GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1915, Page 7

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

COLOXIALS' BRAVERY. Hastings, Yesterday. Captain Ernest Boxer, of the N«w Zealand Field Ambulance with the Expeditionary Force, after paying a high tribute to the pluck and perseverance of the New Zealanders, adds a word as to the spirit in which the wounded men bear their troubles. "I have seen ghastly things, terrible wounds and disligunments. .1 have seen woundtd men 4S and even 72 hours on the outposts unable to be succored. I have seen men dying in agony and closing their sad wan eyes, but out of all the horror of it arises great glory in the very suffering that New Zealand has produced and will yet produce such noble heroes, who sull'.'r and die without a murmur. The bravo little land of ours; she has indeed done what she could and sealed her bond of Empire with her rich red blood. Honor the heroes of our regiments when they return, forgive their faults (only relative after all), and let the land see anl feel the personal debt it owes them."

HAWKE'S BAY LIBERAL LI'.ACCE. Napier, Yesterday, i At.a meeting of the Hawke's Bay Liberal League executive last night, a resolution was passed expressing gratification at the formation of the special defence committee and the opinion th.it the work of this committee could be sa widened as to make all future matters of defence truly national and entirely free from any suggestion of party. The resolution adds: "This meeting favors this course in preference to the proposals for a National Cabinet, wnich is opposed to the best interests of the State >n that it would stifle all criticism of taxation proposals and administrative blunders and deprive the country of one of its greatest safeguards, a vigilant opposition. This meeting asks Sir Joseph Ward to lead the Liberal Party in its express intention of assisting in all matters of defence, but urges on him not to endanger the future of the LiberalLabor Party and its great democratic principles by accepting ofllee in a Conservative Cabinet."