LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 103, 24 September 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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THw St. Andrew's ladies' guild will Siold a salo of work in St. Andrew's schoolroom to-day and to-morrow, commencing ait 2.30 this afternoon.

At the meeting of the Tairanak; Education Board yesterday it wag decided 'to nominate Mr. Gilbert Carson, of WanfcftmiJ, for re-election to represent the North Island on the Committee of Advice of the tWuHLngton, Training College.

Tell the people a straight, unvarnished story of what jou have to sell, and reasons for trading with you. Your message will reach more money-spenders through tho Daily News than .through any other medium. Not only is the News circulation the largest, but it is the best, for tho papers are devoured in the homes of the right people. There are many New Zealanders in the New South Wales contingent for the front, and included among them is a full-blooded Maori, who is instructing his conrrades in the terrifying subtleties of the native war cry. This contingent also includes a number of Englishmen, and it is believed that not more than 20 per cent, of the New South Wales section will consist of natives of that State.

' A concert party visited the Old Peopled Homo yesterday afternoon, und treated the inmates to a capital!) little progortunmio of dutits, trios, recitations, violin Music, and so on. The old folk-i welcomed the break in the routine of "home" life, and the visitors were gladdened Iby tho evident appreciation. Thj party comprised Roy. A. B. Ohappell, t amd Misses May OaimolL. Buoknan, and Beryl Hirst. During an address rociontly, Major Norton touched upon the export of produce from Ireland. He stated that there were about one hundred factories and creameries—not very large—there., Not more than ten per cent of the butter exported was given to speculators, and that, said the speaker, would not reach them if it was worth having., This was advanced as an argument in favor of New Zealand consigning and not selling her produce to speculators. Belgium has the greatest number of public houses per head in the world. Whereat in Norway there is one to every 9000 inhabitants, in Sweden ono to every 5000, in England one to every 432, in the United States one to every 360, in Germany one to every 240, in France one to every 82, Belgium has one public house to every thirty inhabitants! The drink revenue in Belgium amounts to £100,000,000, the Belgian working man being computed to spend two and a-half months' wagca on alcohol.

Th|e recent successes of thd allied troops were referred briefly by Mr. W. H. Haselden, S.M., at the Taumarunui Magistrate's Court the other day. Hla Worship said that the handing round the Court of a note, briefly outlining the war news, reminded him of a porsonal experience which occurred some years ago in Wellington. Towards the conclusion of a tedious and heavy sitting, a scrap of paper was handed up to the Bench, and it contained the message: "Johnson beat Burns."

An exciting incident of an unusual character was witnessed in Hamilton, when a lady riding a bicycle was brought to a sudden stop by a cat, which, being chased by two dogs, ran into the bicycle and got jambed between the spokes of ono of tho wheels. It took three men nearly ten minutes to release poor Tabby, who, strange to say, appeared little tho worse. As soon as released she bolted away again with the dogs in full chase.

A New Plymouth gentleman has just received a letter from his comin in Brentwood, Essex, in which he says: "We have just learnt that a factory, presumably a film-manufaetoring concern, has just ben discovered with enough powder, etc., to blow up and destroy the whole of the town and surrounding villages. Not only that, but they had laid the powder, etc., under tho barracks, so Providence has saved us from perhaps sudden death. Tho factory belonged to a German firm."

' An American paper cup threatens to | invade England, and with it the paper plate and the paper tumbler. A speaker ait tho Blackpool sanitary conference sounded » warning against crockery. [ Tho beat washed dish, he said, retains some germs. It is cleaner and safer to bum the whole service after each meal. This ruthless counsel squares only too well with the necessities of present-day house-keeping. No doubt much of the tension between modern maid and mistress would go at a stroke if broken dishes were no longer a possible cause of ifs. Savages never accumulate wealth; if they did they would be sure to be robbed of it. They live from hand to mouth, mainly by hunting and plunder. The tribe is everything, and the individual nothing. No person has any private right of property which the tribe is bound to respect; and no tribe has any rights which another tribe will not wrench from them if they are strong enough to do so. The rule is for everyone to take whatever he can lay liU hands on, and consume it, if possible, before anyone else can steal it from him. In such a state of things as that there Ls no danger of anyone getting rich.

Khaki is an invention of the Hindus. The word means "earth-color." It was fit first produced by immersing the cloth in a hath of manure. Other dyes used in India have liecn burnt chicory, catechu and diamines. The modern khaki is pi educed by dyeing in a mixture of oxide of iron and oxide of chromium. It can be obU'mcd by dipping the stuff into a bath of 'ferrous sulphate and spreading out to dry in the air. In practice the process is more complex, solutions of ferrous sulphate, pryrolignitc of iron, acolato of chromium and alum being employed in combination. The tissue takes up a large quantity of the metallic precipitate. 1 For Influenza, take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails, Is 6d and 2s ed. I .^iiauaHftSß'

cord for a ane-nag(ht entertainment in tliat town,' '

Before tie House of RejxresentiatW'es rose tot nigihft the Hon. Alien announced that the men who had been in camp at Palmare tan North had sent hinn a sum of £lO7 19s tidl towairds the assistance of those who had suffered by tto Huivtly disaster. Sir Joseplu Ward felicitated the, men upon the generous impulse which hod induced them to mate this handsome donation.

At the tot Meeting of the Potea Harbor Boaad Mn Barton stated that ke could not support the engineer's report on the improvement of tho barbor He would not stay on .the Board if it were adopted, us he would npt wish it said afterward* ilhat he was one of a body who had spent £8«j00O in waJla ttflien dredging would l kavo mfci the cose.

The Posumaßiter-General announces that cable telegraMs tor places in Greiat i/ritai*, written in iptain language, will be Charged for at ten letters to a word, irrespective! of the actual number of lottera contained in any one word. Groups of figures wiß continue to be counted as a present,—five figures to a word. Any sunplua group of letters occiunring immediately before a group of figures will Ibe counted as one word. 'Telegrams aria to be written as at pres*ent, and the word* wili be telegraphed in their usual form and not broken up into group* of ten letters. The alteration, being ono of ctargiiijg only, should prove a substantial concession and saving in costlr csgble imeasagcs to England.