LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An Italian flag auctioned at Hamua settlement, near iPaliiatua, on Tuesday night for the .wounded soldiers realised nearly £IOOO.

Butchers in central markets in Paris arc selling frozen beef for the first time in history, at an average of six-pence per pound, which is cheaper than homekilled meat.

Lady Liverpool's committee, is providing a thousand sheepskin coats for the men at the Dardanelles for winter useAltogether fifteen thousand coats will be sent.

It is definitely announced that the San Vraneiseo-trans-Paeific service of the Pacific iMail Company will cease on November 2.

At the meeting of the Patea Hospital Board on Monday it was decided to accept the offer of a horse ambulance for £SO.

At Tuesday's meeting of the Stratford Hospital Board it was decided, on the motion of Mr. C. T). Sole, that the board endeavor to have the Act altered as to payment of members' expenses by deleting the words "actually paid." At Taumata Park, Ellham, on Sunday afternoon next a farewell will be tendered the Eltham men who are leaving for camp, by the members of the United Friendly Societies.

The Army Council has accepted the offer of the Government for two battalions, which will go into camp when the Trentham Regiment leaves about the middle of October.—Press Association.

The Auckland Presbytery passed a resolution on Tuesday, protesting against art unions and raffles, in connection with patriotic funds. The resolution will be forwarded to the Premier and Minister for Internal Affairs. The Postmaster General has received advice that arrangements have been made for the use, by the senders of cable messages to members of the Australian expeditionary force in the United Kingdom, of the military code word indicating the regiment, or unit, to which the addressee belongs, provided such telegrams are addressed to the, care of "Crotonate," London.—Press Association.

An infrequent but not altogether unknown occurrence is reported from Mr. W. Jewell's farm at Rangiotu. On Sun. day, August 1, a Jersey cow gave birth to a well developed calf. The cow was milked regularly til! the following Friday, when'she produced an exceptionally well grown heifer calf. We are requested to state that as some parents do not Ecem to have ipaid any attention to the advertisement of the election by parents of two members to tilie New •Plymouth High .Schools Board, which appeared on the'4th inst., voting papers should l>e sent to Ifr. Walter Jiewlcy, the returning officer.

The bulb season, which is now commencing, is some weeks ahead of other years, and the. various bulb shows will be 'held earlier in consequence. The annual fihow in aid of St. Mary's Rundav School will be held on the 2fit'h and -27 th inst., and the Whiteley a week later. Shearers have enlisted for military service in large numbers (says a Wellington telegram). In addition to those already at the front there are sixty shearers now in training camps. The indications are that this will have a serious effect on the shearing season, whio'h opens about the middle of next month.

At the d'olice Court vestcrdav, Dofore Mr. A. Crooke, S.M.', Clias. Alfred Henderson (an Australian who had been in the Dominion lor a number of years and had gone from here with the forces to Kgypt, but had been returned as an undesirable) and Wm. Stanley Graham were charged with being rogues and vagabonds, having no lawful means of support. It. appeared that the accused, who had been arrested at Okato. had been travelling round selling copies of poems, ostensibly in aid of the poor Belgians, btit when arrested one had 2s 0d and the other Is. The Magistrate sentciued Henderson to a month's imprisonment. Graham, who said he was prepared to seek work, was remanded.

The ploughing bee is still a popular method of giving a new settler a welcome in the Tokomariro district. T!u> other day such n fixture was held in the Clarksville district, when 2S teams turned out to give Mr. Wm, Allison, who had purchased a farm in (hat neighborhood, a good start. About -Jo acres were turned over as the result of the day's work. There were 101 horses at work ('including some of the best Clydesdales in the district), and two experts assessed their value at €3OOO.

It appears that the R.M.S. Marama. which is due at Wellington from San Francisco on Fridav,' morning, failed to connect with the English mail. Const'fluently her mails, which include IMS bags for New Zealand, an' from the United Stall's of America and Canada only. The .Marama apparently wailed a whife, as she left Frisco a day late. Tile mail in question may have been despatched via Suez instead of across the Atlantic, or. on Ihe other hand, il may have been dolavcd in transit and sent up from Frisco to Vancouver to connect with the Niagara, due on Augu.-t 2-. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile .igen.-v Co.. Ltd.. wish to draw theaftenti f the public io the clearing sale which thev arc holding today (Times(lav) at I o'clock, on account of 11. vVnisin. Esq., Crovdon Road, Wharehuia. Particulars will be found in our advertising column* on page eight. TfITOH ARK 'RFAL ADVANTAGE* IN KM PLOYING US. Whether for furniture removal, customs work, baggage handling, or forwarding. We arc the largest and betequipped carrying firm in the Dominion. In all principal towns we have our own offices, fully staffed with experts. This conduces to quickness, safety and efficiency in all work entrusted to us. The N.Z. Express Cojipany, Ltd.

