LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 24 August 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

11 t> of the Empire PicIture Palace announce that in future the programmes will be, changed three times I weekly—Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, Ladiea wishing to join the first-aid ambulance class under St. John's Ambulance Association, New Plymouth, are requested to send in their names to | Mrs. E. Dockrill, New Plymouth. According to a witness in a sly grog case at Taumarunui, the current price of whisky in the King Country is 12s 6d per bottle. If a vendor takes less he is accused of "scabbing" on the others in the -business. According to the London Times, more than one-fifth of the butter consumed 1 in Great Britain 13 exported from Siberia, which sends upwards of 40,000 tons annually, besides eggs and cheese. This supply will now be cut off. Hie Dominion's export of butter is about 20,000 tons per annum. All object-lesson in economy durin** war time is afforded at the Nurses" Home at the Auckland Hospital Over 100 nurses reside in the institution, and their housekeeping bills represent considerable outlay. In order that expense may be reduced to a minimum in this respect, table delicacies 110 longer lind a place upon the simple menu, such items as jam, fruit, cakes and scones being deleted. The nurses have also contributed £,25 to the. war fund (savs the Star) and as ilie smallest individjual donation was five shillings (representing nearly two weeks' salary on the part of the lirst and second-year nurses) it may he truly said that the nurses at the Auckland Hospital have- set a very fine example of patriotic feeling. The following .-sensible noite is taken from the Mercantile Gazette of New Zealand:—We think many of our people are noting very sillily i'n withdrawing | trow ,tho business initio which they were | entering prior to the war. There'is not j going to be anv great- difference in New , Zealand, and -there is 110 necessity for anyone to think that conditions" will dlitinge to any extent except (hat speculative vcnlfcuirce will be curtailed. There may be some unemployment, cottage j properties and securities held about the ; towns will fall, but land will remain as jit is, and after the war will probably fetch higher values than it commands tit 'present. The man with £50,000 will still I'buy a motor-car without fear that i-e | will be foanlaivpit, -tShie trader or professional man with an income of £IOOO ' per year need not dismiss his servant, girl nor need the housewife think -that ithe household's salvation will be as'eured only if she can put half, a, .ton of flour in her pantry. We are not in for starvation times, nor is there any tihance or prospect that the war will terminate unfavorably to us, or until Britain is satisfied that Deuce can be made upon terms satisfactory to tlie Empire, and with honor.

It would appear that the employees of the shipping offices are assisting the defence authorities to keep a sharp look-out for German suspects, and this vigilance has led some of them into a rather amusing mistake (says the Otago Daily Times). Captain -Saker, of the <lth battalion of Connaught Hangars,. who has been travelling while on six months' leave with the Williamson IPiantomime Company (of which his wife, Miss Winnie Volt, is a member), desiring to immediately return to England to join his regiment, went to the Union Cov.'s olliee in Christehurcli to book a passage to Sydney by t he Willocbro (which I however, is not now to sail), and gave his correct name, but on second thoughts thought it might be advisable to travel incognito, and therefore asked the clerk to 'change his name to "Slater," and departed, intending to come on to Dunedin, and then return to Wellington in time to catch his boat. Suspicion appears to have grown in the minds of some of the office staff that Captain Saker might possibly be a German, and the police in Dunedin were at once noticed to interview him on his arrival in Dunedin by the first express on Tuesday afternoon. Fortunately, before the arrival of the train, the Defence Office was communicated with, and Major M'Donald, overhearing the conversation, interjected that he thought he knew who the "suspect" was. and that lie had travelled from "England to New Zealand with him last sear To prevent any mistake, Major M'Dnnahi said that he would be on the station with the police, and ascertain if his surmise was correct. It was; and Captain -Saker was rather surprised air! "-vised to bear from his fellow officer tlr.it. he (Major M'Donald) hail come along to save him. As he is so far away from his battalion, and may not readily be able, to get into touch with it- again under the existing circumstances, it i understood that Captain Saket'hns epnlied to be attached to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

Members of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth (First and Second Groups) are notified that subscriptions will be due. and payable today (Monday), at tin* Secretary's office, Currie street, from !) a.m. to 12.30 p.m., from 1 p.m|. to 5 p.m., ard 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.—Advt.

