LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

M(iils which left New Zealand on May lOtli arrived in London on the Oth hist. Rivcrdale Dairy Co., near Hawera, naking elieese, (rill pay out nearly Is 10d pei 11: of butter-fat this season. A few rears ago Is a lb was considered a handpome price. The Taranaki Agricultural Society are holding working bees at ihe racecourse to-morrow and Thursday to dismantle cattle and horse pens for removal to the rew show grounds. Work will commence at 0.30 each day. A supplier tc a Taranaki factory is dairying on 78 acre?. His cheque for the past season amounts to £1250, and he has bonus still to come. Is it any (vondet .hat Taranaki is the most prosperous part of the Dominion? The Feilding Star says: "On reliable authority we are told f Jie astonishing experience the other day of a family ••.-ho.se daughter has been dumb for years At table suddenly, whilst the family were discussing the turn .a the war, the young lady cried: ■'The war is going to end on September 2.'!!" She has not spoken anothei word since making that startling statement. The annual report of the Marine Department states that the number of flailing boats licensed at New Plymouth was eighteen, with thirty-six men engaged in fishing, and twelve other employed in other ways connected with the industry. The kinds of fish usually brought in .ire ichuapper, gurnard, hapuka, kawhui, herring, crayfish, and whitebait The quantity of fish of all kinds brought in was 152'/ a tons, valued :.t £2258. Tiie number of tvsut liberated by the Bawera Acclimatisation Ssciety last year was 30,800 fry, 305,060 heing brown and the remaining 85,000 rainbow. The i:iereiis.- »f brown fry over the previous season was 77,000. Tn various streams in the district 14,000 yearlings were liberated. An additional 1006 brawn yearlings, 2500 perch, 20,000 brown fry, and 500 rainbow fry were sold, making the total output from the hatchery •i: 5 3,100. Two dams belonging to the president (Mr. C. (loodson) were worked, •>.nd yielded 2500 perch. Sucli is the madness of the hour in filmdom that directors of photoplays, mostly former stage managers, not one of whom had ever earned more than a hundred dollars a week, are granted contracts for 52 weeks in the year. Scores of the.se now earn from 250 to 500 dollars a week, while three erstwhile actors, all of whom were penniless when in desperation they applied for "work" in the j studios, are now veritable pillars of the I industry itself. All three (D. \V. Orif- : iiths, Mack Sennett and Thomas H. Ince) i now earn MO.OOO dollars n year. Each ! is a millionaire, and each is an artistic ! bead of the mightv "Triangle" film orI ganisation, capitalised at 4,000,000 dollars, specialising in photo spectacles, to | see which the public is paying the highi est prices, which obtain even for the I spoken play*

