LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the request of the New Plymouth Salvation Army authorities, the Citizens' Band recital, which was to have been given in the Recreation Grounds on May 28, will now take place a week later, p'i Sunday, June 4. The Army officials have arranged for special meeting!; throughout the day on May 28. The usual weekly meeting of Kgmw' lodge was held last evening. The following . programme was given bv H' members: Pianoforte solo, Si-' -t ' 'n chard; song, Miss E. Murphy; Richardson (encored); violin solo, lu Lransgrove; song, Sister Blancharil hirp solo, Bro. Reckitts; address, Bro. Maunder. A, serious accident occurred near die hospital gates on Sunday. Miss Kate Birmingham, a visitor from Christchurch was cycling down the Standish Hil' when she lost control of the machine, -•hich collided with the hospital gateMiss Birmingham was severely injured and was taken to the hospital, where sinis making satisfactory progress.

For the Seventeenth Reinforcements to go into camp next week, Canterbury was 07 men short 011 Saturday. Recruiting continues very good throughout, the C'tago district. The latest progress it port's indicate that there will certainly he full quotas in all four groups for the Seventeenth Reinforcements. Succeeding drafts are also filling up steadily. The secretary of the committee of the proposed Soldiers' Club has applied to the Borough Council for the use of the Town Hall, which it is understood will shortly be unoccupied, as a club for returned .and other soldiers. Councillors expressed the opinion that the soldiers should receive every consideration from the Council, but as they were doubtful of their powers in the matter, it was deferred.

At the meeting of the Tramways Committee of the Borough Council last night, the tramways engineer (Mr. Bartley), reported that the tramway receipts, exclusive of the Morley Street section, averaged about £2O per day. This, councillors considered, very satisfactory. A meeting of the Council will be held this morning to discuss the question of a fi.rmal opening. The Pukekura Park Board is inviting Indies to meet 011 Friday evening with a view to taking steps to ,carry out the annual Park Saturday collection. This was omitted last year in yiew of the numerous calls on the public arising out cf the war, but this year's balance-sheet shows that not only has no new work teen done but the income of the Board was only £317, while its expenditure v;as £330, the deficit being made up by borrowing 01; overdraft. Unless the infome can be increased the Board may have to dispense with a man.

Gaby Deslys in "Her Triumph" will be presented for the last time to-night at ♦he Theatre Royal. Owing to Paul Dll- - concert to-morrow night no pieiures will be shown at the Theatre Royal.

IT IS THE DISTINCTIVE QUALITY. OF SANDERS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT—its freedom from resins and woody impurities, its great antiseptic, healing, stimulating powers, and its safety—that prompted th>; highest medical authorities to recommend it as the only eucalyptus produced fit for internal use. At Uie Supreme Court at Victoria, a witness testified that he hi'S made much worse by a substitute which was sold as "just a3 good'' as SANDER'S EXTRACT, and his trouble (ulcer) was healed rapidly by the GENUINE SANDER EXTRACT afterwards. In disease it is the drop which cures that counts, and tho common eucalyptus which it fit for mechanical purposes, such as making varnish only, should never be employed as a remedial agent. SANDER'S EXTRACT can be used on the most tender surface or internally with perfect safety, and when taken as dir*<■*<"l will always benefit

Changes in business sites in Devon Street are reported. Messrs. Ambury Eros, have purchased the premises of Messrs. Okey, Soil and Arnold in Devon Street. Messrs S. B. White and >Sons have just, acquired the premises owned and occupied by Mr. A. K. Sykes, chemist, of Devon Street, and will incorporate the property ill their present establishment. Mr. Sykes is giving up his retail business, and will confine himself to his wholesale operations. At a meeting of the Works Committee cf the Borough Council last night, the engineer reported that about ISO streets a long the tram route between Waiwakaiho and Moturoa, and between Egmont Street and Morley Street had no name plates at present. These could be provided and affixod at a cost of £lO 10s. After considerable discussion and amendment a resolution that the work be proceeded with was lost.

During the course of an address delivered to the Auckland Women's Patriotic League, Major Maguire made a special appeal to the women present to dc all in their power to influence their men-folk, and public opinion generally, in the direction of putting a, stop to the. "treating" of soldiers, "Far more harm results from this practice than is pi-.nerally known," said Major Maguire; "but we medical men know its injurious results. Not only is the recovery of sick and wounded soldiers frequently retarded, but the moral welfare of the ir.en is endangered by this most pernicious and foolish custom."

