New Zealand

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 234, 12 March 1915, Page 5

New Zealand

LETTER FROM GENERAL GODLEY. SOME "MARE'S NESTS." • , By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, March 11. General Godley, in a letter to the Min- '_ ister of Defence states that the attack of tin; Turks on the day they arrived on the Suez Canal was very feeble. If the \ Turks succeed in making any better ef- . fort he expects the rest of the New Zealanders will go also. The satisfactory ' part is that, out of a whole corps (40,000 men) one infantry brigade (4000 men) being required, 'the New Zealanders should have been the one selected to go. General Godley adds: "We are much amused at your cable about the throatcutting episode in low quarters of Cairo. f 1 expect some wag has been pulling the - newspapers' legs. As a matter of fact, i our men get on exceptionally well with all the Egyptians. There * have been t practically no instances with us even yf - brawls with the natives." 1 General Godley also refers to the rum- - or about gifts being so ],[ j n t ] le canteens - as a mare's nest. , A PATRIOTIC CARNIVAL. ii NETS £OOOO FOR THE BELGIANS. „" Timaru, Last Night. , A great patriotic carnival and har- (; vest festival was held here to-day in aid t of the Belgian Fund. The day was n beautifully line, and there was the bign gwt gathering of town and country ,] ■ people ever seen in Timaru. The whole j ( affair was an "auspicious success. Comf incrcial travellers from all parts of t New Zealand assisted in a very effce-' ,'_ tire way. The election of a Queen of .. the Carnival brought in £6OOO, and ._ there was a brilliant crowning ceremony, supervised by Professor CardI ston. The whole function, will realise t , about f 10,000. NEW ZEALANDERS KILLED. Wellington. Last Night. Advice was received in Wellington today to the effect that Private William r. Rainbridge. M -n of Mr. 11. .15. Bainbridge. Il! secretary of St. John's Ambulance A«- '° : sociation, Wellington, wag killed in acy lion in the north of France in January. >" *■ He was a member of the King's Royal Rifles.