LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 82, 1 September 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Now that the bright days of spring are with us, ladies will surely be turning attention towards dress-weair in keeping with iJlie season. Morey's arc advertising their wonderful coilectiiion in this issue.

The band, prior to fcinding in their instruments, have proffered (their services should the Kifio Club decide to hold a church parade. The trustees of White-ley Church have extendi an invitation 'to the club to attend service there should ithey decide to 'hold olne parade:. The Government Printing Office has large stocks of paper, but as there is uncertainty as to when further supplies will come to siand, it has been decided to economise as much as possible. The printing of the monthly statistical abstracts* of exports and imports is to be discontinued for a time, and the free list of rather publications will be considerably curtailed. Mui'h discussion took place at the meeting of the >"ew Zoalaml Land Values League at Wellington on Tuesday on the question of the cast of living. Mr P. J. O'ltegan, who "presided, said that Canada was levying a war tax of £1,500,000 ion sugar, coffee and cigars, etc., and the Government of New Zealand was apparently going to do the same. He maintained t.hat the landed clashes, not the landless masses, ought to-.tpayv Otiltor speakers agreeilj, Mr Withv pointing out that the rise in the price'of foodstuffs, and the rise in the l>riec of foodstuffs and the rise in the price of land would furainih a bull'icient bas/is »n .which to impose a heavier graduated land tax wn' fhe ownera of ":arncd increment.

Tue inter-High School football touiniaraemlt was completed yesterday, when Napier beat Palmerston North by 11 points to 3. It 1b stated in a Ha wise's Bay paper that a Maori -bought a motor-ear, and on its arrival inspected (his purchase. He noticed a German name on itlrue madhine and fkwt>hwi!tlh lie declined to complete the bargain, and went over to an opposition shop, whiere (he 'bought a miuch metre expensive car, the amitecedients of which weffle not so questionable. No'tlhing (ierman for him. last evening ttti'o senior members of the Egpwwit Lodge, Mo. 112, 1.0.G..T., visited the Juvenile Temple and entertained some 70 or 80 memibena of that trandh of the order wiluli the following programme:—-Pianoforte solo, Sister 'Mm. Douglas; song, Sisters Clark, Danks, Ives, and Smitlli; song, BroWelch,. Sister JMlrs. Douglas gave a -very dnstruwtivie address ion "The Battle for Temperance." After lighlt refreshments, the juveniles retired at about 8.30 p.m., when the Senior Temple met and imiiti- | ated three new candidates.

There is one very unhappy policeman whose .beat is in a well-known South London suburb. The other evening he arrested ttwo suffragettes whami he caught acting suspiciously near a church. He marched them along one by each hand, both hammering away at his arms in their endeavours to get free. He stuck to themt, however, until anwhher sufliragette, who had followed up, lifted liis uniform and cut his to-aces from (behind. In his anxiety ■to prevent further disaster, he was forced to slacken his grip of the ladies, with the result that hoth got clear away.

A reassuring statement as to the <m«noamtile outiook m New Zealand (has been made in Dunedin, states the eorI'eapomdeiilt of the Lytteiton Times, k man with exceptional opportunities of knowing what is going on at the bettri of financial circles says that there is a growing feeding of security with respect, to ovierseaa traffic, and as far the baniks whilo they have no money to put out in speculative risks, their regular business ia quite Steady and they are not calling up their clients, itee Dominion is undoubtedly sound and the | big nten are as serene as Ithough no [ wax was going on.

A stowaway was discovered in a very surprising mjanner at Whangarei on board the Kaneiri. A Stevedore, whose duty it was to break up the slings as they were lowered into the hold, hod received the last sling which consisted' of |a consignment of lemons. As it was close ujon the vessel's departure, the stevedore hurriedly broke up the sling and threw the first case upon a pile of cargo covers. MuJh to his surprise, a man emerged from under the covers in a hasty manner and expostulated Tolubly with the stevedore; for recklessly (throwing cargo' about. He had evidently tested' the weight of the

case in no uncertain manner. He was immediately ordered on deck,' and amidst a shower iof uncomplimentary remarks, he left the wharf to seek "fresh fields ami pastures new." The appearance of the name Empress

Eugenie among the supporters oi the British Red) Cross Funds stirs strange

.memories. This is the beautiful woman who lost her throne after the defeat 'Of the French by the Prussians forty-three years ago. It is not worth'

'.while discussing now whether, as her enemies said, she was largely responsible for driving France into, that disastrous war; because we know enough of tho secret history of the period to be sure that Prussia would have gone to war whether the excuse had been there K»r not. But it: is worth remembering that one of the few and calm and dignified' figures in the distressing j period "of the collapse of the Empire was the Empress herself. For more than forty years now she has lived in England, watching, closely the. course of events in tho great theatre on whose stage she had so prominent a place, but refraining religiously from intervening. In 187!) She lost i'er son in one of Britain's little wars, and since then she seems to have had no heart for poltid*,

Captain Martineaux, V.C., quartermaster to the infantry battalion of the Otago Contingent, is an active service man in the best sense of the phrase, and was originally: in a Hussar Regiment. His first experiences i.nder fire were gained in the Matwtoele war campaign of 1890, and the fascination of the game prompted him to fto to the front in the Boer war, where he was sergeant in a Protectorate 'Regiment. Here it w-j» that he won ths distinction that earns him the respect and admiration of Otego's troops. He saw a grout deal of service in South Africa, and among other numerous engagements was present at the sieg" l of Matching. He was woumdled four times during the war, and it was a bullet that cost him one arm, but even that did

not deter hint irom getting hack to active service, for he was back among the fighting troops within a month. Again, in 1306, he was iprt»cnt in the Natal Native (Rebellion. Last, but tut least, it has to he added that for twelve years ho lute had transport experience with t!he African Boating Comipany, being in charge of all military transport work.

CClhe New Zealand Loan, and! Mercantile Company, Ltd., draw public attention to T. <W. Hatcher's clearing sale to be held near the corner of the 'Stanley and Beaconsfield roads, Midhirst, on Friday, September 4th, 1014. As Mr. Hataher has eiold his interest in wis farm, everything is for absolute sale.