LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 130, 26 October 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

l'mi, the well-known Waimate footballer, was anxious to get away with t'le Maori co.iti.rne::t who aro booked for service m Egvpt. Ilia application was, however, imrM dcui, on the eiroind 'that he was over-weight, the avoirdulws of the All IMack beipr 17 s ( 0Ml ,

About two o'clock on Saturday (morning tiro Taumarunui postmaster was awakened by a noise H e rose and found that 'the front tnl'ranco of the Post Office liad been .burst upon. The robber had Meanwhile decamped without doing further damage or stealing anything. Ways the Auckland Herald:—"Th« third important provincial line—-tin; Stratford connection—has been provided with £IOO,OOO, and' .this will be monev well spent, for it not 'only opens u» a larjfe area of .mineral and agrioul.fural country, but will give direct communication between the rich province of Utratford, which has made remarkable growth of recent years, will he found among the most, profitable. Trading connections of Auckland and the railway will profit by this trade while developing Who district traversed. A correspondent of the New Yon; Evening Post, suggests aa a fitting reiprisal for the barbaric destruction of thibeautiful monuments of Lou vain: (1) That when the Allkw take Uerlm, they scrupulously respect it, leaving SiegcaAllee and all intact aa a nioniiment to the bad taste o,f those that built tho ugliest of modern capitals; (i) that v part of the indemnity awarded to Belgium be. the line works of her old painters now exiled in German galleries. After the war, tde. masterpiece,} of the Ven E.U'ks, Rogier de la Pasture, Bouts, and Memling, now at Frankfort, Dresden, Munich and Berlin, should be repatriated. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ijtd., draw the attention 'of the public to their Stratford supplementary hull fair to- be Jifild in .their 'Stratford Yards on Monday 2nd NoTember, 'Full particulars will be found in our adTWtiaing columns oa F»g«e. ~. , r^iMM&l

The police arrested two German sailors belonging to the schooner Eric, now at New Plymouth, on Saturday. They will be sent to Soam.es' Island concentration carup this morning. A Press cable reports that a heat wave has been experienced in Sydney since Friday. On Saturday the temperature Tose to 94 dcg., and Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded ia October, the thermometer reaching 98 deg. The Tarawaki Education Board'* Secretary lias received notice from the Education Department that applications to Sit for the elementary Kindergarten Examination will close at the end of the present month, ;ilst October, at the Education Department, [Wellington. [Forms of application may be obtained at the Education Board's Oll'icc. Writing to a Palmerslon North resident a gcinloman now in England says it is pitiful to see the hundreds of Belgian refugees arriving there. Men, women and children are walking the streets, some without hats and Bonn; without boots and coats. In Folkestone alone tluvo were 2«J,OiW refugee. The Gonnaiw had been very cruel 'to ' c ■ Belgians, ana the writer saw a motheT carrying from a boat which had just arrived from across the Channel her boy, who had been brutally injured bv Gorman soldiers from pure wantonness. He had been slioi through th.' leg. AVouuded soldiers were also arriving in I groat numbers.

A case of cruel practice of cattlemaiming which sporadically occurs at' intervals ia this country was recently reported to the Auckland police from Horseshoo Bush, a remote gum-digging distrietat the back of Dairy Flat (says ■the Star). Messrs Collin and Thomas Kelly, who have a small run in the broken bush and scrub country of the district, recently discovered that about thirty young hoifera had been killed, anoarently by being hit on the spine at the back of the head with some blunt' instrument like a spade, while over a dozen young bulls wire found on the run dead and dying from injuries similar to those caused by the sterilising operation. Detective-Sergeant Ilollis and Detective Powell on Thursdav made the rough overland journey to the district to investigate the complaint, and after enquiries arrested a lad who gave his ago as 15 vea.rs, but who has the stature of a youth of IS. The lad is a son of gumdigger in the district, and made admission concerning the offence.

• 'Die anniversary services in connection |. witli the St. Aubyu. Methodist Sunday School were held yesterday. There were i largo congregations at morning, afterj noon, and evening services, at which a I feature was the excellent singing of special hymns by the scholars, .Mr Dcare ! acting «3 conductor and Mr GoMing as ; organist, with an excellent oKl:"tra. !• The effect of the lloral decorations was enhanced by the re-painting of 'the interior of the church building, which has I Jiut been completed. The collections I were a record for an anniversary cele- < tration at this school. The preachers I for the day were the Rev's. A. B. Cha'pI pell, C. 11. Old, and J. Nelson. The ' anniversary tea followed 'by a public

meeting and musical programme, with songs by the children, will take place to-morrow evening.

l A runaway on Saturday night caused | j a sensation in the centr of New Ply- , I month and it was fortunate that no one was injured. About 5.30 the horse at- ■ J lacked to Dr McOlcland's trap was ; | standing while the man in charge was l closing the doctor's gate, and for simti unaccountable reason bolted at a tremendous speed down Brougham Street. ■ At the bottom of the hill, near Devon Street thy Salvation Army were holding their usual meeting in the roadway, but were warned in time to make a rapid exit. Tho horse, in crossing Devon Street, brought the trap in contact with the Breakwater bus, the impact ovrturni mg the vehicle and sotting the horse j free. The affrighted animal tore down Brougham street, reached the first barI ricr and came to a standstill at the I second. The only injury it received was I a scratch on the flank, but the trap was badly damaged. This is the first time in over two years that this bor.se has i run riot. j Today a working bee will bo busy painting >lhe exterior of the Vogeltown ! Methodist Sunday School, the building that a year ago was eroded and made ready for use in a day. The Vogcl- ! Ilown ladies are providing afternoon ' tea and a 'programme of music for all visitors, who are notified that a. bus caves Ambuvy's corner at 2.30, returning from Vogellown about 4.30. To-night a concert will be given in the building