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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Itoval to-morrow "Kronstndt,'' Max pi-inberton's great spy story, will be screened, together with a grand supporting programme. Auckland bakers have decided to increase the price of the two-pound loaf from 4' / <>d to sd. ft is stated that very likely there v'ill be a further increase shortly.

Six Xew Plymouth boys are leaving to-morrow morning for Trentham to join the Engineers. They are: X. Johnston. E. Jury, E. Lean', C. Lander, B. \\ elier, :>.ud 1!. Herbert.

In our report of the insurances on tlio Opunake Hotel we stated that the building was insured in the Guardian Insurance office for CI,SIM). Tim ri-k was covered, however, to the extent of ■ CIU'JO only.

In the Supreme Court in Chambers 011 the 3rd inst., upon the application of Mr. A. R. Standish, probate of the will of the late Matthew Watson was granted to the executrix therein named by his Honor Mr. Justice Cooper

011 Saturday the art union for the doll presented by a New Plymouth lady for the Belgian Fund, and which has been in view in Mis-; Uamertons 'window for some weeks past, was drawn. The winner was Mrs J>. T. -jjo<A ior ' Okilto > w ' 10sc "umber was ll(i.

The sawmillers of Grcymouth have decided to increase the price of timber.

Oil the motion of .Mr C. E. Stead, in the Supreme Court, probate of the will of Mrs M. A. Colson, deceased, formerly of Okoke, was 011 3rd inst. granted to the executors appointed in the will, Messrs 11. T. Hicks and 11. H. Pigott; and also of the will of John Xorthcott, deceased, to Mr T. 'Xortihcott, t'he executor therein named.

The New Plymouth Citizens' Baud intends paying visits to various country centres to provide Sunday afternoon concerts. 'Pile first of these trips will take, place next Sunday, when Ckato will be visited. Tile band has been engaged to play at tin* garden party at Aotea on Thursday, February 18th, in connection with tilie jubilee of De Burgh Adams Masonic Lodge.

The usual weekly meeting of the Egmonl Lodge. 1.0.(1. T., was opened by the C'.'i'., iiro. K. 11. I'epperell. The programme for (lie evening was 'provided by the fol'owing:—Sis. Ulancliard, song; Sis. 1. Connetl, recitation; .Mi« Eileen Thompson, song; Miss Murphy, recitation; Bro. Rieketts. harp solo; .Sis Ives, song; Sis. Walls, pianoforte solo; Sir B. Conett, recitation; Sis E. M. Thompson, song.

At the borough abattoir last month there, were, slaughtered for local consumption 144 cows, 8 bullocks, 15 calves, 503 sheep, 1!)7 lambs, 110 pigs, 131 tripes being cleaned, one calf's head and two ox heels prepared. Two cows, one sheep and nine pigs were condemned. There were slaughtered for export IS cows, one bullock, 32 bulls, 100 sliecep, 52 lambs, and Sl'2 calves, 4 cows, 1 bullock, '2 bulls, and 1 sheep being condemned. The fees and rents amounted to £133 os for the month, an increase of £22 4s 9d over the corresponding month of last year.

A young French doctor who is at the front with an Algerian regiment, writing to his sister in London, tells a delightful story of a Barmecidal feast. Having shot a pig, he took the trouble to smoke a ham, and, after giving it to an orderly to boil, he invited his brother officers to the feast. When the phschological moment arrived there was 110 ham, so the doctor went in search of it. He found the orderly sitting in front of an empty pot. "Where is the ham asked the doctor. The Arab, in halting French, replied: "I like you much. You no eat ham. Ham is pig, and Allah punish you." The, faithful Mohammedan had buried the feast in a field.

