LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 7 December 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr S. Buick, a Salvation Army missioner who is known on all the backblock roads, collected no less than £l3O in Waitara and along the north coast of Taranaki, a tribute not only to the generosity of the settlers, but to the energy of the collector.

il The latest fund to be started in America oil behalf of the Belgion victims of the war is that of the Salvation 3 Army, which is raising £400,000. This i money will be chiefly devoted to destit tute Belgians in Holland. Nurses will n also be sent, and all food, clothing, and hospital supplies which may be given for the destitute in Holland will be sent - from America direct. " The deaths from cancer in New Zea- ; land during the last few years have inr creased with an almost alarming rapidity. In 1904 the number of persons who died ■■ from this disease was 571, while in 1013 p the number was increased to 856. Only u thirty-se\*en of the latter were under thirty years of age. If we reckon that 3 one-half of the population of the Domin- ? ion is over thirty years of age, we find i that also nine in every fifty matured persons died from cancer, r A new up-to-date sleeping car, fitted with electric light, is now in running on the Auckland-Wellington Main Trunk I line, and has proved very satisfactory. 3 The installation was made at the Petone Railway Workshops, the working apparatus being hidden in a box under- : neath the car. The switchboard is in a ! handy position near the entrance of the [ "sleeper," and the occupants can switch . the light on or oil' at will. An innova- • tion is an electrically-heated kettle,' ! which is always ready for use when , required. ; I 'Die results of the weight-judging ( competitions at the Stratford A. and P. I Show are as follows:—Fat cow, actual ' weight, SOOMbs; First prize, E. Bonner, : Stratford, exact weight. The following divide 2nd prize with an estimate of SOOlbs: C.R. Abbott, W. Hirleliy, F. H. Buekthouglit, A. Langman, A. A. Wills, J S. Huston, J. F. Stevenson, E. Gibbings. Tiie highest estimate was ISOOlbs ami the lowest 52!Mlbs. Three sheep, actual weight, 921bs, SI libs, M Jlbs; total 2281b5: First prize, T. Colson 2281b5; second prize, Sam Thompson, 227}lbs; highest estimate 322Jlbs, lowest 1831bs. Two pigs, actual weight 117 Ibs, 71'Jlbs, total 178:]lbs: Best estimates were Miss Orr ISOlbs, B. Orr 177}lbs, W. McCutelian 17711b5, who divide first and Second 9 prizes. . The fat cow and sheep were kindly lent by Mr T. I). Colson. CHECKED AN EPIDEMIC. "I have been periodically atacked with dysentery," says Mr Tlios. Samsiin, of Sussex street, Grey Lynn, Auckland, N.Z., "and have never found anything to give me the immediate relief that Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy did; it certainly checks the attack. When I ] was in the grocery trade, I found Cham- ' berlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy 1 very popular among the Maoris, it hav- i irig done good work in checking-an epi- ( demic of dysentery among them," All ,j chemists and stores. " - r In. ;

"They got there on the toasted cheese policy, which always attracts rats."— Mr Wilford on the present Government. The Whiteley Memorial Sunday School anniversary services were held yesterday, the services being taken In the morn" • n ff by the Rev. C. H. Olds and in the afternoon and evening by Rev. A. B. Chappell. Mr G. H. White conducted the special singing, Miss M. Cannell presiding at the organ, and Misa 0. Amliurv at the piano, a line orchestra assisting. The singing of the children was excellent, particularly at the evening service. The attendances at all services were large and the ofl'ertories very good. The spefeial singing may be repeated next Sunday. The annual prize-giving, with children's pinging will be held on .Wednesday evening. Inglewood easily comes, first in the rainfall record for November with a total fall of 8.95 in, as against 4.03 in. for 1 Stratford and. 4.97-in. for Whangamomona, Ram fell on fourtetn davs in htratford and Whangamomona and on fifteen in Inglewood. The highest falls were: Inglewood, ,94-in on the Ist, .57-in on the 15th, 1.05-in on the 17th",! •fil-in on the 22nd, 1.75-in on the 20th, •51-m on the 27th, 1.14-in on the 28th, l.Ofiin on the 29th; Whangamomona ■SO-in on the Ist, ,57-in on the 22nd, 71-in on the 20th, ,55-in on the 28th, ,98-in on the 29th; Stratford, ,73-in on the Ist, .01-in on the 22nd, .58-in on the 20th, •04-m on the 28th, ,87-in on the 29th. Falls recorded in hundredths of an inch; Inglewood, four; Whangamomona, four; Stratford, three. Inglewood and Whangamomona had rain from the 24th to the 30th, and Stratford from the 25th to the 30th, the various totals for this damp spell being: Inglewood 4.82-in, Whangamomona 2.75-in, Stratford 2.44-in.—Post.