LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 May 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We recently copied a paragraph that was going the rounds to the effect that Nelson, Moate and Co., had ceased their business in New Zealand. "We are advised that, like many other companies, the company was reconstructed, but it is not true that it was wound up and ceased to carry on business. Hj is willing and able to sell as much tea ami other goods as its present or intending customers may require. The Lowgnrth Dairy Company will, this month, pay out £9005 to its suppliers, and the Stratford Company, £0760. . Butter in the cool stores of the Dominion yesterday totalled 88,911 boxes, as against 51,947 boxes a year ago, and 00,274 boxes on May 15, 1914. Press Association.

Scarlet fever is still very prevalent in Christchurch (says the Lyttelton Times), and in some of the country districts in Canterbury province. A Botorua telegram says that three Germans, Hugo Setter, Gnstave Schutte, and Christian Keinte, farmers, residing at Waotu, -were arrested on Friday under instructions from the Defence authorities and sent to Auckland yesterday morning for*intemment.

A motor car, owner by Mr. A. E. Magon, of Rahotu, which had been left standing alongside the road near Rahotu, was destroyed by fire late on Sunday night. It is understood that the car—a seven-seater Stiidebaker—was insured for £250.

During the March quarter of the present year 293,533 bales of wool were exported, as against 330;415 for the March quarter of last year. But while the quantity exported thus decreased by over 30,000 bales, the value increased by over £l,3oo,ooo—at £1.113,184, for the March quarter of 1015, to £0,005,813 for the first three months of 1916.

, A, sitting of the Supreme Court will be opened at the New Plymouth Courthouse, at eleven o'clock this morning. His Honor, Mr. Justice Edwards, will preside. There are no criminal cases and the civil business is light, indicating that the session will not extend beyond to-day. It was quite inevitable that at least one of the civil engineers at the annual conference, held in Christchurch, would have a "fling" at members of local bodies. One delegate said that experience had taught him the difficulty of persuading country members of local bodies" to adopt modern methods where any outlay is entailed, a remark that drew an appreciative smile from the assembled engineers. Arrangements are o'eing njftdb by the Health Department for a series of demonstrations at the four centres, commencing at Wellington, by' Nurse Bevilaqua, of Adelaide, a specialist in the treatment of infantile paralysis. Each Hospital Board will be invited to sendnurses for instructional purposes. ,Their fares and the cost of their accommodation will be paid by the department Press Association.

An interesting demonstration in treating pig-iron manufactured from Taranaki ironsaiid .was held at Messrs. Ok'ey and Bollo's foundry yesterday afternoon. Five hundredweight of pig-iron was melted down, arid was formed into several casts. The iron melted into a clear, easy-running liquid, and the mould though not cold showed a splendidly finished article. The experiments were regarded as highly satisfactory, and it will be possible to gauge the work better to-day, when the metal will have hardened, and can be closely examined.

As a result of the apple show, which Iras just closed in Wellington, prizes were, awarded as follows—Nelson, 11 firsts, 12 seconds and seven thirds; Otago, five firsts, two seconds and two thirds; Canterbury, four firsts, four seconds and three thirds: Hawke'a Bay, two firsts, one second and one third; Port Albert, two seconds and one third. In district exhibits of apples, points were given as follows: Nelson 86, Hawke's Bav 67, Canterbury 56, Otago 37, Port Albert 32.

Mr. Arthur Gibson (Gibson's Agency) Griffiths' Buildings, Egmont Street, has a change advertisement elsewhere in this issue, and calls special attention to a good dairy farm for lease.

GREAT BOOT VALUES AT THE MELBOURNE, LTD.

The Melbourne, Ltd., notify the arrival of fresh shipments of their famous men's welted boots, now 21s per pair. These boots are fully up to their usual high standard, and at the price pf one guinea compare, favorably with boots sold elsewhere up to 355, Materials used arc.finest box calf, willow calf and glace, kid, .and the boots are warranted all leaiiier throughout. Special displays of these famous guinea boots are now being made at the firm's New Plymouth, Inglewood and Stratford branches. Orders taken at other branches,

