LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We have received from Mr. J. Purdie, Brixton, the sum of 15s, being a contribution to the Serbian Relief Fund.

Major Sandford, who is in charge of the New Plymouth Boy Scouts on trek, reported "ail well" from the North Egmont Mountain House last night.

Those ladies who are making sweets to be sold at the patriotic concert on Ansae night are asked to leave them at the Theatre to-morrow (Tuesday) morning.

Mr. M. Healy, of New Plymouth, has kindly offered his motor car for the conveyance of members of the Life Saving Club, who are giving a demonstration at Warea on Tuesday afternoon. The car will leave town at 1.15" p.m, In a letter to a Wellington paper a lady urges that parents and friends of soldiers will not allow themselves to be discouraged, and leave off sending parcels, even if there is considerable delay in arrival at their destination. She had sent 14 parcels, and only one had missed. Parcels sent at the end of September were delivered in February. All is r.ot gold that glitters. A lady who drew the winning number in a raffle for a £SO horse at a bazaar in connection with a patriotic effort has been impressed with tho. truth of the proverb. When she drew the winning number she learnt that the horse was in the country, and she had it brought to town. The freight charges totalled £l. The horse wanted shoes, and was! accordingly shod at a further cost of 4s. Having no use for the horse the lady decided to sell it. The auctioneer did his best, but £1 was the highest offer received. It was accepted, and the lady received the £l, less commission! Needless to say, she is wondering who valuod the horse at £SO, and whether the responsible person should defray the freight, shoeing, and commission charges. The Stratford "Soldiers' Day" Carnival committee have made special arrangements whereby the Kahungunu (Hawke's Bay) troup of Maori poi dancers, vocalists, and instrumentalists will appear at the ( Carnival. This troup of Maori performers are a really splendid combination, and patrons of the Carnival will find they are everything claimed for them. Apart from the beautiful poi dances which will be performed, the musie and songs rendered will be of a high order. The carnival committee are to be congratulated on being able to arrange for the appearance on the Showgrounds of thisfine Hawke's Bay Maori troup. A special train will leave New Plymouth at 9.10 a.m., Inglewood at 10.20 a.m., arriving at Stratford at 11 am., and will return from there at 5.38 p.m.

In a letter just received from the late Gunner Cyril Hebbend by Tiis parents at Petone, the writer gives an interesting account of practice work with the big guns in England. He says: "Our guns came from Woolwich, also'the tractors and motor lorries, quite an army of them; so we have been busy mounting and dismounting for practice. Every week we have spent two nights out, taking all gear, and going into the country and mounting them in a field and bringing them home next day. They are 9.2 and very heavy, in three parts, each part having a, carriage of its own. . . The weather-was awful—cold, snowing or raining all the time. . . We, tho signallers, ran out; lines of wire for five miles, and took. sChd sent messages. . . Fancy eating your dinner in a paddock, with the snow falling, and sending on a key with a nearly frozen hand." The writer speaks highly of the kindness he received at the house at which he was billeted. He says also: "Our football teams play at Wellington (England) every Saturday, and so far have not been beaten."

At the Opunake Magistrate's Court on Thursday last, before Mr. Crooke, S.M., Donald McGregor, of Te Kiri, farmer, sued A. J. Marshall, of Opunake, sharemilker, for £4O, alleging that the defendant, who had been share-milking for him during-the 1914-15 season, had failed te stump, and plough five acres of land for winter crops, and also claiming that the share-milker 'had made butter from plaintiff's milk, Which amount plaintiff estimated nt 280.1b, being what an average family would consume during the year. Under cross-examination plaintiff said that ho .had never seen defendant take any cream, though he lived near, but he knew that defendant had bought no butter, and therefore assumed that he was using his (plaintiff's) milk or cream for making' his butter. Mr. E. Marshall, solicitor, Opunake, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. P. O'Dea for the sharemilker, A. J. Marshall. The defendant's case was a denial of the plaintiff's assertions. The defendant stated that he had agreed to provide winter feed, and this he had done, but he denied that lie agreed to do atjy stumping. Tie also denied taking cream from plaintiff's cans cr making butter from his milk. It was arranged that argument was to. be submitted to the Magistrate in writing and declsiqn Would be given later. A new light comedian, Louis Kimball, will make his first appearance in New Zealand in "Undo: tire.' He ha.? an interesting record of comedy successes in America, as ho played the lead in "Brewster's Millions" throughout the United States,'' the comedy lead in "Baby Mine," ajul Jimmy tiillcy in the principal touring company with "Bought and Paid For." Fresh', bright, and breezy, Mr Kimball has a personality and youthfulness that reach over the footlights and immediately put him on good terms .with the audience. In "Under Five'' his role is that of a humorouß American war correspondent, and 'ho has many laughter-raising lines to deliver. Visitors to the town should peruse the Kawaroa Park advertisement in this issue. The day is known locally as Kawaroa Park Day, for at t'his loading : seaside resort a full day's pleasure Is assured. The poi dance by the champion Maori team of the West Coast will be the "star" item. The grounds are charmingly pretty. Ask your host about it. The "Soldiers' Day" committee have been advised by the Railway Department that special trains will leave Patea at 5.15 a.m., arriving at Stratford at' 10.30 a.m.; New Plymouth 0,10 a.m., arrive Stratford 11 a.m. Seeing the committee have guaranteed the Department any loss in the running of these special trains visitors coming to Stratford are requested to travel by these special trains. Both trains will arrive in time to see the monster procession ieave the town for the grounds.

