LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 July 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The North Taranaki Hunt Club will hold a meet at Mr. Tawhanga's property. Wttilii, to-day, A London message states that the New Zealand Shipping Company shares rose 11 points, and are quoted at £32, which is about theii value under Hit terms of the P. and 0. fusion scheme. A cable message from Sydney states that Jie Commonwealth is establishing works to manufacture cables and steel ropes. These will necessitate the employment of a thousand men. Insurant authorities in Wellington state that the rises in marine insurances apply only to goods shipped via Panama to the Mediterranean and via Suez to Allied countries in tlu Mediterranean. Sc far as New Zealand is concerned there is ao rise in the rates for goods shipped via Cape Horn to Great Britain. The Mawera Winter Show Committee have kindly allowed the New Plymouth and Stratford Patriotic Committees to display the Studebakei moto:-cnr, presented by Mr Newton King, at the Winter Show. The ear may be seen on Alt'Newton King's stand, where tickets can be procured for the art union. Thomas II Ince is known in America as the film realist, because of his ability to combine great modern spectacles with big modern dramas In ''The Coward," the first Triangle plav to be shown at the Theatre Royal next week the battle scenes arc. said to be war realised. The vast roar and tumult of artillery, cavalry and infantry in action arc magnificently reproduced. The story tells of the cowardly son of a fire-eating old colonel who curses the day heaven made him lathoi of a craven, and enlists in Ins son's place, There i» much of pathos as well as thrilling in th. production. The Mayoress (Mrs C. II Burgess) has received the following letter from Mr. E. M. Clarke, director of the motoi ambulance department of the British Bed Cross Society. London:—"l beg to in form you that the Bank of New South Wales has banded over to us a. cheque for Cf>2o, the same being for a motoi ambulance to be marked 'A gift from New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand,' and to be used for New Zealanders. I have at once placed the order for the ear, and when ready, I well sec that it is attached to a New Zealand soldiers' hospital. Will you please accept our grateful thanks for this handsome gift, which, I am sure, will be very much appreciated bv the New Zealand soldiers."

There was a very representative attendance of dairy factory directors at the conference which was lipid at Hawera yesterday, at ths request of the OovernmiMit. to discuss the question of the sale of cheese to the Imperial authorities. Mr. A. Morton, president of the National Dairy Association, was in the chair, practically every cheese factory in Taramiki being represented. Mr. Chuldie, Director of the Dairy Division, was also present. The meeting was not open to the press, but it is understood that the terms agreed upon by the conference will be .submitted to tin* Premier at a representative onference in Wellington on Friday wee!;. Messrs ,I'owdrell, Marx, Forsyth, Murdoch and Connett were appointed delegates to that meeting. Mr. T. W. Welch, estate agent and builder, calls attention in a replace advertisement in this issue to some choice and cheap dairv farms and sheep runs he has for sale.' He also has £BOOO first and second mortgages in exchange for sheep and cattle run, as well as houses and sections, central and suburban, for s»le upon easy terms.

•Sonic of the South Island newspapers are contemplating raising the price to '2(l a copy owing to the great increase in the cost of paper and of production generally. Paper has trebled in price during the past year, and indications are that unless more shipping space is available it will be practically unprocurable next year. A Queensland cattle station, containing 1500 square miles of land, has just been sold by Sydney agents to a Victorian buyer. The station is the wellknown Miranda Downs, near Normanton, in the Gulf Country, and it has been purchased by Mr William Agliss. of Melbourne, from Messrs. Hay and Thoneman, who have had possession of it for several years. The price was in the neighbourhood of six fiaures, and it included the purchase of 20,000 cattle and 400 horses. We learn from Mr. F. P. Corkill, Lloyd's agent in Taranaki, that the Waiwc'.'a. which is bringing salvaged cargo ex Raiigatira from Capetown, left (hat port on Saturday last, and is due at Auckland about the 28th inst. She has on board about 4000 tons of goods, but it is not known definitely whether that is the whole of the salvage from ■the original cargo of 12.000 tons Tt is expected that the manifest will not be available until the steamer reaches the 'Dominion. jleturned soldiers, and especially those sull'ering from physical disabilities as the result of their sacrifices for the Kmpirc's cause, are finding it very difficult, on receiving their discharges, to obtain suitable' civil employment (says the Christchurch Star) The citizens' defence committee some months ago initiated a returned soldiers' employment bureau, which has done excellent work, despit* the difficulties', of finding light positions for the men, many of whom cannot undertake the strenuous labor they were able, to perform in the pre-war days. Ovei eighty men's names are on the bureau's waiting list, and with the return of many morn m en in the future, a crisis is possible unless effective steps are taken meanwhile. "The incident of the men in Gore," said Lady Stout in Napier recently, "who so jubilantly let off fireworks for no purpose whatever, according to the authorities, which coincided most aptly with the supposed victory of the Germans and the utterances of the prisoner from Somes Island who had evidently been celebrating some festive birthday on 'The Day' surely affords circumstantial evidence that a dual nationality is not desirable and is distinctly dangerous to the safety of our country, We know that the German secret service and spy system is everywhere, and that there are ways of communicating news which might be of great benefit to our enemies. Why are we running risks that are not necessary? Because of the moral shirker. wh« knows that these things are going on, but is afraid to take action.'' The following letter has been received b v Mrs. Burgess from Sergeant W £. Ttawke. late of Uruti, who writes from Tel-el-Kebir, mule: date May 10, 101(i "1 am taking this opportunity of thank in;? the .N'ew Plymouth Indies' Patriotic League for the splendid parcel I received a few days ago. I was in Cairo on have, and'called at the Y.M.C.A., in the Ksbekieb Gardens. Th; secretary. MiHill, gave all New eZalamlcr.- present a parcel *ent by the Lady Liverpool Society, and mine was also labelled New Plymouth Ladies' Branch. There not being any name enclosed oi" the sender to enable me to write and thank direct, and as I have seen in the Budget that you are president of the New Plymouth branch, I thought you would be pleased to sei the happy faces when the parcels I were opened, and every article i? very | u-eful. Please convey to all our very best i hanks for vow league's kiiidnc o «, T hope jomc day to have a ride in those brand-new trams." Airmen in the war nave succeeded to an astonishing degree in evading the J anti-aircraft detences operating against them; but quite a new manner of I'seaping capture in an aeroplane was recently brought out, in the decoration of a young British aviator for a flight accomplished in part in the company of a German officer. The Manchestei Guardian tells the story briefly:—The aviator had been obliged to descend within the German lines, and was made prisoner by German officer The latter, revolver in hand, made his prisonei take him in his aeroplane for a flight above the Allied lines, in order to make observations, Having seen sufficient, the officer of the Kaiser ordered the aviator to turn his machine. In order to do so, the aeroplane mounted higher, and suddenly turned over in an admirable loop On'rightins nimself, the pilot found that lie was alone, the German officer having been insufficiently strapped in. The aviator descended as quickly as possible into his own lines. i'he N'ew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.. Ltd., draw attention to the clearing sale, on account of Messrs Inglis Bros, and T 'nglis, to be held at the homelead, Hast road, Toko, to-day 'l'he sale will start at 10.30 a.m. Cars will leave the company's office from 8 a.m. to I).: 10 a.m.