LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At Whitoley Memorial Church there will be this evening a special intercessory service in connection with the anniversary of the outbreak of war. A wlleetion will be taken, to be devoted to the Methodist Chaplains' Institute Finn).

A commencement has been made with the preliminarv work in connection with the erection of Messrs llntrick and Co.'* warehouse in Devon Street. The building will he a substantial one, being 274 ft. long by 42ft. wide, having 11 frontage to both bevon and Gill Streets.

In connection with the anniversary of the declaration of war, a patriotic meeting will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon, at the corner of Kgmont and St. Aubvu Streets. His Worship the Mayor requests all business people to close their premises during the demonstration, at which patriotic addresses will be given by various, speakers, and loyal resolutions passed. The White i'igowa oat is coming into favor in tire Waiiarapa, and some gre.it returns have been obtained from it. ill". G. Shaw, of Te 'One One, this year .-ill, 4 tons Isi ewt. per acre oil' an area of Jj acre?. The' first year be got 00 : j bushels per ncVe'; the next year off li acres (iueHidin'g "liu acre of creek) ii; averaged (JO bushels; and the following vcar SO bushels off about the same area.

An important development in connection with tliiV Stratford-' ikaliukura railway (says flic Taumaruuui Press) is tlic (.'wmmcneciincnt of the work oil the On;.;aruc bridge. Tlii.s structure, which will span tll'c'river close to the junction of the 'railway with the Main Trunk Line, \v'lll hiive'ia length of four chains, and. v,ill wi-vi'Mioth as a railway and t!'af.ru hritlW.-'-j It will probably, take some nionihs to construct. Slow progress 1 is' 1 licin;;' ma lie with tile construction 'of tjio 'Okahukura tunnel, 'file bottom headings Imvc advanced '2: l chains at oiic 1 'end!and -A at the other, leaving i'l chains '', to complete. _ When the bottom-'h'-adinji' is through the tunnel will be : one-liftiv completed. About 7(1 men are employed on the work. At the Auckland end of the railway men are working, \he number Lioinj; slightly less than usuhl. At the present time oi' till' year conditions are not favorable for railway formation work, owlii;! to the heavy rains experienced.

f'AUXKS St'l'l'i.H'ATluX. Without prouipL relit;/ is had in case; »f L -r<ni|i death must follow. as (lie presence (if a falsi' lncmlirijnc in tlu* voi< t; liox causes suiloeatioij. Chamberlain's Cough lieniedy loosens ,this membrane mid causes 11-.i' child tit-. expell it by voni it in.». It !.-■ prompt action eel-tain'ill its results,, tyl 'tltf, first.,symptom' the at task be.w##!.fji io.fi'.' Sold by all Cheaiisji aiid-'Sfqre-\eej)er».

Tin? Tramway ArL Union at \Vt-IK:i«-tun fur a goM nugget valued at .CI (Mo was drawn last night, and was won by 1!. Beban and I.'. Power, of Grcymouth.-'-l'rctib Association.

A Wellington man in the Second Battalion of the Trentham Regiment, now in camp at Rangiotu, states in a letter to a friend in the City: "This place in miles ahead of Trentham, which I hope never to see again." fl'iuler instructions from the Undersecretary for Internal Affairs, all the Covmnnwit ollices in Neiv Plymouth will be closed from one o'clock this afternoon, to enable the ofl'Hals to take part in the patriotic function. Kor the half-year ended June ,'JO New Zealand exported 370,204 quarters of beef, valued at "£818,007, 2,070,383 carcasses of lamb of the value of £1,577,2,';"), and 1.372,000 carcases of mutton valued at £ 1,37ii,241. The figures for mutton and lamb are less than for the corresponding half of last year, but there is a. substantial increase in beef. During the month of June 7232cwt. of butter, valued at £58,440, were shipped from New Zealand, as compared with sß23c\vt., valued at 1-31,402 for June, i!)M, The shipments in June lit it included 3lll!lcwt. from Auckland, 1024 c-wt. from New Plymouth, and 1037ev/t. from Wellington. The exports of cheese in .June show a tremendous increase over the figures for Ik:.' tcrrsrponding month of last year, the totals being 57,1 tilewt., valued nl £200,070, against 20,0Sl!cwt,, valued at £82,!)72, New Plymouth exported 12,0ti"> ewt. in June last, Paten ]4,s">7cwt., and Invercargill 10,!)83c\vi., the aggregate value of the exports from these three districts being .€139,141. Trooper Ken. Bishop, writing to hU parents at Auckland, nays:—'Mf...ever I ! 'g£t. Wit'of this/T AviU never ncbd a house agaui. We' are Tike a family ol rabbits, all dug into the ground. It has been lively weather since we have been here; it is nearly as hot as Egypt. This is about the healthiest life possible. Xone of the boys have had any colds since we have taken to sleeping anywhere. * In the Legislative Council yesterday' afternoon, the report of the committee on the Gengetti Trust Estate Bill was agreed to, and the Bill was read :i third time and passed. The Council considered in committee the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill, which was reported without amendment, and read the third time and passed. The Council then adjourned.

