LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 June 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At Monday's meeting of the Moa Dairy Company accounts amounting to .C24H5 His 4d were passed for payment, of which £2Ol-2 10s lOd was for milk, Cli)9 8s for wages, war bonus to staff £7l !)'• 3d, boxes £l7. A Sydney cable announces the deaths of Mr. H. E. Lees, bead of the wellknown printing firm, and who was formerly Lord .Mayor of Melbourne, ana Captain Davis, Commonwealth Director of Navigation. The Gtago branch of the Navy League sent Mr. Mas'iey yesterday, £3OOO to be handed, through the High-Commissioner, to the. Navy League in London for the Kaval Dependents' Fund. Over £BOOO has been subscribed in Dunedin and district for the fund to dnte. It isn't all for patriotism that some men forsake their job and enlist. "The war is an excellent opportunity for a man to get away from a bad wife," said Mr. C. H. Poole, in discussing the Pensions Bill. "It's a good opportunity to get away from matrimonial responsibilities.'' The cow which was given by Mr. T, Smellie, Hillsborough, for the weightguessing competition at the Winter Show, will be sold at Mr. Newton King's Waiwakaiho sale to-day, with the rest of the Egmont Road's donations in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund. A SNEEZE, leads to a Cough. SYKES'S CUBA COUGH leads to a Cure, \ls 6d, al' stores.

The Stratford Dairy Company will pay out to-day £3938 for May butterfat. J

| Tli" value of building permits issued oy the Hawera borough engineer during tl.e past month was £3580. The Hawera Borough Council at its last meeting passed a resolution thanking Messrs. Duncan and Davies (Ltd.), for a gift of cabbage trees. A Sydney cable announces the death Zealand hurller, Morning, has succumbed to an attack df pleurisy. _ The Wairarapa Sawmillers' Association, which has been in existence for the past twenty years, is being wound up. Whereas the Wairarapa and Forty-Mile Bush a few years ago was studden with sawmills, only one now remains between Masterton "and Woodville.

In order to train the lads in an Auckland public school, the teacher last week set them to write essays on what would happen in the event of the German Fleet coming out and meeting the British one. One little fellow's essay was brief and to the point: "We will give them a hiding."

A flerman prisoner-of-war was being conveyed back to Somes Island on Wednesday night after transacting business in Wolington when he necame violent on the wharf and attacked his soldier escort. Civilians quickly overcame the German, who was frogmarched to the boat that was waiting to take him back. The prisoner's abuse of Britishers in funeral resulted in several bystanders roughly handling him.

Rays n writer in the Dominion: "Before the commencement of the war a 'jerman named Berger was leader of an orehestr?. in a picture show in New Zealand, end lip eventually left for Germany, gome time after his departure ft newspaper published in Berlin was received in New Zealand, statin* (hat "Ilerr Berber, of the Intelligence Department," had returned. The Chief Postmaster advises as follows: London mails, ex Wimmera at Wellington, will arrive here on Friday afternoon, Mill inst. Mails which left New Zealand (,n the 4th May, arrived in London on 12th inst. New Zealand mails.arrived in London on 10th and 11 th inst., and these are probably mails which left New Zealand on 12th and 27th .April, respectively. Discussing the fund for the relief' of the dependents of sailors lost in the North Sea battle at a meeting of the Auckland branch of the Farmers' Union vesterdny. Mr. Ross, the chairman, said it was the duty of the Imperial Government to provide for her sailor dependents, and he believed they were doing so. He proposed to cable to the Admiralty asking for their requirements if the British Government was not making sufficient provision. It was lesolved to wire Mr. Massey askin" for information. °

At the Wellington Magistrate's Court yesterday, a returned soldier, John J-Mwin Henderson, pleaded guilty to eight charges of theft, Henderson was mghtwatehman at the Defence Base Records Department, and the articles taken were the property of dead soldiers who fell at Gallipoli. Evidence was given that accused had been three times wounded in fighting at Gallipoli and had suffered from sunstroke on two occasions. The Magistrate sentenced him to six months' imprisonment.

At the Magistrate's Court at Manaia mi Wednesday, before Mr. W. R. Hasel(lon. SM., Alexander Aitken, a soldier in khaki, and until recently, a contractor residing at Otakoho, was charged that he did, during Easter week, steal five cords o f firewood, the property of William Henry Reynolds, of Otakoho. Mr. A. .7, Bennett prosecuted and Mr. P. O'Dea appeared for the accused. After evidence for the prosecution had been 'given. Mr. O'Dea contending that there was no ease to answer, the Magistrate dismissed the information. The Taranaki Herald copies a paragraph from the Stratford Post regarding councillors' criticism of an article in "a New Plymouth paper," re the state nf the footpaths in Stratford, and the Herald rushes to explain: "l.cst we or nnr Stratford correspondent should be thought to have given rise to this resentment we may be pardoned lor saying that the New Plymouth paper re: ferred to was not the Taranaki Herald." Our contemporary need not worry. No one would accuse it of possessing the backbone to say anything that would ruffle the feelings of n sensitive councillor. The News is quite able to look after itself, and so.is its Stratford correspondent, as will be seen from his spirited reply, appearing elsewhere in this issue, to the councillors' criticism.

