LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 93, 15 September 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Th" Post Office advises that correspondence for members of the main tody ol the New Zealand Expeditionary iFoive ir.tist be addressed to the particular <amp at which tiho men are being trained until tilio force embarks.

The Borough Gouneil has agreed to tlit.- request of tho OvunU Council thai the Borough engineer should accompany the County Council on its visit of inspection of the river in the vicinity ol the Waiwakaiho bridge. In these days o constantly increasing prices of l'uou it is l pleasim* to notice ilut, the price of milK lias returned to its summer level of threepence a. quart, and butter iias fallen i»y u. Halfpenny per pound. Wo have been requested, on bisluUf of ■those responsible lor the concert at Oakura, last week, to express thanks to Mesws It. ltairo and Jury lor providing conveyances to convey town performers to and from Oakura. The Union Company's Jiner Maitai, which left Wellington on August 21st lor ;>an Francisco, arrived at Mia Caiif'.rnian port on Saturday last, "Ail well."—'Press Association. The Minister of Education paid <t (lying visit to Ashburton yesterday aiternoou and laid the foundation Htone of li:e rectory that is being erected at a cos); of £17(17 in coiuieotiioii with, the Ashburton 'High School.—Press Aecosiation. The German movement in France ins graduated its follows: Kctireinent, wiling back, retreat, rout, and compl-te disaster. The terms are those of Wic i.ews distributors at tho other side .it the world, and -when grouped in one sentence are highly significant. Jn connection with, unemployment locally tlie Government inspector ol Jjabor stales that the number of applicantß for work last week was not as large as in the preceding period. lie v.-as abb; to pla«e quito a number ot w:skilled laborers, but '.here are still some for wlwm employment might be found. There exists a demand lor s:n»le men. who are required for farm end dairying work. The outlook is considered by the Inspector to be much brighter than it was, and he antic:- I i.ates that in a week or two the situation will be normal. The real difficulty is in placing men who can c-nly under- . take light labor, not being qualified for nawving work but still capable of 'loin" and doing well, less- strenuous toil. 1 •u'the matter is ready only one oil raving fair valuo for work done, a way j of'overoMiiirig any difficulty on this j roint would be for tho employer and; employee to agree on a price. This I Bhould. .prove satisfactory to all partite.. It is possible that the Borough Conned "ill be entering upon Bui works that

The Government Geo ogioal Department has a member of its staff in this district making ai survey of W«> oilfield* as far as Huiroa. The" survey is likely to take some months to complete, and it in rumored it is being made ac the msUmce of the Admiralty.

At tihu hist 'meeting of the Inglewoou Chamber 'of Commerce, a [etition was received from Xi rssMenits n-k'ng for llu installation of a telephone at the Miro Post Olfice. The petition wiJI be lor warded tiu the proper authorities, with a recommendation from the chamber ■that the petition be giv£i effect to.

Giving evidenoo Ibefore the Moat Export Commission, Arthur iS-nis, partner in Sims, Cooper and U>., New Zealand, gave evidence that in 1!H)7 he sold the Swift Company five, or ten thousaui carcases. 'That was tiheir only transaction. The linn also had a con'trauL with, uhc United. States, tut no arrangements with SwifW Company or any (other American or English linro to sell and buy micat for them, 'the company was absolutely free Hi that respect,

When a man's ailing, he calls medicine to his aid and re-doubles his eil'orts to maintain his grip on life. When trade is sick the shrewd business man re-doubles his efforts. He tries to get his full share of the trade that is offering. He advertises. If he gives full'con--1 sidenitiou to the. matter, taking into account numbers and quality of circulation, he advertises in the Daily News, and he finds that it pays. Our advertisers tell us so. On dit, says the Dunedin Star, that the action of" A. E. Otway versus P. A. Herman, arising out of sane transaction in New .Plymouth oil aihavetf, has ibi-ert settled privately, the defendant having agreed to pay plaintiff £i!KUO in sitisuctioit of all claiiius. ina case was heard 'in Christcluirch hist month, and before .Mr. Justice Di'.r.niston gave 'Jus | reserved judgment a settlement Was »r- ---[ lived at, I At the annual mcet'iiy of the East End Elving Chili, Uie following | .team's" were elected for the ensuing year:—Patron, Mr. G. Corimy; president, Dr. Jllackiey; vice-presidents, Messrs Geo. Arnc-wsmith, E. Whittle, C. Johnson, E. LovelJ; management committee, 'Messrs W. Beale, E. James-, E. Billing, If. J. Moveriey; lion, secretary, W. Roeh; assistant secretary, L. Jam.',. Votes of thanks to the Press, the railway, and the chair concluded the meeting. A meeting was held lust night with the object of ascertaining the position of the New Plymouth Operatic fctociei-y f in view of the conditions following th<-' ' war. The meeting, which was fully reI preventative,, decided to proceed, at once with the rehearsals on Monday evening next, ana to secure a largely iiiifreascil membership so as to secure an adequate performance- " 'Meitibcra offered several suggestions 'with a view to expedJlong ■ the production, Wia opinion wemg cxI pressed that a prospect of an early pro- ! duction would secure abundant support.

A burglar was surprised at the very beginning of hie enterprise in a house ia Jioiuit s'treut, 'Wellington, about !) o'clock on Saturday night. At that hour ■A sou of !tHie house, a youth scarcely out of his teens, returned home, finding 'the house, as 'be supposed, empty, lie went upstairs, but hearing a noise Hi one 'ef the downstairs rooms, He called to inquire whether the other occupant of t:ie houso was Ids brother. Receiving no tinswer, lie slipped a cartridge into a revolver he Jiad in his room and ran downstairs. He saw Wire ugh a window a man rushing past it lie side of the house, apparently having let himself out by the 'hack door, and the pursuer opened' the front door, in ibime -to see a man goin" out through the front gate. In the uncertain light lie lired at I'he fast shape, but as the man got awav, the'shot probably mussed. T«e burglar's haul amounted to only a few pounds worth of jcwdlry, Wit had He not been interrupted there was musii more vabKiblt. loot he would certainly I'.ilYU 'iteK'QYcrcu.

The TVmont Lodge, No- H 3, 1.0C..T., held its quarterly invitation concert last evening. Vt the Good Templar Ha! about 150 member* «nl tnem s *.m"B present. Purine the course of the e u - ng the Bev. CliapiicU gave an im «■ live .ten minutes' address, drawn fnui W, personal kiiowlodge, iilustrativo o how the excessive use ot alcohol 'hud Sod the future of one of th, n>a brilliant men in the Dominion. M'-ica items and recital were rendcrei h. the. following:-f?onga, Mt*dan** tt> "nd Yeatcs? aliases Mona 3*nks h. £S£k. Mur,p!hv and Vera MoWhwl, Afelrs Gilbert. McEwcn and Howe; ffU and *l.eE«v. Olds; flu^ette, Missis Anbury and Itoe. ™'f * lan and Henriehs; .recitation, 31 • M Clcllan; pianoforte solo, Miss Waihs Way* violin solo, Mr. lM*oe. Mrs. Den•ton who kindly acted as principal >uJ.l „u„ wive a selection from omnpanist, alto g.vu- 'l ".' ~„ T ,„ v 'Mendelsohn as a pmnoiovle solo B>*■ Tiro 1' 11. Pepperell, occupied the clia.r. Light refreshments, were served.