LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 69, 11 August 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

W- T- Young ex-president of the Federation of Labor, 'has been orderel to come up for sentence when called upo* In his reply to a welcome tendered to him at the New Plymouth Borough Councd meeting last night, His Worship the Mayor made it clear that ho would at end to ordinary borough business only during the hours stated by him. A considerable number of inquiries 7? lately been made of the defence authorities 'as to whether the halfyearly examination for the promotion of -territorial officers will be held as usual. The examination will take place on Tuesday, the lStHi jnst. The attention of readers is called to the'clearing being held on account of , Utha ™' hy the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Mr Latham has beene carrying on fob present farm tor 1: years, and has never had a sale, so farmers can depend on the stock being really good.

Tinum telegraphed last night that Mr Mark Saunders, an elderly man who has spent many years in experimenting on the means of utilising wave power, his plant being attached to the eastern taole staging, yesterday unwittingly allowed a truck of stone to run over and crush his right hand to a pulp. The usual weekly meeting of the E°--mont Lodfo No. lli, 1.0. G.T., was hrfd last evening ra Ac lodge-room of the Good Templar Hall. A very interest■ng address was given by 8.-o. the Rev. 0. H. Olds, supported by musical items fsom Sisters Blanchard, Ojark and Hart- .; Sister Legg provide a couple of recitations.

There arc some big bargains for men at the Melbourne's annual sale now m tull swing, such as fashionable felt hats, Js 6d, lovely silk wide end ties Is, navv military coats with deep detachable capes, 16s Bd, flannel undershirts 2s 3d all-wool colonial socks 3 pairs for 2s Od the Melbourne sales always create extraordinary interest among the stem-

* the C0 «" 0 °« f Ms lecture at AuckTsW» t* oll * Folk of the British Pressor Johnson remarked that round singing was purely English, aiM i that counterpart was understood in Britain long before it was known on At a time like the present when a ll Britishers are singing the National Anthem with enthusiasm, it was of interest to learn that the auhorffliip of the tune is still a disputed point, it having been attributed to three composers.

Attention ig drawn to an advertisement appearing m another column refating to a meeting of the Bible in m j Schools League, to be held this Tuesday evening at St. Mary's Hall, at 1 , P- ln - he ob j Mt; of the meeting i* to take such steps as may be necessary to help defray the cost of the two fully-equipped field ambulances which .he League have promised for the New Zealand contingents now leaving the . ' million. A full attendance is specially requested and confidently expecrel. Spc.-a.king to a Napier Telegraph reporter a local business man who comes in contact with persons of rural occupation, said Ithat many farmers would be hard hit by the present European crisis. Although the lambing season had hardly commenced, mobs of lambs not yet born have been sold during the past few months at figures ranging up to 12s 6d. This is a big price, and as local shippers are nop forwarding frozen meat to the Homeland, the purchasers will have to take delivery and simply retain the lambs until such time as the situation improves. Ifc was stated that lanners have followed this practice for some years past, hut this time it has not worked so satisfactorily. . An interesting and unexpected arrival m port (says the Post) was the fullrigged ship Eurasia, uli'rh sailed in, with the Italian flag flying ,-i her mast head, to be popped inside t. ■■ Heads by the Janie Seddon, examined for contraband, and acquainted with the news that a European war was in progress. When the Eurasia left Marseilles rat'hor more than four months ago her people would have laughed incredulously at the suggestion that a big conflict ■was limmfnont. Wlhile she been ploughing her lonely way across tfie sea, _ however, lying becalmed in the tropics, or running before the wind round the Cape, events in Europe have noved with startling swiftness. The men. on _ the Eurasia took but little interest in the news, appearing to have became curiously detached by their long separation from ilhe rest of the world.

The United States of of America and Canada offer very poor chances of employment at present, according to a Wellingtonian who recently went over to try his luck. In Vancouver, he wrftes, ■ anything from ten to twenty thousand men were pacing the streets looking for work. TSve civic authorities had established relief works. At Winnk peg twenty thousand, and at Montreal foiity thousand, people were in the same predicament. The unemployment problem is aggravated by the fact that tile country is over-run with Japanese. Chinese, and Hindus, who were working a,t 'till kinds of employment for about 5s a day. The Japanese, he says, run 'the salmon-fishing industry. Even as far in the north-west at Alberta, blio Orientals are a powerful factor in the labor market. His conclusion on these points is ihalt it is not wise for a young man to scurrey off to Canada or America to make a fortune in a few minutes.