New Zealand.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 284, 10 May 1915, Page 8

New Zealand.

THE GOVERNOR'S WISH. DESIRE TO BE AT THE FRONT. Auckland, Last Night. Speaking at an Orphans' Club gathering last night the Governor, Lord Liverpool, referred to the tactics of the Germans in the present war. If vou were to take the gathering as a whole here to-night, he said, it would prolntbly say we are dealing wit'i snakes, so treat tlc.Mii as snakes. (Hear, hear.) But if an individual is taken ,would the answer the the same? "Would not he say it is They eiiii jiiay the ;»*aine nj r snakes, hut hy CJod wo will play] the game we have always played—the straight jrame of our forefathers! (Loud applauso.) The other suggestion is certainly a suggestion of the dwil. We have had handed down to us great ■heritage. Our forefathers did not play the snake, and we children who came after them will not play the snake. i('r:' sof "Xo!"j Quite right, too, added his Excellency.

Tl"' Governor wont 011 to speak of the twenty years lie was a soldier. Jle had met New Zealanders in South Africa, a war that was only a pinhead compared with the present great struggle, and was inueli impressed with them. Two battalions) of his own regiment were now in France and one in Persia, and many

of his old comrade* Lad already been killed, "it is the kilia's wi-u," added the Governor, "that I am here ill Xew Zealand, but if you asked me personally where I would rather lie, i would reply that. I wihh 1 Wi 1 re with 1113' regiment. My profession was that of a soldier for just 011 twenty years, and my heart goes to those wlin .soldiered witil me." AN AI'I'KAL FOR M'KX. DEMON'STKATI OX" AT IIAWERA. Haw-era, ]>a.st Night. A very largely attended patriotic service of intercession was rjeld at the Opera J louse this afternoon, when a stirring appeal was made, for men for the front. The service was most impressive and will asii.st recruiting. WORKI-US' FOR RRITAIX. 'Wellington, May 8.

The Defence Department lias received a large number of applications from artisans and mechanics willing to go to England to assist in the production of munitions of war. So far the (Jovcrnment has not received a reply to its communications regarding such offers. A large, number of the applicants are men engaged in the colonial ammunition factory at Auckland, 'but the Government is not prepared to allow them to go, as their services arc urgently required here.

A TROUBLESOME GEHMAX. Botorua, May 8. Walter l.:eke, a 'Herman employed at a flaxniiil at T'eteko, caused so much trouble that he. was dismissed. Thereupon he, threatened to de-tro" the mill, .he "was arrested as a prisoner of war and will he seat to Auckland 011 Moilday. THE BELGIAN* ITXD. Pahiatua, May i>. At the Farmers' Union concert last night a "11 and ;oi)K' stag's head, donated by' Mr. liugli Maekay, was auctioned iur the Belgian fund by 11 v. 0. C. Cooper and realised ,£.">2o. HELP FOR THE BELGIAN'S. Timaru, Last Night. A meeting of representatives of local bodies oil iSaturdav decided that the South Canterbury share of the Dominion Belgian Relief Fund, £lB2, shall he paid by local bodies in proportion to the rateable value, an alternative being population. A street collection yesterday for the Rod Cross Fund 'produced .€420.