been called upon to show what they can do in actual service, and wo have already had to suffer the loss of one of our own few ships of war, the submarine Aid, and the deaths of too many of our men and officers in the small operations connect-, ed with the taking of German New Guinea. We are reminded from day to day of now the war affects us by the sight of troops of the Australian Expeditionary Forces being sent on solid unite marches to help to fit them for the desperate work in which they may have to engage. The First Expeditionary Force is practically ready to go off, and we have reason to believe, from what we know of the material of which it is composed, and of tile training to which is it being subjected, that it will uphold the honor and credit of Australia in whatever tasks may be allotted to it. Recruiting for the Second Expeditionary Force is well advanced, and all told we have in our camps some twenty-six thousand men, with many horses, waiting with confident eagerness for the order to proceed to the front. Unreasonably wet weather at Sydney iiaa compelled, the troops here to experience something of the hardships of a soldier's life, but the men are showing a line spirit, and are making the best of matters in a cheerful way that makes the officers feel proud of their commands. The men say they know quite well that if they have to step into the dreadful arena in Europe "It won't be any picnic," but they want to go there. In our workaday affairs it is being found necessary to make considerable readjustments in commerce and industrial affairs, and already thousands of unemployed require to be provided for out of resources which has become suddenly restricted by an inability to get 'loan money, a very serious elieck on the disposal of our raw product*, and the con sequences of a partial drought. Happily, we have had a run of years of very substantial prosperity, anil we have enough money in Australia to enable us to tide over a pretty long term of commercial and industrial adversity, but tii"re is. and will be a considerable amount of hardship until those who have been sqiteeed out are again provided with work in an all-round readjustment of things in accordance with a reduced lieid of employment and diminished sjiendinupower.