LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On the application of hi? son, a prohibition order against an elderly man was granted by Mr. A. Crooke, R.M., at the Magistrate's Court on Saturday morning.

The president of the Palmerston Bowling Club for the new season is mi undertaker and the secretary is a tombstonemaker (states the Feitding Star), The club is thus well prepared for dead heads. "It's a duty for anybody paying money to obtain a receipt. They can insist by law upon getting one, otherwise they might be made liable for the amount again." observed Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., in the Feilding Magistrate's Court.

lii the ease brought by .1. E. Mills, of Moumahaki, against J. A. Vernon, Wanganui, for £5Ol damages as the result of a collision between plaintiff's motor cycle and defendent's motor cai, the jury returned u vediet for £425. It is expected that the ''general average" struck in connection with the loss of the Tongariro will reach to over !)0 per cent, of the value of the cargo nocured from the wreck (says the Napier Telegraph). The loss, however, will fall on the insurance companies carrying the, risks, but importers not so covered will have to pay and look pleasant. •'We 'have had open-nir school*, for a very long time, some in cowsheds some in woolshcds. and some iu slab shanties, so that we have bad a large experience." said Mr. .). D. McKcnzie, chairman of the Auckland Education Board, la-vt week, when a letter was received from the Minister in reference to the open-air type of schools. An order in the Oazetlo withdraws the protection from hawks of all specie* until the end of the .present year. The birds may be destroyed in any part oi New Zealand. This step has been taken in consequence of many complaints that havo been made 1)y farmers and acclimatisation societies regarding the depredations of the hawks.

A certain member of the New Zeahtnl Parliament (states the U'ni.sicliurh Press) had been tnuntii'g cnlisters with the fiiet that they bad vo'uaf:irUy taken on the position of slaves. "Well," he said to one stalwart vra&.tv who had enlisted, "so you, too, have become a slave!" The worker retorted, 'I had to choose between being a slav? for my own country or being one for the Germans, and I chose my own country. To enter a first-class smoking carriage and to find snugly esconeed there u young lady who looks no more than twenty is nowadays not worthy of remark. But when, as on a New Plymouth train, the young "lady" brought forth a cigarette and smoked it, repeating the action again and again, the sur■arTse of the men in the carriage, though not openly manifested, was very real (remarks a down-the-line paper).

The immense areas of some of the cattle rims in the northern part of Australia wore referred to in an interview by Mr. D. Lang, secretary of the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company, who has returned to Auckland from a viFit to Australia. One company, he said, ran stations in the Northern Territory totalling 40.000 square miles, of about 20,000,000 acres. It was evident from this and pther eases of a sir/ilar nature that there was abundant confidence in the future of the frozen beef business in the Northern Territory.

Hoiscry bargains at the Melbourne, Ltd.: lien's all wool black cashmere socks, Is Gd; ladies' all wool fast dye cashmere hose Is 0d and Is lid, 2s (id, Is lid, and 3s 3d; men's all-wool ribbed socks Is 3d and Is fld; men's plain grey Mosgiel all wool knitted socks Is fid pair; men's all wool black knitted soeks Is fld pair; men's N.Z. make all wool ribbed pants 4s lid; merino singlets 13 lid; merino pants 2s Od. Members of the Equitable Building Society of .New Plymouth (Second Group) are notified that subscriptions are due and payable, to-day (Monday, September lfi), at the Secretary's office, Currie Street, from 0 a.m. to 1130 p.m., 11 p.m. to 3 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.— Advt.

For Bronchial Cougbs. taka Winds' Great Peppermint Cure

Tn giving evidence before the River Commission, which sat at Napier on Tuesday, Mr. G. P. Donnelly said lie came to the* district i:i 1866 and had seen every flood since 1807. The, floods hud made the district, and lands worth .tOU an acre to-day were in 18117 raujio swamps.

