LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A London message states that the estate of the late Dr. W. G. Grace has been valued at £7278. Recently twins were registered in Nelson who are to bear respectively the names of "Dardanelle" and "Bella Salonika." By Order-in-Council made on Monday, the exportation of all articles to China and Siam without the consent of the Minister of Customs is prohibited. At the Hawera SM. Court yesterday, In the case Grant and Campbell (Mr. Ryan) v. Maude Carroll (Mr. o,Dea), a claim for £l3 13 rent and possession, the parties consented to judgment. A private letter received in Dunedin from Egypt contained the information that Trooper Wililam McCallum, who volunteered for service from Lawrence district, had fallen heir to a fortune estimated at £25,000. In the meantime, Trooper McCallum is doing his "little bit" with the troops in Egypt. The barquentine Landstol, bound from to Sydney, concerning whose safety some anxiety was felt a week ago, arrived at Sydney on December 12, after a voyage of thirty-nine days. Shte does not appear to have been reported.—Press Association. The committee of the Central School met on Tuesday evening, when it was reported that the carnival committee would meet on (this) Wednesday evening. The programme for the breaß-np. ceremony on Thursday next was arranged as follows:—Courtenay street school at 11.30 a.m., and at Good Templar Hall at 2 p,m. Mr. S. G. Smith, chairman of the committee, and also chairman of the school committee' association, was selected without dissent as a candidate to fill tlie vacancy on the Education Board, caused by the resignation of Mr. Bradbury. The chairman reported that the head master quoted the total roll of the school as over 600 pupils. Accounts were passed for payment, and the meeting adjourned. A deputation representing the Friendly Societies'of New Zealand waited upon the Minister for Education (Hon. J. A. Hanan) yesterday to protest against the Public Service regulation prohibiting members of the Civil Service from acting as accountants for Societies. Members of the deputation stated that the assistance given by teachers and other members of the Civil Service liad been valued very highly by Friendly Societies. The Minister said in reply that \lic matter was entirely in the hands of the Public Service Commissioners.—'Press Association.

In tlie Supreme Court at Palmerston on Friday, before Mr. Justice Edwards, Hannah Elizabeth Pawelka applied for- a divorce from Joseph Pawelka, on the grounds of desertion, Mrs. J. Pawelka said she lived at Ashhurst, was married at Ashhurst in 1909, there being one child of the marriage, and in the early part of February, lftlO, her lmsliand deserted her. Almost immediately after the marriage her husband ill-treated her. Her husband got into trouble, was charged with a large number of offences, sentenced to 21 years' imprisonment, she had not seen nor heard of hiin since, and »a far as she knew he was not in the Dominion. His Honor said that everybody knew that Pawelka was not to bs found. A decree nisi was granted, to b« made absalute in three months, petitlos<r to km eWg* of the child.

Tlie retail pricon of certain standard brands of butter was advanced one penny per pound in Wellington on Monday.

During the prevalence »f the diphtheria epidemic, no children visitors will be allowed at the Stratford Hospital or about the grounds. j The tramcar bodies, which arrived on Monday from the south, attracted a great deal of attention in the station yard. They were yesterday taken out to the car shed at Fitssroy by the borough traction engine. They are handsome cars and have been landed practically without a scratch. The fallowing pupils of the Eltham District High School-gained proficiency certificates at the recent examination: George Ruscoc, Selena Papps, Violet Foot, Percy Styles, Lily Carman, Willie Barnard, . Ivy Best. Eva Collingwood, Arthur Waters, Lily Groves, Maggie King, Doric Berndston, Gladys Brooker, Winnie Shaw, Elsie Clarry. Prices for wool locally continue to be satisfactory. At L. A. Xolan a*d Co.'s sale yesterday a considerable quantity of wool was offered in addition to the usual hides and skins. Prices were Very firm the whole catalogue being cleared. The top price of Is 3d was obtained by Mr. John Hale, of Avenue Road, for a lino of purebred Romney wool. Ordinary crossbred ranged from Is y 2 d to Is fid. Finer Classes Is 2d to Is 3d. Mr. A. H. Browne, a tailor in Auckland, died in a peculiar manner on Friday last. Deceased, who suffered from a weak heart, was travelling in a south-beund train near Jlorrinsville, when he rose from His seat. 'At this moment the train gave a lurch, and Mr. Browne fell, striking his head forcibly aginst the side of the carriage. He \Vas rendered unconscious, and expired before the next station was reached.

