LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Melbourne cablegram states that the city is suffering from a heat wave, producing a temperature of 100 degrees in the shade. The cash takings in the dental branch of the out-patients' department of the Wellington Hospital for the past month were £3C lGs, which constitutes a record for the department. A ease of infantile paralysis n a mild form from Nuknmaru has been admitted to the ■Wnnganui hospital. Another case is reported at Crofton, near Marton. Mrs. C. M. Hill, captain of the Park Croquet Club, wishes it to be understood that the donation paid in by her to the Red Cross funds was on behalf of the Croquet Club, and was the first inonlhly instalment from a series of competitions which the club intends holding in aid of Red Cross funds. In reply to a cablegram of enquiry .concerning the situation of the Volunteer Sisters now in Egypt, the following reply was received in Christchurch from Miss Ront, the lion, secretary, who is now in Egypt:— "Oflk-ial reports misleading. Every Volunteer Sister working desperately hard in canteen and hospital work.' Miss Higgins (matron) is now engaged by I'i'itish (invenuiient as coukcrv instructor for soldiers. Full work guaranteed in the future."— Christchurch Sun. "My husband would have enlisted earlier." writes a wife whose husband has just enlisted, "only his stature was below regulation height, also an illness : intervened. However, like the widow'* mite, he is all ! possess in the way of value: but'l. am proud and happy in the knowledge that even as his pioneer forbears (18.10) had grit in assisting to colonise this 'Britain of the South,' he liim-elf lias the same grit to determine in helping to ke, p the Hag of the free still waving o'er it, I know he will do his duty; the rest U Cod's aiVair."

Thru; liansports arc to be set aside by the Xew Zealand authorities for file exclusive transport of horses to the front. This news will be welcomed by those who know of the discomforts of packing men on a troopship with the decks crowded with animals. This had to be done in the lir.st stages of the war, though Australia, with a more ample supply of ships, was able to avoid it from tlie beginning. Horse shipments having now been resumed, it has been decided, says the Minister of Defence, to send on those boats only sufficient mien to look after the animals. There is a big demand for artillery horses, and the Defence Department's buyers have met with good succeess in picking up the kind of animal required. The following New Plymouth candidates passed the recent Public Service senior examination in full: —W. t'. Alexander. George K. Arms, George 10. Ben.lall, Francis L McAllister. Robert 3iclutyre, Augusta Manoy, Mary K Kodgers, Chas. Henry Rogeivs, Wm, Alfred Sheat. Alix Keyton Warren, bonis Winlichl. The following passed in live or more subjects;— Cyril George Burton, Maggie Parli, Charles H. Stephenson. Piused in four subjects: Gordon McLean Beck, George E. Dinniss, Win. P. Kellelier, Roy Keith McGiven, Uuthven M. Monteat'h, Waratana Ngahana. Win. W. Paton. Passed in three subjects:—Clarice M. Cornev, Ceiifi Mary Ford, Whitelord ]!. IV.oii, Win, .T. H, Walker. Passed in '.'.vn subjects: Oiven J. Dplan,. L;on--1 -■' J^oyla,

A London cable states that in the Waterloo Cup (coursing) Harmonious beat Hopsack. The Kaiinata school will hold its annual picnic at the East End Reserve on Friday next. In the Police Court on Saturday a first offender, who did not appear, was lined 5s for drunkenness. The coroner's inquiry into the destruction of the Moturoa Hotel on February Cth, will take place at the Courthouse on Wednesday morning, commencing at 10.3(1 a.m. Kcginald John Davis was convicted at the Wellington Magistrate's Court on Saturday on a charge of selling liquor at Porinm without a license, also supplying u Native within a proclaimed area. lie was lined £lO on each charge, witli costs totalling £2O, The Kaupokonui Co-operative Dairy Factory Company, Ltd., will pay out to suppliers the sum of £30,182 lis !)d, being payment for January milk, together with a further payment of threepence per lb of fat over the period ending the 31st December, 1915. "You'd want a day shift and a night shift to keep cattle off the roads, and then they'd beat you," remarked Mr. Capper at a meeting of the Moa Road Board on Saturday, when the appointment of a ranger was under discussion. On the motion of Mr. Billing (Messrs. Weston and Weston), probate of the wills of the late Mr. Thomas Colson, and the late Sergeant R. G. Sole was, on February U, granted by His Honor, the Chief Justice, to the executors named in the wills. At the suggestion of representatives of the New Plymouth Patriotic Committee a conference will be held at the Town Hall this (■veiling at 7 o'clock, between representatives of the Patriotic Committee and the seaside committees to arrange for a monster seaside picnic in aid of the patriotic funds. All willing to assist are also cordially invited to attend. At the bazaar held at Huiroa on Friday night, in aid of the Belgian Relief Fund, the art unions, which were drawn under the supervision of Mr. J. B. Hine, .M.P., resulted as follow: Carved tray, No. .'if>s, E. Rutherford, Huiroa; point lace tea cloth, No. 21 fi, Mr. A. Eraser, Huiroa; cushion, Oriental embroidered, No. 202, Mrs. Smitheran, Huroa; autograph supper cloth, No. 7S, Miss Gernhoefer, Toko. The Auckland waterside workers decided by 292 votes to 213 lo join the New Zealand Arbitration Federation. The decision was unexpected. The C'nion will require to surrender its right of selection, and may he committed to a ten p.m. day, and the door will be opened to many wharf workers who have been unable to work on the wharves since the 1913 strike. —Press Association.

