LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Paritutu Working Boe ■will commence operations this afternoon. The prospect of a fine day should produce a good muster. A cable states that Alcxandrew Aberg, the Russian world's champion CiraecoRoman wrestler, threw Zbysco, after 04 minutes, One fall decided the match. Captain Waller, Mr. Dan Hughes, and Mr. Henderson, the Harbor Board engineer, have cordially accepted the invitation to join the committee of the N'ew Plymouth Beautifying Society. A first offender charged with drunkenness was convicted and discharged by Mr A. Crooke, S.M., at the Police Court yesterday. Joseph Moody, a second offender, was prohibited and discharged. 110 motor cars paid for admission to the Waverley Racecourse grounds on Monday, and 4S remained by the roadside whilst their occupants visited the course. According to an expert's, views the value of the cars ran into something like £50,000. An Eltliam tradesman lias received advice from a well-known British firm of lead pencil makers that there are now. difficulties in the road as regards the supply of copying pencils. The pencils are manufactured in Britain, but the coloring material was of Continental manufacture, and supplies have ceased. So the price of copying pencils may be expected to jump before long.—Argus. Notwithstanding the fact that the Parle Board have had to work on very small fun/Is, quite a number of improvements have been effected in Pukekura Park since war was declared, the latest being direction posts, which have been placed in positions to enable visitors to find their way about the grounds. Visitors will appreciate the thoughtful act of the Board.

Br. Elizabeth Gunn is still finding out wonderful things, says the Feildiug Star. At one large school in this Education District, she examined 54 children, and found that 24 suffered from malnutrition, 30 from enlarged glands, 34 from defective teeth, and 11 from defective vision!— Dr. Gunn will be remembered as the lady who created the furore in Napier on the same subject. When the shareholders of the Kia Ora Dairying Company, Gisborne, were discussing the question of a monthly donation to the Wounded Soldiers' Fund at the annual meeting, the chairman declared that farmers were now receiving 23 per cent, more for their produce as a result of the war. One dairy farmer pointed out that against this they had to remember that the cost of labor had gone up 100 per cent. It was decided to contribute £lO per month towards the Wounded Soldiers' Fund. "Sew Zealand is committed to the expenditure of twelve millions of money by June 1 next," declared the Minister of Internal Affairs at Hclen'ville on Saturday, when referring to the difficult position in which JfeW Zealand has been placed on account of the war (says the Auckland Star). The country, he added, had been taxed to the extent of tw< millions per year, and the people were standing the new taxation with magniliccnt patriotism.

It is not often that a ewe gives birth to a quintet of lambs, but such a record goes down to the credit of a ewe on Mr. A. Henderson's farm at Isla Bank (says the Otautau Standard). The mother is an ordinary crossbred (lock ewe. Four of the lambs were produced alive, and three of the quintet are now thriving well, the fourth, a weakly lamb, having been knocked on the head. Lambing percentages in the district are everywhere expected to rule high. A prisoner named .Tolm Alexander Angus, who had been committed from Auckland to the New Plymouth Goal and was being conveyed here by the mail train on Tuesday, jumpM off 1 lie train about eight chains this side ol the Ingle wood station. The constable who was in charge of the prisoner (Constable O'Neill, of Auckland), assisted by <Jonstable Longbottom, of inglewoo.l, instigated a search during the night, but it was very dark and raining at the time, and the policemen could find n.i trace of the escapee. However, the man was arrested in Inglcwood y:sf onlay morning by Constable Longbottom and brought on to the New Plymouth Prison. He will probably appear in th" court here to-day. The shortage of teachers was brought up at the meeting of the TaranaM Kd!ication Board yesterday, when the Hev. A. B. Chappell gave notice of motion. "That the Board correspond with the Kducation Department, High S.-hool Boards, and other Education Boards, urging the preparation of a list of retired teachers and other persons who may be available in view of the present extraordinary conditions created Ivy the war, to occupy temporarily appointments left vacant through enlistments, and not likely to be filled without special effort'' Mr. A. C. Nottingham, the New Zealand Manager of Joyes' Sanitary Company, lias received advices from London I that his firm have been instructed by the authorities to supply the War Ollice with .1000 gallons of Je'yes' Fluid daily, as long as the war lasts. WHAT'S IN A NAME? Much. If it is that of the N.Z. Express Co., it stands for all that is best in passing entries, forwarding parcels, moving furniture, and cheeking baggage, Make sure you engage the N.Z. Express Co. Y/ith the best and biggest organisation of the kind south of the "line," they are reliahle, prompt, efficient

