LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The wife of an Ashburton resident last I Wednesday, gave*birth to triplets, two! girls (which are both well), and a boy (stillborn). , Mr, Massey stated that the export of freight carcases of meat for the year ended September 30, 1910, was 00,022 in excess of the previous year's, despite the freight troubles. The mechanical wool works at Gisborne were destroyed by fire on Saturday morning. Damage to the extent of £BSO was done. "We are in a state of war, and don't let us forget it," said Captain Kimbell, at a Hawera social on Friday evening, "and," added the speaker, "let us put our military work first, and let our social duties come afterwards." "Thank you, sir, I got off lightly," said a cheerful individual as he stepped from the Hawera Police Court on Saturday morning, after the Magistrate had convicted him for drunkenness. Lieut.-Colone] E. H. Rhodes has tdijf graphed from Alexandria to Hon. Jas Allen as follows: "To guard against loss, all gifts are always sent from the base to the front in charge of officers of the units concerned, as opportunity offers." Good business was done at the Red Cross Mart at New Plymouth on Saturday, the profits for the day amounting to £2B. Next Saturday will be the occasion of the collections for the Red Cross and the proceeds of the mart that day will be given to the Red Cross Fund. The following appointment have been made to the hospital ship Marama:— Lieut.-Colonel Cook, administrative officer; Lieut.-Colonel Mason, bacteriologist; Doctors C. Robertson (Auckland), Pottinger, Falrclough, Louisson, Robertson (Wellington), and Stowe. A IPalmeraton North telegram says: The following instruction ha 3 been issued by the Defence headquarters here, and will come into force forthwith: Standard height reduced to sft 2in, and age limit increased to 45 years, for recruits for the expeditionary forces. The chairman of the Eltham County Council at Saturday's meeting drew attention to the fact that the Government had asked all employers to make out a list of all employees suitable for recruits, i The Council decided.to do this and to notify all employees who enlisted that I they would find their places open on return. It is stated that the present high prices ruling for. butter on the Home market are causing several Taranaki factories to manufacture butter instead of cheese this year. One company which Installed three cheese factories during the past winter is said to be discussing ,the advisability ol delaying the change from butter to cheese for this season. At Inglewood, on the occasion of the departure of tho last reinforcements for Trontliam a number of young fellows received a rebuke that should set them thinking. They were going\forward to farewell a married man who was leaving that evening to do Ms duty for his country, but to their surprise he declined to shake hands on the grounds that they should be accompanying him. The second draft of the Ninth Reinforcements will leave New Plymouth for Wellington by special train at 7 o'clock to-night. The men will parade at the Coronation Hall at 0.15 p.m., and with the Territorials and members of the Defence Rifle Club, and headed by the .Citizens' Band, will march to the railway station. At the station the men will be farewelled by the deputy-mayor (Mr. W. A. Collis). A public meeting was held at Ashburton on Saturday afternoon to inaugurate an Ashburton County War Relief Fund, by which it is hoped to raise £25,000" for the relief of Ashburton County soldiers and their dependents. The Br3t £SOOO was raised at the meeting, the principal subscriptions being one of a thousand pounds from Mr. Thos. Bullock, and five hundred pounds each from Messrs. John Grigg, Xicol Bros., Robert Bell, and D. G. Wright.—Press Association. One of the results of the war is an ever-increasing number of patriotic songs. The latest to hand ia. "The Heroes of the, Dardanelles." The words and music are by M. E. Brett (Mrs. Hart Osborne), and Brett is the publisher. THe Bong is much on the same lines as the majority of these well-meant productions, the purpose of which is to stimulate the martial spirit. There is nothing of special merit in the words or the music, but in thiß respect it shares ephemeral honors with the general bulk of such song 6. Despite the boisterous weather 'that prevailed yesterday afternoon, the Citiaens' Band, under Bandmaster Cummings were conveyed by Messrs. F. Lob'b and R. Sole, to Westown, where they rendered a fine programme in the grounds of the Old People's Home: The band mustered in full force, some twenty-ftve instrumentalists responding to the baton, and it is questionable if the band has ever been heard to better advantage, the performance, which was greatly appreciated by the inmates of the Home and a number of residents, being very favorably commented upon. The programme submitted was as follows: March, "V Academic,"; intermezzo, "Rosemount," "Selections from Mikado"; quickstep, "Fallen Heroes"; patriotic march, "Tipperai'y-"; overture, "Hero of Trafalgar": National Anthem. Before departing for town, the bandsmen were entertained at afternoon tea by Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Sole at their residence. It appears that before the Maori contingent left for the front there was a mild epidemic of "military rheumatism," with the result that several of the descendants of a famous fighting tribe were conspicuous by their absence when the time came for the final farewell. At the Narrow Neck camp in Auckland, a quartette of Maori braves emulated the Arab and stole away silently in the night. From that time the police have been making inquiries, and with the result that the four soldiers have been arrested, two being apprehended nt ■ Kaimgaroa, and the remaining couple at Kakatahi. It seems that the quartette had decided to eschew the glamor of war for their more peaceful former pursuit:!, but in the meantime they will he sent hack to the military authoritcs at Auckland to be dealt with as the latter deem fit. 