LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A (lag presented 'by the custodian of the 'Ma-tortou 01ml> and his wife was offered at Auction among the memilxirs of the club on Saturday niglit, and realised a. sum of .i'IOOO. To suit the convenience of the Taranaki rep. footbuil team it has beer arranged that tin- purawa will leave Om liunga on Wednesday next, and leave New Plymouth on the following day (Thursday). The president of the Methodist Conference, Rev. .1. Dawson, is requesting all the Methodist churches in the dominion to make Sunday, August 8, a day (>f intercession for national blessing, an.! for victory and universal peace.—Press Association.

The Speaker announced in the House yesterday that a poll had been tak'ii by both Houses jon the question of whether or not the sale of liquor at Bellamy's should continue. It resulted in the affirmative bv 00 votes to 44. The bar therefore remains open.

On the motion of Mr. Quillmm (Govett and Qiiilliain), probate of the wills of t'he late John Macaulav, of Lepperton, li.nd .lames Lindsay, of Waitora, Juis been 'granted by t'he Supreme Court to the executor and executrix therein named respectively.

The Magistrate's Court will sit at Now Plymouth at 10.30 a.ni. to-day under the presidency of Mr. W. Kerr, S.M. at Wanganui, who arrived at New Plymouth last 'night. A minister of ca.ses ■have been set down for hearing, t'he majority ibeing (prosecutions under the Defence Act. "Mr. Kerr will also sit tomorrow if itfhere is any business, but so far no cases Uave been set down.

Commenting upon the sta.te of Mi» money maiflceh, the Trad* Review .says that tlie supply of funds continues plentiful for all ordinary purposes. Imjiort« are beginning to come to hand a ■little more freely, and tkerc has been <i, certain amount of .paving Customs ■duties im anticipation of tariff changes, ■which imeaai calls on the hank, coffers,, tout not to any extent to affect the supply at" funds they have. "There is no ■doubt," ndds tllio. Re/view, "that funds are (plentiful at present, but it is very difficult .to foresee wihat -the future will ■bo owing to'tlic uroprccedcjitedly unsettled conditions that prevail."

The Taranaki Rugby Union wrote to the Tarauaki Education Board yesterday: "I have been directed by my committee to advise that it was the intention of the union that the winner of a Bayly Memorial Scholarship should enjoy the, benefits of same, notwithstanding the fact that he might have won a national or board scholarship: The Bayly Memorial was meant to be something separate and apart from anything the State might be doing for scholars." It, was decided to inform the Rugby Union that the board's scholarship is not tenjble with any other scholarship.

"The circulation of the Tarauaki Daily N'ews is. as you all know, extremely large, and advertisements will get to teachers better if they are advertise 1 In the News than they could get bv the two newspapers now advertised in," said Air. K. Masters at the meeting of the Taranaki Education Board yesterday, in moving that advertisements of teacher*' facancies should lie inserted in the Daiiv Xcws. The chairman observed that tli" matter had already been fully discussed, and the motion was carried without discussion.

The proposal to provide a secondary school at Stratford was briefly touch ,\1 mi at the meeting of the Taranaki Kiln

•ulion Board yesterday. All". F. Mackay said be hoped Hint when the time eai"e Hie hoard would nut fail to move in tin' matter and take a hand in il. There wen' parties for and against the proposal, and lie thought (hat, a member .>r the board should so to Wellington to out (lie board's views oil the matter before the Minister of Kdnrati'on. He "d that Mr.- Masters should be the board's representative and this was Hgreed to. ill!. SHAKES' KXI'KRIKKCK. l-'i'i- hpr thirty years Mr. .lames iShakes has been a resident of W ritijigtun. II)-. shop in Manners street is wellknown. and his c\ pei'icn.'O will ibe interesting to many a. siill'erer from Kheiiinli-ti-ni. I lout, Umi'bago. Uhctiniatie Stone, f I ravel ami Mildred diseases, lie writes:—"l }ni'i.ii<f a, severe ii| lack of Hhennfa.tif. (lout, 1 tried •IMIKr.MO. -\!1 pain* left me twenty minutes alter the fuVt dose, and 'bv the fr llowing .niorning all swelling had dis,'ipneare.l. Clearing t.haifc a friend was from li.heunffiitie (lout, I went ni> '1 o bis 'ilia, e wit.h a. bottle of Iv'llKl U<>. and. as in my case, the result was a eitre. J can honestly recommend Hllkl'Mn to sufferers from 'Rhcuiwitio (.'out: :w j emv it. is a certainly.'' Perhaps you have found tliat other so-call-ed "remedies" —liniments, embrocations, pla«ten*. suite or pills—eoukl not euro your Rheumatism or Gout. UITHCIiSK) is the one medicine for these diseases. 2s fld amUsGd. U

Tin' Koliiiuii cheese factory Ims <ilready been promised an additional 201] cows curly in the season (says the U'ailarapa Daily Times). An Otaki resident lias been digging new potatoes for the past fortnight, and plum and peach trees may lie seen ii, full bloom in several parts of (hi! district. A Douglas farmer, having had no mail or papers for three days last week, wir.'J to Mr. .1 B. (line, Wellington: --"lane blocked at iJniroa, no train since Wednesday; can we have one to-morrow:' f'/ie answer came sharp:- ''.Minister will provide train to-morrow if possible."--L. B. Jline. Needless to say, adds the farmer, the train came!