The Xgamotu Seaside Committee is holding another working-bee on Thursday. Tlio society lia» over ten acres, securely fenced. Anyone having spare shrubs, also fipare spade, will lie more than welcome in front of the freezing works on Thursday. Residents are earnestly requested io give a. hand in this laudable undertaking of improving the town. Shrubs may he left with Mr. illuvden.

The Wellington Master l>u tellers*' Association met on Holiday to consider questions relating to the price of meat, but no decision was arrived at. The secretary of the association states that, owing to the higher prices they now have to pay, customers may expect, virtail increases very shortly. The nssociul ion claims that many retail butchers are nui making even good wages at present, and they have just been notified of another increase in the price of mutton. It is slated that twenty butchers have closed down in Wellington and suburbs in the last year. At the Now Plymouth Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., lYrcival Herbert Curtis (Mr. A. 11. Johnstone) was charged with failing to comply with an order miule at Olaborne for the maintenanVe of his wii'e. Curtis was arrested at Now Plymouth last Friday night, and when the charge was heard on Saturday the ease was adjourned' to see if any arrangement could be made. Yesterday Mr. Johnstone announced that it was found impossible to come to an arrangement, and Curtis was accordingly remanded to appear at Clisborne next Holiday. A Hastings telegram says that liran--combe's ''Red Dandies" Company held a "Mock Court" at the railway crossiwj yesterday afternoon, and as the result of box collections by lady members of the company and tines inflicted bv Judge Dumpier, the Wounded Soldiers' l r uml benefited to the amount of .CMI 7. The lines included three of £IOO each, three nf £SO, eight of £•>», four of .I*2o, tie.' balance being made up in small amounts. Verv few people escaped falling into Ihe arms of the special constables, The whole of the money was handed over to the local secretary of the fund. The members of the company worked vriy ha-d. and merit the thanks of the 'Community. The Americans say of them?elves that thev are so neutral in the Kuropean war that they really don't care which of the Allies beats the Kaiser. The following sentences are the full text of the principal leading article in the Courier -lourna', of Louisville, on Sunday. May lli, and thev reproduce what has been described in America as the spirit of "lierce neutrality:—''The Jferr Doctor Dernburg's room is better than his company. If an honest man. he was a most mistaken man; if merely an organiser ot the Herman colony in America and an agent of the Herman spy system,' he was the enemy, and not the friend of his countrymen in America, lie could help no cause. Tie has greatly hurt the cause of tiermany. Let him go, and be d dto him. and now, as ever, to h— with the Ilohciizollcrn and the llapsburg.'' A sitting of the Juvenile Court, was held at New Plymouth yesterday, before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M. A boy ol I I years (for whom' Mr. (tuillium appeared) pleaded guilty to stealing C:> Is 3d from the post, box at the Central School, and with stealing articles from the shop of Mr. Prase", chemist. The headmaster of the Central School (Mr. Denrpseyl and Air. P. P. Corkill gave the boy a good character. Sub-Tnvpector I'oiihy admitted the bov's good character, but said (lie worst foal me about the iase was that the bov had forty-five keys and a torchlight in his possession. Tn view of the good character of the boy, the Magistrate cautioned him and set him free. A hoy of 15 years pleaded suilty to stealing It's (torn a bouse :it Moturon. The ea-e was adjourned till Saturday to enable-the police to make inquiries about the hoy. Another boy. aged 1"). was remanded till Saturday on a charge of u-ing obscene language. It. will .pay any fanner who is seeking a good and cheap properly, in a prosperous district, to consult ihe advertisement of l.:-wn and Co., Te Aroha. ''Woman" is the tille of Hie 'tar drama showing al Ihe Theatre Koval next >' n.lav and Tuesday. This lUm attrncicl thousands in Wellington fe<cully, lii.v plan opens at Hoffmann's this morning. Tlie Melbourne Clothing Company draws attention to the fivt that the ■price of (heir famous indigo coating suits has not been advanced. These suits at Ms,. ewing to the tremendous ,I'ise indigo .-cree;-, are greater value i than ever, tint,.suit buyers are reminded that, this price .chn only be numtained i until Ihe. pveje/at ,supply .of material—-a-fcou' -o suit IciiptTis" -i s exhausted.