LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To a charge of failing to render personal service by non-attendance at drill, a youth named Frank Patterson pleaded guilty at the B.M. Court yesterday morning. He was fined 10s, and 7s cost;.

The Motor Journal says that the British advance north of the Nomine increased the army's consumption of petrol by 1,000,000 gallons a week. The traction engines of the huge "caterpillar" gun consumed a gallon a mile.

As a result of the Education Board's deliberations in committee on Wednesday afternoon on the question of martini and technical education, it was decided that the whole Board should meet, as a committee, to go thoroughly into the matter at Stratford on Wednesday next, at 10 a.m.

A sitting of the Xntive Land Co was commenced at the Foresters' .1:,. i yesterday morning, under the presidency of Judges Palmer and Kawson. Several intricate cases were listed, and the first one occupied much time in legal arguments and various statements. The proceedings of the sitting will occupy until Monday, and may not he completed then.

A prominent Hawke's Bay farmer states that the recent floods had done an immense amount of good to the country, and that the loss of stock was only a trifling matter compared with the results that would accrue from the silting of the land. He is firmly of the belief that the coming season will be the most prosperous experienced for many years,

Tlic Makctawa Dairy Company, at its annual meeting yesterday, alter' hearing an address by Mr. H. Trimble, a member of the Education Board, decided to again subsidise for three yers, on the basis of Is per ton of the butter output, the payment of the salary of an agricultural lecturer, whose services shall he available for farmers. Several of those present spoke in high terms o; the work done by the present instructor, Mr. Sergei.

Reminder is given of the huge jumble sale that is to be held in Devon Street to-morrow, j n aid of the Belgian Children?;' Relief Fund. A large quantity of articles of all descriptions has already been donated, but many more gifts are required, and it is 'hoped that town and country residents will respond generously to the appeal, both by sending in articles for sale and by purchasing to-morrow.

Mr. Riddel!, S.M., gave his judgment at Wellington yesterday on the nonsuit point raised in the civil action Inspector of Awards v. Edward Kennedy, the secretary of the Woollen Workers' Union. The claim was for £2OO as a penalty for aiding in a strike ot members of the union. The union had already been fined .£SO, and it was contended that the judgment was a bar to the present action, as Kennedy was a member of the union. The non-suit point waa over-ruled and the case will be heard next Thursday. Yesterday the Maketawa Dairy Company attained its majority, and Mr. J. Drown, who has been chairman for the past twenty years, in comparing conditions then wit!, those of .to-day, said that they had tremendous trouble in getting the joint and several guarantee signed. A few years later these had become very common in Taranaki, and no #ne went in fear and trembling of them. Indeed, he had signed so many himself that at one time it would have been dillicult to tell who owned iiis farm. However, it had all come out right. Councillor J. W. Hayden lias given notice that he will move the following resolution at the next meeting of the N'ew Plymouth Borough Council: "That no further steps be taken in connection with the erection of municipal offices and museum until such time as the Council have considered proposals for the erection of a municipal theatre; that in the meantime a committee of five be appointed by the Council to submit a report as to the feasibility and cost of erecting a municipal theatre, of which the proposed building for municipal offices and museum would form a part.'' The Dean of Sydney, at the unveiling of a roll of honor in the city recently, recounted an incident of a British immigrant upon whose dead body he had picked up a note during the fighting at Gallipoli.' Evidently it had been written as the soldier lay dying: "I am thinking of my mother," ran the note; •'but, by Cod, good-bye Australia." That, said the Dean, was an ilustration of the Empire spiri'. In the last moments of that dying soldier, his thought ban gone from one end of the world to the other. That was'a true portrait, and the type of man Australia would never refuse.

Mr. ,]. B. Comiett, piesidcnt of the Taranaki Agricultural Society, yesterday attended the annua) meeting of the Maketawa Dairy Company, mid gave a comprehensive and interesting address on the ai.ms and objects of the Society, also outlining the progress Hint had been made, during the yea'. The address was attentively listened to and at its conclusion evoked a round of applause. A number of suppliers handed in their names as members of the Society end agreed that their subscription'! should b,' dedvied from tlieir 1 December cheque. The chairman referred in hig'h terms to the work by the president, who was evidenu? the right man in the right place, and was sparing neither time nor energy in seeing (-: Society (irmly established. Mr. «. Kilpatrick was appointed the company's representative on the Society's committee.

In another column the Broadway Tuilnvim; Company, Stratford, announce that tlicv have removed tci more commodious premises two doors from Mr. Newton King's Stratford mart. Tn this issue we insert an alteration of the advertisement of the town properties to bo sold at Mr. Newton King's mart on Saturday next on account of the executors in the' estate Mrs. Emily KlV. ■ .1. i'!vesi.ij;ntorß are invited.to inspect thi .(! .perties prior to the sale. Kin ivi handkerchiefs and knitted socks should be in every parcel sent to the front. Both these lines can be purchased at moderate prices at the Melbourne. Ltd. Fine, soft, mercerised, hemstitched handkerchiefs at (id eacli and tine all-wool Mosgiel, N.Z., knitted socks at Is Gd pair* Lost, strayed—gone none knows where. Twas with me yesterday, 1 do declare. It racked my chest, my h,cad was sore, It's gone, I'll ne'er see it more. What? Not a cough? Yes, yes, for sure; Lost when I used Woods' Peppermint Cure. ': DESERT GOLD TEA, the latest and. best, is most popular, despite old names land fancy claims. t

The breeding of ferrets has been a villago industry in (imit Britain almost from time immemorial, but the demand for the little creatures bad fallen off during reecnt years. Now, however, owing to the insistent call for ferrets to kill the vats which swarm in the trendies in France and Flandeis, the demand lias jumped suddenly to fin- in (xcess of tlni supply, and prices have soared accordingly. The Dunediu correspondent of the Lyttelton Times says that Mr. L. .Curtis, editor of t'lie Round Table, in the course of an address before the Dunedin Expansion League, said that bud Xew Zealand not adopted prior to the war a form of compulsory service he did not' think it would have been adopted in England to-day. The act of the Xew Zealand democracy, followed by the Australian democracy, made the whole difference when the moment of trial came to England. Asrain. the influence of Xew Zealand was felt in Canada when that Dominion was debating the queit'n 1 of naval defence.