A private letter to a Stratford resident from Melbourne states that the ruling price in that city for is 2s .id pir lb; the ordinary loaf is ft'ldj. steak commands Is '2d per lb. and loin choos run into Is per 11). The effect of the drought of last year is stated to be still apparent. The chairman of the North Canterbury executive of the Farmers' Union lias warned farmers against purchasing anil using rape seed other than the English seed (states the Press). A quantity of unsuitable stud' was being imported into the country, and fanners should refuse to take it.

At the performance of> "Merrie England'' at Kltham on Monday night by the .Stratford Operatic Society a British Ensign realised £24. The total amount raised by the performance', which was

in every way creditable to the members of the society, was £6O. An accident ocurred at Puniho yesterday, as the result of which a young man

named J. Knight sustained a broken leg. He was leading some horses when they took fright arid he was thrown to flic ground, either being kicked or trodden on. He was at once brought into the New- Plymouth hospital by Mr. C. "Roebuck.

The Whangamomona train service is stilt out of order. A works.train is running to Te Wera, and the service will probably be through to Whanga v.ithin a few days. The warm sun during t!u> last few days has dried up the slips considerably, and the work of clearing the line is much easier.

Mr. Upson, the Mount Egmont guide, reported the other day (says the Stratford Post) that he had climbed Mouat Egmont for a distance of 7500 ft. without any difficulty, and expressed the opinion that climbers would have, vevv little trouble in reaching the summit. By going to the west of Humphries' Castle practically no ice is encountered up to the 7oooft. level. Reports are reaching the Public Works Department, telegraphs our Wellington correspondent, with regard to damage caused by the recent floods in the Taumarunui electorate and elsewhere. The Minister of Public Works (the. Hon. W. Eraser) stated yesterday that when full information hail reached him he would consider what action should be taken by his department with regard to damaged roads, bridges, and culverts.

Our Wellington correspondent wired last night that the Minister of Defence stated yesterday that he had not received a formal report regarding the trial of locally-manufactured shells at Trentham. He mentioned, with reference to an Auo(dand telegram, describing a new shell of alleged formidable qualities, that lie had heard from a great many inventors during the past ten months, but he did not remember the particular in-, vention mentioned in the telegram. A Wellington telegram says that nevt week the secretary for the Volunteer Sisterhood will be organising the Auckland women, and applications may now be addressed, care of Post Office, Auckland. The names of the medical examin-

ers for Auckland will be announced in Saturday's newspapers. The same age limit applies as in other districts, ly, 30 to 50, but preference is given to women from 35 to 40 years of age, and to those with nursing experience. All members of the Sisterhood rank as probationers, so as not to cause any infringement of the privileges and status of the registered trained nurse. "It has for some time been acknowledged that the maintenance of the physical fitness of the people is a matter of vital interests to the State (states Sir George Clifford in the annual report of the Sports Protection League). The present great war has shown that those best equipped to take their places in the fighting line are the yotang men who have been prominent in outdoor sport, and in this direction New Zealand can already look with pride upon the depds of our own men, a very large proportion of whom were prominent amongst the various Bports bodies throughout the dominion. The events in connection with the war have so much of the people's attention that questions of local interest have been neglected. Although in these circumstanceslt is not wise to allow the interests of sport to obtru-le themselves to the detriment of the work of national defence and recruiting, the policy of continuing usual pastimes has been followed with a good healthy inlltience on the people, and without impairing file work of the State." At yesterday's meeting of the Taranaki Land Board, it was moved by Mr. Heslop, seconded by Mr, Coxhead, atid

cslrried:—"That with respect to statements recently pußlished in the daily press, this board regrets that Mr. YV. )'. Jennings, M.P., has evidently been nrsinformed with regard to the real intention of the Land Board in dealing with frown tenants in default with rem a! payments, more especially the seldkor.. in that position who are absent'l'n >;i the dominion on active service, and reiiliirms its decision to always give due ,'onsideration to all deserving cases of hardship properly brought under notice.' The Appeal Court yesterday heard an application by ,1. E. Baltrop, of Feildin/. for admission to the Supreme Court as t'. solicitor. The application was oppos.-d by the Law .Society, 011 a number of grounds, among which were that Baltrop had practised as a solicitor without !> ■- fug duly qualified; that he touted for business; that he commenced actions on behalf of people without their authority, and there were, also grounds of opposition regarding the manner applicant had dealt with funds coming into his bauds. After the case had been partially gone into the hearing was adjourned to August 4 to enable Mr. B. Atkinson, in whoso pllic.e had been employed, to be present, and to give applicant 1111 opportunity of replying to fresh matters raised.—l'ress Association. Anibury's big sale finishes this weei:, (vhen they go straight into stock-taking, In preparation for new spring goods on (lie way out. Some startling values will lie seen in their windows for a lew llays. The members of Mrs fleorgc's orchestra have kindly offered their services for tin- ball 011 August in aid of t h • ivounded soldiers' fund, and this in its* l! should be an attraction. Mr. HoiVmaim lias also come to the committer's assistance by lending a piano for the occasioi:.

The last few days of the Melbourne's Went mid-se'i'son sale are announced. (During Uie final (Jays of sale all oddnuMits, >brok<Mi lots and remnants will Ibe 'Tired out" regardless of cost in order Id clean np istoeka au'l p:ivc tlie May for new season's goods.

The fa,moils' old stage favorite, "The lights o' London," will (lie shown in H',iituTes nest Monday and Tuesday at .the Thca,tn; Royal. The picture is ,pro-,il'iK-ed uiulcr the personal supervision, of 'the authw. Seats may be reserved at Hoffmann's.