Some amusement was caused in Napier the other day by the ar/pearan« of a motor-ear, occupied by a young married couple, with a pair of old boots dragging, some distance behind St, nod a calico sign tied on behind with the words, "I only got married this morning," plainly exhibited in red letters. The greatest whisky auction ever held is said to foe that iwihich took place at the London Commercial Sale-roams on March 10. There were 250 butts, 1.545 hogsheads and 77 quarter casks. Record prices were obtained. The average was between 9s and lis per proof gallon, but 14s was given for one lot. The duties to be paid by purchasers were estimated at £400,000. An unusual visitor, in the form of an albatross, came ashore at Lyttelton some weeks ago near the graving dock, and has chosen to remain there ever since, subsisting on pieces of fish which are thrown to it. The bird's wings stretch about 14ft from tip to tip, and, if anyone should approach it, it makes no attempt to fly or take to the water, but merely waddles away in quite a leisurely manner. Turtles are so rarely seen about the South Island that the sight of a large one from off Akaroa recently caused excitement on tide fishing launch owned, by Mr. C. Bushett. The animal was described as being about six feet in length, with a head on it as big as a man'i. When the fishermen on the launch attempted to approach it the turtle took nc risk of being captured, with the concomitant operation of being converted into turtle soup, and quickly made off. There are, apparently (says the Hawke's Bay Herald), a few people in Napier who lack common decency, let alone any patriotic feelings. On a recent Sunday night a returned wounded soldier was caught in a storm. He called at a boarding-house in Emerson street and asked the proprietor if he could lend him an old coat so that lie could get' back to the hospital. The soldier was refused. "It is a pity," said the soldier, who called at our Napier office, "that men like that are being protected by

A Feikling resident who is on a visit to Ashburton, in conversation with a Guardian reporter, related an amusing story of how a certain piece of public exploiting by milkmen was nipped in the Bud 'by farmeris. The milkmen supplying a certain town on the west coast of the North Island had arranged to raise the price of milk to 5d per quart. A number of the milkmen did not have sufficient cows to supply all their customers, and were in the habit of purchasing milk daily from fanners in the vicinity at lOd per gallon. As soon as the rise in price 'had been decided upon by the milkmen, the farmers notified the milkmen that their price for milk would in future be double the amount charged. Needless to state, the extra charge to the public only lasted one day.

We have met with a curious illustration of the "trading with the enemy" problem (says the Napier Telegraph). Some time ago the Mayor of Naipier spoke of the usefulness of lysol as a disinfectant. A correspondent pointed out that kerol, an English compound, wa« better, and that lysol was a German product. The Mayor was not informed that a British-made lysol was obtainable, and was given the address of its British agents in the South Island. He wrote to them for quotations. The reply to his letter was that he could not be'supplied with quotations for the North Island, because a firm there had the Agency, and that this firm would communicate with him. It did so. It proved to be a German firm, one member of which wag arrested some time ago in connection with correspondence seized by the Government, and for a time was interned on Somes Island.

The two alleged Russian journalists who.were arrested at Levin were recently very well treated at Taihape, where th'e member for the district, believing them to 1-e quite genuine, spoke well on (heir behalf at a recent .public funet : nn. Schack, one of the men, asserrs that be is only eighteen years of age, but according to a Manawatu Times reporter, who was present at the Palmeraton police station when the two men were searched, he looks a man of at least 35 years of age, an impression enhanced by the fact that he wears a vigorous sandy-colored moustache. When asked what Russian paper he belonged to, Komashko, the other man, said, "Oh, an agricul'ir.'al paper." Another document made Schack 'out to be & Belgian refugee. Ho explained this by saying that be was One of the Russian refugees who fled through Belgium to London, "I was interned in Germany," he said.

Six postcards lie on the editor's table (says the Dominion)—postcards from a soldier to loved ones anxiously awaiting ;them. But they bear no addresses. The;/ were enclosed in an envelope which hail become damaged in transit, and which apparently wa3 not addressed—at any rate, no name or address appears on it. Ry further misadventure they passed into the hands of a. local business firm, Messrs Ciollin and Co., in company with a big sheaf of other correspondence and the firm in question has thoughtfully vnt them on to us in the hope that in some way we may be able to bring them under the notice of those for whom they arc intended. They are all in the same handwriting, some are signed "Daddy," some "Arthur," and they are addressed respectively to "Len," "Archie," "Ann," "Xell," 'Edna" and "Dorrie," and to all appearances are the letters of a father to his children. They were posted in Albany. Perhaps some of our contemporaries will publish these facts in the hope that "Baddy's" postcards, despatched while en route to the front, may reach those waiting for them.

This is overcoat week at the New Zealand Clothing Factory. Probably there has never been such a splendid array of coats of all kinds for men and boys as can now be seen at this popular store. Owing to their excellent facilities for purchasing on a large scale, this firm offers the very best value in these goods, which, in many instances, are no dearer than last year. The following new goods have opened out at the Melbourne, Ltd.:—s4-inch heavy navy serge, 4s lid yard; ladies' warm navy serge skirts, all'sizes, 7s Od; men's riding breeches with buckskin strappings, 10s Od; men's heavy fleecylined motor coats, 55s and men's mercerised soft finish khaki handkerchiefs, 6d ITS VALUE DEMONSTRATED

You cannot be too careful in buying cough medicine for children. The one selected should be free of opiates and other narcotics, pleasant to take, and one. that can be depended upon. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy meets all these requirements. Few medicines have met with such success in the treatment of bad colds as Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It loosens the cough, relieves the lungs, aids expectoration and restores the system to a healthy condition. Sold everywhere.

KARBOL purifies the atmosphere and destroys the eenns.—Sykes, Cli°<nißt