LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 317, 17 June 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual meeting o[ tho FiUroy Howling Club will lie held this evening at 7.30 o'clock.

■Five soldier sons were present at tho inquest of their fatlier, a'Dudley miner, who was killed at a colliery. Another son is lighting in "France. The North Taranald Hunt will meet this afternoon at Mr. l'\ Sampson'.; property at Sentry 'Hill. The country has been well sparred and an enjoy-, able afternoon's hunting is promised. The will of the late Miss Alice, Margaret Mary Hcnipton has been proved before Mr.'justice Hosking, on the application of Mr. Hughes, and probate has been granted to the executor named in the will.

The Stratford County Council yesterday received an application for the position of toll-gate keeper at the proposed gate, on the mountain road at YVaipuku. It was pointed out that this was somewhat premature, and a member expressed the opinion that the matter should be "left in abeyance."

Of thirty-eight candidates who sat for the special accountancy professional examination, held bv the University! of New Zealand in May lust, the following passed the subjects specified:—Herbert. Edwin Fail-weather, mercantile law, trustees (elem.), bankruptcy; John Jollv, book-keeping (adv.), auditing (ndv), bankniptcv: Reginald Craig Piessc, hook-keeping (adv.), bankruptcy. William liov Robson, book-keeping (elem.), auditing (clem.), companies.

A Wellington telcgrani says a soldier at the Trcntham ca/mp, Private J. Laycock, was admitted to the Wellington Hospital last night suffering from a broken left forearm.

There is hardly a lintel in Germany and Austria where the Angel of Death has spared, says an Knglish paper. In thousands of homes no male member is left to keep the family name alive.

A striking example of family patriotism was brought to light on Friday.

•.■•'pen a Taunmninui man, who has six brothers already on active service, delisted at the recruiting olhce in Wellington. When a young man named j Steven James was going through the ■'bush tit Korito yesterday afternoon to shoot hares, his gun became caught in a bush and discharged, James receiving severe abrasions on the left arm and shoulder, fie was brought to New Plymouth, and received attention from Dr. Walker.

At the Stratford County Council meeting yesterday Cr. Walters questioned the chairman with regard to 'his statement that three bridges out of every live in the county were in "a rotten state." The chairman said lie referred to the wooden bridges, and not to those of concrete. Cr. Were said he was pleased to hear the chairman's qualification of his statement. He was of opinion that they were, well off for ■bridges in the Stratford county. At the annual meeting of the Kaupokoimi Co-op. Dairy Factory, Ltd., he'd in September last, it was decided to contribute one-half per cent, of the value of the milk supply during the continuance of the war, or until a war tax was imposed. In pursuance of this purpose, payments have been made by this company from time to time, which, including the payment made this month, make a total contribution from this source uf £6OO.

The call for nurses is evidently having good response. At yesterday's meeting of the Hospital Board twelve applications to ho placed on the probationers' list were received and accepted. A letter was also received from —is. M. Robinson, of Mokau, who stated that realising the groat shortage of trained nurses, owing to so many having gone to the front, she was willing to offer her services to the Board for three months or more if necessary. Mrs. Robinson received her training in (Wellington Hospital.

There was a sensational incident on the. special troop train from Auckland to Wellington. Archibald Thomas, belonging to Thames, a member of the Auckland reinforcements, attempted suicide bjj cutting his throat with a razor shortly after the train left Ohingaiti. A trooper asked Thomas for a match, but, instead of producing a match-box, he pulled out a razor anil slashed his throat in a most determined manner, inflicting a severe wound. He was immediately seized. A doctor boarded the train at Ilimtcrvillc and accompanied the injured man to Palmerston hospital. A special general meeting of the suppliers of the Hawera Dairy Factory was held on Tuesday for the purpose of considering a proposal to remove the Tokaora factory to another site. Owing to the inability to obtain another site, and the fact that the, life of the factory building had threo or four years before it, it was resolved not to do anything at present, and in the meanwhile the directors will look around for a new site. The big hill leading to the factory is considered to be too heavy for the horses, and that is the cause for the agitation to have the factory building removed to another locality.—Star. A very successful function was held at Auroa yesterday in aid of the New Zealand wounded. It took the form of a gift auction and basket social, and the event was fortunately favored with fine weather. The sale was well patronised, and the takings for the (lay were approximately as follow; Auction sale, £133 14s; gate takings, £ls -Is; lollie stall, £3 5s 6d; guessing, £3 3s Cd; mock trial, £2l 15s Od; button-holes, 18s 9d; afternoon tea, £4 9s 9d; subscription list, £4O 2b tkl; sale of bicycle, £l3—total, £241 12s <id. This will be still further increased by the evening proceedings, and altogether the effort was a most creditable one, upon which tlie promoters are to be congratulated.

