LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Patea Harbor Board expect that their suction dredge will be at work during this month, At the meeting of the Taranaki County Council yesterday, the chairman (Mi 1 . J. Brown), and Mr. A. Morton were deputed to represent the'j Council before Hie Conciliation Board in reference to the General Laborers' Union claims, and to ask for exemption, A Wellington telegram says that the Prime Minister indicated yesterday that intending visitors to Egypt will need to be armed with passports, as Mios'i not in possession of them will in; b.i allowed to land there.

At the Magistrate's Court yesterday before Mr. A. Crooke, 8.M., judgment was given for plaintiff in default of defendant in the case of A. Wooller (Mr. A. Eewley), v. H. Willis, £4 iSs lOd (costs 18s).

Some thief of exceptional meanness entered St. Mary's Church, Hawera, a few flays ago, and broke open a collecting box. A very few shillings were obtained, and the temptation will be made even less for the future, but the box was badly injured.

A Wellington telegram states that a movement is on foot to invite the women of New Zealand to contribute to some form of memorial to Nurse Cavell. The idea at present is to endow a cot in the hospital at Home.recently named atfer her at Queen Alexandra's desire. Mayoresses in the different centres will be asked to convene meetings and Lady Liverpool will be asked to head the movement. Four cases, containing puddings and cakes in soldered tins, chocolate, homemade sweets, letter blocks, books and magazines, were sent from Hawera on Monday to the Lady Liverpool Committee in Wellington, to be forwarded to Egypt by the troopships leaving about the 15th inst., and so should arrive in good time for Christmas. A further case will be sent at the end of this week.

The Taumarunni paper says that Mrs.' E. T. Rceco had a very trying experience on Tuesday night in the dense bush about five or six miles from Raurimu. Mrs. Recce failed to return home at 11 p.m., a search party was organised, and every effort was made during the night to find the missing woman. Mrs. Recce, however, found her way home sale and sound uext day. At the meeting of the Eltham High School Committee on Monday the chairman brought up the matter of the proposed change in the Wangamii and Taranaki Education districts. During a discussion which followed the committee were divided in their opinion as to the s.dvisableness of the proposal .that they should join the Taranaki district, and it was decided that no action be taken at present. Appreciative references were maile at yesterday's meeting of the Taranaki County Council as to the work of the chairman, Mr. J. Brown. Cr. McAlltim said Mr. Brown's duties during the pasttwelve months had been particularly onerous, especially as while the Council were, for a time, without the services of an engineer there had been added responsibility, A motion by Crs. McAllum and J. Andrews that the chairman be granted an honorarium of £IOO was unanimously carried.

The lion, secretary of the Railway Patriotic Concert Committee has received the following letter from his Worship the Mayor, Mr. C. H. Burgess:— : l am duly in receipt of your letter of the 29th inst, requesting that I should extend my patronage to the Patriotic Concert to he held in the Theatre Royal on November 11 in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund. The object of the concert being to raise funds foi such a worthy cause, I have very much pleasure indeed in acceeding to your request nnd to wish vonr committee every success.''

Amusing stories of the raw recruit me current.' Among them is that of the novice, who, on his first "sentry go" at night, saw his, lieutenant pass, and took no notice of him, thinking it was not necessary, as they had been chums in their pre-enlistment days. The officer stopped nnd asked why the sentry did not challenge him, "I knew you at once, so what was the use?" was the reply. "As for challenging you—well, the last time we had the gloves on you hadn't a look in. Still, if you want it, I'm on." Discipline broke down at this naive explanation.

At Rotorna a curious case was decided by Mr. R. W. Dyer, 8.M., at the Magistrate's Court. WikirTivhi Te Tuahu, chairman of the Arawa Maori Council, charged Timi Ratewa with desecrating a grave. It appears that the defendant had dug up four skeletons, with the object of getting a valuable tiki that had been buried with them. A great deal of evidence dealing with Maori customs was given, and the Magistrate decided that the defendant had been guilty of an offence, and fined him £2. remarking that he had made the fine light on account of the heavy costs, which amounted to £ 15 7s 6d. '

The Melbourne, Ltd., reports an extraordinary demand for the specially reduced lino of mens' suits made to measure for from 4f)s fid to 70s. These suits are made equal in every way to those charged 09s Od to Sis for hi normal times. Orders at the roduisd rutis will only be accepted for another tourtcvn dsv»

As widows of soldiers who have lost their lives in the present war will lose their pension in the event of their marrying again, a correspondent of a Sydney paper suggests the advisability of the Federal Government inserting a clause in the Act allowing such widows to retain their pensions if they marry a man ■who has served in the forces of the Empire. He urges that there would be a strong bond' of sympathy between such a couple, and that the pension would act as a partial recompense for the ex'-sol-dier's services to his country.

