LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The takings at the Red Cross Market on Saturday last amounted to £ll 2s. The annual meeting of the New Plymouth Bowling Club will be held this evening. At the Hawera Hospital last month 33 patients were admitted, and 28 discharged, while three died, leaving 30 remaining in the institution. The inauguration of the electric fire alarm system at Hawera took place last week. New Plymouth is still without tins very necessary equipment, which snould have been installed long ago. Tt has been arranged that the ship which has been presented to the Patriotic Society will (weather permitting), be auctioned at Ambury's corner next Saturday, at 8 p.m.

There was a pleasant gathering in the Oddfellows' Hall, Eltham, day, to say good-bye to Messrs. J. M. Franklin and L. B. Bird, both of the Bank of New Zealand, and both of whom were leaving for camp. Miss E. Quin, on behalf of friends of the guests, presented them with a wristlet watch each. The collection box outside the British Red Cross Society's depot was again broken open on Sunday night, and the contents stolen. This is the third occasion this has happened. It is hoped that the sneak thief capable of such an action will be caught and dealt with as he deserves.

The mail train was crowded with travellers yesterday morning. Among the passengers were representatives of Taranaki Dairy Companies, who were journeying to Palmerston North, where an important dairy conference is to be held this week.

At the Auckland Supreme Court yesterday, Charles Lawson was charged .vitiv the theft of .-£192, the property of a Dalmatian, who left the money on a counter when making some purchases. Accused was sentenced to one year's hard labor, and two years' reformative treatment.—Press Association.

For some years the particularly fine holly hedge on the main road at Ngatoro, below Inglewood, has been a treat to users of the road, especially in the autumn, when there is a wealth of red mingling with the -green. Some people are, however, not content to leave it for others to admire, and motor cars, etc., are very often seen packed with the foliage, as a result of which there are now several bare patches where the holly has been practically killed out. Mr. E. H. Tarry, of "The Hollies," in order to preserve the hedge, has notified that offenders will be prosecuted. Owing to some oversight in arranging for advertising, the entertainment given at the Good Templar Hall last evening by the Lilliput Pierrots was not so well patronised as it would otherwise have been, and many people thereby missed a most enjoyable entertainment. Still, there was a good audience, and the British Red Cross funds should benefit by a fair sum. The Pierrots are a sextette of clever young singers, dancers, and musicians, who hail from Waitara, and Lepperton, and have lately given several performances in aid of tlie laudable object for which their services were given last night. Each and every one of the youthful performers scored an instantaneous success in their various items, gaiety predominating, and the audience were lavish in their applause. It was a most pleasing entertainment, artistically rendered, and if the "Lilliputs" again favor New Plymouth with a visit they may rely upon a hearty welcome.

During a discussion at the Stratford show' meeting on Saturday regarding the scarcity of labor and how it had seriously affected show entries 9ince the war, one speaker declared that many farm hands who are engaged as milkers only were being converted into lazy young men. They rose early in the morning, but they did practically nothing during the midday hours until the evening milking came round again. The same speaker strongly advocated a class in the schedule, with a substantial prize, for the dairy herd that produced the greatest quantity of butter-fat per average cow during the milking season. He said that very much hotter results would be forthcoming from dairying land when big herds of 50 cows and upwards were done away with. Smaller holdings with smaller herds of well selected cows would greatly minimise labor difficulties, and make this country very much more prosperous in every way than it is now. The settlers 011 the Dudley Road evidently believe in tho motto of self help, for at present every settler on tliis road, and also on the Bedford Eoad, is engaged in a huge working bee that has for its/object the re-metalling of a considerable length of the road. Already some 1000 yards nf boulders have been got out, and are being put through the Road Board's crusher at the rate of 100 yards per day. The settlers have provided six l three-horse teams, which are sufficient to keep the stone clear from the crusher. Ten teams were offered ii necessary. All the Road Board has to find is two men for the plant and twa, spreaders. As soon as tho crushing is completed, (lie metal will be rolled, and settlers will have a splendid highway without being saddled with a loan or a special rate for the purpose. On Saturday afternoon the members of the Moa Road Board visited the scene of operalions, and all expressed themselves as well satisfied with tho werk of the plant, whilst the work of the settlers was very highly commended,