Speaking at the Bee-keepers' Conference, Mr. T. W. Kirk referred to the scare raised in regard to the supposed danger from eating apples sprayed with arsenical mixtures. He had taken some medical,men with him to the State Farm, where the ordinary arsenical mixture was mixed up with the Bordeaux mixture, and used on some apple trees. A quantity of apples was brought to Wellington and most carefully analysed. The Oovernment Analyst found that it would lie necessary to eat 41b at a sitting before the eater would begin to feel any poisonous effects. That meant eating "kins and all, without rubbing the ap" pies. In the case of the mixture applied in the ordinary way, it was found that it would be necessary to eat a bushel and a quarter at a sitting (skins included) in order to get a medicinal dose, not to say a fatal dose. This was apropos of a proposal that spraying of fruit trees should be prohibited while the bloom is on the trees. The Melbourne, Ltd., are showing a partieolprly fine line of men's ready-to-wear suits in a new worsted with smooth soft suade finish and in two very effective mixture shades of bronze and green. The suits are extremely well cut and finished and all sizes are in stock. Price, flfls Od.

IT IS THE DISTINCTIVE QUALITY OP SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT—Its freedom from resins and woody impurities, its great antiseptic healing, stimulating powers, and its safety—thai prompted the highest medical authorities to recommend it as the only eucalyptus produced fitfor internal use. At the Supreme Court at Victoria a witness testified that he was made inucli worse by a substitute which was sold as "just as good" as SANDER'S EXTRACT, and his trouble (ulcer) was healed rapidly bv the GENUINE SANDER'S EXTRACT afterwards. In disease it is the drop which cures that counts, and the common eucalyptus which is 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 directed will always benefit. nOUGHS will be common the next few months. Their life is short when you use SYKES'S CURA COUGH, Is (3d- all stores. I

The Taranaki County Engineer was busily engaged yesterday in laying oil' tile grade for the improvement of the hill at Marsh's comer. The reduction of this grade will be appreciated by the travelling public. A good deal of argument lias ensued at the Supreme Court in Auckland concerning the form of Rua's exhortation to his followers just prior to the commencement of the shooting on the occasion of his arrest at Maungapohatu. A European witness with a good knowledge of Maori swore that ho heard Rua call out while being arrested, ".Patua, patua," meaning, -Kill, kin." Members of the bar contended variously as to what the urisoner probably meant when he used these two small words. The witness introduced an illustration by remarking that if a cow were escaping, and a Maori wished someone to kill it, he would call out, "Patua, patua." Counsel for the defence asked would he not say "Kua patu to cow." "Xo," replied the witness, "that means 'the cow has been killed.*"

Six members of the First Battalion New Zealand Ride Brigade fell in action in the . augment with the Senussi Arabs near ......rsa Matruh on Christmas Day. Their bodies were carried back to Matruh. «ml on the following Sunday were buried on the side of the hill which overlooks the pretty harbor. The funeral was attended by most of the garrison then camped at Matruh, and was most impressing in its simplicity. About two weeks later a stone was erected with the following inscription:— "Killed in action on Christmas Day. 1915: SergeantMajor Robert Charles' Purkis, Sergeant Stanley Francis Weir, Corporal Ernest Charles Beresford Wilkinson, Corporal Archbald Woollatt, Rifleman John Matthew Todd, Rifleman Thomas Flint York. Erected by their comrades of the

Mr. Holmes-Warren made a suggestion at the last meeting of the Masterton A. and P. Association when the question of "land for soldiers'' was under consideration that met with general approval. He pointed out that a large proportion of returned soldiers were men who had been employed in offices and shops prior to enlisting, hut who, owing to the outdoor training received, were fitted to take on more arduous employment. A man could no more develop into a farmer without receiving the necessary tuition than he oould step into a professional position, and he suggested that the Government should acquire a large estate or two and employ qualified men to teach those soldiers desirous of taking up land the rudiments of .practical and scientific fanning. It was only by this method that the amateur could ever hope to make a success on the land.

When a farmer applies a fertiliser to the Soil, what does he do it for? He is simply supplying so many pounds of food to his plants, just as he'gives rations of fodder to his live stock. The growing crop assimilates, besides other sub" stances, a-certain quantity of nitrogen, phosphate of lime, and potash, and when we put on the soil dressing of nitrate of soda, superphosphate, kainit, or other fertilisers, we are providing the crop with a stock of food for the period of its growth. Thus a dressing of Hcwt of nitrate of soda to the acre furnishes 201b of nitrogen, equivalent to about 241b of ammonia; 3 ewt. of superphosphate furnishes 871b of soluble phosphate of lime; 2 cwt of baflinit furnishes 201b of potash. The following tables give the weight in pounds supplied by lewt of the principal commercial fertilisers, and will be found useful for reference:—One cwt. of sulphate of ammonia contains 37.44 ib of ammonia, equal to 22.001b of nitrogen. One cwt. of nitrate of soda contains 17.301b of nitrogen, equal to 2111) of ammonia. One cwt. kainit contains 14.501b of potash. One cwt. sulphate of potash (00 per cent.) contains 551b of potash. One cwt. muriate of potash (80 per. cent.) contains SOlb of potash. One cwt. of superphosphate (2G per cent.) contains 2!U2lb of soluble phosphate of lime, equal to 13.271b of phospherie acid. One cwt. basic 'slag (20 per cent.) contains 20.121b of phosphate of lime, equal to 13.271b of phospherie acid. One cwt. slag (38 per cent), contains 42,.jfilb of phosphate of lime, equal to 201b of phosphoric acid.

W. H. ami A. MoGnrry, of Elthnm, advertise small cluiry fnrms for sale on exceptionally easy terms.