At Monday's meeting of the Patea Harbor Board, the pilot reported that there was a sand bank right across the entrance caused •by the heavy westerly Kales experienced from the 17th to the 20th. These gales caused the bank to make up three feet. He thought it would scour out when the tides were high and they hud smooth weather, lie sounded the bar on the llith and got nothing less than 10ft (iiu, with 7ft flin showing on the tide gauge. This was before the westerly gales. He sounded again on the 29th and got only 7ft (Jin, with 7ft (Jin on the gauges and 10ft hctween the walls. . He could not say what there might he at spring tides, but at reap tides all he had was 7ft.— St«r.

"It's a wonderful old city, is this London, but I can't say I like it," says Lance-Corporal W. J. Hill, formerly of New Plymouth, in a letter from Home, where he is on sick furlough. "It's so vast, so cold, so heartless, that one feels absolutely lost. I just hate the city with its gay theatres, its traffic, and its awful poverty. On Sunday u very wealthy lady spent £5 entertaining IS of us at Ranelagh. I enjoyed myself immensely, but in the evening, when feeling jolly lonely, I walked through the park on to the Embankment. I saw the hundreds of old women huddled up on the seats. Well, I felt that after all there is something to be said for .Socialism, I'm not going to any more parties, because I feel that these poor old women should have first call on people's purses." Lance-Corporal Hill adds: "My wound is fine, and it will not inconvenience me at all."

• At Hawera yesterday, Mr. Kenrick, S.M., gave his reserved decision in the ease, Police v. T. New, for an alleged breach of the Licensing Act by having exposed liquor for sale after hours. The Magistrate said it was not one of those bad eases requiring the endorsement of the license, nnd he might incidentally remark that in the very bad cases licenses ought to be endorsed more than they were, because a line was nothing in comparison with punishment by endorsement of the license. To put the present cs.se in its worst form, it was gross neglect, and he could not impress it too strongly that if they wished to wash glasses after closing hours, they must see that the doors leading to the bar are locked, and that everybody who should have no business in the hotel was off the premises. Under the circumstances lie would impose a line of £5, with Court 7s, and lie could not make it any less. He had let the defendant off' very reasonably under the circumstances.

Several farmers in the MayfleldAnama districts have recently made quite modest fortunes in land transactions, states the Asbbnrton correspondent of the Lyttclton Times. During the past few weeks farms have changed hands in the districts named, the prices representing an increase, as compared with values current less than four years ago, of approximately £4 an acre. One farm sold recently was purchased about twenty years ago at a third of the money paid for it by the present owner. It is not many years ago since the land comprising the upper district of the Rangitata Plains was thickly covered with tussocks and .other valueless native growth, requiring many acres to depasture one sheep, but now, thanks to closer settlement, to the establishment and expansion of the frozen meat export industry, to local body enterprise in the artificial distribution of water, and to the dogged determination and grit of the men who broke up the country from its virgin state and sowed it down in approved grasses and forage plants, the land will carry almost two sheep to theacre.

Writes the Wellington correspondent of the Christchurch Press:—The feeling here in favour of compulsion is already strong, and is growing stronger. On the one hand you find the man with responsibilities, wife and children for whom he cannot provide adequately, who is realby concerned as to whether it is his duty to leave lifs dependents to shift for themselves, as the dependents of French, Russian, and Belgian soldiers have to, do, and himself bear arms for bis country. This man is concerned about his duty. On the other hand there are. thousands of men without a care in life, who are not at all concerned about their duty, and who never have a thought of going. The present methods of recruiting do not reach these men. They do not go to recruiting meetings. If any recruiting agent speaks to them they may not answer nicely, so they are left very much alone. A press gang could yetlflOO recruits any night, in any of Wellington's numerous picture shows. There is also another sort of man blessed with a placid conscience, the well-to-do giver, who takes it for granted that he cannot go—business ties, and so on. This sort of man is usually in the National Reserve, sporting the badge on his lapel, content in the thought that he at least is doing his duty to the Empire!

"Still glides the stream and shall for ever glide." To-day, and every day, the beautiful Wangamii River is gliding past green hill and dale—past picturesque Maori whare and pa. Truly an ideal place to spend your holidav—glorious scenery, trout fishing, thorough rest, healthfulness, and the most famous scenery of its kind in the wide world. Decide now to spend a week or a fortnight at Pipiriki House. Enquire A. Hatriek and Co., Ltd.. Wangamii; Cook's and Government Tourist Bureaux everywhere.—Advt. o

THE GERMS OF CEREBROSPINAL

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