LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Iho 'C'orinna is leaving New Plymouth for iWellington 011 Saturday; 10th inst., instead'of Monday, 12th.At a special meeting of the Eltham Borough Council on Wednesday it was docided .by o to i to refer to tile /Works Committee the question 6# establishing gr.inioipM abattoirs. At the fete ant stoning asterialsmont) -at Pihanm, organised ii »id •! ilia wounded soldior* 1 fu»d, otw £A3® wm raised. This is a mosi weditaWa roeult and the residents ol tlio district deserve hearty congratulations. At a sitting ol the Magistrate's Court nt Waitara yesterday, J. J. M. Ross was charged with being the father of an unborn illegitimate child. lie was remanded to appear fl.t Auckland on the 12th inst. Boss was arrested at Waitara yesterday by Constable l'.apouple.

At tile Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Aii-. A Crookc, S..\i., a lirst oll'ender charged with drunkenness was fined is. J. 0. Lavin, on n siniilur charge, was fined 10s, or in default 48 j: ;urs; he was also ordered to pay 17s 6d, cost of maintenance, In default tliree day's imprisonment. Lavin was allowed a week to find the monoy.

The member for Grey, Mr. tWdbb, incurred the displeasure of &tr. Speaker in the House of Jleptesontatives on Tuesday night. Mr. Webb, in the course of some remarks regarding the cost of living, said that if the Prima Minister would do certain tilings such a3 5e tharged him with doing ''lie was worse than the Kaiser." Mr. Speaker: That remark must ho withdrawn. The hon. member must not compare any other hon. member the Kaiser. The dignity of the House must he maintained. Mr. Webb: Weil. 1 withdraw the r.tatiment. I do not wish to cause any feeling between the. 'ion. the Premier and the Kaiser. Bargains of :> most extraordinary money-saving kind characterise the Melbourne Clothing Company's great midseason sale which commences to-day. Anvone desirous of reducing the present high cost of living should not fail to Sake full advantage of many really useful bargains offered.

Tlio Mayor of Waitnra Ims ibeeiTiiotilied li.v the Prime Minister that the re•|w.t for a new post oflipt; cannot 1)0 -' implied with, but that additions will '' made I" tins present huililin--.

Building permits issued in the J3or"iijlli ul' Waitara I'or tlx- half vear ended *•>»»• llmt the value of the work earned on!, I'm- (hat period was .UilJI

A Wellington nieivliant .states that one class of potash that was formerly dominion at £lll per (on LVeiipooT'° k ' tl at 180 IIC ' 1 " t(l "' r ' oj '" " I have. no sympathy with those shopkeeper* who .persist in niacin-' their goods out in the street," said Air K V F.azer S.M.. at the hearing of a charge "I limit at (.lie Auckland Police Court recently. It was stated that the accused took a shirt from ;i show rack outside a drapery shop. ''.Men like the accused are tempted to steal," he added, - while the clothing must catch microbes bv the million. Personally, I would not buy anything taken front outside a shop, and would not advise anyone else to do so. .Shopkeepers are very, very careless in the 'way tlioy exiposc their goods." Habit. -The little, mild, bald man had settled down in the train to read, and, feeling drowsy, after a try day at business, fell asleep. On the hatrack above way a ferocious crab in a bucket and, reaching thy edge of tba rack, it fell, alighting on the little muu'u shoulder, and grabbed his ear to steady itself. All the passengers waited expectantly for developments, 'but all they beard was: "Let i'o. Sarah! I t#U you I'v# been at the olliee all the evening." EMuoh that wae obseure In the early operations against the Dardanelles has now become elear. We now know that when the Allies began tlio attack they expected to have the assistance of Greece, and tha,t assistance would have been there but for the intervention of the King of Greece. Tliev never expected to force the Dardanelles by naval operations alone, but they believed—and here events justified them--—that they 'could reduce the outer forts from the sea, and so. usefully fill up the time until the military forces "were ready.—

Manchester Guardian. In the 'British House of Commons recently, 'Mr. Philip Sn'owden drew atten,ion to the fact that the Whitehead Tor-

pedo Company, of Weymouth, has a branch at Finnic, in Hungary, at which torpedoes, submarines, destroyers, floating mines and other armament accessories are made for the Austrian Government, and are now being used against us in tho war. "Another argument in fayor of the nationalisation of armaments," vominenta ft Homo paper, "the production of which should not be left in th# hands of international rings of private speculators, whose interest it is obviously to 'promote war."

Russia has ordered about 160,000 tons of steel rails in the United States of America, for an extension of railway facilities to the port of Arcliapgel, in the Arctic Ocean. The United States Steel 'Product Company, the export branch of the Steel Corporation, has received tho contract. The Russian Government hopes to establish a port at Archangel before next sprln;.;. and, though only about several hundred mile? have territory have to be furnished with rails, it will be necessary to build, all told, about one thousand miles of tract. Russia is also enquiring for from 20,000 to 80,00>0 freight cars and 200 locomotives, which will cost closa to £12,000,000.

One of Australia's anost patriotic and deserving eitizsns lias just died>at Betric, near Tamora, states a Sydney paper. She —for it was a lady—was largely responsible for the cloaring and settling of almost the whole district, and the devclo]miont of holdings worth altogether nearly £150,000. She came there in the early <lays; she had fourteen children there, and they took after her to such effect that there are now 95 grand-chil-dren, lfl great-grand-children, and five grcat-great-grand-childrfin; a tota.l altogether of juboiit 130,. And between the lot of them they practically made tho place. Orders of merit and all sorts of wonderful looking decorations have been given for much smaller achievements

than this. 'Mrs. Augusta Breust added a now district to the State, and she did so by risking her life fourteen times, quite apart from all the work and worry of helping a family of fourteen to grow oat of one set of troubles into the next. Tilt Dominion Chief Scoui Commissioner, Lieutenant-Colonel Coßgrove, V.D., who wag in Wellington the other day, stated that there are now 17,000 l!oy iSconita in t'le Dominion, and 1(100 officers have been registered at the Dominion headquarteni at Ohristelmncjh. The scouts, continued the Commissioner, have been of great service to the authpritios in the present crisis. They; have offered themselves as messengers, clerks, guards of property, and in other ca-

parities, and thousands of pairs of ioelcs and other comforts have been collected iby the boys and sent to the front. Destitute people have; been helped, and in the country districts the bovs have assisted in household and farm work where the head of the family has joined the expeditionary force. In future the efforts of the juvenile workers are to bo organised, and the Chief Commissioner is visiting every district with this cud in view. Funds are now being collected to assist the. Boy Scouts in their self-imposed tailors. In to-day's issue 'Webster Bros, advertise one first-class new '•lTnmber'' motor bike for auction sale on Saturday. With the aid of a fnll-pnse advertisement such as White and Sons had on Saturday last, announcing their sale, shopping is made easy, even in the most remote parts of the psevince. Every mail brings a. goodly number of orders,'ivliMi have been carefully compiled from tlio long list of bnvqvnus mentioned. It is a feature of White's soles, that them ii usually enough to last more, tlmn the first few days, and although the rush is great, it is unnecessary to camp on the firm's doorstep to get a bargain.