LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Minister of Agriculture has slated that legislation to compel land owners, 011 whose property noxious weeds appear, to give notice to inspectors, is under consideration.

Mr. John Hopkins, who originated the scheme of electing a carnival queen by. popular vote, and first introduced the idea at the Napier Mardi Gras, has been engaged to organise an election for a Queen of Allies' Day, shortly to be held in Sydney.

Two Wellington girls were walking home in Wellington the other day from an ambulance class, and, in course of conversation, they said they would be quite able to treat any case. Just then an old man got knocked over by a tramcar. He was carried to the footpath unconscious. The girls walked lip to sefi if they could do anything. One felt bis heart, which was still beating, and passed her hand up higher. She then said, ''Oh, there must be a fracture, as there is a swelling here." She undid his shirt, and found a parcel of fish and chips, which the oUI man had put there to keep warm for his tea! The crowd laughed, and the girls walked off disgusted. In a letter from Malta to his people in New Plymouth, Trooper Athol Melsaac describes his journey to hospital in the following interesting way:—''Dr Home thought I was ill and sent me from the trenches to an Australian doctor. He labelled me 'enteric fever,'" and sent me 011 to the hospital ship. In the morning 1 got 011 a trawler and went to another hospiUl ship. Hn'f of 11s had got on board when the Turks fired a shell at us and the Greeks who manned the boat got well scared and started to go out to sea, dragging the trawler also, We pulled up after a while and proceeded to load the rest of the sick and wounded. We had just started when a submarine was seen making for us. We cast oil' the trawler and started zig-zagging out to set. Wo ran up a Hag for help, <i:id the Greek-- who were by this time nearly crazy with fear, ran up 011 the deck. The siren was blown as loudly as possible, and the Greeks 011 deck went nad, Ai soon as It »#» out its first shriek they ran round the deck like rabbits and when they came to the companion way they fell dowi; it," The men regained the hospital ship and reached Malta without further incident. The attention of our readers is called to the repetition of Mr. John Clegg's lecture, which will be delivered in the Good Templar Hall next Friday. Mr. Clegg has a stirring story to tell of his travels and vicissitudes as a prisoner of war on a German cruiser. Mr. Clegg is touring the dominion at his own expense, lecturing for patriotic purposes, and the results are a tribute not only to his patriotism, but also to his skill as a lecturer. The lecture will be illustrated with a number of interesting lantern slides,

The Christchurch City Council has declined to increase the minimum wages of its laborers to Is 3d per hour. The revenue derived from the Napier tramways for the year just ended amounted to £9314 lis 2d, an increase of £162 9s 2d over the figures for the previous year. Passengers carried numbered .1,444,581, compared with 1,404,1)50, and car miles run were 152,02ti against 136,325. —Press Association.

A meeting of the Vogeltown Settlers' Association—a body 'which has been formed to forward the interests of Vogeltown —was called for last night, but owing to the small attendance the meeting was adjourned until next Tuesday. It is hoped there will bo ti large attendance at the meeting, for there are several matters of importance to the people of Vogeltown to be discussed. The High Commissioner (says our London correspondent) has taken a cottage near the New Zealand Hospital at Walton-on-Thamcs, in order that he may keep in touch with requirements. Miss \Tary Mackenzie is about to enter the hospital as a nurse and Mr. Bruce Mackenzie is to be the dispenser. Mrs. Mackenzie intends to visit the wounded there from time to time.

The Wellington municipal electric lighting department's financial statement for last month shows revenue to the extent of £7173 and working expenses amounting to £2710, -with a credit balanoe of £2940. Figures for five months are as follow:—Revonue, £32,109 (an increase of £259 on the corresponding period for last year), working expenses £12,458 (an increase of £707)), capital charges £7(118, credit balance £12,093 (a decrease of £448). In the Hawera Magistrate's Court on Monday, Edmund Bourke was charged with supplying liquor at Hawera to a male native (one Stephen Minhinnisk) for consumption off the premises. The defendant pleaded that he vtas in Patea on the day in question, and called witnesses to testify to this effect, though none of them were very definite on the point. Tho magistrate (Mr. W. G. Kendrick, S.M.) dismissed tho information. Mr. P, O'Dea appeared for the accused. Tho Patea County Council is greatly concerned over the merging of all the Road Boards in its district. At the monthly meeting on Monday it was stated that the county was losing £IOOO a year in subsidy by reason of the existence of the road boards. It was desirable that tho whole of these boards Bhould merge, and not one or two, it being pointed out that if all merged except Motoroa the council would reicive onlv £SBO subsidy instead pf £2500.

