LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2498, 26 June 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

It was stated at the National Dairy bhow at Palmerston North that the armies were using 700 tons of ><ew Zealand cheese per week. A memoer of the National Dairy Association states that this quantity represents two-thirds of the whole of New Zenlaud's output Of the exhibitors at the Hawke's Bay A. and P. Society's first show in 1863 only two are now alive, Messrs. T. Tanner and J. H. Coleman. Mr. J. N. A\ illiams, whose death was recently recorded, was tha third. Anticipating that Parliament may impose a war duty on certain luxuries, there has been considerable activity on the part of city merchants at the Customhouse during the past few days. Business nien evidently anticipate an increase in the duty on tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, wines and spirits, as considerable quantities of these commodities over and above the ordinary quantities have been liberated from bond recentlv. Auckland has been making demands on Wellington and tho south for supplies of spirits—chiefly whisky—and it is assumed that stocks are low in the north, or Auckland merchants desire to stock up with duty-paid spirits before the anticipated rise in duty. The week's figures for duty paid will not be available until noon to-day, but it is anticipated that the amount will not lie less than £25,000 paid on the lines mentioned. If the anticipations of merchants are realised, smokers and consumers of wines and spirits will very probably be made acquainted with the fact in the near future through that most sensitive of means—the pocket. The following additional offers of accommodation for invalid soldiers havo been received by the Hon. It. Heaton Rhodes, Minister of Public Health and Hospitals Mr. and Mrs. J. Berudsten, Star Coffee Palace, Eltham, accommodation for three; Mr. John Brownlie, Raincloft', Fairlie, accommodation for one; Mr. W. Coleman, Queen Street, Auckland vper New Zealand Hospital Ship and War Relief Association, Auckland), his house at Hillsborough, Manakau;_ Nurse Field, Waranilla Cottage Hospital, Richmond (per Richmond Patriotic Committee), accommodation for three; Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Hetherington, Thames, their new house at Parawai.' Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Hetherington, Thames, upper story of their residenco in Queen Street. Thames; Mr. F. W. Monthey, Asquith Avenue, Mount Albert, Auckland, his six-roomed house in Wright Road, Point Chevalier, Auckland ; Mr. N. Alfred Nathan and his nephew, Auckland, their property at Okoroire: Messrs. T. T. Taylor and Co., Courtenay Place, Wellington, tho top floor of their building, "Beehive Chambers," Courtenay Place; Mr. Thos. Wing, junr., Upper Tutaejmi, Marton, acoonmiodation for one.

The Customs revenues collected in Napier yesterday, says our special correspondent, amounted to £1981 10s. 9d., the highest sum ever recorded at the port in one day. . The public are specially invited to the unveiling of the bronze statue of the late Right Hon. K. J. Seddon, which will take place in Parliament grounds at 3 o'clock this afternoon. His Bxcollenoy the Governor will perform the ceremony. The following is from an English paper:—"No more is a hero to his own i valet. That is proverbial. Is any mmi a hero to his own father? Maybo that depends on circumstances. Tho British hero of the hour is the Irishman, Mic'haol O'Leavy, who wan the V.C. by bayoneting eight Germnis. No end of Articles and noems have been written about his deed. Now a recruiting poster has made its appearance. Under a fanciful picture of O'Leary slaying the eight Roches, is tho admonition, 'Vollow the example of Miclnol O'Leary, \ .C., ami join an Irish regiment today.' But it appears that Daniel O'Leary, Michael's father, is allnost disappointed in his son. .According to « correspondent, the sire of the Victoria Cross hero was interviewed and asked if he was surprised at liis son's bravery. He replied:—'l am surprised he didn't do more. 1 often laid out twenty men myself with ;l stick coming from JMacroon Fair, and it is a bad trial of Mick that he I'ould kill only eidit, luvtt bp having a rifle and bayonet,' Thus 1 the riwus; Reuoratiou suadj rebuked."

/ 1 — As an outcome of a visit to tlio Woodvillo District High School by Dr. Guun tins month, an endeavour will be made to give each pupil at the school who took lunch a cup of hot co:oa in tha dinner hour during tlio v>inter months. The headmaster placed the matter before the parents by circular, and to date has only received one unfavourable reply. The patients at the Kaiwarra Military Hospital aro making very good use of the billiard table recently supplied them by Messrs. Aloock and Co., Ltd. This firm have now forwarded a complete set of crystalate snooker balls. This will enable more men to play on the table at one time and also afford them some variety. Three boys, Daniel Crawford, Robert F. Johnston, and William James Welsh, who misbehaved at a rccent drill of the Post and Telegraph Cadets, had the charge of obstructing drill preferred against them in the Magistrate's Court y® st ® r( |ay, Tho evidence showed that j f re!^ the 36 a joke, and had disobeyed orrfers. The Magistrate remarked tliat in was a pity that tho boys could not be given the stick. would be fined 10s.. in default 48 hours' military detention. For a similar offence Josepli Winstanley was fined a similar amount. llraujli inadvertence • the location of the Dominion Motor Vehicles, Ltd.'s, tine now garage was mentioned in yesterday s issue as being in Taranaki btreet, wnereas the new structure fronts tbe Courtenay Place end of Tory Street, right opposite the old Foresters' Hall. n i anr L£' n ?, director of the company, Mr. C. B. Norwood, states that tho garage will be available for use by tho public as from Monday nest. Some military men who saw the troops marching through tile City streets vesterday consider the march the best they have ever seen New Zealand troops do. Laymen gathered a similar impression, considering tlio marcliing almost perfect. The Government has received official notification that the United States has appointed Mr. Win. C. Downs to be Commercial Attache at the Consulate nt Melbourne. New Zealand is included within the sphere of Mr. Downs's activities. A Press Association message from Wanganui states: Out of a large number • of applications from all parts of the Dominion for the, position of Director of the Wanganui Technical College, the Education Board lias selected Mr. George J. Park, present head of tho commercial department of the Christchurch Technical College. An obelisk, erected by the Government in memory of officers and men of tho Imperial Forces, mainly the 40th Regiment, who fell in the attack on Puketakere Pa on June 27, 1860, was unveiled by Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., oil Thursday (says a Press Association telegram from Waitara), in the presence of a large gathering, including veterans of tlie Maori War. The assemblage acknowledged its sympathy with the Hon. James Allen in the recent loss of his son. An application was made to Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., in Chambers yesterday afternoon, by Mr. P. J. O'Regan, for Iftave to institute proceedings for alleged defamatory libel against Luetitia Jane Hood. The application was mado on behalf of Lily Dalzicll, of Wanganui, and ie the result of matters contained in certain anonymous letters addressed to members of the Roman Catholic clergy aud other people. Tho letters were tlio subject of a recont prosecution in Wellington. The Magistrate granted the application, which was made under Section 233 of tho Crimes Act, 1908.