Relatives of Xcw Zealanders would be flattered if they knew the opinion entertained by the highest British military authorities. The writer conversed to-day (writes the Auckland Star's special from Zeitun 011 December 28) with a high official in the diplomatic service. "I cannot give you any personal opinion regarding the actual status of your men," lie said, "for it is unwise to make comparisons while there are so _ many splendid brigades in Egypt, but f can say that Xew Zealand has 110 reason to fear that the excellence of physique and the military e'lieicney of her soldiers can be excelled by any of the volunteers who went through South Africa."

A Whakataki resident has received from a member of the New Zealand force now in Egypt a niece of bark from the tree under which the Holy Family rested, and a frond of fern from the well from which they drank, during their journey across tTie desert, writes a Whakataki' correspondent. He also states that he had the opportunity of examining a Ghurka's kukri, or knife, like those which have struck so much terror into the German ranks. "When you ask to see these knives," be says, "the Ghurkas draw them, then cut your finger before restoring them to the sheath. Their belief is that, when drawn by themselves, they must draw blood before being replaced in the sheath."

Private E. Higham, of the Australian Expeditionary Force, in the course of a letter to his father in Fremantle, says: In company with some other Australians he braved the stenches of the Egyptian village in Cairo, and created quite a sensation 011 their visit to that quarter. About 30 children and some men followed them about the streets, which are only about tc tl feet wide, and u turn at every twenty yards. They were informed that tlicy were the'first Englishmen who had ever visited the village. 111 the end, one of the leaders asked them to go, as they were creating too much excitement. In these villages, the cows, dogs, poultry and donkeys all go inside the houses.

Til the course of his remarks at the Borough Council meeting last night on tile narrowing of the Devon street footpath. (V Smith referred to the difficulty he had experienced 011 the 'previous Saturday night in steering clear of two perambulators on the path. Cr Collis subsequently strongly condemned the presence of perambulators in ffhe town at night, adding that the proper place for them was at home, and that a bylaw should be passed to deal with the nuisance. No doubt mothers who cannot avoid taking "prams' to town 011 Saturday night will duly appreciate the suggestion.

Mr Kenrick. S.M., presided over a sitting of the Juvenile Court at Hawcr.i, yesterday, when two Maori boys, aged 14} and 12 respectively, were proceeded against by the Hawera Acclimatisation Society for having near Okaiawa fished for trout without a license. The defendants pleaded guilty. Counsel for the society said the society did not press for a heavy penalty, but it wished boys to understand that though they could fish for eels they could not fish for trout without a license. There had been a considerable amount of illegal taking of trout, and it was an exceedingly diilL cult tiling to catch the offender's.' The Magistrate admonished the defendants and convicted and discharged them, the father having agreed to nay the expenses of the interpreter. His' Worship told the defendants that next time they came before the Court upon » similar charge they would he more severely dealt with. T or-al X fi Xo NT> Xfi Xfi Xfi Xfi NXiiii

An interesting incident came under notice of the officials in (he Expeditionary Pay Office of the Defence Department recently (says the Melbourne Argus). A woman, attended by her small daughter, came to the Victorian Barracks. and enquired for the paymaster. Tn her hands, she held a copy' of The Australasian, in which were ' produced numerous photographs of the scenes at Proadineadows Camp. The orderly at the door questioned the woman as to her business, upon which she opened the newspaper and pointed to a khaki-clad soldier busily engaged upon "cook's fatigue" duty, to wit, peeling potatoes for (he company's dinner. "That is my husband." said the woman in a verv definite (one. ( 'T had missed him for several weeks, and had 110 idea what had become "f liirn. T saw his photogranh in The -Austral;>*i;n). and there fowul his u;\iiie funong the lists of those who had gone on active service. ITe has left me and iiiy little girl quite unprovided for, and T want to make the necessary arrange- [ rnents to draw my share of his money." At the paymaster's office, the woman hud 110 difficulty in establishing her cusp. Tt diHered in a number of others, only 111 the romantic method of discovering the erring husband's whereabouts. The end of the matter will not differ from a number of others cither. When Private Plank receives his cheque, either bv the banks ot the Xile or elsewhere, fie will be surprised to find that rihrcc(ifths of the amount due have been! deducted for his wife and child.