Ju Melbourne bran and pollard have been reduced £2 a ton, to £8 5a and £9 5,-i .respeethxJy, The Marama, from 'Frisco, wirelessed Wellington last night that owing io heavy weather she would not make port until six o'clock this morning. 11 ill bciii, Ellis for the featherweight! boxing championship of Australia.— Brisbane cable.

Tlie total number of cases of all kinds of sickness in the military hospitals yesterday was 282. All patients were progressing- favorably. Hon. James Allen has replied to the -Mayor of Auckland, that he hap considered Auckland's request for a camp to be placed there, but that he finds it inexpedient to accede to the request. —Press Association.

The first meeting of the National Cabinet was held yesterday afternoon, all the Ministers being present except Messrs Maedonal,! and Hunan, Mr. Massoy, slated, subsequently, that a good deal oft business was discussed, but he had no announcement to make.—Press Association.

On account of the extremely early season in New Plymouth, the management of the Whiteley Flower Show has decided to advance the dates of their annual exhibition a week, and the show will be held on Thursday aid Friday, September 2 and 3. Full particulars will be announced next week.

A public meeting at Wellington last night decided to invite subscriptions for! a memorial to Captain Ateo Frandi, who was killed at the Dardanelles. Captain Frandi was a prominent li«nre i;i volunteer circles in iWellin.al.oii. The form which the memorial will take has not yet been decided.—Press A:;»je'nt:on.

An appeal is being made to tlie public by Major A. M. Sainuol, Oflieer Commanding the Sixth Reinforcements, for gifts of gramaphouc records and games, such as draughts, dominoes, chess, and so on, for the use of the men oh the troopship. They should be addressed "Major A. M. Samuel, Officer Command, ing Sixth Reinforcements, H.M.T. Willochra," and forwarded as soon as possible.

Cabinet has authorised the erection of 100 workers' dwellings, involving an estimated expenditure of £50,000. At the time authority was applied for, about 200 application! for dwellings had been received by the Labor Department from all parts of New Zealand. At present the Department and its agents are engaged in making the necessary enquiries and arrangements with a view to proceeding with the building programme.—Press Association. The Minister for Defence staled yesday that, in order to improve the parcels service between New Zealand and Ciallipoli, he was arranging with the Postmaster-General that parcels should in future go direct to Egypt. Their distribution from Egypt would be arranged by the New Zealand base at Alexandria. Colonel Essen, the official commanding the base, has provided the Defence Minister with a report on tlie postal arrangements there. He states that thc arrangements generally work well ,and the delays that have' occurred sometimes in the delivery of parcels have .been due to the dispatch of the bags from New Zealand, via England, to Egypt. This trouble will be overcome by sending parcels direct to Egypt.— Press Association.

As showing the manner in which galvanised iron is jumping in price, it is related Hint a southern business man indented some time ago a line that had eost him £lB 10s per ton to land :n s Ncw Zealand. By the time the iron arrived there was a decided shortage, ahead, and the price rose. He was asked by a Dunedin firm to quote a price for his iron, and as lie would have liked some of his smaller customers to get what they wanted, he put what lie considered then to be the prohibitive price of £.33 10s per ton at the ship's side in a southern port, cash idown on the arrival of the vessel. To his great surprise, the inquirer bought the whole line at the,price named, and telegraphed the money through at once.

At the monthly meeting of the Central School Committee, held on Tuesday evening, there were present: Mr. S. CI. Smith (chairman), Kev. A. B. Olmppcll, Messrs V. Griffiths, A. Milne, T. Hardgrave, F. Coleman, (J. H. Dolby, and C T. Mills (secretary). The headmaster reported that tho average attendance for the month was 510.2, being 02.1 per cent, of an average roll of 553.5. Fifteen pupils had been admitted and 15 had left during the month. There had been some petty thieving at the school between Friday and Monday, which had ended by the matter being put in the bands of the police, who had brought a boy before the Juvenile Court, when the offence was confessed to. Notifications were read from the board that the examina. tion would take place on .'list inst.," and that Mrs. Firth had been appointed temporary assistant. As the holidays, as now arranged for, will just precede the examination, the chairman was em powered to see to their postponement until after the inspector's visit.