The Hawke's Bay Comity Council has Unanimously declined to endorse three resolutions forwarded to it by other bodies. One from the "Petone Borough Council desired amendments to the War Pensions Act, another from the Mount Herbert County Council suggested that the Government should pass legislation enabling local bodies t,o strike a patriotic fund rate, and the third asked the council to give all single men a month's notice.

At Eltham on -Monday the Official Assignee presiding, Frederick Henry Morgan was examined in bankruptcy. Mr. T. B. Crump appeared for the Bankrupt. Morgan ascribed his position to bad health in the family, the present high cost of living, and also to a loss which he had made on a contract. He is a married man with ten children, whose ages range from one year to 12 years. His statement showed assets of £9, consisting of furniture and two bicycles, and his liabilities £144 Is, the Hawera Hospital, £45, being the largest creditor. No action was taken.—Argus. Although there are large quantities of strawberries on sale at the present time (states the Auckland papers) it is estimated that the total production of the Auckland strawberry beds is only half what it would have been had the weather during the past two months been reasonably fine. Last year the growers contended with a drought, which lessencd'their profits considerably; this year the unusual amount of rain lias reduced the output by 50 per cent. The chief enemy of the growers of strawberries is blight. This pest attacks the leaves of the plant, and then fastens upon the stem and base of the berry, practically destroying it. In dry weather the blight makes rapid headway. When the raiji last for weeks, as has been the case recently, the blight simply sweeps over the beds, ruining great quantities of fruit.

IA. contributor to the bag stall set up In aid of the Belgians at the last Hawera Winter Show waa Miss Doris Hooper, the four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hooper, of Tokaora. The particular hag made by her found its way to a little Belgian girl refugee in England, and a letter of thanks has been received from her, and has been forwarded to the donor by Miss Tnrtos. The letter, is in ill-spelled French, but the thankb therein expressed the pathetically simple. An incident connected with the gift also had its pathetic side. This particular Belgian family, consisting of five "tots," is being mothered' by two English ladies. The father of the children has to go to work very early, leaving the children asleep, and on the the ladies, who reached the house after his departure, proceeding to waken the children as a preliminary to the selfimposed task of dressing and feeding them, they ill set up piercing shrieks and clung to the bed posts, thinking that the two ladies were Germans. The poor little souls had evidently seen some of the horrors of the barbarians.

A story is told of a southern member of tho expeditoinary force who sums up his experience of the campaign in the succinct phrase, "well punctured." At the outset lie underwent the ordinary vaccination as a precaution against small-pox. Ho was subsequently iuoculated twice to guard against enteric, and there were also two anti-cholera inoculations. Ho was wounded twice, and one of the wounds being in the hand, an injection of an anti-tetanus prophylactic was added to the list. Finally the man contracted dysentery, and was given the usual treatment for that complaint, including another inoculation. The two wounds brought the total number of punctures up to nine, and the man lias survived them all! The Melbourne, Ltd., announce the arrival, direct from Japan, of a large shipment' of men's white and tussore silk tennis and neglige shirts. These goods are of rare quality, but owing to direct buying the prices are even lower than for ordinary medium grade shirts. Prices, 9s 6d and 10s 6d.

For Christmas shoppers J. Bennett, jeweller, lias some very pretty novelties and souvenirs. This year Mr. Bennett's stocks aro heavy, and being well bought, customers will find the values particularly iniviing. The goods are mostly English indents. The public are invited to inspect the windows and showcases.

THE GERMS OF CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS are stated bj the Director of the Bacteriological Laboratory of the University to Melbourne to be quickly destroyed by eucalyptOß, SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT waß proved at the Supreme Court of Victoria to possess far greater antiseptic power than the common eucalyptUß oils and so-called extracts. Therefore, if you are not particular about your health you use any sort of eucalyptus; if you arc—you use only SANDER'S EXTRACT, 3 drops on sugar. It protects you not only from meningitis, but from all other infectious diseases; scarlet fever, measles, influenza, typhoid, diphtheria, small-pox, etc. SANDER'S EXTRACT is the strongest and safest antiseptic, and its curative qualities have been demonstrated to be genuine and lasting—it not only disinfects, but stimulates and fives new vigor to diseased parts. Ulcers, poisoned wounds, chilblains, inflamed skin tire quicklj cured by ftiKOIK'S JBXXR4CX