LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It i< expected that ever C:;:i will I,< realised trom tin: patriotic, hall at lla weia on Wednesday.

The Wilding- permits isMi.'d in tie IHi worn Jlorough (hiring .lane r«'pr«-<i-nt-cd an aggregate expenditure of Uo-iS).

On a charge of driiiikciiiii-ss a first oO'endcr was convicted and discharge:! at the New Plymouth Police Court yesterday morning.

".Sorry I can't any moiv, ns eight fellows arc waiting for mv pencil to writer homo with."-Kxfract'from u -Miistorton soldier's letter written in the trenelies a the Dardancl!,■*

Since the. troop.- arrived in l'almer>f.m a number of measles eases have ben reported. The patients were taken to the hospital. The camp at the showgrounds is practically under c|iiarantiie>. Tlif record price of CKIO per ton was received by the Opoirriao Dairv Company for its hist -.lhimient of

cheese to London, >ays tin'. Ilav ol J'Lmty 'Times.

"No sacrifice has been made vet by the producers of New Zealand in connection with the war." said Mr. Hine. member for Stratford, on Wednesday night. "It- is for the Taxation Bill to show what sacrifices the producers wi!J be required to make." Tn the Crimean War 2tiflo British soldicrs were killed, while 18,000 died in hospital of wounds and disease. So terrible, were the ravages of disease, through ignorance and neglect, that the. hospital was a position immeasurable more dangerous than the battlefield.

An old man who could not pay his debts and who was in the witness-box at the court in Napier one day this week to show cause why an order o:i a judgment summons should not !v issued against him, concluded a lengthv appeal to the magistrate with, "l onlv wish J could go to the front. I could at least stop a bullet and perhaps save a. better man's life."

At Christclmrrii on Wednesday Avtliui" Challinor, charged with »-lJin<,' underweight bread, pleaded guiltv. Mr Bishop, N.AL said (lie offence was -enoiiß, especially when consumers had !o pay such high prices I'm- food. He was fined .£3 and costs. Philip (,'odfrev, storekeeper, similarly charged, was Jin ed 20s, (he magistrate remarking that it was his duty to weigh the hived bought from the'baker. At Sofaja ( Bay, in Kgvption territory, and on the shores of the Red Sea. there exists what is claimed to he the richest phosphate field in the world. The pliosphates are already naturally pulverised, and on Wednesday at the a'mitia I conference of the New Zealand Council of Agriculture it was stated that'one of the*returning troopships is bringing back .-„).» tons of the fertiliser as an experiment, ill shipment to New Zealand.

At the meeting of the Jlawera, I!orough Council on Wednesday night, a letter was read freni several burgesses, complaining that a neighbor kepf hoes' and that these inse.-ts trespassed on the surromiding properties, eaush* great annoyance. Members considered that the council could not interfere but referred the letter to the borough solicitor.

The formation of W/|c clubs in farming districts throughout the •province is proceeding apace under the direction of Fanners' Union branches, savs tile Auckland Star. There is, however a difficulty in the matter „f weapons. The Government appears t« be una'dc (o «un-' ply requirements, as it would hiive done in times of peace, and so the operations of the clubs are restricted to tactical manoeuvres..

