LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 311, 10 June 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Prime -Minister has received over three hundred telegrams, congratulating him on the result of the Bay of Islands by-election. } Arrangements are being made in the direction of having a monument erected near the entrance to the Patca River to commemorate tho landing of the Natives there. We have receired a further contribution of £2 4s fid towards our Hospital Ship Fund from the Okato Football Club, being proceeds of tho OkatoTnkapa match played last Saturday.

The Mayoress, 'Mrs. J. E. Wilson, announces that during the last week she has been able to send seven cas.js of requisites for the hospital ship to Wellington.

Mr.' H. de Lautou-r, the well-known Gisborne sportsman, in advertising in a Poverty Bay newspaper for a gardener, adds the proviso: "No man fit for active service need apply." It is not generally known that thirty years ago the first Australian contingent went to the assistance, of the t Mother Country. In 1885 a contingent left Sydney for the Soudan. ' At the meeting of the Central School Committee on Tuesday evening, the headmaster, Mr. 11. Dempsey, reported that the average attendance for the three weeks ended May 28 was 538.5, or 03.3 per cent, of an average roll of 577.

Mr. Newton King received a cable message from London yesterday stating that the rate of aerial risks in the city of London had risen to fifty shilling per cent, for three months. In October the rate was but.3s 4d for six months. The increase speaks for itself. The Ohura Advocate says: Land agents are busy in the district just now with real and prospective buyers, due no doubt to the advance of the railway. Mr. T. de Vere Hunt has sold out his property at Maticrc, at the satisfactory price of £l7 lfls per acre. Mr. C. McKinder has also sold out his farm adjoining at £l3. It is common knowledge that the birthrate in France has fallen much, but it i* not generally realised* how rapid and great has been the fall in the birth-rate in Germany during the last decades. \n cminimt German scientist Ims discovered that, though the number of marriages lias practically not changed, the birthrate has fallen by more than '25 per cent, and the mortality by 35 to 40 per cent.

In broad daylight, in Bangor Highstreet (Wales), on April Ist, John Prythereh, a local farmer, suddenly seized a young married lady, a stranger to him, pulled her head back and kissed her with such violence that her lips bled. The Bangor magistrates sentenced Prytherch, who is a married man, about (iU years of age, to imprisonment for a month, with hard labour.

The importance that is attached to the state of a soldier's teeth by the military authorities may not be generally known, many men otherwise eligible are refused on tins' Account. It is worthy of note, therefore, that two of the Maoris who enlisted at the local Defence office yesterday were placed under tin heading of "excellent, perfect," wftn icgard to their teeth by the medical officer who examined them.

New (Plymouth people, quite naturally, resent the attempt that is being made to abolish the Taranaki education district, says the, Eltham Argus. Tt will be an absolute injustice to Taranaki if the district is abolished, but 'Mr. Itogbcn is running the commission, and if iie yets his way the Taranaki education district will' soon be a thing of I'.'e past. The onlv'hope for Taranaki Pes in ike closeness of the sfeiigth of (he political parties. Politicians can do much when the Government majority is ■mall. We remember in the early At-!.i,i-on days when one vote obtained a

Savs the Christchureli Star:- "T'to vac has been raging for nine month:-, a;.d e,,od people are bo-jnning to despair. Thev sav it will inner end, anil that C.-vi'ininv will never b- crushed. Let tlinu read their his!..re. Have they

ea;. Mv.r.-: of (he Hundred Ycr- War. aa,l in modern times of the Tiii;-;" Years VV-r and (he Seven Years War. a ad the ..u-m-les of the Napoleonic I'.a . I'.vn liritVui's little !ieht with Hie lieor. lasted three years. Why then, all this wailiier because Gerinanv. the greatest, military 'Power the world has o\cr known, is not, pulverised in nine months'; The civilian expects too much. He docs not even know the rudiments of military history or he would never begin to wring his hand just because his country does not gi\e tile euemv the quietus straight otr tile reek"

There has been unite, a, rush for the children's .pyjania-eoinbinations at 'is lid fat the Melbourne Clothing Company. These sleeping garments are suitable for either hoys or girls, and arc made on a splendid pattern. A fresh lot from the factory opened out to-day.

The large numbers of people visiting the Winter Show are advised to "hill l,„ birds with one stone" fas the old ; ,,| :i , v has it), ami (look through AmImrvV iiuiiien.-c stuck of warm ami comfortable winter goods, unequalled in the province for style anil value. KveryIhing for personal and home comforts at peace prices.