The Minister of Public Health and Hospital has received donations to tie "Ifaiwarra Ward" (Levin's) for Invalid Soldiers as follow: —Mrs. A.. E. Pearce, Hobson Street, soup daily, cards, and magazines; Miss Duncan, 46 Hobson Street, magazines and books; Mrs. Miles, 39 Hobson Street, bagatelle board; Mr. W. E. Fuller, 66 Ellice Street, magazines; Mr. Howg, "Tho Grange," Willis Street, magazines; Miss Millais, cafo Levin and Co., Ltd., magazines; "Bristol Piano Co., gramaRhone and records: Mr. A. Greening, care Levin and Co., Ltd., magazines; The Dominion, six copies; "Evening Post," twelve copies; "Times," six copies; Alcock and Co., Ltd., Feathcrxtou Street, billiard table; British and Continental Piano 'Co., Willis Street, piano. A person who evaded paying car fares, one H.' Dibley, appeared before Mr, 1). G. A. Cooper, S.M., in the Magistiate's Court yesterday, and discovered the penny scction which he attempted to evade payment of on June 5 had cost him, after witnesses 1 expenses, court costs, and a fine had been paid, a total of £1 16s. Mr. E. M. Beechey c-xplained that, Dibley had been pro-' viously convicted for a similar offence, • I while during . the week the present offence had been committed lie had been thrice warned, Tho Magistrate remarked to Dibley at the conclusion of the case that "it would bo a lesson to him to pay his fare 9 in future." An important matter was drawn attention to at the National Dairy Con« fereuce by Mr. A. Morton, who presided. Mr. Morton said that rennet, which is largely used in cheese-making, had risen considerably in price since war had broken out, and, moreover, as it was a product of some of the belligerent countries, several sources of supply had been out off. Therefore, it was hoped that-' efforts would be made to make rennet in New Zealand. Soma people considered that could be done, and attempts made some years ago might have succeeded had the farmers supported it properly. If another venture of tho kind_ was undertaken, the fanners should, in view of the great importance of the matter, see that it lacked none of their support. The Hutt District Hi?h School Young Jlaids' Club has provided 29 sheets. 46 pillow slips, 1M handkerchiefs, and 30 face cloths for the Hospital Ship. On Thursday the Commercial Travellers' Association sent Mr. J. P. Luke a cheque for £1000 to be placed to the credit of the Mayor's Fund for Wounded Soldiers. Subsequently, on the trustees being set up for New Zealand Patriotic Society's Fund, tho association requested Mr. Luke,' if possible, to transfer the amount to that fund, of which he and Mr. Aitken are the trustees. As the cheque had not been paid in Mr. Luke did so, but in order to obviate any uncertainty as to the disposal of the amount desires this explanation bo be made.

THE B.S.A.—FAVOURITE WITH MI LITARY DISPATCH EIDERS—AND WHY. It has sometimes been said, with much truth, that the business test is the beat test of any motor. War is the grimmest business of mankind, and the military motor-cyclist stakes his life, very often, upon the reliability of his mount. Here is what Sergeant R. E. Schoficld, R.E., senior instructor of tho Motor-cycle Section at Aldershot, has to say:—"Nearly every dispatch rider that has gone to the front has passed through my hand 6, and I am therefore in a position to judge how the different makes of machine are in favour. The B.S.A. is by far away the favourite, and it has yet to happen that a B.S.A. has failed to act up to its well-earned repute. ... I may Btate that 50 per cent, of the machines here are B.S.A .'s." A .motor-cyclist with the Second Cavalry Division, British Expeditionary Eorco, writes in a private letter: "The roads are lvollish. . . . My B.S.A. is the goods. I never have to touch it. They are the bikes, my boy. They knock the — and any other make you like t 0 men . tion into a cocked hat." There are plenty of other letters from the front, all to tha same effect. We are landing '20 0 f the latest model B.S.A.'s es s .s. Marlborough this week, and can stive immediate delivery. They are ideal machines for either solo or side-car service, and their reliability is famous. The h.p. is 4}, and the three-speed countershaft gear is foolm of ?.? d . yonderfully efficient. Adams! ~ Chnstchnroh, Wanganni, Palmere- | ton North: Sutherland and Eanbine Wellington! Tourist Motor Co., Raking Agents for B.S.A. Motow.-Adrt