A fangi is being held at Waiongona for Wiruinu lloeta, a much respected old Native, whose death removes one more ef the last-vanishing band connected with the early settlement of Taramiki. Owing to pressure of business last night the Borough C'ounci l was unable to discuss the tramway extension and other matters orougbt forward by the W'estown deputation. These will be discussed next Monday. The payment to suppliers at the Mir-' hirst Dairy Factory foi the past season was JC)01,74a (is .'ld, and there is a balance, due of .022,130 lis. The receipts from all sources amounted to .1:134,580 5s lid. The sum of £OOO was voted to the Patriotic Fund.—Stratford Post'. During a discussion at the Borough Council meeting last night, relative to the purchase of land at Fast Knd for a reserve.. Or. Griffiths pointed out that New Plymouth, as a town and district, was appreciated because of its joys as a seaside and general holiday resort. In that way reserves might be considered as revenue producers, as they were adding to the revenue of the trams and town generally. The Taranaki Hospital Board has received a communication from Or. Valintine, Chiet Health Officer, suggesting that in view of the outbreak of infectious diseases, the Board should consider the advisability of converting the old hospital buildings into an isolation block. The matter was referred to the medical superintendent (Dr. A. E. Walker) for his report. Replying to a deputation of women at Auckland yesterday, the Hon. G.' W, Russell said the Government intended tc deal with venereal diseases. They would not re-enact the CD. Act, but both women and men so diseased would be segregated. It was intended to start an educational campaign, ny means of literature and lectures, to men and women by women doctors and men doctors. —Press Association. At the meeting of the House Committee of the Hospital Board yesterday, (he chairman drew attention to gazetted amendments to the regulations under the Nurses Registration Act. These amendments provided that the proposed termination of the training of a pupil nurse euring the prescribed period shall, with the cause thereof, be notified to the Registrar of Nurses, whose consent shall be required. The chairman considered that such a regulation would be detrimental to the discipline of the staff, and it was 'decided to hand the regulation to Dr. A. E. Walker, the medical superintendent for his report, and in the meantime a protest will be forwarded to the Minister. The Dunedin manager of a' well-known Otago coal company informed a reporter that the abnormally fine woathpi, experienced this winter had a direct effect on the cost of living, in so far as the consumption of coal by householders was concerned. As is only to be expected, under the circumstances, fire; have not been necessary so far, and a saving in the coal bill at least has thus been effected 'lhe manager stated that had this winte> leen a severe,one, the local coal sup pliers would have been hard put to it .0 fill the increased orders As it is, owinj; tc. the shortage of miner? through enlistments, practically all the mines in r.he Dominion have bad reduced outputs as compared with corresponding periods before the ivar. No competent miner need be out of work at the present time. Mr. Arthur C. Benson, C.V 0., master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, lectured recently .'.t the Royal Institution on "Vulgarity." "VnlargUy is made up of self-confidence, insolence, and the worship of self," said Mr. Benson. "It idealises the evploits of man and ignores God. Germany is a terrible example of how men may be influenced j\ their vulgarity of soul. Vulgarity turns its back on generosity, sympathy justice, and responsibility, and aims at arbitrary, unquestioned, naked power. The result is that it earns the mistrust and repulsion of the civilised globe. Germany is not an empire nor a community, nut an evil spirit—the centre of corruption and dishonor. It is a spirit which can lie and truckle and defer when it serves its turn, but which in its day of seeming triumph is filled with insolence, cruelty, and savage vanity." The enemy's failure to understand the nature and determination of the peoples whose rights and liberties they so ferociously challenged will, not 'niprobably, be regarded by historians ..-. the main cause of their overthrow Germany, v.ith all her preparations, hei organisation, and her military strength nas made manifest the possession o; an ilmost childish ignorance of what the Powers ilic arrayed against her would do, or were capable of doing. It was lesi. than two months ago that the -avage Count Reventlow warned his readers that Great Britain really meant what Mr Asquith bad said in the first weeks of the war about destroying Prussian militarism. " r l hose words were not meant ';o fpghten lis," said this amazing critic, "the British really mean them." And it is onlv 10-day tiiat yet other Germans are awaking to the knowledge of .he fact ih' t they are not "bUilling," but pressing forward calmly, obstinately, and with the ruthlessness of an avenging Nemesis. The continued progress of the German people towards their emancipation from *.he mental chains with which they have been so long bound may be either swift oi slow; but, whether the one or the other it is sure. \V. 11. and A. McGarry, land and financial agents, Eltham, advertise a Stratford grazing oi dairying farm, fo>- lease with'right of purchase. These at the Melbourne, Ltd. Largo gig umbrellas lis Od and 12s Oil; strong To"rib umbrellas, 9s (id; ladies' umbrellas, 3s lid to 12s fid; boys' oilskins, Ss lid; ■lien's oilskins, Ms fid and l»s (id; oil canvas coats, 37s Gd; men's raincoats, 355; Mien's proofed Hydrotitc coats, shot silk lined, 49s Od. IT IS THE DISTINCTIVE QUALITY OF SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT—its freedom from resins and woody impurities, its great antiseptic healing, stimulating powers, and its safety—that prompted the highest medical authorities to recommend it as the only eucalyptus produced fit for internal use'. At the Supreme Court at Victoria a witness testified that he was made much worse by a substitute which was sold as "just'as good" as SANDER'S EXTRACT, and his trouble (ulcer) was healed rapidly by 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 t# directed will always benefit.

During Hie voyage (if the Manuka from Sydney, Private John Kciss, a member of tlie Sixteenth Reinforcements died suddenly. He had been on leave, visiting relatives at Tarnworth, New South Wales, and on the voyage complained of iull'cring fi-om u eold'on the chest. He .-uccmnued yesterday.—Press Association, A meeting of members of the Taranaki section of the New Zealand Civil Service Association was held at tha courthouse, .Vow 'Plymouth, last night, Mr. W. P. Reeves (Stratford) presiding over a good attendance. Mr. <_'. H. Lawn gave a report of the proceedings at the conference recently held in Wellington, and was, accorded a hearty vote of thanks. Various matters pertaining to the Civil Service, were also dealt with, A letter was read from the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants in connection with a meeting which is to he Jicld to-morrow night to discuss the cost of living. Members present favored the proposal and suggested hearty co-operation from the members of the service. The Moa Dairy Company has received by mail the following very satisfactory reports of theii late shipments ot butter to \hc English markets, from Joseph Nathan and Co,, [id.:-Arrived 11/12/1,") The report ha;, two words across the columns for color, texture, flavor, and quality, and read, ''Excellent butter;" columns "Very good butter;'-' the next 17th January, lfllfi—Across the same .columns: "An excellent butter;" the fourth, just the one word "Excellent;" and the fifth. 21/2/ Hi, the two words: "Perfect butter." If anything better than this, when it reaches th; Old Country, is wanted, we should like to know what will be satisfactory.—Pvecovd.