The Xew Plymouth police have received word that Leonard Leo Loader, 20 years of age, a seaman employed on the coastal steamer Arapawa, was drowned in the Opunake roadstead on Sunday. The vessel was anchored off the port, and n boat containing the mate, Loader, and another seaman was proceeding to the wharf when it capsized; The three men were, thrown in the water and while iho niato and one seaman got ashore no trace was found of Loader. The body has not yet been found. The deceased v-as a son of Mrs. Knowles, South Road, Xew Plymouth.

Yesterday was observed as a Court holiday in New Plymouth, the occasion reing in celebration of the proclamation of the Queen's sovereignty on 22nd Jan'"iry, 1840, Acting under instructions from the British authorities, who had hitherto resisted considerable pressure in favor of annexation, Captain Hobson, E.N., landed in the Bay of Islands on t! at, date. He hoisted the Union .Tack flt.d had little difficulty in inducing most of thp. native chiefs to accept the Queen's sovereignity at the. price of guaranteeing to the, tribes, by the Treaty of Waitangi, possession of their lands, forests, and fisheries. Some French settlers, convoyed by a man-of-war, reached Akaroa, in' the South I-land, during the following May, but Captain Hobson had forestalled them, and those who remained in the qountry became British subjects. •At the Stratford Magistrate's Court on Friday, judgment for plaintiff by default was given in tlu* following civil Cases: New Zealand Lean and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. (Mr. A. Coleman), v. John Francis, £8 13s 7d, costs £1 7s 6d: N?wton Kin? (Mr. Truby King), v. L. <4. Pnyno, .-£5 I.ls 1(1,1. £1 B*Jsd; J. Masters and Soil (Mr. T. C Fookes"), v. ]L. Caiii-M'on £5 0s 7rt, ii iwl;_ Samuel ; Spence (Mr. P. Th. msoi, . .. .»• ;m Chas. Hawkes, C 4 ]6s, 2s. Two judgment summons 'ase3 were heaid. Tn the ease, Mano.v ~id Hassel 1 (Mr P. Thomson), v. Percy Roswarne, there was no appearance of defendant who ,Yas ordered to pa;' Into Court at Stratford £1 2s 4d, in default 24 hours' impr.oonment. When 1 «i?e, McCluggage Bros. (Mr. Truby I/:,,.*), v. William Wright, was first called ' V.'V'aa no appearance of defendant, hut after the Court had been adjourned,

' i'eiichnt—a soldier in uniform—attended and asked for a re-hearing. No order was made for the amount of the information, i'3o !ls sd.

The by-law prohibiting the carrying of

.-•-cnger- behind the rider of a motor ■vein wus discussed by the Works Comii'.'Uec of the Borough Council last evening. A letter was received from J. C. Spedding, Ltd., pointing out that the bylaw was doing considerable harm to tiie motor cycle t radii, as it was necessary for ' the export to ride behind when teaching the beginner, He also pointed out the absurdity of preventing a third person being carried on' a motor cycle' to which n side-car was attached. (,'r. Monteath put forward a strong plea in favor of the motor cycle, and in moving that the by-law be rescinded stated that nowhere else in the Dominion was such a by-law in operation. ■Councillors were of opinion that it was a very dangerous practice to permit' in tie case of a motor cycle only, but that the question of a third passenger behind a motor eyele with side-car attached was probably not considered when the by-law was introduced. Finally it. was decided to defer consideration, and in the meantime enquiries will be made from Wellington and other centres.

