LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 47, 16 July 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Yesterday was Arbor Day, bat no j t me planted trees, at, least not in. any I'ery conspicuous places. Tlio Govein-nt-nt building, .however, wore closed, t The, Minister for Public Works will li officially Uirn tilie first sod of the '' Fieatherstoii-Miirtinborough railway on t Monday next. The ceremony will be s performed at Martinborough, i A ladies' committee of Hie Fitzroy Bowling Club lias- in band the arrange- ' mont of a social and dance in order ' to finance! the improvements to the ' green which the elub has in 'hand. j The new Polytechnic at Oainani is to lift supplied with a dynamo which will be driven by the largest oil engine in the town. This engine lias been specially constmcted to consumo Tai'anaki oil. A young ladies' wafting club has lieen 'formed in Mas'tcrton. On Btvturday last the. ".nerabers went on a fivemile walk down tire. Homelnwh road, but they were compelled to abandon a portion of the journey on account of rain setting in. ft is reportci' that for several months past two pure white sparrows have frequented a farm at Elgin, feeding with the fowls. Strange to fifty, these sparrows are ostracised by the other sparrows, which will not permit any advances of a friendly nature. A report is current in Wanganui thai Mrs. O'Keeie, of Mangaweka, has inherited a fortune from an uncle Kamcil O'Sullivan, win) died in America worth £5,0<)0.0l)0. There are five families to participate in the estate. Two daughters of Mrs. O'Keefe arc at present living in Marton. The violent ringing of the alarm at the, Greymoubh fire station one evening lately brought the men out in double quick time to find two seamen off one of the boats in port inquiring for police assistance in getting them aboard their ship, as it had swung out from the wharf. The visitors were quickly directed to the police station, leaving the firemen to return to the slumbers from which they had 'been so rudely disturbed. The man named George Allen, alia* Gapt. Kella, vlic pleaded guilty in tire Magistrate's Court, New Plymouth, last week to a charge of obtaining money under false pretences, is at present exercising the mind of the Taranaki County Council. Tie took a. contract for tha Council some time previous to the law's stern summon?, and now an employee of hia has written to the Council claiming a sum for wages due to him for work on the contract, which is not yet completed. He will probably be asked to tako over the com • pletion'of the contract. The Emigration Department of the High Commissioner's office, is first in the field with an excellent advertisement to attract domestic servants to the Dominion, says a London correependent. The device consist* of .•. ilasfh j light mirror, on which there appear* in succession a familiar pillar bo.\ in red, thei, the figure of a neatlydressed female ir. white apron and cap, posting a letter addressed to the High Commi sioner's office, and finally the w.'obs. ''New Zealand wants domestic servant f. Rich country; fine, climate; good wages: work waiting*. Fare 11 Ids. Advance if required. Enquire within." The mirror is worked by dec tricify, and the cost of (ho current wiill be only 2d a day of 10 tours. The advertisement will be displayed in agent's windows in England and Scotland. Having observed that some people in New Zealand seem inclined from, time to time to question the accuracy of the prices cabled by the High Commissioner's officer* as representing those obtaining in 'the Home markets, the Auckland Star's London representative put a query on the subejet. Had he noticed the fact, and, if so, what was his rejoinder? "Yes," said Mr. Mackenzie, "I hare observed it, and you may possibly (have noticed that tnoso who take exception to our cabled prices seem careful to avoid quoting concrete examples of what they are pleased to term inaccurate reports'. I am perfectly aware that my reports of priceß do not suit certain people in New Zealand. At the same. time. I am here to advise as nearly as possible, and if they thought the quotations were misJcHding, they would very quickly point out the suppressed errors. They ought to point them out if they think they exist, and until they do so this office does not intend to take any notice of the criticisms." Mr. Horatio Botloiuley, who controls the. destinies of the penny weekly, ■'•loliii Thill." indulges in a little Ding at General Sir lan Hamilton in the current issue: "In common with a number of other warriors employed in an official capacity. General Sir lan Hamilton ... is publicly poking bis nose into high places. His recent Rpeoeh on the, 'Yellow Peril' in the Pacific. *ug-ge.-viing a bloody racisiiT struggle between the yellow man and the white man for supremacy the world over, has already bitter comment in the newspapers of Japan, our ally. We. suirgest to the Inspector-General that his business is to get along with his business and keep his tongue still while he is about it. There are far too many pi litica! gasbags among high paid officers engaged in the military *erviec of the nation, fltid it is time the War Miui.'lc- peremptorily ordered them to shut their feces. 11l case (.'eii'-i-.t' lan Hamilton Ins. anv siiluo-ratiling to do as pari of his official job. let 'bin, do it somewhere else than in the fuse nf a people who, as our allies, .are entitled to claim freedom, from publv affront on the part of a military re-pro -entative of the Empire." An example of the printing of ite\\bel'ore it reall ' happens made the evening paper-, of America a laughing storl. in tho-e not direct!v concerned, and an object of bitter denunciation to tin.-.-all'ected the otlier (lav when ij- was rumored that the steamer Siberia had been lost off the coast of Formosa. The lir-l n»ws of the rumored loss of t.he vessel was given ju-tlv wide public-it.-. lli urly from tlieii bul'lotm* were published in the paper- detailing more and more about the wreck. Several paper* came out with drawings showing the exa.-l position of the "disaster." and ineluded sketches of boats leaving tinside of (he sinking ship, together with gruesome details of the passengers committing suicide rather than face death in the shark-infested sea. and the boiler, i-f the ship sending her rent timbers skyward. Imagine the distracted feelin.;', of the main- who had relatives and friends aboard' tint!, steamer. The rumor of her loss was bad enough. But fmwv ham-in" their soul- with deiail-y.hi.-'h to say 'the bast of them existed onlv in the imagination of clever artist - Alter a dajy of wild excitement the late t edition:' of the evening papers printed the rti.-jpat.-V that (he .-team..;' was reported unite safe and proceeding on bev journey. IiI'.GKXT iJIGAHKTTFS aie pure and cool. Smoke them and share in the Great Free Gift Scheme. Write for ! Free Gift Catalogue to Kegent, Ilox 3:11, j Wellington. Sixty free gifts.

