LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 May 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The New Plymouth annual donations towards fir. Barnardo's Homes amounted to £B4 3s lOd. The local secretary (Mrs. Dockrill) wishes to thank the ladies who assisted her in the collections.

The Oaonui district during the last two years has shown that the coast land is splendid lajid for fattening on, when it is capably managed (says the Opunake Times). We would (it adds) accept the maxim that land that showed good milking results must of necessity be good fattening land, seeing that a milking herd will take more out of the land. It is said that two members of the Masterton County Council, who were do. ing the rounds in conaection with the Recruiting Board's scheme, hit upon a family in \yhich there were five boys of military age. "Why do not some of your sons volunteer to flglit for their country!" asked one councillor of the mother, w'li o appeared to control the farm. "I would sooner see' my boys shot in the back-yard than leaving for the front," was her reply. The annual meeting of St. -Mary's blanch of the Church of England Men's Society was held ou Tuesday evening, the Rev. A. H. Colvile (president) presiding. The following officers were elected: Vice-presidents, Messrs H. E. Fookes, and H. C. Baker; committee, Messrs R. Day, R. G. Moverley and C. E. Baker; treasurer, Mr. £. B. Kingdon; secretary, Mr. J. G. List; auditor, Mr, J. Paton.

The Dutch people occupy a country which contains 12,030 square miles—little more than one-tent'h of the size of Great Britain and Ireland, the population being just over C,000,000. Holland is not only Hat, it is hollow. Along the canals the meadows are 10ft or 12ft, and sometimes more, beneath the water-line. By the sea, at high tide, there may be a difference in the level of the soil and of the ocean of quite 25ft or more. It would appear that the dairy industry is threatened by yet another invasion, in the form of artificial milk. A Japanese chemist has just invented a process for turning into account the Soya bean in the manufacture oi a liquid said to have very similar properties to ordinary milk, *and which, when it is condensed, will retain theso properties for a long period. This is called "vegetable milk," and is thought to be specially adapted to hot countries. It is cheap, owing to the fact that the Soya bean is cultivated in large quantities in the East as food. The first part of the process consists of softening the beans in water, after which they are crushed and boiled. The liquid which is boiled out bears a very close resemblance to milk, and an analysis of its chemical constituents is as follows: Water, per cent.; albuminoids, 3.2 per cent.; fat, 2.13 per cent.; sugar, 1.8 per cent.; ash, 4 per cent. To this liquid i: added some sugar and phosphate of soda, after which it is concentrated by boiling to such a degree as to resemble condensed milk. Vegetable milk is of a deeper 'color than the natural commodity and preserves some of the charact eristic flavor of the Soya bearv. While speaking as a guest of the New Zealand Club in Wellington the other day, Lieut. Stenhouse, E.N., of the Antarctic exploring ship Aurora, referred to the diet forced on them during the long drift in the ice-pack (from August, 1015, until March, 1010), and said that the seal steaks were not at all bad. The idea wa£ to cut the steaks off and hury them in the snow for three or four days to remove the rankness, then boil them in salt-water. Then they had steaj* and kidney (seal) pie, and the cook thought no end of his curried seal —(laughter) which was really horrid stuff. (Renewed laughter). Still, it was fresh meat to those on board, and kept away the scurvy. Scurvy was a dreadful thing in the Antarctic—scurvy and insanity were the two big bogies. Men who only lived from day to day, and had not much to think about other than their daily job, were apt to become melancholy and moody very quickly under such conditions as they experienced, but the Aurora was lucky in having a couple of nnval A.B.'s, who kept the men in good heart. By the way, the ship's carpenter, who did splendid work throughout under terrible conditions, was, said the Lieutenant, now in Featherston Camp. (Applause and cheers). ITS VALUE DEMONSTRATED.

You cannot be too careful in buying cough_ medicine for children. The one selected should be free <vf opiates and other narcotics, pleasant to take, and one that can be depended upon. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy meets all the6e 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 kealthv condition. Sold .everywhere,

Mr. A. W. Ogle, well-known throughout North Taranaki as a herd tester, has just purchased Mr. Cornwall's (Bell Block) well-known Jersey herd. Last season t'liis herd averaged 317.151b fat.

Probate of the will of the late William Field Newbery, of Waitara. was, on the 1 application of Mr." C. R. Stead in the Supreme Court, on loth, inst., granted to the executors named in the will, Mrs. A. J. Newbery and Mr. Thomas Luxton. A Nelson telegram says that a case of ir.fantije paralysis was reported fn the city yesterday, and another suspicious ense is under observation. Both are children. Nine cases of scarlet fever have been reported during the present month.

