NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 July 1915, Page 8

NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.

'•1 merely wished to get the .-c;ho of tim meeting," said the .Mayor of W 4 linaton (Mr. J. V. Luke) in t'.i-i n.i!i>e lit a discussion at tlie Patriotic Inn l.i Conference ill Wellington. 'Hat, fir" said '.Mr. C. P. Skorrett quickly, "I do not wi.-'Ji you to get the so'i.c of Die meeting until tlie meeting lias got sense!'' (Laughter). Itace night usually Jills a. town '.villi a certain amount of gaiety, but the streets of 'Xcw lliymouth on Thursday night were excopiioJiaJly quiet, and the rro-wd \\a.-. an mil 'riy oik;. One arrest was made .by the police, a, man who hail 1 i.nlii'licd too freely Ijeing apprehended for drunkenness. Being n fust offender, he was convicted and lined os by -Mr. VV. Kerr. iSJU, at the .Magistrate's Court Yesterday.

The wheat which the Mew South Wales (iovermnent is importing for sale to poultry fanners is due to arrive in a few days". The Minister for Agriculture has' made arrangement for the disposal of this wheat <at the actual cost of 7s '(id per bushel in truck lots, or in smaller lots at 7s Orl iper bushel, .plus shunting and cartage charges between Darling Island and Darling harbor. The latter charge will only be trilling. The minimum amount that will be supplied to any one person will be one ton. There is. hc-wevcr. no objection to a number of poultry farmers combining to purchase this or a larger quantity.

A private in a British regiment engaged at the Dardanelles, in a letter to .his parents in England, wrote:— '•There is one hymn I Shall never forget. Just previous to an important attack, u voice in one of the colonial trenches struck up 'Jesu, lover of my soul.' Soon the. whole line of trenches was singing this grand old hymn—not in unison, but in harmony. We who were listeners imagined thai a large church choir was singing, but the grim reality of the situation opened up wiien the Queen Elizabeth, as if all had been arranged, commenced shelling immediately the hymn had ended.

The following is taken from an English newspaper: —ln view of the great increa -i- in the. price of bnul and the likcli'iu.d of a still greater rise, the very large increase in profit* shown by the Cardiff milling iii'm of Spillors aaul Baker-., I'd., is exciting mm'-h public ecii.:nn-ui. Tlw profits for tin; year ended 1 ebiiau-v 28 amounted to £;{fl7 : Sli", as i'iiiii.p'iire(l with £89,000 the previous vear. 'lllie cia.pitn.l of the company is '£1.000,00(1, .made up of f>o(U!oo£] shares and ."0,000 £lO preference shares. The shareholder;* nuni'ier more than ISO.), and include peers, High Court judges and Couity Court judges. Evidently some pco]ile are growing rich out of the war at the expense of poor people. According to Miy A. C. Saxtmi. a Sydnev titt.her merchant, Who has been on a two months' visit to Western Canada, and who was a through passenger by the Ma'kura, file Canadian luirfbcr trade has been very considerably disorganised : l>v the war.' The great dillieulty lias been to secure space in tV'ight ships, a.nd, in consequence, freights had risen Iby nearly ,100 per cent. The trouble I w-an Kkeiy to lend to an "improvement in the Australian tinrber trade, as there [ was in that country a, good deal of the [class Of thither which hail been brought over from Canada in normal times. In his opinion, no difference would be observed in N"ew ""oakuid, as this country did not possess the ligfli-ter timlhers now out off by the shortage of ships.