GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 296, 24 May 1915, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

■'A man lias no right to strike another if he can get away. Ho has only to resort to force when he cannot get awav. That is our la\v." This was tile pronouncement made, during the hearing of an assault case iu the Supreme Court, by his Honor the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), who added that the law was very precise on this matter, and. 'was set )ut in sections 71 to 74 of the Criminal Code.

It is understood tliat tlu: late Mr. E. Av. Knowles, formerly proprietor of the Xapier Telegraph, left an estate valued at nearly .€70,01)0, the bulk of which will constitute an endowment for charitable and educational purposes in Ilawke's Hay. The Mayor of Napier will lie one of the administrators of the estate. The deceased's only daughter, who is married, will receive £IO,OOO, plus the residence at Shakespeare llill, Xapiej', and its contents.

"There are those who think that there will he permanent peace in the world after this terrible war is finished, but there will be no permanent peace until Christ is crowned in the hearts of individuals and nations," said Dr. A. \V. Averill, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, preaching in St. Matthew's ChurcTi on Sunday. Referring to loyalty, the Bishop said that loyalty was no mere sentiment, it was deeds, not words. The man who was really loyal asked himself; "llov can 1 best, serve my King and country? What is my duty?" The talker said: "How can I get most ease and comfort, and most plausibly shirk my duty." True loyalty was being seen every day at the front, and also at home, and would be seen for many days to come.

Speaking of the outbreak at Wanganui, tlie Premier stated to a Post representative tliat what lincl happened was not the way by which indignation at till! 0 ernians' detestable methods should find expression. Enemy subjects in this country are under strict supervision, and any indication of sympathy with the enemy or hostility to 'Britain is immediately followed by internment at Somes Island or Motuihi, while any assistance to tJlio enemy by imparting information or in any other way will lie followed by court-martini] and punishment to fit the offence. If more 'become necessary more will be done. Knemy subjects could not, according to instructions from the Imperial authorities, be sent out of .New Zealand during the war period. Mr. Mnssey added that he hoped our people indignant though tbey may be, will remember that they are British, and act accordingly.

A very heavy toll lias been paid by the officers of the Auckland! Infantry Battalion in the fighting against the Turkish army on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Thirty-four ollicers were despatched xvitli the main force and the first reinforcement of the battalion, ajid already the names of 20 of them have appeared in the casualty list—eight having been killed or fatally wounded, and 18 wounded. Four officers of the headquarters, comprising half the staff, have been wounded, and the officer commanding the ma-chine-gun section has died of wounds. The Gth Company and the loth Company have each had two officers killed and two wounded, while the officer of the first reinforcement has been killed. In addition to this list, one officer ©f the second reinforcement has died of wounds and another has been wounded. An old resident of Wellington, commenting on the impatience of some people at the comparative paucity of the war news, states tlmt they ought to have been in Wellington at the time of the Crimea, when the war news (irrived six and seven months after the events took piace. In 1855-50 there were bo cablegrams or even telegraphs, and all the news was brought by sailing vessels, either direct or via Melbourne. As there were a great number of Bailors then trading to Melbourne a mail service per schooner was instituted between that port and Wellington, and it was the schooner Marchioness (Captain Kreeft) which brought to Wellington the first news of the fall of Sebastopol. It was announced in an altogether novel manner by the schoAner arriving in port with the words "Sebastopol "Fallen" painted in large letters on her side, an announcement which naturally caused considerable excitement in the town.

It appears tfhat the demonstration at VVanganui against a naturalised pork butcher named Heinold had been prearranged. In consequence of threats made against him, Mr. Heinold wrote as follows to the Mayor of Wanganui on Saturday last, before the riot took place: Dear Mr. Mayor,—As a naturalised British citizen, a settler of 27 years' stand"l"' n New Zealand, and an old member ot the Wellington Volunteer Corps I venture to protest against the insinuations and charges that are being levelled against me. lam accused of caressing anti-ißrttish sentiments and of other conduct inconsistent with py lovaltv to my adopted country. Such acWtions I can honestly say are false. I (have never anything but ihnf t f British Empire. It is true that T cannot help feeling sorrow for the position into which the German nation has allowed itself to be placed, but no one can aMior more deeply than myself the atrocities whieh have marked the present war. I confidently appeal to the sense of British fair play to do mo justice in this matter."

"To our already large numbers is added another unit, small, perhans but most noticeable—the Maori contingent," uteg Pnvate A. J. Phillips, 3rd \ liek . and Regiment, from Zeitoun. "Already the inhabitants are getting to know the Maoris, for they are not the most insignificant m the streets. The other bruihed" 0 ° f th ° Tom, » ies **> brushed up against by what he termed a Aew Zealand nigger,' and proceeded to deiide tlie Maori in terms of the same respectful nature. Tlie English Tommy learned something that night, 1 ' , r ,n - v frlen <l ami I were walking along one of the main streets when we noticed a great throng of excited natives. Working our way in wo finishing s< ? P' just putting the ill Slung touches on an Arab, about ialf a head taller than himself. Pertening tlie crowd, lie deserted his first viftuii an ,l charged into the n.itn eh, who made a hurried search for tiie other end of the street. When Z asked him what was the matter lie ''vw tos 1 e > 'n,n U ' t<! - COmpOSe(l ' and aw, toso pally niggers chase, me like fl'es, play me out, want me to buy everything I don't want their stiff and if I can't tell them, I s ], ow them'•