LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 234, 12 March 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A man named Harry Priest was fined £SO at Taumarunui yesterday for illegally keeping liquor for sale. According to the latest figures, the five principal armies engaged in the present war possess something like (i.30,400 motor vehicles.

It was stated at a recent meeting of the Mackenzie County Council that bread was costing the council's employees at Tekapo Is C'/„d per loaf. Tlie Lieutenant-Governor, in his annual report on Papua, shows that the revenue was £54,703, and the surplus £8707. The gold export was £47,233, a decrease of £1.j,000 on the previous year;

At the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, Geo. Smith, Roy Mace and Frank Mace pleaded guilty to charges of riding motor cycles in Devon Street without lights, and were each fined 7s Od and costs 7s.

Word was received in Marton yesterday from the Wellington Meat Export Company that the company has purchased the Site and is proceeding at once with the necessary stops to construct works at Kakariki and expects to. start operations next season.

Over an inch of rain fell in Masterton on Wednesday night. It was of great benefit to the pastures, soaking well into the ground. It also put out grass fires. IThe rain put the Masterton race track in splendid order for the meeting.

The Borough Council has decided to purchase a motor-car for the use of the electric-light department. It will be specially fitted for carrying tools and material necessary to effect repairs, and will mark a great advance on the handcart at present in use. Crs. Clarke and Bnrgess are deputed to make the purchase.

The "Princess CVietoria," mined and sunk off Liverpool bv a German submarine, was not the well-known CP.R. liner, which is now engaged in British Columbia waters, but more likelv a steamship of the same name trading, between Liverpool, London, and Glasgow.

The recent rains have completely changed the appearance of the country, says the (Timaru Herald. The ground bieng warm, the grass responded very quickly, and fields that were brown and barren are now green and fresh-look-ing with a surprising amount' of feed to have grown iir so short a period. The root crops have also made a wonderful recovery since the rain.

Owing to the war, poisoned wheat has increased considerably in price, and on Saturday, the Rangitikel County Council was informed that the rate was £1 per bushel. Poisoned wheat is used rather extensively in the grain growing districts in an endeavour to check the small bird nuisance, the County 'Council spending £SO for this purpose this year. The Council decided to purchase, for this year's operations, poisoned wheat to the value of £3O.

A horse that was too alow for a funeral was the subject of a report by Inspector Henry at the meeting of the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at Wellington. ITlie report stated that in view of a complaint received that the animal could not stay-in line on the occasion of a recent funeral, the inspector had visited the stables where it was put up. He found the horse sound, but in low condition,. and told the owner that he must give the horse rest and feed him up. 'You will spend three or four thousand dollars for an automobile, and 1 don't begrudge you that, but you won't put anything in the collection box. You women spend more for a hat than you would give to the cause of religion in a lifetime. I don't begrudge you that hat, but when you sweep down "the aisle with a oOdol. hat and a 200dol. dress, and out a plugged cent, in the collection

box Tdo begrudge that. I want to tell you that God don't stand for that kind of thing."—The Rev. Wm. Sunday the American revivalist.

Kvery woman wants to he beautiful, yet how few will take the trouble to follow a few rules, especially in winter time, when rooms are cold, and courage is required to persist in the daily sponge down with lukewarm water. Plenty of fresh air. plenty of exercise, and sleep are the three great factors towards beauty. Unless you can retire early to bed, and then obtain at least eight hours' sleep, you cannot expect to feel "fit" during the day; and running about the house, even if doing necessary work, isn't exercise and fresh air. A good walk in the open air must be taken daily. Be regular in your hours of retiring and rising, eat good plain food, knock off some tea-drinking, and you will soon note a marked difference in your appearance and health.

Mention was made at last Tuesday's meeting of the Industrial Association of a letter that had been forwarded to the Minister of Defence (the Hon. J. Allen) drawing his attention to the fact that a. contract had been let to a local firm tor the supply of Burmah candles, and pointing out that there wore no better candles made in the world than those made in Wellington. The Minister replied that lie would be only too glad to look mto the whole matter and report later to the association. So far uo further letter had been received. Mr ••• Bull stated that he thought the letter had done some good as lie had noted that the tender fornis now provided specified that if the candles are not locally made, the country of origin must be specified.

Speaking to the Training College students at Dnnodin on Saturday, the Minister of Education said it would be very bard to replace Mr Royd Garlick. 11 here were at the present time medical inspectors, though few in number, visitir.g the schools of the Dominion. The medical branch and physical branch were closely connected, mid a highly qualified medical man with a knowledge of physical training should be made head of the two departments. At a time like the present it would be extremely difficult to get a suitable man, so they would have to await their time till the opportunity presented itself Ho hoped IPhrlinment would make provision for a suitable expert who would bo table to control both the medical and physical sides.

