LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The sitting of the Dardanelles Commission has begun.

The adjourned meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council will be held /;his (Thursday) evening. In the Auckland Supreme Court yesterday, Alexander McPhail was sentenced to five years' hard labor for a •iriminaf offence on a girl. In the House of Commons, Mr, Lloyd George announced that Field-Marshal Nicholson, Lord Cheyesmore. Mr. Justice Atkin, and Mr. Mac Lean M.P., would < (institute the court in connection with I,he administration of the Patriotic Fund.

On Tuesday the workmen employed at the Iron Company's quarry at Motuion discovered two young penguins, alive, under a heap of boulders. The visitors showed strong objection to being disturbed, but were captured after some lesistance.

The North Taranaki Hunt will conclude the season to-day with a meet at Egmont Village, Messrs Openshaw's, .Price's, and the adjoining properties to lie hunted over. The grounds have been specially prepared for this meet, and a ; ?ood following of members is looked for to participate in what should prove one 'if the most successful rims of the sca'icn.

A Press Association .message says that negotiations, which for some time have been proceeding, for the sale of the Wanganui Meat Freezing Works at CastleclilT to the Wellington Meat Export Company, are now completed, the anle being subject to the confirmation of the shareholders of the local company. The capacity of the works is to be greatly increased. The Soldiers' Club (in the old Town Hall buildings) will be. formally opened this afternoon, at half-past two o'clock. As the space is limited the function will only be a semi-public affair, but all returned soldiers and men on final leave, will be^cordially welcomed by the committee. The general public will have iji opportunity of visiting the rooms this evening, as the building will be thrown open from five o'clock until nine (or that purpose. 'Special for the milker, or other outdoor man. The Remainder of the famous "Swandri" waterproof overalls—2s in all —are now c'.enring right out at 25s each (post paid). Buy now; it's a great ciiance at the. price. These overalls are ideal garments for either men or women whose work is out-of-doors. Send today to the "Palatine," New :Plymoutli. Splendid tennis shirt values are on sale at the Melbourne, Ltd. Horrockses' famous cloths figure hugely in their make-up. so that customers may rely entirely on the appearance and wear of the materials. The make, too, is firstclass. Prices, Jld and is lid; boys' te .uis shirts. 2s Hi and 3s 6d,

At yesterday'.. meeting of the Hospital Hoard it was resolved, 011 the motion of Mr. Maxwell, tlmt the matron of the hospital prepare and submit to the Board at its next meeting a roll of the nurses who are absent on leave, and of those who Jiavo holidays coming tu them. A Faliiatuii message, received last night, states that to-day's l>ye-olection. caused by the death of Mr. J, H. Escott, M.P., is not causing much excitement. The three candidates report good meetings. Labor members have visited the electorate, and Labor literature has also been circulated freely. At Pahiatua yesterday, Mr. Hewitt, S.M., imposed substantial penalties on defaulting Territorials, Two Civil Scr. >ants, who had never attended drill were fined £5 and £3 respectively. A farm hand, previously convicted, was fined £2. The Magistrate said that it was not fair to those doing tneir duty that others should be allowed to escape. The payment of hospital fees by those who have been patients at the institution is not always a matter of honor, but a Rahotu Native who was through bad luck prevented from discharging his account earlier has set a notable example, not only in forwarding the amount, but expressing regret for the unavoidable delay. At t'he meeting of the Stratford County Council on Wednesday, Cr. Baskin was to have moved, pursuant to notice, that, the engine salary be reduced by £SO, but iv...a nil the other business had been taken (the chairman and Cr. Walter having left the meeting), the acting-chairman intercepted Cr. Baskin's motion with one of his own, to the effect that the question had been sufficiently discussed, and that motion was carried. Cr. Baskin was somewhat taken aback, hut proceeded to justify his action when the councillors rose one by one and left the room. . Miss K. Doughty, who was declared Wellington's Queen at last year's Wellington Carnival, effected a very plucky rescue from drowning at Karaka Bay, near Wellington. A lady who had been in bad health for some time was walking with a friend when suddenly the lady ran away, and jumped into the sea from the wharf. Screams attracted Miss Doughty's attention. She hurried to the wharf, and without hesitation dived in to the woman's assistance. Miss Doughty succeeded in holding her up until Master ftunner Heath, also hearing cries for help, arrived and assisted both to safety. The woman was taken to the waiting-room on the wharf, where first aid was applied. il)r. :P. McEvedy, who was passing, attended the woman, who was removed to lier home later. Mr. Whitehead and Mr. Carton also assisted in the rescue. The action of Miss Doughty is worthy of the highest praise, for she was fully clothed when she jumped into the water.

