LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 June 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Auckland h:is raised over £02,000 for the Belgian Fund. Wellington-Naples despatch of mails ot May (I arrived in Ixmdon on the 20th instant. The 'price of butter at Melbourne has been raised one penny wholesale, and is now Is lid per lb. A (iuzette. extraordinary contains an Ordcr-in-Coiineil prohibiting the export of .potatoes. A London cable says tho National Mortgage Agency Company 0 f New Zealand has declared an interim dividend of 7i per cent. A memorial service for the New Zealamlcrs who have fallen in battle will be held in St. Mary's Church, New Plymouth, on Sunday evening. West-emlera who have to negotiate the fookpatbs in Devon street west are becoming quite proficient in the art ol toboganning. Some quite decent slides can Ibe had in some places. The Mayor of New Plymouth has forwarded to the Hospital Ship Fund a further payment of £7, being £6 received as proceeds of Mrs. Whitham's after-

f noon and £1 the proceeds of sale of a shawl given by Mrs. Elwin; per .Miss 8 Hamerton. 0 A Duncdin telegram says included in i. the bequests made by the late 'Mr. John e Sidey is one of £IO,OOO to the Otago University for general purposes, and one r of £IO,OOO to the Otago Hospital and Charitable .Aid Board for the (benefit of t the (Duncdin Hospital. 1 The wife of the postmaster at Mangaf weka 'hit upon an ingenious"plan of > raising a few pounds for the wounded . New Zealand soldiers. She grew sweet peas, collected ihe seeds, of which' she made up nice, little packets and thod • gave these to school children to sell. f The result is that- over £7 has been 3 obtained for the fund, t (Recognising that owing to the departure of those members of their profes- ' sion who have gone to the scat of war, find to the increased demand for nursing i attention which would be occasioned by i the return of sick and wounded soldiers, , the nurses at the Wanganui Hospital , have intimated their willingness, as tht ' occasion arose, to work longer shifts than the regulation eight hours. A letter from Cairo states that the Maoris created a diversion in Egypt, , and amused the Tommies particularly. ; One Imperial sergeant addressed a stalwart iMaori in "pidgin English," but was ' very much taken down at receiving the ■ reply: ''My dear fellow, if you would ' talk English I might understand you. , We respect the soldier, but if you talk , to. our men like that they will laugh at ' you." The Tommy sergeant got the ' shock of his life. Judgment by defimlt was given at the I Magistrate's Court yesterday in the cast . of Walter Haughton (Mr A.H.Johnstone) . v. Brandon Haughton, claim £7, costs £1 3s <sd. On a judgment summons, A. Bartlett (Mr. A. R. Standish) v. John Coleman, defendant was ordered to pay p £>2 14s :0d on or oeforo June 2*t, in default three days' imprisonment; "F. J. Eggleton was? ordered to pay >M. Burke 15s forthwith, in default 24 hours' im-' prisonment. On .Monday, at the Ngaere School, a ,painful accident happened to Roy Walker, son of ,Mr. A. D. Walker. While playing football, he was collared by another boy and both- fell. Walker's right leg'was doubled under him and was broken just above the ankle. First aid was rendered by the teachers, and the sufferer was conveyed to.his home, andthen to the Stratford Hospital, the \iU tie chap ibore his suffering with the " greatest pluck.

A London newspaper received .by the last mail has the following among its Anglo-New Zealand notes:—'l'hc .building of the now High Commissioner's offices in the Strand proceeds apace, and a particularly effective advertisement in the interests and industries of New Zealand has not been .placed outsido the hoarding in the form of seven large oil paintings .by Mr, Alfred Pcarse, representing fanning, dairying, the shipping of meat, red deer stalking, trout fishing, fruit farming and soldiering. The secretary of the Pukekura Park BoaTd acknowledges flhe receipt of the following further annual subscriptions: -Mr. C. F. Foote 10s, Mrs. Fred. We'bstef 10s, Mr. W. J. Chanty 'Ms, Miss

Hempton 'los, Mr. A. iShuttfeworth 10s Bd, Hon. T. Kelly 10s 6d, Mrs. Freeth 10s, Mrs. E. A. Walker £1 Is, Colonel Messenger 10s, Miss Marshall 10s Kev Colvile 10s, Mrs. Allen Douglas £l' Miss I' Stephenson 'Smith 10s, Miss Drew 10s Archdeacon Evans £1 Vs, Mrs. F. (i Evans £1 Is, Mr. A. C. Fookes £1 ',Mr' Ci. F. Robingon 10s «d, Mr. Crooke 10s. ' The wife of a German subject made application to the Hawera Hospital Board 'for. charitable aid. It appears tliat her husband, a hairdresser by occuption, is now out of employment, and unable to get any other work The Board approved of the secretary's action in granting .temporary assistance, nut it was resolved to refer the case to '-■ he authorities at Wellington. The kittest circular to boards mentions that the Government will contribute half ol the cost of relief afforded to enemy subjects coming on the board for assistance. '

Owing to the. high prices ruling for cull cows lust spring and for the greater part of last season, and as there, is not a great numlber of good springing heifers offering, together with the high prices that arc being obtain for dairy produce it is anticipated, says the ILwera Star, that good dairy cows will command high prices this season. Already good dairy stuck is selling o«'eptk>nally\vell. At a sal., held yesterday by the Now Zealand Loan «nd -Mercantile Aircncy Company on account of Mr/J. (Wirty) South Road. the. highest price realised was .-C2O iis this lignre being paid for a good lypn of grade li'olstein. Several other rows brought from .613 to £ls.