''Land agents and others who deliberately disregard the provisions of the Finance Act, 191"), will find themselves in serious trouble," said Mr. Justice Cooper at the Auckland Supreme Court. His Honor's remarks were made in the course of the hearing of a ease of alleged trespass and wrongful seizure of furniture, in connection with which it was stated that the stamp duty on certain agreements to transfer a property did not appear to have been paid so far, as required by the Act. His Honor said every agreement in writing for the sale of any land should be charged with the same ad valorem duty—which should be paid bv the purchaser—as if it were an actual conveyance on the sale of the lanfl agreed to be sold. That meant that if A owned the land and lie sold it- to B, who in turn sold it to C, who completed a fourth transaction by selling the property to D, each of the agreements or transactions should bear stamp duty to the extent of 20s per £IOO. Under the old system, all that was necessary was to affix a Is stamp to each agreement and stamp-duty 011 the conveyance only. The new Act brought into operation in 1915 laid down that every agreement for the sale, sub-sale or transfer of land was liable to stamp duty, just the same as the conveyance. His Honor added that recently a good m'any attempts to evade stamp duty'"had come under his notice, and it was the duty of the Court to endeavor to prevent such evasion. He pointed out that a severe penalty was provided in the Act in the event of breaches. ' SHORTENS ITS COURSE. Once settled in the system whooping cough and colds must run a certain course but the use of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy very much shortens the time required for a complete recovery. In whooping cough it liquifies the tough mucus and aids its expectoration, rendering the fits of coughing less frequent and less severe. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy deprives whooping cough of any dangerous consequences and insures a complete recovery in less time than is msuftlly. required,. Sold everywhere.

Jfi\ Clement Wragge,. in bis lecture at l''eilding 011 "The Weather," pro. Ed good seasons up to 1020. 'i'lie Dunedin correspondent of the Lyttelton Times .states that there has been another drop of 5s per ton in Hour, the price now being £ll 10s.

A valuable source of income to the Red Cross funds in Christeliurch is the shop in Cathedral Square. The proceeds vary from week to week, sometimes reaching as high a figure as .CIOO, but sometimes falling as low as £7O. A sudden drop in the price of apples lms 'been caused by the delivery to the Auckland market during the past few days of several thousand eases of apples from Nelson. One steamer alone landed 2000 eases at Onelmnga last week.

The printers of Wellington are drawing the attention of the public to the fact that owing to the difficulty of securing supplies, and also that materials, freights and other charges have been advanced from 100 per cent, to 150 per cent., with a possibility of a further advance, it is impossible to maintain prices at past rates. Corporal Earlei, of the Second Reinforcements, now a prisoner in Turkey, in a postord to his mother says: "We are all at Bclemdik, working for a German company. I have a iob at my trade, repaying tents We are well treated, are paid enough to live on, are doing well, and hove our liberty." The post card is dated March 5.

"Tt is astounding the little attention some advertisers devote to their newspaper publicity. It should be treated as one of the regular duties of every business man to sec that his advertisement is frequently altered. Experience has proved that if it is changed at least once a week, or even daily, provided that it appears in a widely circulated medium, the. advertiser will be amply repaid for the extra time and attention devoted to this all-important phase of his business." Such were the remarks of a leading advertising expert at a recent conference held in London.

Wellington and Canterbury military districts made a poor response "for the call by the Defence authorities for 200 extra men for the camp at Trentham. The demand was for a particular and recessary object; the Auckland district leing asked to supply an additional 53 li'on, Wellington 07, Canterbury 47, and Otago 3.1. The return from the Auckland district was very satisfactory, 49 men being available, Otago supplied 17, a';d Wellington 13, while Canterbury did rot secure any. The districts have now been asked to make up the deficiency, and to send the recruits into camp with the 17th Reinforcements. Auckland and Otago have sent forward their full quotas for the lßth Reinforcements, but Wellington is still 80, and Canterbury 68, short./

The box plans for Marguerite Clark in "Gretna Green" and Mary Piekford in • Rags" , are now open at the Empire Picture Palace. "Gretna Green" commences to-morrow (Wednesday) night ::nd "Rags," on Saturday. A lecture on "England in Time of Wiir,'' will be given by Miss Allman j»larehant, Principal of the Diocesan School, Stratford, in St. Mary's Parish Kali, Vivian Street, to-night, at 8 p.m. Miss Marchant has just leturned from a year's visit to England nnd has had many opportunities of learning of the great changes brpught about by the war. There will be no charge for admittance.

The following lineß of household drapery are in full supply at the Melbourne, Ltd. Horrockscs' 3fi-inch calico 7d per yard, striped Belgian, ticking ,r>B- - wide, Is (Id yard; large colored towels, Is lid pair; huge white towels, 2s pair; Indigo drills, striped and plain, Is yard; and 72-inch flannelette sheetins -s 3d yard.