A fine lino of travelling rugs, heavy make and fringed, made'by a leading colonial mill, are being sold 'at the Mefbourno Clothing Company at Ifis (id each. Anyone wanting a good serviceable rug for travelling or home use should in-1 vestigate this remarkable offering, as only a limited number can be sold at the price. Future deliveries of the same rug will cost at least 2s Cd more.

This is a war of young Boldiers,' b'ui of old leaders. Kitshener.is 04j Frenci the greatest cavalry leader of the daft is 02. Lord Fisher at 83, returns to take charge of the Navyj General Joffnf is 02. General Pau came out of his re« tirement, and at 08 took the second p» sition in the Trench army. General OasX telnau, third in command, is about tIH same age; and General Gallicne, the defender of iParis. is 70. Von der Goltz il 81, Von Hindenberg is 07, Von Kluck ia 07, and Von Emmich, wholtook Liegl ' and hag since died„ was 04, Von Moltlci is 66; his famous uncle was 71 when he crushed Franco in 1871. All the Japncse leaders in the Eusso-Japanese waa were over 00. Compared to these mel the brilliant soldiers of the Napoleoni* era were children. Napoleon himseU was only 40 at Waterloo; Wellington was the same age, and so were KeT and Soult. Grouchy was 4fl, Murat 4* Nelson died at 47; yet all these men had achieved their greatest fame before they reached 40. Alexander the Great died before h was 33. Hannibal was 30 whl' he crossed the Alps. Sir Francis Drak'a with a great career behind him, ws 48 when he met the Armada.

It begins to appear that recent effort* to raise the standard of different professions have been somewhat overdone (says the Dominion). Mr T. W. Evans, in his presidential address to the Accountants' Association, doubts whether it is wise to require that the public accountant, in addition to undergoing severe tests in accountancy, shall also be required to pass the matriculation examination. The standard has been set so high that prospective. student! have been discouraged. The positioi appears to he similar in dentistry.Thera again the course has lately been stiffened up, and what is the result? Eleven students at the Dental School and two graduates for the year—such are tha figures of the last annual report. Students who have become dentists dim cover nowadays that It costs but littW more effort to become doctors, and no doubt prospective accountants may Bg finding that one can qualify almost as easily for law as for accountancy. Unless the prizes in all the professions are equal, there is hound to be overcrowding in some and dearth in others if th« standard of oualification are apnro»H mately the same.

Says a Bulletin writer:—lf Henare of this generation gets to the Front ha may, possibly, demonstrate to us the physical insensibility to pain for whiclt his forefathers were noted. Old Hetaraka Repa, in 1842 was skirmishing one night when a bullet took him above the muscles of the back. Did he call up the Red Cross? Not much. He sku> mished round that pa all night, in a'' fearful downpour of rain, looking for uto. which is revenge. Another* old chap was ramming a charge down an elderly cannon that he had forgotten to' sponge. His arm and the oar he, wa« "•sing as a ramrod disappeared in the' distance. He attended to his offic* duties as usual within three weeks. Once I had a Ngapuhi girl, seventeen years old, on my hands, with the ball of her foot torn away. I poured arnica' into the wound and bandaged it. She merely Blattered her eyes' a little an* miffed a larger cloud of smoke. Have--lock Ellis, in "The Criminal," mentions that it was not unusual for Henare to lop off a toe joint in order to get * flash pair of boots to envelop his pedals. Henare. however, has had a lot of white man]s luxuries since then, and doesn't repair so rapidly.

'Where are some people who have no sentiment in these matters, but thosa who have, and I am one of them protest emphatically against the buryinr ' of a murderer at Karori," This protest was made by Councillor W. Skegft ' at Tuesday evening's meeting pi thtf Karori Borough Council against tha interment at the cemeterv there of the young German, Arthur Rottmann who •was executed at the (Terrace Gaol,on Momlav for the murder of three persona at Ruahine. Councillor Skegg went off, to say that he felt very keenly in the ; matter. The murder was a particularly brutal and atrocious one, and he, to-' gether with others who had dear one» sleeping in the hallowed grounds of peace, did not like the idea of having a murderer buried in the vicinity « | was not proper thing, and it woulfl gain the cemetery an unenviable notor. icty. People would come there just to see the grave of a murderer. A Councillor: "If Councillor Skegg thinks that Rottmann is the only murderer buried v at Karori, he is mistaken." Councillor Skegg: "I don't know what other councillors think about it, but from a sentimental point of view I object. We don't' want our cemetery to become a place of notoriety." The Mayor: "I would point out that there is nothing before tha Council." Councillor Skegg resumed hi* seat, and the matter dropped, councillors evincing ha ß te to get on with tie next business.

The concert advertised to be given by the Citizens' Baud in aid, of the Belgian Belief Fund at Urenui next Sunday lu£ been indefinitely postponed. The Emuiro Pictures management adw«™ » + t,l !:- bo ? plan for " Hom °. Sw «et Home, to be shown on Saturday and Monday is now open. Seats may be reserved at the Theatre, or ring 'phon»