The Mayor (Mr. J. W. Boon) (it the monthly meeting of the Stratford Borough Council on Monday night, moved a motion of sympathy and condolence with the relatives of the men who had died by the war since the last meeting. The Mayor said all the men had not bcon killed in action, but some had lost their lives before they reached the front. He specially mentioned the names of Captain James and Privates Kennedy, Falder, Dewar, and Doggett. The motion was carried in silence, all members standing. A private in one of the reinforcements tells of his experience at Trentham (says the Auckland Star). He was an old soldier from the Old Land, and knew something about route marches. When on the march one day he was noticed by the commander, who asked him if he had previous experience. "Yes,sir," was the answer. "Well, then, fall out and step in front to lead the men," This he did, and, of course, proud of his post, he began to step out in great style. After going some distance he could hear his comrades complaining one to another, "Making it hot, isn't he?" However, he kept going, but when he got back to camp, as he puts it, lie got the biggest hiding ever he got. "No; I don't want to make tho pace any more," says he. "It's not worth it."

At the Normanby Presbyterian Churcli on Sunday last a largely attended memorial service was held in honor of those Normanby boys, Eric Burr, Gordon Burr, and Charles Arthur Hayward, who had lost tfieir lives. The roll of honor had been draped with the National Flag, and the Sunday School children had brought wreaths and flowers in remembrance of their former schoolmates. There was a good ' muster of the National Reserve, under Mr. Holmes, and Headquarters Bugler T. Lloyd was also present. During the service the' National Anthems of France, Russia, and England were played by the organist, Miss Edwards. Miss Laurent sang the beautiful solo, "He Wipes the Tear from Every .Eye," and Mr. Tenfold, at the conclusion of the sermon, sang "Only Remembered by What We Have Done." In the course of an eloquent sermon, the Rev. J. Butler appealed strongly to the young men to enlist in the holy war, a war for freedom, liberty, and truth.

A young New Zealander, in a letter to his parents at Elthani, gives a graphic description of some of the fighting that came to his share in Flanders. Inter alia, he says:—''Things looked pretty desperate. A young New Zealander (|we have three in the regiment, and four in the battalion), named I.epper, from Lepperton, Taranaki, was in charge of the left platoon. He was wounded in the head, but somehow or other managed to calmly carry on, with .his platoon. This youngster, he is only 18, really , did marvels, and I knew he would keep his men calm-. Partly in his trench, and partly in mine, was a platoon and a half of Gordon Highlanders without an otliccr left; they were line men, and knew how to obey an order. I knew that no matter if the Huns did reach us these fellows with the bayonet were a problem to frighten any Hun; and I am rather sorry, now it's all over, that the Hermans didn't get a chance to visit ils. We hung all along the line, and after two hours of the most exhausting bombardment that I' have ever heard, seen, or dreamt of, the Huns gave it lip, and by daylight we had been relieved and managed to get back to the reserve line in a small wood. Altogether we lost 300 men, dead, wounded, and missing. THERE IS ONLY ONE SAXDEK EXTRACT, and that is why the people insist on getting it, and why they reject the many inferior substitutes, and the cheap and frequently harmful "just as goods." The GENUINE SANDER EXTRACT is free from the objectionable qualities of tile common eucalyptus oils and tlic so-called 'extracts." SANDER'S EXTRACT is the most powerful antiseptic and healing remedy that can he used with safety; it prevents and cures all infectious diseases—influenza, eolds, fevers, smallpox, diptheria, llatulence, dyspepsia, diarrhoea. dysentery, and kidney troubles. SANDER'S EXTRACT, applied to ulcers, burns, sprains, cuts, in/lamed and itching skin, gives instant relief and cures permanently. Three drops in a teaspoonful of cod livpr oil is a specific in nil chronic lun^• affections. Rheumatism, neuralgia, am' oothache are quickly dispelled by it. Reliability, effectiveness, and safety are the great attributes of SANDER'S EXTRACT

The Pahiatua Borough Council rosolved yesterday that tho Defence Department be respectfully requested to circularise all local authorities as to when and how flags should be flown for, soldiers killed in action.—Press Association.

