LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Aqiice ni'irmval l 8 at present i.l progrusH m Otago. TW promoters hope to realise.! £IOO,OOO by their effort

l^T, 1 Kains Properties have changed hands lately, one at t.>o Pf'""- * nd , at £45, while ha„ ; , be en sol(l at prjcra from

til arc if reio^ of a ,lonil ti"» of .«io «n Pr fn" AVumPI FU /!' frCm lMr - Aif ''^' l Brooke * W ° haVC P' eaSUre in tra r d Measurer of the ccn-

The attendance at the Dominion Show, Hawora yesterday was 'bigger than it «iiß on the same day of last year. Today, with prospects of fine 'weather, a record crowd is anticipated. This afternoon the representative football match, VJanganm v. Taranaki, will he played

The Public Works Department of Aew Zealand is able to impart a training in all round engineering which, I tliink, is second to none given anywhere in the wor]d."--Mr. R. W . Holmes, En-g.neer-m-Chief to the Public Works Dppartmen , at a sitting of the Railway Appeal Board at Wellington on Friday

The farmers of the Waverlev district are somewhat perturbed at the prospective loss of the advice and services ot Air. T. W. Lonsdale, who is to be transferred from the Moumahaki to the Rnakura State Farm, 0 n promotion, and a movement is afoot to retain his services as manager at Moumahaki at the same salary as at Ruakma.

Air. Wilkinson is asking the .Postmas-ter-General whether he will take into his consideration the advisability of rearranging the boundaries of the'postal distriet in Taranaki? A large portion of laranaki is now included in the Wan"anui district, whereas it should be more economically worked from headquarters at New Plymouth. A Wellington telegram savs that a meeting of the Xew Zealand Fotball \ssoeiation Council was held last niWit to consider the action of the Auckland s.Af.C.A. in endeavoring to form a subleague within the Auckland Football Association. The action of the Auckland Association, in imposing fines on the Y.M.C.A. for infringements of the rules was upheld.

At the Whitcley Memorial Church service tomorrow evening, Miss M. Russell, from Bombay, representing the 'U. nana (Bible and (Medical Mission, will give a brief address on the work of the mission. The Rev. A. 33. Chapell's sermon will deal with "Fasting: A Vice or a Virtue?" The anthem will lie Arthur Bcrridgc's setting of "Hail to the Lord's Anointed."

_ At the Clifton County Council meetmg yesterday, the engineer stated that the price of galvanised iron had increased enormously. A ton that could previously 'bo procured a t Wellington for i£]« now cost no less than £4l. This was dim to the British Government having commandeered all zinc and spelter.

At a general meeting of the shareholders of the Equitable Building Society held last evening, Mr. E. Dockrill presiding, two appropriations of £l5O each were disposed of by ballot, and two others of similar amounts by tender. The Kev. Addenbrookc was the successful shareholder at the ballot, and £iloO by tender realised £3O. As the shareholder only required £MQ, the second higher tenderer waa entitled to a further £3OO, and this realised £55. Kaponga will make special efforts next Thursday on behalf of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund. A big gala day is announced. There will be fancy dress hockey and football matches, and other item's to make a very interesting and entertaining day. A monster procession and display of pyrotechnics will be held in the evening, the whole to conclude with a novelty hard times' social. Even-one : * expected to help to make the function entirelv successful.

The member for Taranaki, 'Mr. Okey, has p-lven notice to ask the Government whether its attention has been drawn tn the fact that the different life insurance companies doing business in the dominion are charging an extra 5 per cent, on all policies taken out by those enlisting and going to the front since the commencement of the war as a war risk, and whether, in order to encourage those enlisting to insure their lives prior to leaving the . dominion, it will sonsider the advisability of the Government paying the amount charged for war risk?

Miss liussell, who is on the. staff of the Queen Mary High School for Girls, in 'Bombay, India, is visiting New Zealand, and at the present moment is in New Plymouth. Her mission hi the dominion is to arouse an interest in the educational work which is being carried on in India by the Zenana Bible and Medical Mission. Although her stay in New Plymouth will be very short, her intention is to hold a musical cantata in the Good Templar Hall next Monday evening in aid of the above cause, and in which will be shown events which happen in an Indian girl's lifetime.

"It is a standing disgrace to Auckland that a motorist cannot go 40 miles out of Auckland to-day,"' remarked Mr. Neville Neweomh, prior to vacating the presidential chair at the annual meeting of the Auckland Automobile Association. "\\e are bounded by an impassable patch. We want a main outlet from one end of the province to the other. South Island and Wellington motorists can travel any distance in their own parts of the Dominion, but when they come to the Auckland province they are unable to proceed. Tourists from Australia come over and land at Wellington. They motor to Taupo without condescending to visit the sea of mud." '

'file niiin'ber of Taranaki men dealing in the Ilauraki Plains laud called forth some re marks from the 'Commissioner of Crown Lands in a recent hand Board sitting at Thames. He voiced his opinion that the landowners coming north were leaving a sinking ship, so to speak. Despite all the good times enjoyed there, there was more money mortgaged in Taranaki than in anv other part of New Zealand. The Commissioner me/M have added that no other part of New Zealand is more, prosperous, mere en terprisini;- or more goalieml than Taranaki. Leaving a sinking ship with farmers receiving -0 per cent, more than thev have ever received for fat in the ease of butler and ncarlv 50 per cent in the ease of chee-e inani'faM lire! The idea is ridiculous. Pity the Commissioner does not keep to himself his gratuitous sneers about the most prosperous part, of tin- most fori male colour <>f the British dominions at the present time.

