LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A cable message from Capetown reports that the steamer Rangatira lias becc:me a total wreck.

The rainfall at "Biversdnle." In«lcwood, for July, was 11.-17 inches. The bcavitMt fall was on the 10th when 2.07 indies fell.

The n(!e match between the Xew Plymonth and Urenui rifle clubs that was arranged for yesterday lias been -postponed until next Thursday owing to the g.ile.

"Alexander Frederick Andrew Watsford John" were the Christian names of a uitmvs in a case heard at the ,S..M. Court vesierduy. •■Etc.," added a jovial leyal luminary.

Signs of the times? A Xew Plymouth firm has just received word that freights from New York are down by -j per cent. An English concern cables that if is now able to take orders for its manufactures., which had been stopped for munition making.

"Indulgence in drink," said Mr. P. S. Webi) in the House last Monday, "is more a matter of habit than any desire for It." To which remark Mr. Wilford promptly interjected, amid -laughter, "With home people it is more a gift than a habit."

The annual meeting of the council of the Xorth Island Poultry Association decided that the headquarters should remain at Palmerston. The officers elected were: President, ,T. Jarvis; vicepresidents, D. T. "Rutherford (Maurice,ville). and 1!. 1). Whyte; treasurer, P. r.arcouib; secretary, J. H. Cooper, all of Palmerston.

At New Plymouth S.M. Court yesterday, Mr. A. Crooke presiding, Win. A. •Scott, of l'itzroy v pleaded guilty to a charge of allowing; a mare and foal to he at large' on .the public road. Mr. Quilliani, w] l 0 appeared for the informant (the county inspector), asked for a lenient penalty, ami a fine of Is, with costs 17s lid, was indicted.

"ft is a common practice to receive remittances by cheque in an unregistered parcel, 1 ' said a bank official in evidence at the .S.M. Court yesterday. ' "Sometimes we receive money, in notes, by unregistered packet, but we. as a rule, immediately send such remitters a warning, on the form prescribed by the post office."

• A Masterton soldier has written from "somewhere in France" enclosing a tag tiiken from a leg of mutton which had l):*rii served as rations. The tag bore the inscription ''Taratalii, N.Z." The sohffer Ims written on the tag "the finest piece of mutton 1 have ever tasted."

Since commencing business in October, 'JRfIT, Hemingway an<l Robertson, of Auckland and Melbourne, the wellknown Public Service, Matriculation and Law Examination Coaches and Teachers by Correspondence of Accountancy, Hook-keeping and Shorthand, have passed ."725 candidates through the above Public Examinations; ,187 through the T.aw and 1927 through the various Examinations conducted by the recognised Professional Accountancy P.odies' of Xew Zealand and Australia. The latest Australian results to hand (May. 1010) show that of 7-1 candidates presented by Hemingway i'.nu Robertson, 70 were successful in securing Final or Intermediate Sections of their Examinations. In the Supplementary Final Examination in Professional Accountancy conducted by the University of Xew, Zealand for the Society of Accountants, held in May, Hemingway and Robertson presented )."> candidates, of whom 11 passed. This is more than 50 per cent. of. all the passes in the Dominion. Well over a hundred of Hemingway and Robertson's successful candidates, for the most part formerly clerks, are now in practice as 'Public Accountants ami Auditors in various parts of the colonies, Qualilication in Accountancy and Book-keeping presents excellent openings not oniv to young men but also to ladies. Full particulars of Hemingway and Robertson's Correspondence Courses in Accountancy, Book-keeping or Shorthand, fty' Preparation for the Senior Public Service, .Tunioi Public Service Entrance, Teachers', Matriculation or 1-aw Examinations, as well as courses iii all Civil and Mechanical Engineering subjects, may be obtained by letter addressed to-Hemingway and Robertson's Corresponder.ee Schools, fnion Buildings, AucidaniJ

The post and telegraph revenue collected in the New Plymouth postal district in 'the June quarter amounted to U2.-ml, us compared with £(i42(i in the .rune quarter of last ycat.since when however, the district has been extended. The savings bank deposits for the past quarter were ,C1!)1,!MS and the withdrawals .C 1:27,73), as compared with XBo,4:i(i and Clili.b.' '"-nectively in the June quarter, 1915. The Auckland Star says that an exemplification of the healthfulness of Auckland as a place of residence was to be gathered from the obituary column on Tuesday evening. Five persons whose deaths were announced made a grand total of 400 yours. The youngest wa-( seventy-one and the oldest eighty-nine. Tin Post states that a communication has been received liv the Mayor of Wellington intimating that certain Turkish guns captured by the British in the Arabian campaign are available for exhibition purposes in Wellington and lie has obtained authority from the City Council to miike the necessary arrangements to secure the guns. At a reunion of members of the D Battery on Tuesday n presentation was made to Major A. J. Petherick, T.D., who had i omnleted 30 years' service with the battery, having joined in 1878. The gift was a silver model of an Impounder. During the evening it was mentioned tnat two other members of the Battery, General Sir Alfred' Robin, Commandant of the Xew Zealand Forces, and Colonel .J K. Hume. Officer Commanding VI ellington district, had also risen from the ranks of the D Battery. The dislocation of the train service between Wellington and Xew Plymouth yesterday, consequent on the derailment o; cars bv the violent wind, caused considerable inconvenience, and not a little discomfort. A special train was notified as leaving Hawera at. 8.15' p.m. to bring on the Wanganui and Taranaki passed gers, who, however, bad to wait till 9 o'clock'before the train started. The absence of the mails also caused inconvenience. which could have been minimised if arrangements had been made to have the mails available at Xew Plymonth shortly after the arrival of the special train?

An inquiry into the circumstances o! the death of John Hawke, who win knocked down by a tramcar on Wednes'Uty night, was opened at the Courthouse last .evening, before Mr. A. Crookc, coroner. Formal evidence of identification was given by Arthur P.ichard Hawke. son of the deceased, who added that his intlier left his home at Mangorei about 1 p.m. on Tuesday to get his military pension, and did not return. Witness also said tiuit his father's evesight was nut good, especially at night. The inquest was then adjourned until Monday next, at 11 a.m.

The teachers and pupils attending tho girls' high school, accommodated in tho Kacccourse buildings, are having a miserable time these cold dnys. The Board, with inexcusable neglect, has made no provision for the temporary heating of the buildings, which, undei the best conditions, are never warm, and the result is that both teachers and scholars iire soon benumbed with the cold. The school was closed at an early hour yesterday and the day before, it being simply impossible to continue study. Surely the Board can temporarily put in radiators, gas heaters, or kerosene stoves. If members would only spend a;i hour in the buildings themselves or/* of these cold mornings there would be no further delay in making adequate heating arrangements. If they cannot do this, then they had better close the school until warmer weather comes round. To keep the girls in such a freezing atmosphere as that which at present prevails is nothing less than crueltv.

Although Morey's Golden Opportunity Sale lias ceased there are wonderful bargains still to be had. "Job Lot" week is proclaimed, and economists will surely foregather. There is an advertisement in this issue which is well worth reading.

Last days at.the Melbourne's sale for boys' and youths' llorrockses two-piece pyjama suits, ."is fid; boys' and youths' white handkerchiefs, four for (id; khaki handkerchiefs, two for f)d; Men's Kaiapoi suits. 3ns; men's odd tweed coats, 14s Od; men's soft felt hats, 5s -Gd; men's .Samson braces, Is; men's tweed overcoats, 23s fid, 35*, and life Od, warm and good, wortit 20 per cent. more.