GOOD FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY. The fame of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is world wide. It is good for the deep seated cough of an adult or the croup of children. The same bottle servos the wholq family. It is mothers of young children that most appreciate Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and it is not easy to persuade them "to use any other cough medicine after having seen how prompt and effectual it is and that ,it is pleasant and aafe to take, ihii ivarywhora -

In Vuaa, now occupied by the Germans, the IPolish and Lithuanian, inhabitants arc not allowed to be.«ut of doors at night. As the Germans, however, have opened one of the theatres, tho following notice i 8 written in three languages on every programme for the pert formanccs: "Your ticket gives you the' right at the end of the play to go through the streets to your home." That there is money in eggs, and that their ( production can be made a highly profitable side line, is the experience of a South Bivertoii, resident who runs seventy-three fowls. The gross return for twelve months was £73 —a pound per bird. Allowing ten shillings per bird for feed, his net profit was £3O 10s, not a bad return-for tho year, and equal to six per cent, on £BOO for twelve months.

The cool courage of the Japaneso was strikingly illustrated when the 12,000ton steamer Yasaka Maru was torpedoed off Port Said. Many passengers ruthed excitedly on deck'without lifebelts. These were supplied by the Japanese sailors, who carefully and deliberately fastened and adjusted them and put the passengers in the boats before taking any steps for their own safety. Last year, for the first time, iron •work was allowed as a subject for Senior" National Scholarship examinations, bju( • only five candidates in New Zealand took it, and these all hailed from Stratford. The marks they gained were very satisfactory, and arc well worth quoting:—Burgess 179, Mundy 157, Henderson 142, Decn 142, Henry 119 (12C marks constitute a pass). The -boys were trained fty Mr. H. Skelton, of the Teehnieal College, New Plymouth.—Post. When the north express stopped at Ashfmrton on Wednesday a lady stepped out of a carriage, and proceeded to enjoy a c>ip of tea (says the Guardian,. ■ She evidently over-estimated the time the train would wait in Ashburton, and on coming out of the refreshment room saw the train disappearing past the end of the platform. There would have been nothing very terrible about this had it not been for the fact that.in the train were the woman's money, hat, luggage, and—worst of all—three young children I ■ The unfortunate passenger rushed about ' the station in a frantic statu of mtad, but later became pacified upon a definite course of action. Telegrams were exchanged with 'Christchurch, and eventually the -woman followed on in a slow train and picked up the children at Christchurch, where they had been taken charge of,- th» quartet were bound for Sydney.

"One tiling we must get into opt thick beads," says Rudynrd Kipling, "is that wherever tlie German—man or woman—gets a suitable culture to thrive in, lin or she means death and loss to c-ivilfeei people, precisely as germs qf any cli»ea«* suffered to multiply, mean death or loss to mankind. There is no question o( liate or anger or excitement ih the matter, any more than there is in (lushing out sinks or putting oil on~watM-' to prevent mosquitoes hatching eggs. - a». far as we are concerned the German i» typhoid or plague—l'estis Teutonictu, if you like. But until we realise Skifflementary fact in pence, we shall always be liable to outbreaks of imti-civitytt-tion. Slake this clear by all 'mean* in your power. I see that Australia has begun to restrict German trade. ' -fhat i' right. Where n bale or box nf German goods comes'into a civilised country, there is always the chance of expostag mankind to dancer sooner or later. This has been proved before all: mankind in every quarter of the world."' An officer from Gallipoli, who wm drilling the soldiers ready for the production of "Under Fire" at the MM* bourne Theatre Royal a few months beck, stopped suddenly, and looking un a« a whirring noise came from overhead, "My word," he exclaimed, "I thought it was an aeroplane!" It sounded no much like the real tiling. Half an hour later there was a sound like a train rushing through a tunnel, and the officer instinctively ducked his head. It was >an imitation of a shell sent screaming ion its way from a big gun. "It was »o realistic that I hnd to hob mv head," said the officer. Oueking 'has hecoina second nature when uoi?ca like this «r« about.