LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 2, 21 May 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Australian and English mails ex Willochra at Wellington, will arrive here this afternoon. A citisen and 1 business' iman vrfio has j just retu/rnod from a sojourn, to M .1bairrno amd Sydney spoke in glowing tennis concerning ithe progress of the two capitals. Both cities, lie averred, are still booming, and tho activity in sporting circles there was restliy ainftzing. Tho question of safeguarding public health by disinfecting public vohicles in which infectious cases travel cropped up at the meeting of the Taranaki Hospital Board yesterday, and its unsatisfactory position was the subject of considerable comment. The difficulty of ascertaining the vehicles in which they travel was stressed, whilst the fact that in many cases infectious patients travel by train in the ordinary carriages was also commented on. As the art union in connection with the band carnival has been fixed by .the Hon. Minister of Internal Affairs to be 'lrawn on Saturday evening next, the 23rd inst., it is absolutely necessary that all books should be returned to the secretory forthwith, and a notice to that effect appears elsewhere. Further, any persons holding tickets numbered 621 to 040, 641 to 600,1181 to 1140 are requested to communicate at once with the hon. secretary, Mr E. Ellis, New Plymouth. The people will have to make their choice between the party who stand for good government and progressive reform on sound democratic lines and an effete Wardism, which doe® not know its own mind, and is certainly too weak to withstand the pressure of that element in the community which is committed to the class war and the promotion of industrial strife. Intermediate parties such as Wardism must eventually bo eliminated, and ultimately the electors wiill have to declare for social evolution or for social revolution.—Dominion.

Protruding hatpins were responsible for 28 women and girls being charged at the Auckland Polico Court, before Mr E. Page, S.M., with a breaoh of a section of the city by-laws dealing with the hatpin danger. All were convicted and ordered to pay costs, amounting to 7s in each case. One young woman, who was not represented by counsel, declared that the charge against her could not be upheld because the hatpin she wore lay flat against the brim of her hat. 'lt might still have been a danger to those beside her on tho tramcar," argued Inspector Lindsay. "But it was pointing towards the window," said tihe young woman, with a smile. At the meeting of the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board yesterday, Mr. Macßeynolds referred in high terms to the good work done by Miss Muir, native nurse at Opunake. In fact, people in tho district were so pleased with her work that theiy wanted her to accept the position rendered vacant by the resignation of the district nurse. Mr. Macßeynolds said that he refused to agree to tliis, as he felt that it was quite possible to get another good district nurse, but that it would be very hard to get another native nurse of her qualifications. Mr. MacßeynoMs' action was approved, the Olitiirman remarking that it would' bo a mistake to interfere with the native work at the present juncture. The railway station rang again with rousing cheers asi the cadets' special train mwed out yesterday evening. The Taranaki boys ca n drill, and th«t tihey can cheer also will be admitted by those who witnessed their departure for hornet The Inglewoodi company, under Lieut. Humphrey, can without hesitation be single out for special mention for their manner of entraining, as well a s for the presence of a fine bugle band. Those cadets who, sought to prove their manhood estate by swaggering up and down tho platform "with female 'acquaintances were greeted with loud guffaws. Tke attentions of their comrades in the carriages were diverted only by the arrival of Captain Gray and a squad with a biff tu'bful of edibles.

There was a roijiarkable development in a owe hoard at the Lust sitting of the Magistrate's Court tit Manaia. Mary Cozens, who described herself as a married woman, whose husband resided in London, proceeded against William Butlor, a prominent farmer and town councillor at Mannia, and a married iman, for an affiliation order and: maintenance order in respect to hjer illegitimate childl The case Jiad an abrupt ending. After describing her wedding i n . London, ■stating that her husbandi had her marriage certificate, complainant, under severe cross-examination by defendant':: counsel, in answer to a question as to whether she would sign a cablegram to Iter husband asking if he still bad the certificate, refused to d't> so, and] eventually confessed that she wis not married. Hor counsel thereupon tflvrcw up bis brief, and the complaint was dismissed. There has never been any great and widespread peace which was not made bv the fighting-man and kept by the fighting-man. neither in our own time, nor in our ifather's time, nor in the old time before them. For four hundred years the Roman Peace lay from the British seas to the Satiara, from the ''lack Sea to the Atlantic—and out of the great peace Christianity was born. The British Peace stands to-day an ob,ject lesson to those who see how it was made and bow it is kept. Cadets and territorials, expeditionary forces, and navy crews, regulars and v<J!unteers, keep to-day the greatest peace the worfd has known since the Romans lost the gieat virtue and their empire faded and failed. Not a soldier who wears the King's uniform but has brought more peace to the world than any who abuse the fighting man; not a land who wears the cadet uniform, not a man who camps witli the territorials, but gives ik more security for peace in New' Zealand than any one who Ihush the sound of trumpets --until the invading bugle wakened us from shameful sleep to a righteously shameful doom.—"Tohunga" in Auckland Tlenild.

tip-top Top-oo.vra AT THE MELBOURNE. There's n<> other store in Taranaki carrying such a magnificent range of men's ami boy's top-coats as the" Melbourne. Wonts that embody the acme of style, quality and wear. Such values as t,le following can .be obtained nowlieift but at the Melbourne, -tlx, popular men.'si store. Mens heavy tweed overcoats with belt at lack., 2!)s fid; grand warm double-breasted' top-coats', pat,torns, extraordinary values, .'Ws, :!7s fid to 49s 0(1. AH the latest things in rainproofs and 'hvdrotites 2!>s fid, :i!)s (Id; the new hydratite at 4!)s (kl is fine value, very stylish. The famous "car" coats, heavy, warm, ample and comfortable, alls fid. Leather-lined motor coats with eortvertable collars, 70s fid: boys' and youths' warm tweed coats with belt at back ir« (id to Ills (id. Best Hot Water Bottles, "easoi .bin / prices—Da vies' Pharmacy. - " !. '-jiiiiifiSsifki.. -

