LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Nominations closed at noon yesterday for the vacancy on the Taranaki County Council caused by the resignation of Councillor J. Bridgeman, and Messrs. Joseph B. Simpson and' Robert Stevens were nominated. The election will take place next Friday. To-day will be Christmas Pudding Day at the Red Cross Market, and it is hoped that a large number of puddings will be donated and sold. Other articles wiJl be on sale as usual, and good business should be done. A generous response from town and country people is appealed for. The Supreme Court at Christehurch, is hearing the claim of Andrew Fairbairn, merchant, for £IOOO damages from the Sun newspaper, for alleged libel contained in an article dealing with Fairbairn's conduct in connection with the Cost of Living Commission in 1912. The Wanganui Borough Council, acting oil the recommendation of its Finance Committee, has decided to inform all tlje single men in its employ that they hiust either enlist or relinquish their positions to married men requiring employment. The subject of enemy trading was discussed by the executive of the Dominion Chamber of Coiumerco at Wellington this week. It was decided that the council of the Wellington Chamber should formulate proposals to lay before the Government with a view to cheeking any enemy products which may be coming into the country now, and to make recommendations regarding trading after the war. Proposals suggested by the Auckland Chamber will be used as a basis, in conjunction with proposals made by the previous conference. The hon. secretary of the Railway Patriotic Committee has received the necessary permission from the Minister of Internal Affairs to promote an art union in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund. The prizes will include two building sites in Wanganui, given by Mrs. L. A. Parker, Fitzroy, a Japanese fire screen donated by Mr. Chas. Potts, an inlaid table presented by Mr. R. Dingle, and a hand-knitted quilt donated by Mrs. M. J. Thompson. As a complete list of the prizes and their values has to be submitted to the Minister, the secretary will be pleased to receive further donations to the prize list before the final arrangements are made. All donations will be duly acknowledged by Mr. W. Thompson, Railway Department. Mr. J. B. Roy has kindly ottered to do any necessary legal work in connection with the art union free of charge. Last week 29 married and 15 single men applied for work at the Auckland Labor Bureau. Of these 14 married men and two single men were placed, all with private employers, leaving 28 still unemployed. This, however, is a decided improvement upon the position some few months back, when the applications for work were much more numerous, and the weekly surplus of unemployed averaged from 80 to 90. During the past week 37 married and 00 single men applied for employment at the Wellington Labor Bureau, of whom 3'2 married and !U single men were found employment. Sixty-nine were placed in Government employment and 17 with private employers, thus leaving 17 for whom work is still required. Saturday shoppers should not fail to make a special call at the Melbourne Ltd. and sample the firms great "Mill and Factory" sale bargains. These willknown sales offer unprecedented economy opportunities. FEAR OF NASTY MEDICINE. The fear of having to take & nasty medicine causes many s. child to hide irregularity of the bowels, Chamberlain's Tablets are so pleasant and easy to take and so free from harsh effect that th«y can be given with safety to children. Every mother should keep Chamberlain's Tablets in her medicine chest. Sold by all chemists and storekeejjert,

Trooper Thomas _\l;iu marr'u-il man, aged 27, belonging tu Lower Hutt, died in Wellington Hospital on Thursday night, lie had been ill for three months. There were 5878 men, artisans and laborers, engaged on co-operative works in New Zealand during September. Of these, 27ul were occupied on railway works and 1804 on roads. The sum of ,£1>87.") will be payable to shareholders of the Stratford Dairy Company to-day for butter-fat for tup month of October, the rate being I.s per lb. The Wanganni Education Hoard lias decided that the summer holidays for schools in this district slmll loinmcnce on Thursday, December Hi, and the schools re-open on Tuesday, February 1, 1910. At the Wanganni Education Board's meeting on Wednesday, a claim for ! £IOOO. from Miss Hogg, for injury to hw health while teaching at Motunuii'. was received. The total value of meat purchased from Xew Zealand by the Imperial Government to October 15 amounted to £5,529,409. The value of the "shipments from Taranaki up to this date is £236,755. Those who are in the habit oi carrying articles in their hand* whilst riiling bicycles .should take warning from a fatal accident wiucll recently occurred at Wai roa, Hawke's Bay. A girl aged 12 years was cycling round a corner, when a basket she was. carrying caught in the wheel of her bicycle, and she was thrown so heavily to the pavement that she never recovered. The railway working account iw the four weeks ended October 10th is as follows (shillings and pence omitted): — North Island, revenue, £190,420; expenditure, £117,502. South Island, revenue, £'I3O,GIG; expenditure, £f18,655. Totals, revenue, £333,0*3; expenditure, £216,221. The percentage of revenue expended waß 70.5, "Taranaki and Wanganui had a splendid season in every way," says the Government pamphlet on the meat supply scheme. "While more stock than could be treated was available, the shipping facilities were considered satisfactory under the circumstances, and high values were maintained throughout." The War Pensions Board has dealt with 424 cases to date. Of these, in. 222 eases pensions were granted, 42 temporary allowances were made, 50 were declined 21 were adjourned, and 83 are in hand. The average pension granted is £4B.

