LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 63, 3 August 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The receipt of the news of "war de clared," caused excitement in New Plymouth yesterday. The News, immediately on the cablegram being delivered, posted the news on hoardings. Where the hundreds of people came from in only a few minutes was reaUy remaarkable. ■ A notice appears elsewhere in thi-j issue over the signature of the Austrian Consul, calling on all Austrian reservuts to join the colors. Their expenses will be paid, and amnesty is declared for at 1 deserters who join at once. During the month of Juiy Customs duties collected at the port of New Plymouth amounted to £3458, as compared with £3707 6s 5d for the corresponding ' period of last year. Beer duty amounted to £B3 12s, the duty for July, 191S, I being £77 18s.

The Sydney Morning Herald and Daily Telegraph take exception to the message from Sydney published on July 17th, with regard to the circulation of 70j113 claimed by the Sydney Sun as a record. They point out the certified circulation of the Herald is 120,274 daily and of the Telegraph 81,947, and assert that the Sun's claim is wholly misleading.—Press wire.' The Moa Farmers' Dairy Company, at its quota (£24) towards re-imbursing after a brief discussion, to contrihire its quota (£24) towards re-embursung the city merchants with the cost of maintaining wharf laborers on the bonis in order to ensure shipment of dairy produce during the recent strike. Similar action has been taken by most of the dairy companies in aranaki. For many years Bytes' cattie drench has been well known w dairymen tfcrougout Australasia, the preparation winning its way to fame on its merits. Mr. Syktes has just receive! enquiries from commercial -firms in Buenos Ayres with a view to securing the selling rights of the drench in South America.

Clifford Bertram Thomas, who mked his drink with the waters of the S.ii. toki stream by reposing in it some days ago, appeared in the Magistrate's Court, New Plymouth on Saturday a.it was convicted and fined 10s on the charge of drunkenness, or in defau t 4S hours' imprisonment!, and ordered to pay gaol expenses, etc., totalling £1 2s or in default 14 days' hard labor. He was allowed until to-day to pay the 10s fine and one week to pay the £ 1 2s. At yesterday's meeting of the New Piymouth Brotherhood Mr. N. K. M •.- Diarmid occupied the chair. An interesting address was delivered by the Rev. H. J. Lewis on "The Basis of Brotherhood." Mr. Lewis, who was listened to with great attention, spoke of the value and force of trat feeling •f brotherhood, the basis of which was the possession of common Jite, and whose influence had been felt in international crises aiid in a manner overstepping the bou-ads of class and racial distinctions. He brought this* basis of lvothcrliood back to the Almighty Fatherhood, remarking that Christ, the elder Brother of all men, had set mankind its standard of brotherhood. Avenue road card club will meet Egmont Village at the Burlington Tea Rooms to-night. Mr. Will Hutchens, late of the Roy.t' Academy of Music, London, notifies in this issue that if sufficient inducement offers he wild visit New Plymouth weekly to give tuition in singing <vnl the vioWn. Enquiries may he made at Hoffmann's. Furniture value—if you want go i value you cannot go past Dc Launars furnishing house in Inglewood. I'he furniture turned out at this increasing'y popular house typifies the best Workmanship. It is made to last and to giv; the utmost satisfaction. De LaunavS told a stock of great variety, and" inspection is welcomed,.for better material o- better value cannot, be obtained in Taranaki.