LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 126, 21 October 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Magistrate's Court yesterday judgment by default waa given for plaintiffs in the following undefended eases-: duis. Ga/rter v. Oarl Henriekseti, £l£ llg and coats £1 f>s; Burgess, Kraser and Co .(Itr Hutchen) r. .John Black aim Son, £7 lis, and cos's £2 14s.

On Monday n.O)A', Ijabor Day, the first field day in connection wiMi the Defence Rifle Oluli will )>i> held. Tha cluib will bo under the command of experienced officers, who will advance to liold a liosiicon in proximity to Kgmont road • railway station. Approximately 200 j oadots drawn from the High School and • senior cadet® will advance to attack J the position and drive tho defenders • back upon the .main road near to the f Waiwakai'ho golf links. At, the parade ] on Thuredaiy next instructions W to I time and place to fall in will 'bo fpven, ami 1 all voiuiutecirs foa: the day will ibc asked to oxpresa their willingness to co--1 operate, riuii'icient rifles aro expected to 1 (bo available to arm a large I>o4y, and j given a find day, a most instructive object lesson will bo given to all taking IW.A.

1 At a lecture in Wellington Major Norton was asked liis opinion on margarine, and its effect on the English market. He said that undoubtedly margarine was making progress in England. It was a fine article of food for the money and .was never going to bo stamped out; there were too many millions behind it. "It is very near time," he continued, "that New Zealand and Australia woke .up and did something to advertise butter against margarine. It is far better ' to gel up and fight it than lie down and squeal about it." Many of the firms who were buying New Zealand butter on open consignment, he said, were manufacturers of margarine.

| An extract from a private letter rejceived in Waverley by the last mail should prove interesting. The letter :s •a» follows:—''Mr. Charlie Seeling, the famous All-Black footballer, is at present proprietor of the Roebuck Hotel, in Wigan, Lancashire, England. Since war wag declared a number were talking around the bar of the hotel discussing the situation when a German joined in tho conversation and volunteered tha statement that one German was equal :to three Englishmen any timo. On hearing this the redoubtable Charlie jumped over tho counter with the remark, "I'll very soon show you that one New Zcalander is equal to at least one Gorman, ! and forthwith proved his statcmeaA »ith such telling effect that tho GerndP> had to be removed to the infirmary to remain for at least a month to undergo general repairs." Wo have received a copy of New Zealand Illustrated, the beautiful Christmas ■number of the Weekly Press. In ito delicacy of coloring, its beauty of design, its variety of New Zealand pictures, and its New Zealand stories, Now Zealand Illustrated for 19M is, like its predecessors, miles ahead of all competitors. In fact, it is easily the greatest of all New Zealand annuals from a literary as well as an artistic point of view. To the New Zea'andev it forms tho very best Christmas greeting to his friends and relatives across the sea, .showing them, as no other method could, the country he lives ill and the beautiful scenery with which it abounds, while its j stories deal with phases of N'ew Zealand ! life. It is Xew Zealand from cover to 'cover, and its supplement, which is by a i New Zealand artist, most charmingly j portrays a New Zealand subject, rcminjiscent earlier days, "A 'Vioneer's 'Homestead." The painting from which the supplement is taken is of remarkable beauty, and has been reproduced with great success. In every department of the paper the results disclose exceptionally good work in selection, arrangement and engraving, and one is deservedly proud to know that the Dominion so successfully holds such a high position among the world's competitors in artistic printing.

The following extracts are taken from an interesting letter received by the Very Rev. Dean Mclvenna, V.G., of Masterton, from Archbishop Redwood, concerning the present war. Writing from JJayonne, France, under date August 3, his Lordship says: "My plans for a tour of France fell through, for suddenly all the trains were seized by the French anny authorities, and passenger traffic suspended sine die, in order to. make the general mobilisation of the arfiiy. So I had to stay here as a sort of'prisoner, jiot of war, but because of war. Having jat last got, by means of an English Consul here, a passport for Spain, I am going there shortly, and 1 shall, please .God, visit the principal cities, including Madrid, Seville and Barcelona. At Barcelona (as the .Yfarist Fathers have several homes there) I shall be at home. I shall get to England later on, either by sea or land. Well, the tremendous general European conflict has begun, and I am glad England is thoroughly in for her shart, and it is the general opinion I that the three, France, England and Russia, will defeat Germany, and give her unbearable pride and arroganco a | salutary lesson. Germany has made herself haled by most of Europe, and by ! well-nigh all the world. She is into it at last. France this time is quite ready, and you will hear of her achievements, or I am wonderfully mistaken. [Already the German merchant trade is paralysed, not to say destroyed, on sea, and I expect that, if it fight?, her fleet ■will be ruined. Belgium's defence of Liege is heroic, and has completely upset the German plan of ft surprise to France by rushing at her through the Belgian territory. Now France has all the time required to meet her in or near Belgium, and British troops will be at hand to help."

Mr. J. IW. Hayward ij th« g-wssejafal tenderer for tha flnrf contract for tb« Blthajn-Opuiu&e railway li*e.

Stepa «r« beinjj taken ia the eoawlirT districts to pirondu the necessary uniforms for nwiubor* o( tho general training section of 'the Territorial i'uwa, Who bars been called on to fill tbwkcies in the different, regiments. For tha ourrenliJ year to tea «re provided ia the Public Works Statement for *ow police oUtioo* at Ofauffa, 'Hawera, Inglewood tnd Kaponga, The rote is renewed for tho station »t fWhangnmomona. A new pout, office i»' to be built at Stratford. A collision occurred between a motorcar and a bicycle riddon biyi a girl yesterday. Two girls coming from Lcnch struct into Liardeti Btre#t just as Dr. Walker 8 car was negotiating tile bend. Unfortunately one of the cyclist* Hmc*md contused and her machine was struck tout., though the girl was thrown sihe escaped ncnous injury. Dr. Walker to»k her to 3S r um« linker's hospital anil satisfied h'ungolf that she was uninjured. I The New York Board of Health has issued a circular warning the public of tha increasing danger from cancer. From this it appears that at the present time one man in every fourteen and ona woman in every eight over the of forty dio of cancer. Cancer claims 75,000 victims every year in the United States. The Board of Health g'ivea somo excellent suggestions as to the beat tray to avoid cancer. The most important of these are not to permit any irritation of the tongue by contact with broken or decayed teeth, land not to neglect any swelling of the I skin, lips, tongue, etc. A wart on a [child is rarely anything but a wart; on |an adult it ia likely to be the beginning of a cancerous growth. In its earliest stagea cancer can generally be cured [by a simple operation; in its later stages it ia •generally incurable, though soime [forms of it in some part 3 of the body I have been eradicated 'by the radium [treatment.