LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 60, 31 July 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lambing lias commenced in Hawkc's Bay and in some parts of the Wellington provincial district. In Hawkc's Bay the weather is exceptionally dry, and very fine for this period of the year. Judgment was delivered yesterday in the Appeal Court in the case The King v. William Thomas Young. At last Wellington Criminal Sessions prisoner was convicted of sedition. The court unanimously affirmed the conviction.

A letter was delivered to the office of this paper last night, bearing the address, "The Editor, North Taranaki Daily Paper, North Island." Its delivery is a mute tribute both to Uic intelligence of the postal officials and to the prestige of the.News as a Taranaki daily. A footpatli cyclist in the Magistrate".? Court yesterday escaped a fine (being merely mulcted in costs) by its being proved that the road at the place in question was impassable, The Magistrate made brief but forcible reference to the wretched state of many of the streets in the Borough just now. The Pahiatua Progressive. Association lias decided to purchase fiften acres near the town, including a large area of native bush, for a public park, the money for which was raised by the recent carnival. The Government lias promised a subsidy and also trees from the State nursery for beautifying the park. The local telegraph office advises that week-end cable messages may be accepted on and after Ist proximo for Portugal under the same conditions and rates as are now in force for a similar service to the United Kingdom (minimum, 20 words, 15s; each additional word 9d). Messages must be forwarded via Eastern,

In the patent case Ridd Milking Machine Co. v. Simplex Milking Machine Co., the Court of Appeal held that there had been no infringement of plaintiff's patent by defendant's milk releaser. Costs were allowed the defendant in the court below on the lowest scale and in the Court of Appeal each party is to pay its own costs. A poll of electors on the proposal to erect the new post office in one of the f./ rden squares in Main street, Pahiatua, was taken on Wednesday. Considerable interest was taken. A controversy on the question has been, proceeding for several weeks past, the squares being an attractive feature of the town. The proposal was rejected by 244 to 232.

"The greatest and most efficient means of advertising New Zealand abroad lias been the breeding of thor-ough-bred horses," said a delegate to '' ■■ A. and P. conference recently, "and after that c«mes the hig*h standard the Dominion lias reached- in the football field. New Zealand was practically unknown to many persons in England until the visit of the All Black football team some years ago." The Duncdin Star says that the statement which has appeared in several contemporaries on the subject of improving the Sydney-Wellington service by the introduction of 22-knot steamers, now being built, has no foundation. The directors have, always kept before them

the importance of improving tlie companies steamer service, but the idea of the establishing of a 22-knot service between Sydney and Wellington, and cutting down the run to three days, has never been contemplated. "Newspaper" has become a synonym for "neighborhood." The newspaper has enlarged the circle in which men live, the ai'ea of their interests. Instead of village gossip, we have the whole world's affairs to concern us. The millionaire and the laborer read tin; same newspaper. The city man in his club and the farmer hundreds of miles from Uie metropolis scan the same columns daily. All of us have entered into a. new community of interest and intelligence, Tho first step towards brotherhood is knowledge; we cannot long be unsympathetic with anybody and any class, if we have sullicient information'about them. Thus that marvellous disseminator of news, the daily press, is one of the golden chains that bind the whole world about the feet of God—William T. Ellis in the Continent.

On Saturday, August Ist, the people of Switzerland and the half million of Swiss scattered all ovsr the globe will celebrate the 023 rd anniversary of the Swiss republic. In the year 1291, after having got rid of their oppressors, the three cantons, Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden, formed the union, the lead seat of which is deposited in the museum at Schwyz, the text being written in Monk's Latin. This union formed the nucleus of the present Switzerland, the oldest existing republic in the. world (says an exchange). England and Switzerland were the pioneers of religious and political liberty, and consequently Switzerland has always enjoyed the moral support of England, seeks no alliances, and has no political enemies. For the first time in the history of the two countries the Swiss national Hag will be hoisted at the Swiss Consulate, Manukau road Auckland, next Saturday.

The value of submarines as weapons of defence was briefly discussed by Captain Hull-Thompson in his speech at the Xew Zealand club luncheon in Wellington on Tuesday. He said he did not agree with the opinion of Admiral Sir Percy Scott that the dreadnought was obsoblete. .Submarines had a very limited power; their rang,; 0 f vision was small, they could not work at night and they could not travel far without depot ships of various kinds to consort them. In enclosed waters no doubt t icy could stop the passage of big ships it Obey were, numerous enough; but b" could not see how they could prevent them from operating on the open soa I heir maximum speed was 14 knots, and he could not imagine tbem being a serums menace to a fleet whose battleships ran at ■£> knots; cruisers at 28 knots, and light enusers at 30 knots,. Captain Hall-Thompson added that aeroplanes were essential as the eyes of the submarines. ] „t they must work in a closely settled country. An aeroplane landed 50 miles from anywhere was m a hopeless position. The Melbourne's annual reduction sale commences to-day. The Melbourne sales are too well known to need emPbas.s ['here will | w , lW(k of „, peis at the popular store to-dav and the following days. The bargains' are bargains m every sense of «„. won ]. mil BACKACHE AXD KIDNEY TROUBLES. Mr Sheldon's fiin Pills are the great corrective for Backache and Kidney ills, and m making the Kidneys weli' you soon rid yourself of nil such svmntoms as Backache, Headache, and other distressing ailments, which both men and VMiYieji M-e so often subject to, l)r Sheldon's Gin Vills ire fold in glass • containers, at Is Cd and 2s Bel, Obtainable everywhere. '

A firm of Wellington carriers have taken over tlic business'of the ElthamOpunako Carrying Company, and are putting on forthwith three motor waggons.

The Full Court at Wellington yester(lav granted the petition of the Awatuna Co-operative Dairy Factor;, Co., Ltd., for an alteration and' extension of its memorandum of association, with the exception of clause a 4, which the Court held should lie refused. At the annual meeting of the Tutu Settlers' Association, members were oi the opinion (states the Ohura Advocate) that communication with Stratford and New Plymouth is of the greatest importance to settlers in the Southern Ohura, and every effort is to be put forward by the Association to get connected by telephone and mail service, and to urge that a. sullkdcnt sum lie placed on the Kst'c malcs l,> ensure a. vicoivu,' iiroswiition of the railway from the Stratford end. The I'lilted Slate.v thivl, r iuterventi.ii: l ■ '■■.!■■' the ~;Ve.! ,„ .1... ;■:■: some,vl,m! ■■• .1 and ;-> ■- u.- n ■■<>, the ■••■ IV, id,.:. 'Vme,;:,. ' ■ ■ ■.. .■ iv- I. in- ,!,,,, A-.cn 1,-ive ,1.1., cm > ■,■-,.'■... un.l revoiiiuon. Willi regard to I lie former, the linited .States Mrm.iii. f ,o",e;h: i (lemr.tt i.ecoute as IVesiddil. in Aii",u-ii,. I'll!. In September, as the Cowuiinent showed a disposition to record v the claim, .d' fori i'fiieri. the irouvi adUi »■■.; ir,i,■„!,.,,; (hev hud lollnd O? ,ee;l.,iu!.-

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