The Stratford borough pound-keeuei waited on the Stratford County Council yesterday requesting that lie be paid ;i sum of £3 !)s, the difference between the cost of feeding and advertising two horses and the sum they realised w'icn the animals were sold. In. answer.to questions he stated that he was bound to incur these expenses in complying with ■the Act. Any surplus he secured would be handed to the boroucrh council for return to the original owners of the animals, hut he had never had a profit on a sale. He asked that as the animals were impounded bv the county ranger that the council make good his loss. Councillors were of various opinions, some considering that the money should be paid while others questioned whether this would he legal. It was decided to get advice on this question.

-.i.ie Taranaki Hospital Board has decided to treat at the hospital, free of charge, men suffering from minor complaints, such as varicose veins, etc., who are desirous of enlisting, but who arc debarred from doing so on acount of such complaint. The effect of the resolution will be retrospective, as already oiis Or* t wo l° cal mcn nave un^er g° ne slight operations to fit them for enlistment. It will be necessary, of course, for the recipients of this treatment to have a certificate from a doctor or the Defence Department. Mr. Maxwell, who brought the matter up at the request of .Mr, W. C. Dudley, chairman of the. Egmont Patriotic league, said he considered that if the men were, willing to give their services to fight, for the country, the least the ratepayers could do was to give them the opportunity of fitting themselves free of charge, irrespective of means. Other members concurred in this. At the Miigisirate'sCourt yesterday Mr. A.Crookc.S.M'., gave his reserved judgment in the ease against Mrs. Box, of Mojcau. of alleged sly grog selling. His Worship said that a man named MeC.orman, who was hoarding with Mrs. Box at Jfokau, got a case of whisky, which was left in his 'bedroom. He thought it would not be, safe there in a plaee like Mokau, ami after he had extracted two bottles he was allowed bv- Mrs. Box to place the remainder in another part of the, 'house for greater security. His Worship said he did not think these facts disclosed am- offence. The case would be, dismissed. However, this decision would not govern any other case, as every ease would have, to be decided on its own facts. Mr. Eon Quilliam appeared for Mrs. Box. Tn connection with Mr. Bryan's resignation from the United States Cabinet, Mr. Theodore Roosevelt has written some severe criticisms of late upon the Brvan policy and charging the latter With having signally failed in a national tlutv in not coining to the rescue of Belgium. Thus wrote the exJPresident: "To iu(l«e bv their a-tions, President Wilson and Mr'. Brvan have believed that their conduct in preserving a tame and spiritless neutrality would somehow put them in a loftv position. It was neutrality of their type which inno ago was practised by the Scribe and the PhniMsee lis rcards the wayfarer to Jericho who'fell among thieves: and it is not held up to admiration in Tlolv WritTf the neutrality is really nothing but neutrality between right and wrong, it thereby becomes action against the right."'