Mr. J. Escott, M.P., has, says a telegram from Woodvillc, received a letter from the Minister of Agriculture stating that lie has .had several specimens of limestone from the Manawatu Gorge analysed, with splendid results, showing 75 per cent, quicklime, and that the lime is a good one for agricultural purposes. In reply to Mr. W. 11. Field (Otaki)' yesterday, the Minuter of Defence said that he thought the best ages for recruits were from twenty to forty years; he did not favor recruits under twenty years of age being taken. In reply to Dr Thacker, the Minister said that tho uniforms for soldiers returning from Egypt were supplied by the British Ordnance Department.

On and after the loth ,inst. the following six code's may be used in cable telegrams to Italy (including Ancona, Bari, Barletta, Brindisi, Port Corsini, Taranto, and Venezia), under tho same conditions as already apply to code messages for British and Allied territory, viz., A. B. U, (Fifth Edition), Woetern Union, Lieber's, Bentley's Complete Phraso (not including Mining and Oil Supplements), Broomhali's Imperial combination (not including Rubber Supplement), and MeyeT's Atlantic Cotton (39th Edition). _ Civil business was transacted at the Xew Plymouth Magistrate's Court yesterday, Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., presiding. Judgment was given for plaintiff by default of defendant in the following cases:—William Francis Burke (Mr. A, H. Johnstone), v. Philip Ritchie Farnham, £9 Ids 5d (costs £1 15s 6d); A. Matthews (Mr. H. R. Billing), y. W. Pratt, £2 3s 9d ( £1); Govett and Quilliain (Mr. A. C. Lawrey), v. Mrs, R. U. Tancred, £8 9a Gd (8s); Hallenstein (Mr. D. Hutchen), v. S. 0. E. Payne, £1 5s (ss). In a judgment summons case, F. Kirk was ordered to pay off his debt of £l2 5s 2d to' J. A. Tims (Mr. A.. R. Standish), at the rate of £1 a month.

The following new books have lately been added to the New Plymouth, Library:—■''PUo Clarion," S, H. Adams; "The Street of Seven Stars," Mary H. Rinehart,; "Happy Hawkins in the (Punhandle," B. A. Wason; "Green Eyes," D. Egerton Jones; "Golden Glory," F. H. Rose; "Betty Wayside," Louis Stone; "Flame of Frost," Alice Jones; . "The Blue Taxi," A. Wilson-Barrett; "Greater Than Gold," L. T. Meade; "Dr. Ivor's Wife," Mary Kernahan; "The Mysterious Three," W. le Queux; "The Lone Wolf," Louis J. Vance; "Angela's Business," Henry S. Harrison; "The Paupers of Poi tman Square," I. A. R. Wylie; "The Oyster," A. Peer. When it is realised that more than 150,000 tons of twine are required annually to bind the grain crops of the world, it will readily be understood that the story of how the Sisal and' Manila fibre is produced and manufactured would bo of absorbing interest. In a booklet issued by the International Harvester Company the whole process la fully described, and the numerous excellent illustrations' enable the reader to more fully appreciate the letterpress. The company is deserving of great praise for its enterprise in enlightening the agricultural community and the public generally, on the details of this important industry. Workers will find it to their benefit to buy all they possibly can during the last few days of the Melbourne Ltd's. reduction sale. The cost of all sueli lines as mens' and boys' suits, saddle trousers, under-flanncls and all kinds of hosiery is advancing, rapidly and anyone investing in thei-e goods right now will reap a considerable saving. Now is the time to select the material for your new frock—'tis Springtime and the new materials are now showing at Morey's. The firm has an advertise.ment elsewhere in this issue.

The box plan for the "Armies of Europe at War" season at the Theatre Royal opens at Hofl'mans 1 this morning. Intending patrons should reserve their seats as this film will' pack the house. Mr. Clegg who lectures here on Friday next is now at Rotorua, Mr. R. C. Hughes lias received a telegram from him notifying that he will arrive here by the 5.30 train on Friday afternoon.