' Tt is always most satisfactory to shop ; where there are large stocks, an<l every lady who requires a handbag or purse should choose from F. J. Boase and Co.'s, ' where a big variety of shapes and colors is presented. For prices, see the adver--1 tisement in this paper. Tn order to give the British public some idea of what was being done by the Silent Fleet, Atr. Balfour, First Lord of the Admiralty, arranged that Iclncmatograpli operators should visit the Grand Fleet and the giant patrol of the North Sea, obtaining finer films of the fleet engaged in war than have ever before been taken. These scenes, together with a complete series of the new armies, will be screened for the first time in New Plymouth at the Theatre Royal at 1111 early date. Nothing greater has ever been attempted and judging from the very complimentary tone of the London press, patrons may expect a series that should indeed please them. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, For Coughs and Colds, never fails. , WHEREIN THE RANGER LIES. The danger of opium in cough medicines lies not only in the drug, but in the fact that opium checks the cough, causing the mucus to be retained in the sir passages and form culture beds for germs of pneumonia, scarlet fever and J'h'plitheria. iPneumonia is more likely Ho follow whooping cough or a eold when U preparation containing opium is given, jHi pro is no opium or other narcotic in (Cfi 111 berlain*3 Cough Remedy, and being ~ir. expectorant it clsans out the germ I culture beds, thus preventing pneui#>ionia, Sold everywhere.

A meeting of the genera], committee of tile Stratford A. and P. Association will be held on Saturday afternoon to elect an executive committee for the ensuing year.

The Auckland 'Racing Club has decided to give .£IOO respectively to the Aeroplane Fund and Blue Cross Fund, and £SOO to the Navy League North Sea Relief 1" und. It was also decided to pay the club employees a 10 per cent, war bonus.

Mr. Charles Davies, of Normanby, rc' ceived a telegram from the Minister ol Defence, informing him that his son Charles C. T. Davies, led been wounded, and had been admitted to hospital (unnamed).

At a meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council last night a letter was read from the Prime Minister stating that the resolution of the Council relative to Lord Kitchener's services had been forwarded to the Governor for transmission to the proper authorities. A meeting of the Stratford branch of the Taranaki School Committees' Association was held at the Stratford School on Saturday, Mr. iP. Slcoglund presiding. After a lengthy discussio'n, a motion asking the candidates for the Taranaki Education Board election to consent to a ballot being taken, and so select two candidates who would receive the support of the Association, was lost.—Post. A special confirmation service was held at the Catholic Church, Stratford, on Sunday. First Mass was said by Archbishop O'Shea. and second Mass by Rev. Father Maples, after which His Grace administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to ninety-six persons. The evening service was conducted by Archbishop "O'Shea. An Auckland telegram says that among the pasengers by the steamer Talune, which arrived from the B&cific Islands yesterday, was Dr. Ziesscliank, a German doctor from Samoa. It is understood that he will be returned to Germany, under the system of exchanging British and Oerman doctors who have been made prisoners of war. Dr. Ziesschank left for Wellington by last night's express train.—Press Association.

A meeting, of Eltham ladies was held on Saturday for tlie purpose of making arrangements for the raising of funds for sailors' dependents. It was decided to have a street collection next Saturday, and its organisation was left in the hands of Mesdames Grimstone, Ross and Buckeridge. The ladies' tea committee undertook to get afternoon tea in the supper room of the Town Hall, the proceeds to be for the same object, and also undertook to sell tickets for Tuesday night's pictures. The Posttaaster-General announces that in order to secure compliance -with the War Office order that newspapers for neutral countries are not to be dispatched except through the office of the publishers or newsagents, tlje same practice will be followed here as is followed in the United Kingdom. Newspaper publishers and agents who desire to send packets of newspapers to neutral countries musl apply to the Chief of the General Stafl', (Defence Department, Wellington, for a permit empowering the dispatch of newspapers to neutral countries. Having received the permit, they will stamp and address the packets of newspapers as usual, and post them free of postage addressed to tlie Deputy Chief Postal Censor, Wellington, enclosing in each package a certificate in which the number of their own permit is to Be named. No newspaper packets posted by other persons or prepared in any other way will be accepted and forwarded to neutral countries.

The following special values in ladies' blouses are on sale at the Melbourne, Ltd. Ladies' cream radianta blouses, 7s fid; ladies' tussore silk blouses, 7s lid; ladies' white Japanese silk blouses, '.ls lid; ladies' white Japanese silk blouses, latest style with veining, 10s (id,

"Stolen Goods," the Famous PlayersLasky masterplay will be finally screened at the Empire Picture Palace to-night