Here is ft little story of the Cenrort Department. The other day one of the examiners 0 f messages for transmission to a certain neutral country came across the following mmple one addressed to » poi.tlc.man with a Gernmn-looking name. ran: „ Moth" seriously ill; father deceased. Somehow the censor smelt <odc so ho altered the last word to dead. In a short time the simple Tenon s reply was received. It wan as follows: Is father dead or deceased?" There arc over 30,000 Germans in Australia, and to intern thorn all, says the X«w South Wales Attorney-Gener., would be a costly business. "Assumine Germans could lie fed and supervised *or 15s a week each, this means that those who propose to intern them desire our Government during wav-timc to spcml over £1,000,000 a year in making pr.> vision for strangers within our 'fatea. If we have .£1,01)0,001) to spare I think we tould find a great deal better use for it than that. The fact is the question of interning or not interning German* is one entirely for the military." A written agreement to elope, signed by a married man and the wife of another man, and stamped with a penny stamp, was produced during the hewing of a .private prosecution in the Auckland Magistrate's Court on Friday (says the Herald). The case was one in which Walter Harold Mills was charged with having failed to account for port of the proceeds of the sale of ft fish business. Tlio woman who signed the remarkable agreement was the wife of the man to whom Mills sold the business,, but the agreement, she said, was only signed in fun. She had told her huaImnd all about it, and that was an end of the matter. Mills stated that the woman really wanted him to go away with her. He had kept the letter because he thought that it might do him some good, although he had not tried to blackmail her. The Magistrate commented unfavorably on the transaction.

"Wanted, 100 doctors," sounds a big order, but in the opinion of Auckland! medical men there will be no difficulty at nil in meeting the Imperial authoritiesrequest for this numlber of qualified practitioners. New Zealand, apparently, iswell_ stocked with doctors, and in the opinion of more than one medical man Auckland is overstocked. In substantiation of this it was pointed out that thirteen years ago Auckland city wa» served uy twenty dwtors, and that today, orVather when the war broke onti there were ninety medical practitioners in Auckland. The recognised basis the world 'over is one doctor to 2000 people. Auckland, with a population of 120,000, works out at a proportion of one doctor; to overy lvitiO people, therefore sixty «36» tors on the accented basis should suffice for Auckland's requirements. Already fifteen of Auckland's brat-known medical men have gone to the front, and apparently there arc so many more who are anxious to go that Auckland will have no' trouble in making up its quota. Auckland City's population represent! nihout a tenth of the total- population of '\ew Zealand, so that if the 100 doctors required arc recruited on a population basis Auckland will be- asked to contribute ten doctors to the contingent. Already it is understood that more than this number of doctors have olfered.

"Money continues in plentiful supply in the Dominion, and there is every appearance of the supply being well maintained for some time to come (says the Trado Keview). How long this state ol affairs will last would be exceedingly difficult to forecast, but we have had a wonderful season for our exports as regards value, and this has brought a very large How of funds into the Dominion. With only seven months of the season gone, the figures are about up to the level of a, normal twelve months, and would have shown up much better, but for the shortage of shipping facilities. Everywhere there is a cry for mor» shtj>s, 'both from exporters and importers. The freezing works arc full, and crying out to get their meat away, anS there are large quantities of cheoae awaiting shipment. Importers are get; ting short of stocks in many cases, ana wanting their goods badly. When the* shipping facilities arc available there will be a levelling up, and we shall sec better how we stand, but there is no doubt that that our exports will be far ahead of our imports, leaving a large credit balance, which mean* >i good supply of monev. What the state of affairs will be after the war is over is hard to say, but we believe that both financial institutions and private people alionld exercise caution, so as to be .prepared to meet whatever circumstances may exist then."

The most commodious and the Dcst appointed hairdrcssing saloon .in New Plymouth is Prcoce's. It is central, too.

The "Pctone" pure wool flannel at is a yard at the Melbourne, Md., is greater value than ever. Other premier values at this "same old prices" store are: Men's Boslyn unshrinkable ilanneis, brown or Shetland color 4s lid, unshrinkable navy flannels fls fid, and Petone plaiding flannels fls Od. Wonderful bargains.

Quality, style and value are three telling qualifications in any goods. The New Zealand Clothing Factory confidently claims them all for their fine assortment of hats. This firm has a high reputation for dependable goods in all their departments, so when they make a particular claim for a particular article particular men may safely take the hint. : ■■■-it:

4kt thfi Waiwakaiho yards on Friday Mr. Newton King will he soiling, without reserve, some very choice dairy eows and heifers. Northern Taranaki has been famed for the fine quality of the Jersey heifer, and wo are informed that those to be offered on Friday are a good sample.