A Cliinwan named Ah Wall, alias Jah Jang, who went to Hamilton a few weeks ago from Wellington, lias been arrested by Detective Cassells. He counterfeits coin by filing down gold coins. One halfsovereign was reduced in value by several shillings, while the police liave evidence that accused uttered and attempted to utter other coins similarly tampered with. —lPress Association. There were IG2 applications from all parts of the South Island and some from the North Island for the position of ranger to the Southland Acclimatisation Society. Mr. John Devoy Ballantyne was appointed. A large number of the applications were from men apparently eligible and fit for service at the front, and it was resolved to return these without consideration, the applicants to be informed of the reason. A Recruiting Board has been established at Christchurch, comprising three military members, three members of the Automobile Association, and three members of the Citizens' Defence Corps. It will take in hand the whole work of recruiting in this district, encouraging men to enlist and removing obstacles. A doctor will be in attendance at all recruiting meetings to examine men on the spot. A Wellington telegram says that Sullivan Bros., milk vendors, were lined £lO yesterday for selling watered milk. The Government Analyst showed that there was 7.2 per cent of added water. Counsel for defendants said his clients intended to claim damages from the wholesale suppliers of the milk in question. Horace Chisholm was fined £1 for selling milk that was deficient in fats. A sacred concert wiU, be given by the Citizen's Band at ifessrs. Sole Bros' beautiful gTounds, "Aotea," to-morrow afternoon. The grounds are looking particularly well at present and, given fine weather, many people will no doubt enjoy the outing. The proceeds will be divided between the Wounded Soldiers' Fund and the Belgian Fund. An Ashburton settler had returned to him last week a number of letters' that had been forwarded to his son at the front. Each letter contained the legend, in flaring blue pencil "Killed—return to sender." By the same mail that the letter were returned was a letter from the son, stating that he was resting at Mudros. Again the amazing pranks of coincidence. Sapper Guy Little, of Wellington, knew on his arrival in Cairo that his brother, Stafl'-Sergeant Keith Little, was "somewhere in Egypt." ITc saw a likely-looking man in Cairo, with stripes underneath a big helmet, and thought he would ask him if he knew the whereabout of a certain Stail'-Sorgeant Little. Just as he was about to speak, the man wheeled, round—it was the very man in all Egypt that he wanted to meet—his brother. Newton King draws attention in our advertising columns to his Stratford cattle and springing heifer sale on Tuesday next, full particulars of which will be found in our advertising columns. Holiday rates on the railway, in connection with tiiu Eginont A. and P. Show, at Hawera, on Thursday next, are advertised in this issue. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London house under date 18th iiist.: Wool market animated. Greasy medium, combing Merino, scoured crossbred ten to fifteen and greasy crossbreds fifteen to twenty per cent, higher thau close of previous series. Every lady who studies the comfort and adornment of the home is turning her attention to the window curtains. Morey's advertisement in this issue announces a splendid allowing of Madras muslins, all first-rate quality, all nt economy prices. Turn to the announcement now. WHY GO HUNGRYt If your stomach is weak, and you are suffering from Indigestion, don't sacrifice your health and comfort. Eat all the wholesome food you want. Then take one of Dr Sheldon's Digestive Tabules aftc each meal. They digest your food, and thus nourish and build you up, while the stomach is recovering its natural tone. Price, 1/6 and 2/8 per tin. Obtainable everywhere. IS .YOUR TASTE FASTIDTOIJS.' Then drink CAJtROC Dry Ginger Ale compounded from an original Belfast lormula—most delicious and healthful of all drinks. We only ask ft trial. At all hotels and ttor*. 24

A lirst uttVuder of drunkenness was fined 5s by Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., at the Police Court yesterday. The Bitting of the Supreme Court ta have been opened at New Plymouth next Tuesday has been adjourned until Monday, December 0, at 11 a.m. The boys engaged in the woodwork classes at the schools in the Wellington district havo, in a spirit, of patriotic enthusiasm, taken up the self-imposed task of making splints for wounded soldiers. 'Regulation'! under the Local Bodies Loans Act, 1913, published In the Gazette provide a new table of half-yearly instalments in connection with loans raised by local authorities through the State Advances Ofliee. The term is 4-2y 2 years and the rate of interest 4.V per cent. The Defence Minister has received a telegram from General Godley, stating that Colonel 11. Ileaton Rhodes, M.P (who is investigating tile Postal and supply arrangements for the New Zeatanders at the front), had left for Egypt on Wednesday. His visit had been most useful, said General Godley, and le trusted that, in the interests of the forces, Colonel Rhodes would also be sent to Malta and England. The Paris Journal recalls the fact that Gorman troops have recently been inoculated against cholera, and that the Italians discovered large supplies of typhus baccillt in an Austrian village. It hints at the likelihood of the enemy waging a microbe war against the Allies, and exhorts the Government ta | encourage French scientists to devote their energies to combating all possibly developments of German warfare.