Speaking at Auckland on Monday in regard to the war loan, Mr. J. H. Upton, one of t-lii? directors of the Bank of New Zealand, said that the main point was whether the money would be spent in the Dominion, for, obviously, if a large sum like eight millions were to be subscribed and immediately exported, it would make an important difference. Sir Joseph Ward, however, has said that practically the whole, of the money was to he expended in the country, and, if that were so, the ell'ect of the subscription of eight millions would be precisely similar to the effecit of subscribing three and a lialf millions, Sir Joseph Ward had made provision so that the small investor could subscribe through the Post Office by buying bonds which on .naturity paid full value, and no doubt that would bring in a certain amount of money. Sir Joseph Ward thought that it would realise about a million. lie (the speaker) thought he would be fortunate if lie realised that amount, and held the view that to raise the amount of the loan the people possessing capital on a larger scale would have to come forward. The countrv as a whole 'had benefited by the war from o pecuniary point of view; our exports Had sold nt very much highei prices, and the country was richei by several millions, which might be used for the purposes of the loan. It might be argued that when the Government imposed a 45 per cent, tax on excess profits the people who were so taxed should not be called upon to subscribe to a war loan, but the answer to that was tfhat the income of the people who paid the tax was still 55 per cent, more than if there ha'd been no super-profits tax. Had we not benefited pecuniarily by the war we should still have had to meet the same obligations out of our ante-war resources. The burden of the loan would be very light in view of the enhanced capital of the countrr.

Douglas Fairbanks, who lias signed up with the Triangle for three years' fil.m work, has already had a host of novel experiences ill this new branch of the profession. In the picture, "The Lamb," Ins part requires that he be afraid to rescue n girl from drowning, but two reels later put up a single-handed fight against a gang of western rebels. "That just shows how easy it is to be a movie lioro," remarked Fairbanks. "Behave just opposite to what you would in real life, and success is yours. Actually, I would not have the slightest hesitation about going in to save a drowning lady, but I'm hanged if I'd get within twenty miles of the rebels unless I had a machilis a ..."

To-morrow night Miss Dorothea Spinney gives a popular programme, an exquisite little Irish play, a miracle play. This will be followed by a charming pierrot piny. Those who have not seen Miss Dorothea Spinney in comedy should not miss this one chance. She is a pierrelte anil pierrot. This will be followed by poses from Greek vases to music, given in the coloring of the vase. An American paper writes: "Like a living, picture showing a succession of poses, each concentrated to one moment of absolute perfection, all done with in effortless grace. It is as well sometimes to stop and listen to one whose conception of the beautiful is untarnished. Such, nil one is Dorothea Spinney." Miss Spinney gives her recital ill 'the Good Templar Hall at S o'clock, and the box .plan is at Collier's. HER FIRST PI They had not been married long, and it was her first pie. He helped himself to a second piece, and smiled sweetly into her anxious face. His health was precious to her, but such heroism stirred her very soul. All doubts of his love vanished for ever. She did not know that deep in his pocket nestled a little tin of Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules, which digest what you eat, and so the peace of one happy home remained unbroken. Pie has no terror when Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules are at hand. Price, Is fid and 2s Cd per tin. Obtainable everywhere. A ''iittle" Cough is not to be, disregarded. The sooner you attack it with iYKKS'S CUBA COUGH, thg sooner it U.'UYQ . Is Sri, * ll -

"When the war is over, Franco, Belgium and Britain will lie faced with the problem of finding some form oT war memunal adequate to the greatest, and longest battle of -which the world his any record," sayfi the Spectator. "The Battle of tho Trenches ia u battle which lias already lasted for two years. The suggestion is that a wide Memorial road should be laid out in the No-man's Land, the dead ground between the two trenclt, ltnes, and should run from Nieuport to Basle, from the sea to tho Alps —a great road with monuments to the fallen and to the deeds of heroism dono by this or that individual company, regiment, brigade, division and array, scattered along it, and marked also with chronological and geographical records of the war."

Wild-eyed and dishevelled, a man groped his way into the Wangamii police station on Friday afternoon, gasped "I'm stabbed," and doposited himself in a state of semi-collapse into a chair. Slowly the visitor unfolded his story, lie had come into the town, and after what he describe* as a few drinks, he got as far as the Masonic Hotel. Whether his thirst was assauged at this geographical point he did not remember, but he went and sat down on the river bank near the Dublin street bridge. It was here that his adventures commenced. He said that a man—a Bhort, thick-set sort of man, of decidedly foreign appearance, with a black moustache and an accent which suggested that the place of his nativity was either Germany oi Austria, came on the scene. They talked of the war, and as their views were diametrically opposed, the conversation became somewhat heated. This was the prelude of approaching tragedy. "Then he stabbed me with a knife," said the narrator. The police found that the man was bleeding profusely from a clean-cut, deep wound, and as he had evidently lost a good deal of blood, he'was hastily despatched to the District Hospital. On Saturday rtiorning Chief Detective Siddells visited the hospital, and the victim gave a more detailed and sensational account of his adventure, ft was a nurse who solved the mystery. On probing the man's wound she extracted a fairly large piece of glass. The man had been unfortunate. He had sat down on a broken bottle!— Chronicle. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. wish to draw the attention of the public to their spring horse fair, which they are holding in their Stratford yards on Saturday, August 20, 101(1. Present entries include a number of useful milk cart horses. The mails which left New Zealand on June 23, arrived in London on the night of the Bth inst. s •