The harvest festival services at YVhiteloy Church yesterday were largely attended. The interior of the church was appropriately decorated, and the Services were of a very pleasing character. Rev. A. U. <JhappeU officiated on both occasions, his text in the morning being "There are four kinds of soil," and that in the evening, "Tlie fool hath said in his heart, there is no God." The collections at the services were most generous. At the Christchurch Supreme Court on Saturday, Mary Ann Reid was charged with the murder of her two in- \ fant illegitimate children at Hornsby. -Mr. Cunningham, for the defence, intimated that he would rely on the plea of insanity. After the evidence for the prosecution Mr. dustice Stringer snid he would not call on the defence, as there was no evidence to show that the children had ever breathed after birth. He directed the jury to return a verdict of '■not guilty." A verdict was accordingly returned. About half past two on Saturday morning flames were observed issuing from a building in the rear of Messrs Turner and Sons' shop in Bridge street, Eltham. Promptly after the ringing of the hell the Brigade was on the spot. The fire proved to be in the bakehouse, and had u good hold, hut the firemen soon had a strong- jet of water playing upon the lire anil quickly prevented its spread. It was a good save and once more (says the Argus) the. citizens have practical proof of the great value to the town of its Fire Brigade. The buildings in the neighborhood of the .lire are nearly all old wooden structures and if there had been no Fire Brigade Bridge street would have presented an ugly appearance.

A meeting- of -the Veterans' Association was hold in the Borough Council Chambers on Saturday, when Mr. W. F. Brooking occupied the chair in the absence nf Colonel Ellis through illness. It was resolved that the celebration of the anniversary of the buttle of Waireka take the form of a hawjuct to be held on the evening of March iS next. A special vote of thanks was passed t„ Mrs. A. Crooke for her kindness in skilfully repairing and strengthening the old Volunteer and Militia Hags, thereby lengthening their useful service. It was resolved that the colors be deposited in St. Mary's Church -is near the hist Sunday after Kaster as can he arranged. A letter was received from Mrs. Wells thanking the Veterans for their kindness and sympathy in the loss of her husband and their late comrade, Mr. K. Wells.

Bathers on Lyall Bay ln-ac-ii (Wellingt»!i) received a surprise the other morning to discover a hu-jc etittlelit.ii which had lieeli washed up during the niyht. The body, which weighed about a hundredweight and a-half, was About 10ft long, and half-a-dozen forbidding looking tentacles, with protruding suckers, Mere as thiol; as a man's lei;.' The bug from which it discharged the inky fluid when attacked, or when making an attack, was visible, ami the single eye was also prominent. A light between'a cuttlefish or devillish. as they are sometimes called, and a whale was described in one of the magazines some time ago. It was witnessed oft" the deck of a liner, and lasted for nearly an hour, the whale struggling furiously the whole time to disengage itself from the deadly embrace, "of the cuttlefish, both finally sinking beneath the surface out of view, the whale apparently being the victim, as its struggling had aimost ceased before it disappeared. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Lid., draw the attention of clients to their Stratford sale, which they are holding in their Stratford yards on Tuesday. 22nd insl. Full particulars will he found in our advertising columns on page S of this issue. Tr, vow of (he greatly iii'Tcused prices of nil cotton goods, housewives will do well to buy the following lines at the Melbourne Ltd.: :SOin stout calico, (id yard; :)2i]] white flannelette, extra good quality, fid yard; Horreck);es striped pyjama cloths, 3Gin wide, lid yard; Horrockscs famous "Weal" fabric, 30ins wid-. Is 2d yard.