The result of the latent rounds in the Inglewood ci'ibbage eoropetiliuiis lor tlic shield was that tho Fire l!ngadf defeated the Bcwlers by 31 to 21, and the Druids were victorious over Ejfmont Village by 25 to '23. At a Napic! auction mart a man bought £lO worth of jewellery. On handling the jovellery lie said that he had not got the worth. The auctioneer then ottered to prove by reselling it tint the jewellery \vu« worth £lO, and if it realised more Uian the £lO t'he fnirpiuf. wus to go to a local institution. lie subsequently re-sub-mitted the jewellery by auction, and il realised £t*i 10s. ii 10i cf which w»s given to the IlawkuN Uay Children'-' Homo. In connection with cite application which the Inglewood Volunteer Five Brigade mad« to the Inglewood Borough Council for pexims»-jon to extend their building* over a portion of waste Is*nil used as a right-of-way a conference was held on Monday, at which representatives of the Borough Omineil, tihe Tire Brigade, and the library committee took part. Afteit considerable discussion it wa : s decided to enquire of the Railway Department if persmesion would be granted to erect an up-to-date fire station on the Moa street frontage in Uie vicinity of the band rotunda. The first of a series of ouehre partie" organised by the EnterUiinmemt Committee in aid of the CiWa-r Road Rac.j fund eventuated in the i.lood Templar Hall last evening and, judging by f?hc attendance, they are going /to be a' popular as ever this year. The early portion of th--» evening was devoted to cards. Mr. 0. Bond having charge. Tiire count-up gave Mesdamea Watc.rs an;! Stansell 13 games each, and in the ■playoff the form-;: yon. Among the men Mr. K. Ilooher, with 14 games, we» first, Mr. Clievne, with 13 games, second. Supper naa handed round, and ; the ladies' committee, consisting of . Mosdamcs Moon, Bond, Yates. McKay , and Mi-.-* .Brookes, had a very busy half ! ilronr, wliich they smilingly survived. , Dancing was then commenced, and wa« kept going for three or ton- hours. Mr. , IT. Brooks, was M.C., and Mrs Oeorge's , orchestra provided tJhe donee mnifiie. The importance of correct standing and sitting postures in childhood was * urged by l)r. Heuter Roth in o lectwe .. given before the Sydney Health Society last week. Ho said that about 80 per B cent, of the spinal deformities were developed during the time of education, roughly speaking between ages of six and 20. Curvature of the spine was very rare among uncivilised people. ,j The stately walk of the African, Ani--0 atic, and Island peoples are very ;i0,5 , 5 ticeablo. The people of those count Tie* L did not use. chairs, but eithev squatted |] or sat tailorwisc. It wa» possible that among European people the spines of children were injured by the use of chairs at too early an age. In the <• kindergarten the greater part o.f - t)li • n time was spent on -the floor, with good p- results, and he thought that .it might (i perhaps be better to have no seats for s- school cliildren under eight years of age. .i When one noticed the way infants were :■ propped up in ■perambulators instead of r- lying llat, it wa»' easy to understand f- 'lrow many a weak bark was started. 1' A young Po'i-h w:vman mined Mi.--> ' < inplicn iias left l.ov.don to 'lend a 1P sc.ioiiiilic expedition ill N'orlh Siberia. J' under the a;i-i>'< of the Oxford Srlinnl of Anthropology, ami as a travelling ftflow of fiomerville College. Oxford. e The object of the expedition is to yiiilv '' certain tribes on the Yenesei l'iver 1 and between the Yeneaei river and f the Pacifiic, which arc as yet unclassified among the racial families of the world. The expedition will consist of two men and one woi« man scientist, and' of an English »' woman who ia going as an artist and ■'f photographer. The equipment includes s- a tent similar to that used by tVpta'm ficott. on his last journey, except that it "' is Hilled witlv wool and divided into compartments for tilio men's nnd wol<> men's quarters. In ttiis the scientist* > s will lire for a year, pitching their rump 1: ' alone among the savage tribes. It is 11 possible that the two men will return before the winter season, leaving the women alone. Although some of these tribes gave a good deal of troubles duro ing the, Maneliurian war, Miss Cvapliea : .V is setting out quite fearlessly to lire '!• among them.