On Saturday tfoe Moa Road Board appointed Mr, JR. Davis*, of fifcra-tford, overseer, and Mr, J. Christian surfaceman. "The pitching of large quantities of beef upon the market has had a disastrous effect upon New Zealand mutton and lamb," said Mr W G. Foster, at the annual meeting of tho Wellington Export Company's shareholders. "A prominent feature is that it is necessary to provide greater storage in the Dominion for carcases, so that shipment can be spread evenly throughout the year." While a party of men were engaged in blasting operations in the neighborhood of Masterton, says a correspondent, they pursued the usual course of putting the gelignite in front of the fire to warm it. Hardly had they done so when a terrific explosion occurred, one man being blown for a considerable distance, though fortunately without serious injury. At the Magistrate's Court last week Mr. Crooke, S.M'. hoard an affiliation case in which Robert Morris, of the Opunake district, was tho defendant. The evidence in the case was quite unpublishable. evidence was supported circumstantially by one uf her brothers, buit defendant, emphatically denied that ho was the culprit, and a searching cross-examination, by Mr. Johnstone failed to 'break down his contention. Tho Magistrate was not satisfied with defendant's evidence and ordered him to pay £l3 expenses (the elliW had no>t lived) and costs. The destinies of Europe are at present being fought out not far from a point where they were previously decided —the fateful field of Waterloo — which lies on the line of the suggested German advance to Brussels. It was at Charleroi, 10 miles from Namur, that Napoleon aimed to concentrate his troops, so as to drive a wedge between the allies. When Napoleon conceived his plan, Wellington and Blucher had their headquarters at Brussels, and the Prussians had headquarters at Namur —on which the Germans are now advancing—with the fourth corps at Liege. We would like to see the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition meeting in friendly conference and deciding upon the measures that could be pushed forward (says tho Lyttelton Times). This would not necessarily exclude all controversial subjects, but it would prevent the time of Parliament being wasted over such measures as the Defamation ißill and the Referendum Bill, which very well might be deferred for another year. A meeting of this kind between the party leaders would be quite in keeping with the new spirit •that is preraling Parliament, and it might even help towards the permanent removal of some of the asperities of party government. Writing in the Dunedin Star Mr. A. Spence remarks:—Generally speaking, a conquestt of iSamoa by an expeditionary fwrce from Australia or New Zealand would present little difficulty. The beawh inipdut have to be shelled at some convenient spot to permit troop? to laud, and there, miirht ponsiblv be a a -month's lighting in tHie bigth rugged j-<artu of I'pOhi with tlie "fa fita" (the lighters). The German military settlors would no doulbt light to 'the last, but the ultimate loyalty of the "fa lita" might not last so long. The. numerous owners of private ritlcs in Samoa would probably use them against title Germans. N<» doubt some -permanent 'defenws imiji'rtt be speedily created at- Apia by slapping German sloops of their guns and landing those, but, on the whole, a military occupation of Samoa seems to be an eusy operation. • Germany's pnqtosiil to give Italy « portion of South France (not vet conquered) if Italy will fight with Germany v and Austria recalls an old story. It is lold by Philippe do Comities. in (his 'Memoirs that Louis XI. sent an embassy to the Emperor of Gcnmany requesting his assistance to overthrow Charles the Bold (ruler over Bu-oundy, Belgium, Alsace, Savoy, etc.), and then to partition his dominions. The an old aud shrewd man, but not warlike, replied to tlie ambassadors by an apologue to t'lte following effect:—Two me;i w'ent out to hunt a bear, so tiluat they might, sell his skin. On locating tlx animal they heoame frightened. One t-liihhed a tree, 'but the other, being unable to escape, lay down and pretended to be dead. It is a peculiarity of this noble animal, according to tlie stoxy, not to meddle with a dead body; so tte bear, after 'turning the man over and running his snout into tlie iman's ear, turned round and went away. All being sale, the man up the tree descended, and isked his companion what counsel the bear hud whimpered into his ear. "He told me." said the man', "liwer to sell a bear's i-'lrin until the beast was dead'.'*'

"I am 110 jingoistic war-monger, I know perfectly well the horrors and scourge of war," replied Bishop Avcrill at the meeting held in the Auckland Town Hall in connection with the proposal to form a national reserve. "1 look forward to the time when war shall be 110 more, but at the same time, I am bound to say that the only security to the peace of the world is the supremacy of the. British nation. The supremacy of the (British nation means the destroying of the spirit of German militarism as we know it today. The progress of the world is being hindered at the present time by the dominant German spirit, and it lias got to be broken before there is peace, and before there can be righteousness. I believe that we are face to face with the gravest event in the world's history, and that it will have a far more reaching consequence than any event in the world's history, and that from this event will come a new spirit, new ideals, and a new civilisation. We am not lighting against the Germans alone, but against, the greatest power that is menacing the peace of the world, f have the greatest sympathy for the German soldiers and the German people in themselves, but I am perfectly certain that it is our duty to remove out of the way of the world's progress the demon of German aggressive militarism that we have to-day. Vou have got to keep your heads, keep .your spirits, and keep down a spirit of revenge, and a spirit of boasting." GOUT AND ITS CUBE.

Those painful twinges, that stiffness and soreness of the muscles, the swollen and inflamed joints, the dull aches and pains in the back, arc gouty symptoms caused by excess uric acid in the blood. Gout and the kindred diseases of Rheumatism, Sciatica and Lumbago are all due to this excess uric acid accumulating in the system and depssiting in the form of urates in the muscles and joints. To effect a cure this excess urie acid must be removed. There's «nly one remedy that will -do it—and it is REEUMO. It contains tlie essential specifies which will eradicate this uric acid excess from the blood. It has cured thousands. Mr. W. James, late proprietor o! the Terminus Hotel. ChristehuTch, is well-known througbiut Canterbury. He write: —"I suffered very greatly from Rheumatic Gout for quite fourteen years. I tried almost every remedy suggested by my friends and medical practitioners, but with veiy littie relief. About three years ago f was strangly advised to try RHEUMO. I did so, and with the greatest satisfaiv i tion." 2s 6d and 4a fiei. '