LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 74, 17 August 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

, <>'•„• £43 has boon collected at IU- . vera lor typewriters to,- use i„ Ul ., liuven, le t -,m,aU\,lle g e ; £2,-, WM <*]- "'•'■ tod at Mham for the same purpose. Uv ti.e will of the late James tenvJ»n\. the residue of the estate, a f Cu - Pn.v'n- siiiKlry legacies to f ,; ( ,, ](js ; , li'fl to the. Feathorslon Town Hoard or public purpo>es. The estimate-! benefit to the town is ahum iiaKii). A note appeared j„ the Keildin-Star cabin- a, meeting of the Cennan populalion <.f llaltomhe to consider the advisabdity of helpiiiff the lSnitLsh. Umpire Jil its lime of trouble. Tim notk-e was Otto 'Wishnowskr,. There anil number of (leriniaus i'n and around llaleombe, having settled there in the early days of the district. The address given by the. Hex. Mr Williams at the tiood' TcnipUr Hall last nielli, in opp;*iiion to the llible-in-Sehools l.eagu,". movement, was' unlv r odcrately attended. His Worship Ui« Mayor. Mr .1. K. Wil-oti, presided. In the course of bis intc'esl im; remarks, 'he lectin"!' advocated that lUiitters should remni'i as tliey were. Another ucetiiig will ba held on Tuesday.

On Friday crcning hist, two patriotic (flags displayed outside ulic A.Ii.U. Boot | Company's shop were turn to shreds by | 'some person or persons ■unknowm. >Mu-i-ilalion of the Union .Jack (especially in war time) is punishable by imprisonment. Should tiii! offender be eau-lit at the. game he is likely to have" a pretty severe, handling Dy 'Onlookers. In order to avoid clashing wkh the Avenue Koad social, the masquerade and fancy dress ball to have been held at the East End Pavilion on Thursday next has been postponed until the following Thursday, August 27, when the. grass proceeds, by permission of his Worship the Mayor, will he bunded over ■to tile Patriotic Fund. There will be no entertainment at the Jiwt End' this week.* r More than one complaint has been i made in the past few (months concerning the unsatisfactory service at the telephone exchange in the early hours of the morning. Eiujuiry reveals tlu fact that the swiive of the trouble was definitely located, and that the matter has been rectified by a change in the personnel of the staff. Jn this connection it is opportune to suggest that seasoned men, instead of mere lads, should he given the charge of the teleI phone service from midnight- onwards. ,'., A Col ' res .P oluic Jit lias forwarded to "'The Navy" a translation of a most interesting article on the "Naval Supremacy of the Orient," by a rear-admiral of the Imperial Japanese Nvy. which was published in tlie April num!ber of ""The Japan Monthly." It was written with the idea of impressing upon the "Japanese nation the paramount necessity for maintaining such a fleet tlnu would ensure the command of the east'ern seas. It dealt with the possibility of the Western nations sending powerful squadrons to the East in the event iof trouble 'in those waters, and eoneluded by saying, "Indeed, even with I England we. could not hope to maintain lnvnioaioiis. /relation} .utalless we sufficient' naval force to coinjinand her esteem and respect." A pleasing feature of itthe Waiwakaiho cattle sale on Friday last was the improved enquiry for dairy cattle. Good springing heifers and cows met with a ready sale at advanced rates, .the farmers evidently having been reassured by the British Govei'jiimient'a announcement tlvat the seas are clear of German vessels. Yeariings were not .enquired for at the sale, but Wggor cattle mot with good 'bidding. An aged cow was donated by Mr Edgar Bayly Wi the Patriotic Fund, and bought by 'Mr Percy Wood, wlio promptly resold h<M- on behalf of the same fund, with .the result 11at £2 15s was handed to the New Plymouth list. At the Stony River ealeyards on Wednesday, a prime fat hull'&ek donated by Mr D. F. Greenwiay, will be sold, and possibly some other cattle will that daji be offered for tiiie sains fund. "Here is the unfathomable imbecility of war," says an Australian paper: ""Great numbers of foreign-born residents in Australia, many of them permanently settled here and (except for Voting) enjoying all the 'benefit of 'Govenuneitt and; citizenship equally 'with the British-bom, are hastening back to participate in a war.with Brituin, by which it is Imped by these sildic.rs' Governments to reduce Britain to national impotence and seize some of hrr overseas Dominions. Notably the war would have paid for it'self 'if Germany obtained through it 'a foothold in Australia. And should go against our departing friends j —and should they be unharmed, as we Tdevoutly hope will be the case—they return to Australia to resume, the I same amicable daily relations as before j'Lhey took up amis against us."