LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The next sitting of the Arbitration Court at New Plymouth is fixed for Friday, July 23, at 10 a.m.

A donation of a hundred guineas to the Wounded Soldiers' Fund was made by the Taranaki Jockey Chih at its meeting last night.

Owing to numerous requests, the management of the Empire Theatre will screen, for to-night only, the groat patriotic drama, "Tipperary." The president and vice-president of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce waited on Mr. Waite, the Railway Department's commercial agent, yesterday, and brought several local matters in jouncetion with the railways to hU notice.

Little business was done in the Legislative Council yesterday afternoon, a sitting of ten .minutes' sullfcing. The Church .Property Trust (Canterbury) Aet, 1:870, Amendment Hill was read a third time, and the (ieorgetti Trust Estate ißill passed its second reading.

The 'Paranaki County Council has •been advised that, at a' recent meeting of the State Advances Board, it was resolved to grant the council's request for a loan of £!io0 for the purpose of forming, culverting, grading and metalling Hoani {Road. The Taranaki Jockey Club last .night decided to vote £IOO to the Taranaki Agricultural Society, conditional on the Society re-erecting its yards and holding its show at TVaiwakaiho. It was also decided to donate to the society an additional .CM) ,pcr annum for fiva Years for the prize list of the live stock show. At the performance of the " Patriots " in the Kaponga Town Hall on Thursday night, advantage will Oje taken to make suitable presentations to the Kaponga quota who leave finally for the front on Saturday. A large attendance is expected to give a farewell to these soldier boys. Presentations will be made I>y the band, Oddfellows and the local Patriotic Committee.

At a meeting of the District Committee of the Taranaki Jockey Club last night, a number 0 f trainers' and jockeys' licenses were granted, and a number'of certificates! iwere issued to gentlemen riders. Two accident claims were approved. At a subsequent meeting of the committee of the Taranaki Jockey Club, Mr. Bennett's cup was selected as the cup to be donated to the North Taranaki Hunt Club. iA donation of £5 5s was made to the Dominion Boy Scouts. The members of the Stratford Operatie Society, who are giving a performance of the opera, " Merrie England,"' in Eltham to-night, arc leaving ilie iPost Office, Stratford, at six o'clock.

Tii his week-end report to 111-■ Defence Department, Colonel Logan, Administrator of .Samoa, states that the general health of the garrison troops i-i good. The following men are suffering from trie maladies named, hut are all doing well: Wireless, Sergeant R. Crouehcr, enterie fever; .Samoan Relief Force, Privates \V. Martin (nasal sinus trouble), A. If. Gannaway (tonsilitis), W. Alexander (pharyngitis), T. (!. Risk (angeo neurotie ar'deina). C C. .lohnson (cellnlitis). Jn conncvtion with the movement to protect Dritish trade interests, a subject that will iprobaldv occupy the attention of th? Conference of C'liamhers of Commerce, the Wellington Central Chamber has decided to advocate the adoption of the following remit:—'-'That this conference take whatever steps are eon tillered necesary to promote (1) trading within the Empire, (2) preferential tariff in favor of our present Allies, or, if aJvisabl\ neutrals, making the preference such that all goods coming in the future from our present enemies will cost more landed in x, nv Zealand than will goods of a similar quality from other sources."

A Palmerston North message states that at the annual meeting of the Mana\vatu Agricultural and Pastoral Association yesterday a recommendation wa, made to the fieneral Committee that the next Spring Show hr> held in aid of the patriotic funds. It was stated that the proposal was likely to be well supported, and a substantial sum would go towards the patriotic funds. The president also introduced a proposition that the farm products from next Winter Show he exhibited in one of the Harbor Hoard's shed* at Wellington. An interesting shopping event—even more than interesting—is -Mo rev's "'Squeezed-out" sale, which ccnyn(enccs on Friday, July '2.1. While the firm's new premises are being erected business is being conducted at a temporarv shop which lias proved far too small to hold the stocks. The result is the " squeezedout" sale, held for the purpose of reducing the congestion. 'See the important advertisement in this paper to-day. The Melbourne Clothing Companv's mid-season sole continues to attract crowds of shoppers. Fresh line- of goods are brought forward daily, with the result that buyers can rely upon finding new sources for practising economy at every visit.

A rebate of 10 per cent. 01T sing]- faros will in future be "ranted by the Ori.'nt Company in the ease of first, second and third-class passengers who are ]>rn.-o'jd-ing to England at their own expend in the steamers of this line to enlist-. TV.' full amount of passage money muse lv paiil when securing the -passage, sine! on production of a certilicate fro-'i the <ommWling officer an abatement of 10 per cent, will bo made in London.

Attenion is vailed to an auction sale to be held in the Foresters' Hall, Waitara. Commencing on I'ridav next, at l.;) 0 p.m., by ■jn-.'K. Khouri. '.Mr. Khouri has 'brought from Wellington .tlOOu worth of drapery, boots, jewellery, faney goods, etc., etc, which h'e must'quit at ci-t-ratc prices. S-e advertisement on page 8 of this issue.