The Daily News. THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1914. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 27 August 1914, Page 4

The Daily News. THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1914. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tho Orama's miails to London have been delivered.—Press cable. The poll held tby the Waijnate County tor the purpose of raising a £60,000 loan has been carried, with 24S vote* for it, and 21 against it. . The Telegraph Office advises that cable messages may now ibe accepted for all places in the province of Antwerp and the town of Ghenlt. In connection with the East End- ball, to toe held to-njgfkt, .prizes have been awarded for the (beat dressed lady and the most original drese; similar prizes for gentlemen. Tananaki teachers will assemble at New Plymouth for physical training from September 28tlu to October Uth. The men "will assemble in camp, and the women will have classes in town. Mr. Royd Garliek will unset tho Board shortly to ©osmrvlete arrangements. It is stated that as a result of the wa-, the money received on the Wellington trams as fares has dropped 'by from 20 to 30 per cent. Usually, when the fine weather begins, 'there is a Blight drop in the revenue, but very many more potential passengers are walking these days. A Ohristchureh telegram last night stated that delegates to the Canterbury Liquor Trade Provincial Council yesterday .passed a strongly-worded resolution protesting against the recent statements made by the prohibition party, also regretting that the prohibition party proposed to continue its propaganda at the present juncture. A letter from Lieirt.-Colonel Gosgrove, Dominion Chief Scout, was read at yesterday's (meeting of the Board of Education, to the effect that as a number of school boys who were also Boy Scouts might be called upon by the defence and civic authorities to act as messengers : during the present crisis, he would be I pleased if it could be arranged to have those boys marked present by their teachers when so employed. As- at pre- | sent 'only town boys were affected, no | action was taken.

!Few people outside of Germany have any idea of the vast dimensions of the great industrial concern under the control of Dr. Krupp von Bohlen. The gun works at Essen cover 1200 acres, 235 of them under roof, whore 40,000 men find employment. The Krupp collieries in Westphalia and Silesia employ lOjOOO miners, the armor-plate works keep 'busy another 15,000 pair of hands, the Kiel shipbuilding yards employ 6000, and the Krupp docks, steam--1 ers foreign ore mines bring up the total of the firm's employees to close on 80,000. The Krupp pay roll totals £5,000,000 a yca,r. 'Mr A. Gray, director of technical education, in the course of his report on the commercial class at the Technical College, deplored the tendency on tl>c part of parents 'to allow theii children to enter what had been aptly termed "blind alley" occupations which lead nowhere, and in which it was impossible for a boy or girl to attain to any good position. With regard ito boys this was, he said, culpable carelessness, and although. on several occasions lie had strenuously opposed that course, yet he found that the glitter of the few shillings per week had been too alluring, and in some cases promising lads were thus doomed to (inish their livjs as unskilled workmen'. The majority of the school committees in Taranaki forwarded resolutions j to the Government strongly condemning the proposal *o abolish the Taranaki Education district, but one or two did not seem to care muclt hove the mfitter went. Indeed, the I'uniho school etlmniitteo was particularly frank. Their I resolution on tllie srbject read, "The ( committee re,solved, seeing that a lot of I requests of country .school committee; { are simply ignored by your Board, this comniittee does not see that it will make any difference to them if the headquarters were shifted." The Lincoln committee, on the other hand, resolved that the Education Board should be asked to give particulars as to Hie reasons of the Government in introducing a Bill to abolish the Kducatnou Beard in the Taranaki district. This latter was a bit of a poser to the Board. A terrible weapon of warfare has been invented. In the Xaval Annual for 1914 there is a description of the Leon torpedo mine, which has now been acquired and is being manufactured by a British firm. This engine is so constructed that it can be set to hover between »ny depths below the surface that may be desired. When placed in the water it has a slight negative buoyancy, and sinks until automatically a propeller is brought into action, which drives it upward again. It can be used in the open sea by any type of ship, or, in the case of tidal harbors, it could be released by a vessel outside so as to make its way with the tide into the anchorage, and perhaps destroy shipping there. A touch on the deadly steel "whiskers" which project from its upper surface, and the enemy would be sent to the bottom, as were the Hatsuse and the Petropavlosk in the Russo-Jap-anese war.

One of the most valuable of German industries which will be affected for years to come by the great war is the textile business, for which Great Britain has furnished the principal market. The textile trade, in fact, comes second in the list of German industries. It employs a million hands, or, in other words, about n tenth of the workmen engaged in German industry, and its yearly output amounts to .some three milliards and a-lialf of marks, or, approximately, £1)75,000,000. In one groat department, cotton, the industry stands next to that of England and the United States. In I!U-1 Great Britain imported twenty million marks' worth of German cotton goods, partly for home markets and partly for the trade with foreign countries and the colonies. In cloth and woollen goods, most of the manufactured article, totalling over two hundred millions of marks, went to England, which in turn exported the bulk of it to her foreign customers, between whom and the German middleman she takes the position of middleman. Again, in the sillc industry, Great Britain has been the chief importing country, absorbing as she did over sixty-two .million marks' worth a year. All this vast trade is ruined, and it may be imagined that the million workmen, of whom a great proport ion must know that they will not lie required after the war has ended, will have something to say about the tragic folly of their rulers. vor R!-;mk.mi;ki; tup. takti; of Rt'SSKTTA CIDKII Because it's so delicious! It's pure, too --made from the juice of rosy-cheeked apples and eane-suaar. Stores and hotels everywhere sell it. Ask for it Itussetta Cider, the purest, healthiest, licu-akoholic drink- -j