LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 143, 11 November 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Up to June 30 last 775 selectors had bought the fee simple of their leases, totalling 134,740 acres. The pilot, Mufkau, reports: "A carrier pfgeon arrived wt Jtho pilot station about 10.15 a.m. on Monday in an exhausted condition. The mi niter on the ring was 200, Wiiiki. Speaking at Tariki on MondUy evening, Mr Hawkins said that the present general election would go down to posterity as "the aftera.oon.-tea dee- [ tion." invitations were boing sent out I wholesale to womenfolk inviting tihem jto afternoon tea, in residences where ! they had never been before, and where '. tlhey would only be invited only once !3u a year. Intelligent, dignified voincn- ! folk could easily see through such tac- ! ties, and be was quite satisfied the jwtes of women .in the Stratford elecj torate could not be bought with aftorI noon tea or by rides in motor cars.

r j Mrs Lec-Cowie lias come to Taranaki for a short mission. ,!S'hc had large, and , cnthusiaiic gatherings at Inglewood on Saturday and Sunday last. The latter 3 in the Town Hall both afternoon and - evening. Last evening s'lie ivas at - Okato, this evening, she addresses a meeting at St. Andrews' Olmrchi, and to-morrow, as advertised, will speak at t Egmont Village. Mrs Cowie lis full of - zeal, tempered with knowledge, in 1 ■ - 1 !. ing with nil phases of temperance ques- . 1 tions, and the passing years have not j in any way impaired lier ardour and r j activity. \ '" j At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, 11 ; judgment for plaintiffs was given in the t, following undefended cases: —A.B.C. k i Boot and Shoe Co. v. Tonga Carroll, £1 , ' 16s Od, and costs 15s; same v., Matthew 'Paora, 14s and costs 18s same v. Len p - Taylor, £2 5s and costs 13s; Macky, i- Logan and Co. (Mr Gray) v. Win. and E. e Brocklebank, £37 Ms ild and costs £2 , 7s; Sargood, Son and Bwen (Mr Wcs- * ton) v. A. C. C. Stevens, £1 'ls 9d and t . costs 7s. On the application. of Mr 3, Nicholson, a judgment order' was made lt in the case of E. H. Tribe v. G. E. Roper, . for payment of £4 14s by monthly ind ( stalmehts of 15s, in default >5 days. 0 i It is astonishing how many folks are ■' I out to make money over the war. At. r- the Carterton show there was in ingen- « ious showman witli Kaiser Bill's head on a stick. A penny a shot was charged, *> and a prize went to the one who put the * ; ball in the effigy's mouth. ''Now then, >- j you hoys, who ain't going to plug the I ! war king in the lieyef" drew the crowd . ] like a magnet. At half a dozen other ' side-shows the Kaiser was getting a bad ft i time —in fact, even if the Germans get o j half the same number of ''thrusts" in the e j war, they will soon be exterminated. At j a tent the siege of Liege, painted by "* i Martin Donohue (?) was on exhibition, rt | Yet it was astonishing the number of e ! sight-scers that went in.

j While in the Old Country recently Mr J Walter Mason, of Rongolcako, made it j his business to inspect the barges used ' i for the conveyance of produce. After 1 what he had heard regarding their coui dition (says the Express), Mr Mason p j was agreeably surprised. They were J well insuated and perfectly clean. He 1 saw some Siberian butter unloaded, and '■ : the condition could not be better. Mr ■ j Mason, who was in England for three ~ i weeks after the war broke out, said the . \ stores were simply rushed, and many ; closed up two or three hours a day in •; order to replenish their stocks. The i r wages of women workers had gone down .' 30 per cent.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the ■Moturoa No. 19 U.A.O.D. Lodge was held ou Monday evening in the lodge room, Kobe street. Bro. A. D. Xorris was in the chair, and all the officers were present. Correspondence was received from Grand Lodge dealing with now ruling. A letter of thanks from Lodgn for donation in respect to a sick brother was received, also another appeal from the same lodge .for a brother in dire 1 circumstances. A donation was made. : One brother's transfer was accepted ' from another Taranaki lodge, and one |,from a Wellington lodge., The report on i the sick being favourable, several broI thers' pay was passed for payment,, also : some small accounts. A brief discussion re the nominations next lodge night brought the lodge to a close, after which the members adjourned for refreshments. j The fact that "French's contemptible ; little army" helped materially to prej vent the triumphant march of the Kaiser's forces on Paris has roused an in- , tense hatred for England in Germany. ; Lecturing at the Urania- Hall Berlin. Professor Ev.cken, the philosopher, declared that -the English are Germany's : "most repulsive" enemy. In England, i he se.id, there is only a very thin intel- ■ lectual surface under which the national ! character immediately appears. The. j Englishmen might be called Pharisees for i their hypocrisy, but perhaps the Pharisees were, not so bad as the Englishmen. jThe Japanese had behaved like' ruffians, j but he who incited one to ruffianism was : worse than the ruffian himself. Ger- ; nuiny's war was a, war against the Engj lish mentality, which must burl the ! peoples of Europe into an abyss, therej fore German seriousness and German ! profundity must rise against it. j The Staats : Zeitung (German organ j.'in the United States) recently fiercely 'assailed the United States 'Government ; y for its denunciation of atrocities, and j says: "The daily lamentations here i over the barbarities and atrocities of | the Germans are dictated by English i hypocrisy. Enough of this whining of English hypocrisy because something" beautiful has been destroyed by shells. What about the atrocities in your own lioust? /Sweep before your own door; then may you presume, you hypocrites, to criticise the barbarism of other nations. Have they a-.ready faded, those blushes of shame which mantles your cheeks on account of the graft 'and the atrocities in the administration of the Xewhavcn railroad:- -graft and atrocities which prevail in every eitv and i-.i every police force? What signifies a destruction of a Cathedra! of the Middle. Ages. no.matter how beafiI tiflll, when in: vnur modern Temples of | God your people are allowed to riveac'i English hypocrisy?"