Due solely to the efforts of the City Recruiting Committee, recruiting is still booming in Auckland. Sixty men enlisted on llomlay, thirty being accepted and nineteen deferred, mainly owing to defective teeth. During the past ten weeks 2750 men have enrolled in Auckland.

On the motidn of Mr. Quilliam (G'ovett and Quilliam) probates of the wills of Emily Sole, late of Okato; Ida Ann Stephenson Smith, late of New Plymouth; .Mary Ann Keasberry, late of Pungare'hu; and Henry John Julian, late of New Plymouth, have been granted by the Supreme Court to the executors therein named,

A concert will be held in the Whiteley Hall to-night to raise funds for the work of the Methodist chaplains in the camps of the Expeditionary Forces. A splendid programme has been arranged. The vocalists will include Miss Peart, Mr. N. Day, Mr. A. B. Macdonald, and the Rev. Neho Hemi Papakura, one of New Zealand's most successful tenors. Another visiting singer will be Miss Jessie Cocker, a competition gold medallist. Miss A. 11. Smith will give a pianoforte sclo, and Captain Allen will give two recitations.

This afternoon the Farmers' Fair at Omata will take place, when the various stock and produce donated by the settlers of the Omata and Oakura districts will be auctioned in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund. There will be various competitions during the afternoon, and in the evening a social will be held, A conveyance will meet the tram leaving town at 1.30 p.m., at Johnston's Store. Visitors can also travel by the motor'bus, leaving town at 3 p.m., and returning at 6 p.m. In connection with the arrest of three Putaruru farmers—Scholter, Selter and Kienely—all said to be enemy subjects, the Matamafca correspondent of the New Zealand Herald reports that it took the police a day to effect | the arrest of the men, who were living on their farms, which are scattered. (Possession was taken of seven rifle 9 and about 400 rounds of ammunition. A fouri? warrant was in the hands of the police, but the man was away. The arrested men are being sent to Wellington on Monday. More arrests are possible. The annual report to be submitted to suppliers of the Taranaki Co-operative Egg Circle must be considered very satisfactory, considering the conditions which have existed. The eggs disposed of numbered 31,694 dozen, as against 20,975 dozen during the previous year, an increase of 4710 dozen. The price paid for last month's supplies was 2s 2d per dozen, and this is the; highest price for some years.

The purchase of a money belt 'by a soldier in one of the military canteens was mentioned in the House of Representatives by Mr. T. M. Wilford (Hutt). The price charged the soldier, said Mr. Wilford, waß 8s 6d; was it not a fact that the original price of the belt was 4s? The Minister for Defence (Hon. J. Allen) said he would toe glad to look into the case if a question were put upon the order paper. Butter for the Taranaki soldiers at the front is now in cold storage at the freezing works at Moturoa, the total amount in hand being four boxe9, one each from the Waitara, North Taranaki, Mangorei, and Mangatoki factories. The butter is in bulk, but arrangements are being made to have it made up into small lots and placed in suitable tins. It is hoped other factories will forward contributions, so that a generous quantity may 'be forwarded to the soldiers. ■ London newspapers contain accounts of the active share which Japan is taking in the patrol of the Mediterranean, a new development, of which the cablegrams have told us little. TheJiorpedoing of Japanese passenger liners, no doubt, was a determining consideration in this decision of our Pacific Ally. Last year two Japanese liners were sunk in the Mediterranean with Germany's usual disregard for the lives of non-combatants, and probably our enemies little reckoned that Tokio would take the step of sending warships of its own to help to punish the sea-assassins and to assist in the naval operations on European coasts. Now, however, there is a Japanese naval contingent in the Mediterranean. The ships selected for 'this duty are two armored cruisers, the Kasuga and Tokiwa, and the protected cruiser Chitoae, and the squadron has also brought numerous aircraft. The cruisers mentioned are heavily gunned ships, and with their supporting aircraft they are likely to play an important part in putting down the unscrupulous and merciless raids upon the Allies' merchant lleets. Thus for the first time in history the world has the spectacle of Japanese ships clearing for action in European waters, a spectacle which gives the world also a most practical illustration of the value of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.

Messrs L. A. Nolan and Co. will submit to auction on Saturday, May 27, several desirable suburban properties near New Plymouth. Particulars o! the properties are advertised in our auction columns.

For cheap blankets and rugs one must shop at the Melbourne, Ltd. Blue grey blankets lfls 6d per pair. Single blanket rugs lis fid,' 12i Od, .to 18a fld. Men's warm pyjamas, 4s lid. Children's combination sleeping suits, 2s lid, Men's blue cloth military coats, large sizes, '2ss.

W. 11. and A. McGarry, Land and Financial Agents, Elthmn, advertise for sale a dairy farm of 86 acres, south of Hawera. Only £l5O cash required.