Professor Dallohhcy'ft brass band raising funds for Senior Oaelct' companies' drum. and. iifw bunds, will visit, .Now Plymouth «u 2ttk Job*. Shorthorns are realising good prices nil over Great Britain. At the i'orth (Scotland) sale, 312 bulls averaged £B4 13s 5d —a record. Mr. D. Maclennan purchased bulls to the value of £7727 (or tho Argentine, 170 gulnoas being the highest price. Tie majority of tile best animals were bought for South America. The heifer sales were also very succcsbftid l the general average of 'tahe whole sale being £72 9s '2d, or about £9 per head better than in 1913. Tho Ohristehurch Press states that & disturbing element in tho wheat and flo<u.r trade ia the arrival of Australian flcnir, which is now coming in regularly by steamer. Uarge quantities, it is reported, are being received! at North. Island ports, suud same is also coming to tho South Island. This outside supply of flowr has a steadying, effect upon the price of wheat, Which in a. short aeaao* for supplies, like -the present might have been expected to advance. Kentucky's "model town" lying across the Ohio river from Evansville, Indiana, hai3 been 3old far taxes. It consisted of ten acres of land, a city kill with electric light and poww plant. The town was laid out four or five years ago, and it was announced that it would bo run on the Utopian plan. Stares, factories, and all other businesses were to be operated by the people, ami all city ordinances wore to be framed by the citizens in town meetings. Aftertihe founder <jf the place disappeared the inhabitants moved away. / Br. Barlow, director of the cancer research laboratory at Leeds University, has advanced the theory, after a long 6eries of experiments that radium might 'be regarded as a eause of cancer. His experiments piwod that radium was present at times in perfectly normal human tissue but that it was to be found in much larger quantities in carcinomatous tissue. Dr. Barlow suggests that j radium is a cause of cancer, providing that it i& present in quantities capable of stimulating the cells that were ultimately to fortn cancer.

Dairy farmers in various parts of Southland reported that milk returns had fa,lien off a great deal daring this month, and generally admitted that the end of the season' is now in eigiit. In certain pxrts of the province ten degrees of frost were recorded that morning, and such a severe frost will most effectively put a stop to all growth of grass. The season has been ft good one; milk returns have been good, though in some districts tests have been lower than usual, and factories everywhere have been paying good prices for milk. Several local bodies in the King Country are taking action with a view to iregulting tlie 'Storage of explosives on business premises.The Tatrmamnui Borough foreman recently reported to his council that the stocks of explosives j kept in the .town were enough to blow the whoie place up. He recommended ■Hie restriction of stocks carried to one I case of benziine, 25 oases. of kerosene, one caiso of blasting powder, Bibs of gelignite or dynamite, and ooie packet of detonators. Any- extras to be kept in a magazine 60ft from ti road. The Council suggested corporation with the storekeepers to erect n. magazine. The report vras adopted. Ts it reasonable or just to take a man's property on the promise of payment at an indefinite period ? We think not. There may, of course, be some other means of producing the result desired. The Government miigtot, for instance, issue debentures, which would be convertible on reasonable notice, or wlien the option of the freehold was exorcised by the incoming Bottler. Or, it might advertise for one hundred men who are willing to pay down the cash for one-hundred-acre sections af firstclass land, at, say, £lO per acre. When it ascertained that the men were ready with the money, iit could go to an owner J and say: "We. want your land, and here's !the cash." Some such system as this migibt be worked to advantage.—Wairarapa Age. One of the biggest, actions ever heard in the fttiw courts of the United States faros, in the last round, ended disastrousi ly for the Kodak Company, who possess one of the biggest businesses in the world, the mintsitthidc of whidi' may be ■assessed by the fart tfliat their profits >we said to be over two millions sterling por annum. The business 'has been created by one of the most remarkable I captains of industry of modem times, Mr Kaatumn, •who 'has derated the whole i of his life to 3iot -work. Origmilly lie wii* a bank clerk interested in photography. The successful plaintiffs are the representatives of n. deceased gentleman nn-TOMf Ood'win, who claimed, to have been the inventor of the film in use in Sunday fdwmls. They wre awarded £5,000,000 for buck royalties. What the fulnwo royalties will amount to it is impossible to estiimtite., The Tvwlo-1,- Company «.re appealing ajpCmst the judgment ■but they have set «Ki/lo a very .l.xrije sum of money -to pay the damages should the decision be upheld ow Appeal. An epidemic of suicides appears to be raging in New Zealand at present. I Almost daily one or more cases of a

man taking hio own life is reported by telegram, with the usual verdict, "suicide while temporarily insane," and where lie ended his days. It lids come to be recognised that si man vv.lio Jinnies out,of the world by bis own act is insane, and yet tlie world is not such a wonderfully attractive place to justify tlie assumption. A caws often occurs where the man is suffering the agonies of sonic incurable disease and life to him is not worth living, yet if he makes an end of a burdensom« existence ho is 'temporarily insane." The strange part about the position is that when a. man attempts suicide aiul faiLi he is punishable, aiwl often punijdied by the law, and yet if he succeeds lie is not held responsible for his actions for Uich he is classed insane. Tfc would appear therefore that he is only of unsound mind when he succeeds in taking his own life; when he fails lie is punifdied for his failure. We think that a better verdict would lie:—Suicide through want of courage to face enormous djfiiciilties.—Exchange.