Major Morton. D.5.0.. iveently wrote io a 'Wellington friend:- -"If you people in Mew Zealand realised for one minute what hellhounds and monslei's these , Certnaus are, T gue-s you would nevei speak to one of the same nation again. on :n'e too good to the swine on your side. T ani not saying all this because i of what 1 have read in the papers, Init from what T have seen in the hospitals her" and heird from personal friends I who have been eve-witnesses of deeds J thai, a *outlt Sea 1-dandor of a hundred ""i!'s ago would have shuddered at. I ha'. - ill > ■ .-.s ■I f seen- men' villi both hands fail. o!V. eyes gouged on! and atrocities commit led on voung giifs and infants I'ml- "on!.| ]e, Vl . mi „ie ,]»A llle Kipper f, iiiil. 'I on cannot for one moment im.i-i,:*' one-hundredth ',iari awav out I her," ,:f ediaf we know here, If von '•■ l \ou iie.iil.l md, wonder whv everv-i-iie is willing to su-rilice e\erything and "■ivlhng so long as they bring about the '-;nviM- end of this diabolical nation."

, JOwing the month <fi '^^^^^BKm cmicses. The sum of £^'&«'nM' ?? to suppliers for bntter , ,«,*£* . n». During tho seme period tie can- ■ pany manufactured IjßS4]b of Gutter ' I he price for butter fat paid to supplied "a* Is per ft, the totalising £M . Among the passengers to arrive at Wellington from Engird on Monday by il„ t and Mvo domestic servants It t r I, ,*' war no men «f ■flu.mlli?e siwAj ySS of ••overmiient, and tbe 7<» „„„ " th * t'onod eonss v „,lv P? 88C m «»- about July 8, a fetch of "^ domiWn It miffht , )0 ra Xned te IX 8 * f the l,omand fw Home girte for domestic service i 8 s till far from hiparticularly m Otago, i R said to K keen as ever, it was. besides these 60 there will be another 110 assisted mmi! Brants arriving by the Corinthio. NW » evidently the time when reWhJrt Homo arc straining every nerve to set their people out to New Z( , aland <f the easy terms on which this can be arranged were more widely known here the Immigration Department*' officers arc convinced that'the figures would brf

Some idea |of how leading firm* fa Auckland view the introduction of Women clerks in connection with the numerous enlistments of men lias been ob-' tamed 'by a New Zealand 'Herald reporter, who interviewed a number of Swlfo* 6 ?- Vacant I*"** in «» lA.M.P. Society arc being filled as well , as can be arrange .by the appointment of temporary lady clerks, who do the* routine worik, while male clerks undertake the more responsible work. That there is an ample supply of lady clerk* - available may bo gauged by the fee* i that when the oflficc advertised recently for one no fewer than 03 replies were . received in a few hours. Among the heads of firms which make a practice of employing female clerks for routineworC ' some difference of opinion was found to' exist as to their relative value -when compared with male clerks. One gentleman considered that the presence of ■ women in an office had an elevating Influence. Better behaviour was noticeable among the youths. On the other hand, the opinion was expressed 'by others that women and girls lacked +"">'«* commercial sense which was sary in an office. (Banking institution! have also...treated their enlisted men generously as regards salary, increments and continuance of benefits under their superannuation schemes. In one bank one-third of the staff has enlisted and another has Jost one-sixth of its clerks in the same way. At the present time, with the exception of the Bank of New Zealand, none of them contemplate the' employment of female clerks. Future developments might, it was admitted, cansc such a step, but* it was considered to be most unlikely. ' • J»

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., draw the attention . of clients to their ,Tc Wcra sale, which tlioy arc holding in their Te Wera yards . on Friday, June 25. FuH particulars will be found in our advertising columnson page 8. The New Zealand Loan and Meruantilo Agency Go., Ltd., draw attention of the public to the clearing sale which they are holding on account of Mr.' Albert Eggera, on the Mountain Road, near Taribi, on Monday, June 28. Full ■particulars will be found in our advertising columns on page 8. Throughout the province at the company's various branch stores, the Melbourne Clothing Company holds a stock of tho improved Swanndrj guaranteed waterproof coats. These are stocked In V dark grey and'fawn shades in Tiott> ridding and walking-out and the price does not exceed 55s for best quality.