At the S.lf. Court yesterday morning, before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., Leonard F. Laurent was charged, on the information of the County Inspector, with allowing four cows to'wander on Devon road at Bell Block, on July 7, h-.Kt. Defendant pleaded not guilty. Evidence for the prosecution was given by 0. D. Grant, County Inspector. Defendant, who admitted that the cows complained of were his, said that he had put them into the paddock of a neighbor. John Poletti. The latter deposed to tv ling the cows out of his paddock on to the road. His Worship considered that the ease was one that called for a nominal penalty only, and fined defendant Is, and 2Ss costs.

The National .Ministry has been allowed practically a free hand at a time when, the greatest necessity existed that members .'honld keep a watchful eye on expenditure and administration (says the I'almerston Times). On' Monday nil the members of Parliament except 40 forsook their posts and bolted homo, leaving the National Ministry to put through one of the most iniquitous measures, from the point of view of public policy, that has ever been recorded. We refer to the regulation shutting out Australian wheat, and -keeping flour at a fictitious price in order to benefit a few greedy farmers at the expense of the whole of the consumers of the Dominion. One would have thought that the representatives of the people would have resisted this monstrous injustice to the last gasp, but it passed a mentally drug"cd and physically listless remnant of Fegisbtors without adequate protest, and, as far as one can gather, almost without comment. An interesting sidelight on the method adopted for raising Herman war loans is given in a, letter received from a reliable source It tells how a -German merchant was approached by the German Government with a "request" thai he should subscribe to a war loan. lie pointed out that he had already subscribed to three war loans, hut as he. had stili left 24,000 marks the Government considered he should subscribe to the fourth loan. Although the authorities knew he had only -24.0H0 marks, he was surprised to get the information that he. was down j'oi -210.000 marks of the loan. When In: asked how he was going to manage that amount it was explained to him that vhe matter could be easily "fixed." The method was as follows:—The authorities arranged with the bank for the merchant to pay the bank ten per cent, of the "240,000 marks, and for a payment of one per cent, the bank would guarantee the balance of the amount. It seemed to the writer rather an ingenious way of arranging a loan.

A HaWera lioy writes to His people:— On arrival at Victoria Station—an immense station this—wo Xew Zealanders. oi whom there were about 41) found waiting for us two members of the Xew Zealand War Contingent Committee— Mf. . .olau, of lluwera, and Mr. Wray, Mr. Nolan remembered me, ami lnul a little that about Tarannki before we moved oil'. Sir. Xolan took charge of the party I was in, and the others followed on with Mr. Vfray. We were placed in a. motor-ear, driven to the Military Police Office to sign our names and give our address whilst, in England, and then taken to the committee's room in Victoria street. There we were greeted by the ladies' committee, at the head of whom is Mrs. Wilson, widow of the. late Dr. Wilson, who perished with Captain Scott at the South Pole. She is a fine woman, as are also all the ladies who waited on us. It was 11 pleasure to me to se.;' Mr. Nolan's cheery face in the midst of strangers. He is doing a great work, and more power to him! It was great on coming out of the station to see the large crowd waiting round and to hear their remarks as we passed thronsh, such as. ''There goes another Anzac"; "No; he's a Xew Zealander." They give us a great heaving; in fact, I think they make too much oi us—more than o; their own Tommy boys. The late Mr Thomas Cooke, of Ponsonby, Auckland, who died on Friday last," was one of the few people who have been attacked by a shall; in Xew Zealand. Jn a letter written to his father in ISii-'l, and discovered amongst the batter's effects fifty years later, Mr. Cooke described his adventure. One morning he went down to the harbor to bathe as usual, and while swimming felt his foot touch what he took to be a submersed log, and the next minute felt his foot seized. lie struggled and managed to break away, but after swimming a few strokes he was seized again by the right thigh, and dragged under the water. He continued struggling, and after so"**-; +ime was successful in breaking away from v_i.t he now knew to he a shark. Fortunately i.- 4 was only a short distance from the shore, a'S.-:J-tl'.ongh suffering intense agony, he was able to swim to safety. Arriving at the beach, lie discovered the blood gushing from his foot, thigh and back. After a while he was seen by some men, and taken home.' Describing his injuries, Mr. Cooke said: "My left foot was horribly mangled, being bitten through and through at the instep, the great toe was severed .nearly in two, besides several other wounds in it; in my right thigh, near the knee, there was a dreadful wound, there was another in the middle of the thigh in front, and a similar one behind, a smaller wound in the groin, and another in the back." As a result of his injuries, Mr. Cooke was very ill, and the doctors despaired of his life, but after six weeks he was able to resume business. While he was laid up the Governor, Sir George <!rey, called to enquire after him. Sir. Cooke was SS years of age.

A "iittle" Cough is not to be disregarded. The sooner you attack it with SYKES'S CIUiA COUt.H, tin- sooner it will leave vou. Is Od, all store* stores,

WANTED—Iour money buys De9t tea value in Desert Gold Family Blend at Is 9d. Special grades, Is 10d and 2s.