LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 102, 23 September 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Magistrate's Court yesterday I the only case dealt with was tliat of W. ] Freeth (Mr Hatchen) v. Richard Walsh, judgment for plaintiff by default being given for £2 Is ana costs 10s. The Fiji Government notifies that wireless messages are now charged from Suva to Tutiuia s'/ 2 d per word, with a minimum of ten words* The plain and fancy dress ball held at Egmont road last night was & 'huge success, the hall Toeing packed. Over £l4 was taken at the doors. Messrs Collier and Co. of New Plymouth and Waaganui, have donated a 70 guinea Brinemeaa piano to the patriotic fund. ! Tha electric light extension loan of

£20,000 was submitted to the ratepayers of the borough yesterday, and was carried by 260 votes to 75. As tho figures show, very little interest was taken. A gentleman interested ki the dairy trado informed a News representative yesterday that buying firms are prepared to buy butter straight oult at a very satisfactory price, or to give advances on consignment that are very little 'below the rates ruling in recent normal yeari. Tlie Government lias purchased tire ' block of 7<WO acres known as the Wither Hun, adjacent to Blenheim. Modt of tha Hand is Jiilly sheep country of poor quality, but there is also a good deal ot low-lying land.at the foot ol tlie hills which will be suitable for cutting up into suburban lats. Mr. W. A. Beddoe, Canadian Trade Comimlissioner- lor ftew Zealand, who was asKed by the Turanaki Chamber of Commerce to give an address at New Plymouth, telegraphed the president yesterday suggesting Friday, October 2 as .tho date. That date will ibe convenient. The subject of the address will Ue trade prospects and possibilities between. the two Dominions. Tkere is evidently a social "war" prevailing in the Foxton district owing to a serious difference between the "upper est" and the "second grade." The war, it is stated, has been carried into the church and other functions. The antecedents of society leaders have been unearthed and disseminated broadcast. Tho common or garden variety of folk are reported to be enjoying the fun immensely.

Those who witnessed the inspection of the troops at Awapuni recently by the Hon. Jas. Allen, the Minister for Defence, could not' but have been struck with the firmness of the men and the excellent way in which they performed I their movements that were required of them. At attention not a head was seen to move, '.and when over 1000 men are concerned, that is saying a great deal for the training they] have received. The slope, present, and order arms at infantry was carried out as if by one man. The parade was an impressive spectacle.—Manawatu Standard. An Order-in-Council has been gazetted suspending the provisions of tha New Zealand typographers' award made on October 31st, 1912, relating to weekly employment and providing for the payment of a full weekly yage tq jo'ira? l '- men, probationers, and apprentices, th« ' suspension being subject to the following' conditions:—(l) Payment shall ho made for time actually worked according te the rates set out in the said award, but computed at per hour; (2) An apprentice shall make up time lost by him owing to the operation of this Order-in-Council before entering into his next year of apprenticeship, and tho total period of his apprenticeship shall bo extended for a period equa! to such lost time. Spea.Ui.ig_ at the Egmont Box 0;-i: - piny meeting at iEltiham on Monday, Major Norton confidently declared tlui.t be did not think that the European v.\r could last over the tomiug European winter, and tihat Neiv wand had a ■very prosperous season in front of it, if tilio shipping diil'iouily \v;,.a overcome. I l ' ramus had already opened its por'.s for a certain amount of fi\;ni meat and tiermsuiy must do thj same at the conclusion of tho war h At the last election in 'Germany numerous wealthy German merchants voted with lb.; Socialists solely in order to open their ports. He had, he said, been laughed at many times for stating tllmt fa- some parts of Germany horses, and even cats and dogs, were considered luxuries in tho meat line, but this was, however, nothing but the truth. ' ,i The problem of the deserted wife is causing the Auckland Charitable Aid Board just now furiously to think over the defects of legislation in this respect. Tho army of wives seeking fugitive husbands is assuming such alarming proportions that recently there have been exceptional calls upon the resources of the Charitable Aid Committee by those unfortunate women who have been left by their callous husbands with the burden of a family upon their hands. Recently there was no fewer than seven such applications before the committee, which felt so strongly on the subject that it passed a resolution recommending the Board to draw the attention of the Government to the increasing number of cases of wife desertion, and urging it to instruct the police to bring the deserters ' back. Tito committee's resolution further expressed tho opinion that the present system of demanding a guarantee of expenses before taking steps to bring the runaways back was a premium upon this form of crime. At Wcatport the other day the miners refused to work oil their weekly halfholiday so as to assist the Government in tho effort it is making to build up a big stock of high-grade steam coal for nary and transport use, says the Bulletin. Tho miners, it is understood, objected to working on Saturday afternoon because it would debar them from witnessing the football matches. One of these days, when a warship rushes into a Maoriland port for coal to enable it to catch a foreign cruiser that is i threatening Wellington, there may not ; bo any coal available. Then probably ! »n infuriated populace will grab the re- j sponsible persons and hang them übov* j »ea-level by tho neck. That is if the : enemy has not done tho hanging already. < Another thing that the miners of New ; Zealand are exhorted to remember is i that when tho enemy arrives on tho < horizon and starts lighting he has a f confirmed habit of not taking Saturday i afternoon oil'. Usually ho doesn't re- 1 spect the B:i])!iath, and he doesn't care * it continental for toe ball. !i

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