LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 71, 13 August 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tlie l'elegraph_Department advises:— huropeau administrations renew notice') f hat all cable messages arc only accept "d at senders' risk. No complaints or I requests for refunds arising from any fit use whatever will be. considered. Ai tlie Police Court, yesterday, a Territorial who was about to join the expeditionary force was brought up on a warrant in connection with a paternity ease. Defendant was ordered to enter into a bod with one approved surety in the sum of £75, and to pav £2 '2s costs, Mr ITutchen appeared for' defendant. ' You tink I too big," said a seri-ous-faced Maori to a pressman in'front of the Evening Post building on Saturday. "I volunteer with my friend, a Maori, to go to the war. He go, but they say I too big—onlv 20 stone! By Jingo, I wish I not so "fat! My horse pretty good, heavy, though. You tink tes war last long, Mister, because I start git thin? By gorry I like ro go."» The Maoris, it is understood, ere offering their services in considerable numbers, The council of the Taranald Chamber of Commerce, at a meeting on Tuesday afternoon, passed a resolution commend ing rhe Government for o promptly responding to the Empire's call for assist- I ance, and also for taking steps to pro- I feet the public during the present crisis | from any extortionate increase in prices | of food. In the latter case, however, it was urged that the matter required handling with extromi care in order to | avoid doing injustice to any -ection of the community, The Chinaman could speak but lit'. 1 .? English, and'the Englishman could spe . c no Chinese; nevertheless the dinner wea r off very agreeably. The two men sat facing one another in silence while a neu j Chinese butler served them dish aft dish of surprising delicacy. There wis I one dish especially that pleased ih'; Englishman. It waa a r'nlv stew of onions, pork, mushrooms and a dark, tender, well-flavored meat that seemed like duck. The Englishman ate heartily of this stew. Then he closed his eyes, lifted his hands, and shook his head with an air of ecstasy. After this pantomimic compliment to the dish he said, interrogatively: "Quack, quack." "No, no," said the Chinaman, "bowwow!" At the annual meeting of the Tamaki '"•operative Dairy Company the chairii :i (.Mr. W. f'rii) explained that the reason why the average price for butter this year was a farthing a pound less than last year was that the output had not been huge enough, while the industrial trouble had- also affected prices. Referring to the movement originated among Tamaki companies to float a company in London with a capital of €l,()Ml,oort to control the market for Xcw Zealand butter, lie said that either tins company was unnecessary, or else the National Dairy Association had failed in its objects. The matter of control at (lie Home end would have t.o be closely enquired into bv the dairy nmipanies of the Dominion.' Dr Christian, of Birkenhead, England, had a 15 minutes' struggle with two men in his bedroom in the early morning. Awakened by a noise, he saw a man ransacking the Toom. He tackled the intruder, and then tii-■ seeonl man came from underneath the 1 d. Mrs Christian woke up and scr imeil for help. While he was struggling with one of the men the other knocked Dr Christian down with some heavy weapon. The assailants then fled. Dr Christian, although dazed by the blow, put on some clothes and followed the men towards the ferry, where they disappeared. He had struck one of them in il.e eye and also cut his lip. The 'men took away an article worth £2O. Other articles, including a sword, had been gathered together, but were left behind. In an interview with tlie Hawera Star, Mr C. A. Wilkinson, M.P., says that there is no increase in the wholesale price of sugar, and there should therefore be no increase in the retail price. The price of flour is not likely to increase, owing to the action of the Covernment. In regard to benzine and kerosene, prices are not 'likely to advance, there being sufficient held by the Vacuum' Company to last New Zealand for nine months In Mr Wilkinson's opinion, the public have been unnecessarily alarmed, and by purchasing quantities that they could not readily consume have played right into the'hands of dealers. He is strongly of opinion that at the present juncture every one should keep as cool a< possible, ami thus avert, any undue and unnecessary inflation in prices.

An important, point was raised in a compensation claim before the Arbitration Court on Monday (says the Wellington limes). 1 fiiHodge, a former of Alton (Taranaki). as administrator of the estate of Frederick Harry ITod-e was the phimtiff, and the Alten'Co-oner-ative Dairy Company the defendants. While ni the employ ~i the defendant company on January 22 hist Kmlerick Hodge heeame entangled in some maclimery, and as a result -lis left arm had to bo amputated below Ihe elbow He was admitted to the Pa lea Hospital, and was -paid compensation from time to tune, totalling .CD. While in the hospital he contracted typhoid fever, and 24 died, leaving no dependents. V?!io ?. now < '' ainio(t 11 lump sum of £-13 being 05 per cent, of the full compensation as provided in the Workers' ( ompensation Act, 1908. Mr. C. B. Mor[>f o A'' K ' C- : 11,10 :l i'l'caied with' Mr. ]>. li| Cooke for the plaintiff, argued that the compensation payable to the deceased clearly became part of the estate. Air I . .J. 0 Regan appeared for the defendant company, and maintained that a lump sum was only payable by agreement, or by an award of the Court. Hail such an agreement been arrived at during the life of the deceased, it would then have, been a part of the estate 4s he died leaving no dependents, and no lump sunn had been r..«| upon or awarded by the Court during deceased's lifetime, the defendants were only liable to pay such amount as had accrued during the lifetime of the decen-ed Ac oordingly the sum of *lO 17s had been paid into Court. The Court reserved its decision, Mr. .Justice Stringer intimating that as the point raised was of great importance, he would take the opportunity of conferring with the iu<ic»e-> now in Wellington. " j Do you smoke and work too! Then a light tobacco plays up with the tongue I while a dark brand is miles too heavy! Try MILD DERBY-the perfect 'W >i?tn smoke—jilug or ting. 1