The dairy factories have been advUed by the National Hairy Association that the work of clearing stocks of cheese ;•• going forward so well that there will V but little left by the end of the lint week in August. TV meat stores are also being relieved. Up to the end of October, providing nothing unforeseen happens the prospect for thlmin* is good, about sixteen or seventeen boats being in sight for September and (V > ber. After that there mar he a little trouble, but there is a hopeful feelinabroad in respect of the supply. Chlorine gas, which i s „ ow ', )pi)l „. d by the Germans in Helginm „,,,] j- r . ]llf . p against the Allies, is „u„le in Germany m enormous quantities for commercial • purposes at a coßt ,of ii; s per ™t I'r'i fessor Wovley, i„ lecturing upon the i.bjecof p „ ieonotia » A J »« said that thousands of tons of chlorine were U9cd each ar in j »;d>go, the manufacture of wMcl, lu k.lledtheßriti 6 hJndianindi,ohK;; is !n J .Sulphur dioxide, another nftlie dcidiv gases, cost only ]2s per ewt, and s produced by burning sulphur. Anoth.'r gas winch might bo used bv the (;,'••- mans was bromine. This was a more expensive gas, and was manufactured "oar he great salt deposits in ,;,.,,„„„* All these gases were compressed into strong steel cylinders for transport , no doubt, were being manui'a'tnr , i,' enormous quantities at the pro-, Ir[ ,;„,'.' An action for slander was ,:,,,!(■ „,; t Ji «"■ the lamnanmui .\l,, K i, ( rate's l„„,t »e ea.so being that of S|,ii.Hu,! t v Histo™. Ti.opi ll i„r;.ran,n I i, H ii ~:;,., . li: f tl ," lt '<"' May -Jil, .luri,,.- itll „!!,,.. cation between the ,„,,,[,„ ',, ' ', ' Aunt- i. -,.,1 i\ ■ -,.' : •' <fl ' "' , :!^u«n^ l _! o, :rr; i ~,,i5,,u;!, ' i , ' : ™-'«*° «-•<■. <■:;,:;'.. N X !l ,!:l "'t"l'win-icl out tint -),u ,-i= .„' ■ " ol " <i«'>;nuu,, but an Knaiisl,,'„'„„' The i'«.', lud sustained :i co-tain 'in'orn' of |><>.vsieal injury. i!|, \\\, V , U] ' '..)... e,ring the ( ,-iden,e. ~,,,.,,,,!,„;,,,;'n,; He s,im or .t; (l u ; lh IMKK .^ claim for this awotn' ~,,1 ,'.';.■ e.vjiem-e..-. in addili,;, " ' ""

Tliu Melbourne's sale c.infi'iivs (~ (~ tli<' centre nf activity. Ala.iv' wen 1,-,-v ''J on almost, cvcrv \u,,, „•' , , , ...a Pi''-ciia.< t .,l duiim; Hi,; ,a!,. prriud '

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I 1 fere's .„, unsolicited ,;. ~,m' <l f<> I).V the .Melbourne's nm,.,., (T „ Saturday: "I always come ,„ ' x , m r sal, "cose t | lo |,.„.„. li|M Hi)f (| ' j||st ; ( as they are described 1„ l,e |„ t !, papers. ' Avoidance, of uiisuoresentj tion has always been ,| 1( . eonsistc, H«i.y «f ''as linn, and i, is extreniel s'Utilyiug to have such an eudorsciuen as quoted above.

Numerous applications have been iceivcjl for shares in No. :; group in tin ■l'.<|mtabl« Buildin-r S. Tv of \Vw I>l- - and the direefurs'hope'fo ~„ j, allotment at the. end of this '., out 1," Ti„ appropriations in this uroun are ol £i>o each, and anv shareholder' hemsuccessful at the bailot. and 1,0|,|i„., (v .„ shares is entitled to tilkl . ~ ■t-..(1, nmkmg (l (~(., | ,„• ,_.-„„ ~..| (i f -«'»mptiuiMa ] S . (Id ,K.r h | la .i. ,„.,'■ week, ■'"((lie redemption on a. loan of c.".(«i would ,e )0s Scl per week. |„t,.„,| ipl ., shareholders (should send in Uieir amid cations at once as th<-• -roup will only consist "of 600 share*. All pa-ticulps in connection with the society cin 'be 'obtained from the secretarv

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There is a ,-e-siou of kin'ti%■, , or t |„. ladies who adorn the House ,?,■ i; q) ,, . M'lilativos tliirin.u: Ihe afternoons and (•veiling, and the favorite eveeise i~ the construction of stock- T■. „(! .■ day (says the Post) a c-ont '. i schoolgirls cam- in, and fh.-v {„„ |,, | | tor the comfort of soldiers. This ir.dsti'.r k»s st-adilv throne!, „;] debate-. a« persistently as the note-taking of t'o' Hansard Half. Xo dnterjoctions, n, Y '|)iostiot,, nor incident cboi-ks the' slow but sure growth of the -oek or the "hala(davas."

Hie Xow South Wales Kdueaiioi, Department ha, Uued a booklet contain].,the cabled reports of the landing „? the Australian troops at the Dardanelles written by .Mr. Ashmend Bartlott and t upturn liean. The book is illustrated and contains an excel!™', portrait of he late C.encral Bridges, photographs of tlin Queen Idizabeth and her .runs <he AKI and Ah/J. a bird's-eye of (lallipoli, and maps oi the (lallipoli Peninsula and of lurkcy in Europe. The book is intended for the use of the senior pupi's of schools, and after being rea d in chiss will become the property of ilm in Mvidual pupils as a memento of the "•.'(- hint action of the Australians. It" -s intended to further booklets of similar character as the occisi.n ■warrants.