Messrs. J. T. M. Ilornsb.v, M.P., aud D. McLaren, addressed a large gathering at the flawcra Opera House on Tuesday evening, eloquently pleading for more men. Messrs. Shaw and Payne are the successful tenderers for the excavation work at the site of the new Everybody';! Theatre. .Work is to be inmmemed at once. New 'Plymouth is up-to-date, in one respect at any rate. It possesses a motor fish car, and the proprietor is none other than a Celestial! There is no prouder or happier motorist iri Taranaki than this same Chinaman. Among the recent registrations e.i Hawera appears the name of R. Fryday, of Ngaere. This will mako the third son of 1-D-. and Mrs. X. B. Fryday who has offered his services to the Empire. One son was the first Taranaki boy to lay down his life in the present way, whilst the second son has been wounded. Mr. W. Webster, of New Plymouth, has just received the Turkish bullet that was extracted from his son Dawson's head. The bullet penetrated the forehead, travelled past the eye and lodged in the jaw bones completely locking the jaws for the eleven clays before it was extracted. Jt was a wonderful escape from death. The wounded soldier is now in England receiving Xray treatment and is progressing favorably. The question of the revised education districts was briefly referred to at the meeting of the Taranaki Education Hoard yesterday. The acting-secretary of the Taranaki School Committees' Association, wrote stating that at a meeting of the executive of the School Committees' Association the matter of education boundaries was discussed, and the following resolution was passed: "That tliis executive requests the Taranaki Education Board to set up a small local committee to suggest to the Council of Education suitable boundaries for a Taranaki Education District, and that the chairman 6( tnis executive be appointed by the Board to that committee." After the matter was discussed in committee it was decided to appoint a committee as suggested, the chairman, the Rev. A. H, Chappell, and Messrs. Masters and Morton constituting the committee. The committee was given power to. add to its number any other persons interested. The amount of home lessons given to school children was referred to at the meeting of Cue Taranaki Education Board yesterday. Mr. F. Maekay said that children in the country had too much school work to dn at home. They worked late, and then they had to get up early in the morning and do some work at home, look over their lesson? again, have 'breakfast and walk a good distance to school. The Rev. A. B. Chappell remarked that this touched a very big question. The child was looked at by the Department from the point of view of its capacity to he filled and not its capacity to be trained. The present method gave children a hatred for learning, when they should be cultivating a love for learning which they would retain In after life.

Or Sergeant John Cox, who is with the Bth Reinforcements, it can be said he in u champion shot, and should come in handy as a sniper. In 1913, at Auckland, at 500 yards range, he made 15 consecutive bull's-eyes, but at the Auckland Exhibition, in 1914, he put up a marvellous performance, scoring 173 out of a possible 175, made up as follows: At SOO yards, 11 bull's-eyes in succession, 55 points; at 300 yards, 7 bull's-eyes in succession, 35; at 500 yards, 0 bull's-eyes and an inner, 34; at 900 yards, 9 bull'seyes and an inner, 49. Certainly a good morning's performance. Sergeant Cox is a son of Mr. W. H. Cox, of Karori, Wellington, himself well-known at one time as a consistently good slio*. At the Stony River yards yesterday, a very prime line of 103 fat and forward bullocks (4,5, and (1-year-olds), were yarded to Mr. Joseph Lawn, of Puniho. These cattle were very much admired by the numerous buyers present and justly so, as it may be years before such a line will again be placed in a saleyard in Taranaki for public competition. The first pen were sold at the hammer at £lB Ills', the second at £IS 3s 6d, others at £l7 5s and £lO 17s, and the balance (a nice line of younger cattle), at £l4 13s 6d to a Wanganui buyer. Prior to the sale, Mr. Lawn generously donated the pick of the line, a very, prime five-year-old fat bullock, to the Wounded Soldiers' Fund, and for this fme'bullook very spirited bidding was obtained, eventually being sold for £2l ss, which amount Mr. Newton King has pleasure in handing over to the local committee on behalf of Mr. Lawn. Where the question of men's suits is concerned no one can overlook the fact that th<t cloths made up I>.V the Melbourne Clothing Co.. Ltd.. are identical with those used by to-mcasurc tailors. Well then, wherein lies the great difference in price? Why pay five or six guineas when the same suit can be bought at the Melbourne for li.is or less? Tf it's a i|uestion of fit, don't let that worry you. Melbourne suits are de- j signed to fit all shapes and sizes,