LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 152, 3 December 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The iWaverley .branch of the Farmers' Union ban received over £IOOO for their -British and Belgian relief funds.

War namds of children registered in Wangiuiui since. the outbreak of war include ''.Usacc-Lorraine," "Oatend<," and ''Naimur."

It was stated by a witness at the Manawatu River Board Commission that lie had 'had CO or 70 acres added to his ■property by the river accretion. Thin might bo worth about £lO an acre.

By the aid of a 1000 candle-power electric lig'ht, players on the Kaituna bowling green (Dunedin), can now play rftcr the twilight has gone.

News comes from France that the report of the death of Max hinder, the famous French cinema comedian, at the front was greatly exaggerated. He was wounded, and is making a good recoven'.

The return of the numbetr of births deaths and marriages for the district of New Plymouth (Mr J. S. S. Medley, registrar) for the month ending, November 30, 1014, is as follows:—Birthß vt nn 3 '^ oati ' s '(11)5 marriages !«■> (JIJ.

In opening his speech at the Theatre Loyal last night, Mr. 11. Okey gave an apology to tile people of New Plymouth for not having fired the first shot of the campaign in the principal centre of the electorate. This had been rendered impossible by the fact of the theatie -luiviug been closed for very coil* s.iderable improvement. A meeting of the Conciliation Council was held at New Plymouth yesterday, Mr. T. Garle Giles, the Commissioner. presiding, and being assisted bv tiie usual assessors. The matter under consideration was the drivers' dispute, but as thj demands were so excessive as to render an agreement unlikely to be arrived at, the matter will have to come before the Arbitration Court.

_ A unique event occurred on Thursday last in Palmdrston. LMr. IW. Dixon who is bedridden with neuritis ami resides with Jus daughter, Mrs. Ilarvev J'erguson had a visit from his vr r iv ° c * mibil w<l ages, includ- - "'son, amounted to 412 years in W u'' C a i colon , ia ! B . 'having been born n We lmgton. Their parent's came oul " e h !.' P • Lon , don ' 1 184 2- Besides ticae, tliue is a brother aged C 3 a\--o born in VVellmgton, and o n o 7o yean horn m lorkslure, '

A somfiwiiat, unusual event occurred at tile -Magistrate's Court the other Jay in connection v.'jth a judgment sumuions case. Wlum it was called on a so-u-itov appeared for an adjournment on bclui.it of defendant, and in so doing stated that he was unaware that the summons had been taken' out by his own oiUee so that Ik! was appearing tor both parlies. As the judgment debtor had ake.idy obtained an adjournment in another ease against him, the appliea„:oi; was granted. Had the ease proceeded, tile solicitor would have been i'i;.eed in a peculiar position.

A heniiplegic patient, Harry Hallinan by name, who has been in the Napier hospital for the last two years with tiie lower half of liis body completely paralysed, is at present rejoicing at the results of the recent earthquake. Tne shock so aH'eet.'d his nervous system (■■-•ays the IJaily Telegraph) that lie lias lcomeivd the partial use of tile leg uuich was the more seriously afflicted of the two. After having been 'helpless tor two ycar-j, tiio patient's condition is such as to give him unbounded pleasure. The case is an interesting one, and Di, (.'may and his stall' are watching it closely. Tile improvement may he. oiny temporary, but there are faint cuauwr? iihat may continue.

'i ue pi'e.,eiiflj of mind and prompt action of Guard C. S. Nisbet on the Napier express were responsible for saving tlie life of an old man on November IS. The train had just left, Manuka u station when the man somehow fcl! between two carriages, lie managed ;o catch the railing between the carriages, hut his feet were dragged along the tiack, and ho was in imminent danger ox dropping on the line, where sie would have met with a frightful death. Mr. Nisbet heard tlie noise of the man's lcet dragging, and, rushing out of the aujoiiiing carriage, he quickly realised the position. As the best method of flopping til,e tram he cut the rubber tubing of tlie Wostingiiouse 'brake winch is connected between each ear' J'.tge, and the train was immediately brought to a standstill. The man was u ' but "tlierwisc tittle tile Worse lor his mishap.

Women are not particularly welcome at Samoa just at present. According to instructions issued by the U'on *\g. Company to its branch luaiugew, wives, or other female relatives ol residents of Samoa must if they Misli to visit Samoa, first apply direct to Colonial Logan, tad his reply .>ivir" consent most be produced before" tic£ "! rU r l!lB . lU '?' missionaries or i l\s ol missionaries 'have also to afiiplv to Colonel Logan through their representative organisations, and present the uply when taking out a passage. In tlie case of other female applicants for l'iss. g« Irom New Zealand, tlhey must Permits from the officer comthe" ,','nr t '"' ' ni ! it<u y <list "ct in which t»e application is made.

Iheiu appeared in last week's Gazet„e a list of enemy vessels which Slave either been captured at sea or hold in "> \,v i Was known °« August rnimt somewhat remote dk.te dis•.ptit 'pi'° a . the list to some exfh» -n I 1 13 _ 30 a notieo intimating the number of German vessels which J.al been detained at Antwerp on the cutbicak of hostilities between Gerand "otifyfng il f hnir t • Bnt ; Sl i Pai ' tie3 good l' •t t ?' * re tllc Tribunal of the (cmwtew Wh ° m the oom ™''^ion w i prc l>?° Inv entories of the°nLlf f to J°l' ort ' Tliis contained has ZT + i ? ssels ' As Germany wifl IZ° AnlW'rp, the vessels

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