The !' • • \V. If. ITinton of Brooklyn. write-- thai he was nartiallv deaf due to caiarr!'.. and poured a t'ea --peonful of hhieaol '■:.(„ (he nostrils, and sniffed "hi two day's Ilic' fullness left the head an,l :h- "-"'lit ear eleaved. Then coin-un-n--', :■ ejairation of sticky membranes in the lef| ear. and on the ,"-/hlh day my 'a a ring suddenly returned."—insist on I'hii-.K-01, Is fid and 2s (id.

'a. - ' i".v "in he iiilere-fcd In hnow ~- ~. hj; |.;R Cll-'T .SCill-'M'K I'«r i;!'<:rvp .•KiAKKTTIvS ami r\Ta""VfTCT ':Y>r ■/■,-, ],.,,, i, pcn extended ti. Tlccemhev. I'dii. All sift fiehet-', irretentive »>f hw daic.l. can ho utilised for ohtainpig gtfto until December, 1916.

A daughter was blamed for her i-io tiler's appearance at Tottenham on a charge of drunkenness. The woman complained that the girl persisted in going to a fortune teller, and the stories she] was (old (lie girl came home and told her mother. Misfortune fur the family was predicted, and the defendant's sons were to meet their deaths at the front. "I have four sons gone to the war," said the woman, "and the fortune, teller's tales have undermined all our healths.' Magistrate: "You say you have four sons at the front';" Woman: "Yes, one has licen killed, and another seriously wounded." An Irish lady who recently returned from Belgium writes:—"The Hermans are trying to get all the young men of military age to sign a document in which limy promise not to take up arms in defence of their country when the Alii,come hack through Belgium. At first the jnen protested vigorously. In some of the villages they even overcame the j officials, but now, remembering Germany's own outraged treaty they do so quite voluntarily. 'A mere scrap of paper,' (hey say, taking up their pens. ■o)i, certainly; where do I sign';' Which makes (he officials awfully wild, because of course they can't retort about the sanctity of written promises. Awfully 'cute of them, I think."

The outlook for the new Australian season has been greatly improved, says the Australasian Insurance and Banking Record, by tfie good rainfall of the last few weeks. While the losses of stock actually sustained will affect thu quality of wqol and butter that will be produced for export during 1015-10, the wh-eat crops have made a start which should ensure, subject to the spring weather, a large harvest at the end of the year, every effort having been made to place as great an area ha possible under crop. The rainfall came in time to partially save the lambing, but even as it is the aggregate result of the lambing for the season will only be moderate. It is still early to attempt to estimate the forthcoming wool clip in Australia, but it is expected that a further decline will take place succeeding that shown by the 1914-15 clip.

Questioned as to what was a fair estimate of the proportion of Kitchener's army now in the field, Dr. Martin, of Palmerston North, who has just returned from France, empathically declared that, with the exception of a few companies, the ;s,200,()00 men placed under training since the war began were still in England. The iirst million were completely equipped for\war, but were still in the Old Laud. They were called "Kitchener's Hammer." The hammer was supposed to strike at the end of spring. It had not done so yet. One idea was that at the last moment Holland would come in, and the men would be landed there to strike at Germany. Another was that Denmark would declare war, and the men would be thrust through that country to a'ttack Kei! Canal.

A Wellington resident who returned to New Zealand by the Niagara this week, said, in reference to the American attitude upon the war: —"It is useless for us to expect sympathy from residents of the United States. They read the war newSi but do not take it very seriously, and are not really interested. Tho question as to who will win simply fails to interest them. They are entirely neutral, and are concerned solely with their own profit and prosperity. Nothing less interests them in the slightest degree. It is not likely that the United States will be drawn into the war unless something very extraordinary happens. The sinking of the Lusitania would have passed almost without comment were it not for the fact that a number of American citizens were killed. The people do not consider it likely that any more passenger ships will bo torpedoed. There is one aspect of the matter which has not received publicity. Had the American Government forwarded a Note to Germany when the advertisements warning people not to travel by the Lusitania appeared, stating that it could not believe that the destruction of the Lusitania was comtemplated by the German Government, and that, if true, it would be viewed most seriously, the disaster would never have occurred."

The thousands of travellers by the ferries to New Jersey gaze with neverending interest at tlie three funnels of the giant Hamburg-American liner Vaterland, lying at Hoboken pier, mute evidence of the suddenness with winch the European war broke out and of England's control of the seas. Since the declaration of war, with the exception of the searaider Kronprinz Wilhelm, and a minor freighter or two which slipped out and took chances, no German vessel has cleared from an American port. The result is that the Vaterland is but the type of something like £12,000,000 worth of idle Herman ships in American harbours, the ships are idle, the money is idle, but the men have to be kept busy, and therein lies one of the hardest problems of the commanders. But there is one department of work on shipboard that never lacks, and that is '-cleaning ship.'' It is sufe to say that not even a spic and span battleship is kept in better trim than these idle German liners at Hoboken. An idle ship, lying in a harbour filled with smoky shipping and dust blown from the shore, requires stricter attention to house-cleaning than with all her machinery running in a dustless sea. So when there is no other work to be done, the wulors (if the Vaterland are set to "cleaning ship." Every day the visitor tn Hoboken can see them so engaged, swabbing down bulkheads, holy-stoning deekx, and polishing brasswork until it glistens. Even with this recourse tho commanders are hard put to it to keep the crews busy, but the companies, despite that every day adds to the enormous deficit they are piling up, have kept their erews intact, holding and keeping on the pay-roll every man possible.

The Melbourne Clothing Company an. nounces that it will lie holding ' full stocks of its famous shilling stockings and towels in a few days' time. Customers who have boon wailing f or these .soods are requested to please note.

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