LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 October 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■During the last month, 23 patients were admitted to the Hawera Hospital, 28 discharged, and one died.—Star. Stratford subscriptions towards the second hospital ship amounted to £OS 3s. Tile annual general meeting of the Equitable Building Society will be held in the Town Hall, New Plymouth, on Friday next at 8 p.m. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., Montague C. Holah was lined 10s and costs 7s for driving a motor-car in the borougb without a number affixed to it.

A Wellington telegram says that the Manuka, sailed for Sydney last evening, amongst the passengers being a contin-, gent of the Volunteer Sisters, bound for Egypt to help in the hospitals. At its last meeting, the Normanby Town Board decided that householders be allowed to register two quiet cows 4o graze on the streets for a fee of 15s per year, payable on the Ist of November.— Star. It was stated by Bishop Averill at a gathering of the Anglican Diocesan Synod this week, that in response to hit appeal for £558 for the erection of a church institute in Tjrentha.ni, the sum of £661 had been received, At the Magistrate's Court, Elthani, on Wednesday, reports the 'Hawera Star's correspondent, M. J. Marsh, of Egmont Village, obtained judgment against A. McGuinness for £3 4s, in respect of damage done to a motor-car by the negligence and unskilled driving of a liorse and cart by defendant, near Bltham. A Wellington telegram" says that a Gazette Extraordinary, issued last night,

extends all proclamations and Orders-in-Council relative to the war to Bulgaria, except the Ordcr-in-Comn-il relative to enemy merchant ships. The Gazette also contains a proclamation by the King revising and enumerating the articles to be treated as contraband of war. The Karori Rock "light", work in erection of which was started two years ago, was lit for the first time on Wednesday night. It is an unwatched acetylene flash light, of 2790 candle-power, 65 feet above water, and visible for fourteen miles. It shows a flash of half-a-second's duration, with three and a half second's eclipse.—Press Association. Appointments to the staff, of the second hospital ship Marama are being made for a, period of only six months. The appointments of medical officers on the Malieno will be terminated after a similar period, so that when the ship returns to the Dominion the staff will be | discharged on December 15, and the vessel will be recommissloned. A parcel of picture films consigned to Te Kuiti. by an Auckland company ignited in the goods office at the Auckland railway station on Monday afternoon. The fire brigade was summoned, but the blaze was extinguished before the motor tenders arrived. The floor of the building was charred and the office fittings scorched, but in other respects little damage was done. It was estimated that there were 6000 ft of film in the parcel, the value being stated to he £350. The Red* Cross Mart will bo open at the Devon Street premises all day tomorrow, as usual, and on this occasion a special effort will be made to obtain a splendid result, as the proceeds of the day's sales are to go to the Red Cross Fund. Townspeople and countryfolk are asked to assist with goods for sale, and those*ivho cannot do this can assist by keeping the ladies at the mart busy selling to them. Mr. Luscombe and Mr. J. R. Hill will visit the surrounding district to-day and to-morrow morning to collect articles donated.

At the Anglican Synod at Auckland, resolutions were proposed by Archdeacon Evans, and carried, that the number of trustees in the Taranaki trust be increased from three to five; that steps bo taken for their incorporation under the Religious, Charitable, and Education Trusts Act, 1908, to be styled the Taranaki Church of England Trust Board; and that the trustees of the St. Mary's parochial land, New (Plymouth, bo similarly incorporated under the style of'St. Mary's Parochial Trust Board. An important conference of experts on the subject of education was attended in Arrterica by Mr. Mark Cohen, editor of the Dunedin Star, who arrived in Auckland by the Niagara, from Vancouver on Monday. Mr. Cohen met great educationalists from all parts of the world, including M. de Bussion, a member of the French Legislative Assembly, and a, director of education. Mr Cohen himself took no active part in the conference beyond delivering an address concerning the progress of education in New Zealand since 1900. Recruiting olfices receive come curious communications at times from 'induing soldiers, and the following one received by the Palmerston office is typical of the men who are going forward to fight our battles:—."•Please enrol as an early recruit, and I will be on the mark as soon as possible. My pedigree is: 20 years old. single, railwayman. Can make all necessary 'weights.' and can 'lly the medico' as soon as I show my figurehead. Have had 4'/ 2 years military training. Yours for Turkish delight and Bulgarian rock." Quite in contrast to the foregoing was the. following anxious enquiry, which came by post: "Can you tell me where to buy cake tins, the kind used to forward cakes to the expeditionary forces!" The recruiting officer's reply is not on record! "Tt is hard and cruel, this war," writes a lance-corporal with the Main Body of the Expeditionary Force, who was wounded ,soon after landing, "yet once you have tasted it, there is something that grips and thrills yon, and makes you long to he hack at it. It's hard to see your chum killed or a pal you like badly wounded, and to see the dear old regiment that was once so spick and span, and yon were so proud to he in, being filled with reinforcements, who are strangers, while the lads you knew lie under the sod or are being invalided home unfit to serve any more. Why don't tliose who can come, come? They | can't fully realise the terrible struggle that is going on. Surely they are asleep or do not know that it is for home and loved ones we are fighting. God, but they must be asleep! One cannot, does not like to say they are !! But whether they come or not, we will win. Tt's fourteen weeks now. old .-hum. since I was wounded, and I'm tired of being a sick boy. It's just rotten having to stay here, and I wish that I luul the full use of my arm so that I could get out." SHOULD NOT RUN ITS COURSE. Never permit a cold to run its course, for more fatalities have their origin in, or result from, a cold than any other cause. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is the most prompt and effective medicine for coughs and colds. It loosens the cough, relieves the lungs, opens tuo secretions and aids Nature to restore, the system to a healthy condition. Sold by , all chemists and storekeepers,