Tile Technical College resumed yesterday, after the Christmas vacation. There is a very satisfactory increase in pupils, particularly from the count;;, 1 , and it is understood that a special carriage is to be attached to the morning train at fnglewood for the accommodation of scholars coming by rail.

The Herman medical papers (says the Lancet) an: naturally largely occupied with the treatment of wounds. fSome idea of the magnitude of this task may be gathered from a communication of Kxcellenz von iSchjenmig from the front, stating that ildflrt doctors are in the field, and that in one week from the western theatre of war ulone. -ill,1)00 In 50,000 slightly wounded soldiers wen sent home—i e., omitting the severe and fatal wounds.

An interesting event occurred last week at the scene of the famous Tura-Tura-Mokai engagement, remarks the "atea J'ress, veteran J. (}. Beamish, of hi tea, being' photographed with his son and grandson whilst standing on the spot where lie was wounded in the now historic light. Veteran Beamish, who lost a brother in the engagement, was himself shot through the shoulder, but continued to light throughout the eventfill night. The site of the redoubt which was held by the troops during the night can still be. plainly traced, though 'the ground is gradually becoming levelled.

"Last night this man was seeing rata us largo as men, and blue monkeys A change will do him good," said Inspector Hendry, in the Wellington Magistrate s Court, in asking for a remand for curative treatment in the case of a man charged with being found helplessly drunk. The man who had been "seeing things" was robed in a monklike gftrli, composed of'a dark blanket which foil in long folds from round his .shoulders. He did not deny having seen the huge rats or blue monkoys. He was remanded for a week to more congenial surroundings.

Auckland's glorious sotting wag the subject of sombe remarks by Mr. A. If. Myers, M.P., on Thursday, at the opening of Myers's Park. Auckland possessed and beauty and charm of its own, lit! said. It hail been lavishly favored liy Nature, and its glorious setting had inspired the warmest affection in many of its most prominent citizens. But there, was much to be done vet, and each citizen should contribute his quota of individual effort and self-sacrifice. Civic patriotism was as essential to the true progress of a city as was national patriotism to the prosperity, and safety of a country. The people must learn to regard Auckland city as the outcome and expression of tjieir common civic life, and must seek to develop and adorn it, so to supply it with all things desirable, that it would be at once a stimulus to, and a monument of, their civic patriotism. Tf their ideal for a city was to be worthy of a democratic people, they must aspire to more than a few fine streets and public buildings, a few parks and well-laid-out residential quarters. They must look for a city in even tiie poorest quarters in which men and women could make their homes and bring up their children without detriment to their self-respect, their happiness, and their health of body and mind. 'Why should our cities not be designed in the spirit of Port Sunlight, Bourneville, and Letchworth. and thus prove a powerful agent for improving the character and outlook of the people?

YOD SHOULD BEAR IN MIND, That by using the commercial eucalyptus oil, which is now bought at 6d per lb. weight and bottled, and on account of the large profit pushed, you are yourself to all the dangers to h the uso of turpentine will expose

-irritation of the kidneys, intestinal »Taets and mucous membrane. By insisting on the GENUINE SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, you not only avoid these pitfalls, but you have a stimulating, safe and effective medicament, the result of a special and careful manufacture. A trial will at once convince. Quality in a small dose distinguishes it from the bulky and dangerous products. Remember: SANDER'S EXTRACT embodies the result of 50 years' experience and of special study and it does as promised; It heals and cures without injuring the constitution, as the oils on the market frequently do. Therefore, protect yourself by rejecting other brands. SANDER'S EXTRACT posseses curative properties peculiarly ts owe, and run le aaed with perfec*

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 207, 9 February 1915, Page 4

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 207, 9 February 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 207, 9 February 1915, Page 4

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