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"I take this opportunity to congratulate New Zealand on the magnificent conduct of her sons in some of the most desperate lighting the world has seen,* says 'General Sir J. G. Maxwell in a letter to the Defence Minister (the Hon. J. Allen)." A purebred Jersey bull valued at a hundred guineas was recently given by Mr, E.'tlrilßths to be raffled for on behalf of the Wounded soldiers' Fund. The Art Union will be drawn at the Empire Theatre at 8.30 o'clock to-morrow night. The local property market is quiet, and few sales of a speculative nature are taking place. There is, however, a very good demand for farm and grazing land in the district, and at fair prices numerous buyers are in the field. The reason for this is the prospective further development of the frozen meat industry, with an increased demand for stock. The function to have been held by the Tironga Tennis Club in the Good Templars' Hall on Thursday night has been postponed, and those who promised to provide refreshments are requested to note that these will not be required. Tickets already sold for the social on that night will be' accopted when the function is held. Captain Kimbell, when responding to the toast of the National Reserve at the railway social at Hawera on Friday evening, said that by an amending act passed during the session, just closed, the Reserve would in future become part and parcel of the defence force. When the regulations were issued the Reserve would then know its exact position in relation to the military forces. All the hutments (numbering seventyfive) for the men and officers at Trentham have been completed, as well as the cook houses, and the camp is now in a position to accept its full complement. At present there are 3600 men in camp, including the Artillery and Army Service Corps, for the Reinforcements, non-commissioned officers in training, and the recent draft for the 3rd and 4th Rifle Brigade battalions. Cr. McWilliam at Saturday's meeting of the Elthain County Counciy said that in connection with recruiting there were a number, of young fellows who should be away, but who were not. He had heard one young fellow express an opinion the other day: "Better a live coward than a dead hero." (Laughter). He was glad to say, he added, that the fellow was not a district resident, but merely a bird of passage. A resident of Esperance, a summer resort, noted for its interesting caves, near Perth, West Australia, writing to a friend in Stratford, remarks that the war ia making things bad everywhere. "We have had New Zealand butter at 2s 6fl, but it is falling a little now; the 21b loaf at 7d. and flour at 12s Od the 501b bag—it used to be 5s Gd to Gs! Everything else is in proportion." The writer incidentally states that they were having the wettest winter ever known in Western Australia. In 1913 a family named Sellar, who lived for a time at Patea, left New Zealand and went to England to protest against the compulsory military training Act, for falling to «omply with which at least one member of the family was takeh into custody. A London paper states that one of the family, Fred H. Sellar, the secretary of the International Peacemakers' League, has been sentenced to a month's imprisonment on the charge of hindering recruiting by printing and circulating a leaflet wheh dealt with the National Register which he declared was the first step towards conscription. Referring to the soarcity of blotter on the London market, the Prime Minister states that it was the shortage at Home that had caused the recent rise in New Zealand prices. The Germans were buying the Danish output, and Siberian butter was not coming forward in full supply. Prices consequently rose in London, and agents received instructions to buy at increased prices in NewZealand. Mr, Massey added that he was glad to notice that the season was proving a good one in the dairying districts. Butter and cheese were coming forward in good supply. An authority on dairy matters, conversing with a Hawera Star reporter, mentioned that the present dairying season is a rcnmrkaibly good one. Feed .-is plentiful, the stock are jn good condition, and more milk has been sujjjied to the dairy factories —nothing like it had occurred before in the history of the province. Some of the factories received a better supply last month than they did at the flush of the season last year. He predicted an excellent season for butter. The question has recently arisen in. some of the country districts as to the course to take in regard to closing dairy factories and creameries when there is an outbreak of infectious disease, such as scarlet fever, in the neighbourhood. It may be as well to state the attitude of the Health Department on the point. It is not the intenion of he Department to do anything to cripple an important industry if it can be avoided. Consequently if the persons suffering are strictly isolated, and thus not milking or attending at the dairy, there is no reason why the milk should not go to the factory in the usual way. If these precautions are taken it is not considered necessary to close the factory. The exports of butter from New Zealand during August last totalled 2091 hundredweight, of a value of £16,501, as compared with 5590 hundredweight for August, 1914, of a value of £33,242. For the first eight months of the present year the exports of butter amounted to 219.547 hundredweight, of a total value of £1,303,081, as against 249,129 hundredweight of a value of £ 1,325,851! for the first eight months of H>l4. Some Sfl.lSo hundredweight of cheese, of a value of £118,072, was exported during August last, as against 70 hundredweight only for August, 1914, of a value of £275. For the first eight months of each year, however, the figures are very siuiilun, the advantage, indeed, in value, and much more so in weight, being rather with 1014. The figures for the first eight mouths of 1915 are 675,100 ewt., valued at £1,572,855; and for the first eight months of 11)14 they were (i.-> 1,490 ewt., valued at £1,032,080. Members of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth (second group) are notified that subscriptions will bo due and payable to-day (Monday, Oct. 18) ut the secretary's office, Currie Street,, from i) a.m. to 12.30 p.m., from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Mr. William Bell, Gill Street, New Plymouth, will tell yon how Flunezol cured his 6-year-old child of a severe attack of eroup all within an hour, and after several other remodies had failed. Yet there are still a few people foolish enough to allow themselves to he put off with "something just as good"l Fluenzol saves both your time and your money. Gargle in teaspoonful doses undiluted at fairly short intervals and hold the head well back. Swallow foi influenza,