According lo the Labor Journal, New Plymouth is a fairly cheap place in which to buy groceries, fifteen other towns being higher and ten lower. In dairy produce it is the lowest in New Zealand, but in meat it is eighth on the, list. Tn rent, too, it is high, Nelson and Wellington alone being higher. This is no doubt caused by the scarcity nf houses. There is a demand for quite another fifty or sixty houses. X.Mwithstanding the unpleasant and l.ioi'.'tr-rons weather there was a large crowd of the public present at the East End Reserve yesterday afternoon, when tli"'Citizens' Band gave an open-air recital. Some very choice selections were rendered, under the eonductorsbip of Bandmaster McLcod, and were much appreciated by those present. Afternoon tea was served in the pavilion, and, a collection in aitl'of the Band funds realised ;i goodly sum. > At (he meeting, on Friday evening, of the New Plymouth Defence Rifle C'iub, Ciipbin Hartnell spoke sqmcwliat emphatically against trophy shooting, and strongly favored team shooting. It had \v.cm irretrievably demonstrated that tenm shooting was the better for the soldier that might be; in trophy shooting the rifleman was "out for himself" to a great extent; in team shooting, as on the battlefield, was out to win, not '"or himself, but for bis comrade, and tin.-, nroroked the essential of all good shooting. >

At the East End Reserve Pavilion on Saturday night, Private W. Boeh, who has been home for a few days on final leave, was the guest of honor at a smoke concert tendered him by the Committee There was a very large attendance, and Mr. E. Whittle presided over the gathering. During the evening, the health of "Our finest" was enthusiastically toasted, and eulogistic references were made by a number of speakers to the work of Private Koch, both in a public and private capacity, and especially to the services he bad rendered whilst secretary to the Reserve. Other toasts, songs, recitation, etc., whiled away a pleasant couple of hours, the gathering concluding with the customary timehonored strains, and rousing cheers for ■Private Boch, who leaves for camp this morning.

Writes a Wanganui boy from France: "I have seen how brave men and boys die. It liits made me sober. If you women of New Zealand could foe your men-folk loaning far out over the parapets searching the darkness with burning eyes, if you could see them roll forward under a curtain of shrapnel, yoi, would be incredulous, and you would almost ask, 'Who nre these men!' I write impersonally. My experiences and observations give me title to express intimate admiration of the boys who have become so dear to me. When one goes—as must happen occasionally in war—my spirit is inconsolable, and I know now why the French fight for re- ', cngc. Revenue! The word has ? new dignity out here, and nil the sordid melodramatic folly of it falls away like a. chrysalis, leaving a creature of beautiful virility."

Captain Bean, official correspondent with the Australian forces, cabled s few days ago:—Every day and every nislit soldiers going to ov coming from the battle pass, a certain Australian coffee stall. fie the fight ever so fierce and the night e.vor so stormy, the tired troops coming out and the fresli troops going into that cheerless, desolate battle line spend a few minutes in this cheery corner. Hot tea, coffee ami coco:i, cakes and biscuits are to be'.had by any passer-by at any time as a free gift. Over the stall is emblazoned, "Australian Comforts Fund." Unquestionably this is far and n|ray the best use of comfort funds in such an emergency as this battle. As men light n parting cigarette, stow a piece of chewing-gum irto their pockets, and Inmip their heavy

packs, and stroll off into the darkness, 1 hav< aprain and again heard them say, "■I reckon this idea is a grand one. It is just what a man wants.'' There is more than one coffee stall now. It is to bo hoped that the institution may be made, permanent. • A ease in which a British subject was proceeded against on a charge of having used indecent language in the bra - of an hotel at 'femora New South Wales, was heard in the Police Court, before Mr. X. A Ormonde Butler, P.M., a few days ago. The witnesses for the prosecution were uiuiaturalisod Germans of military age. The trouble was said to have arisen over one of the Germans having boasted of his nationality. Before the first witness had completed his evidence the magistrate refused to allow the ease to go on, and dismissed the information. He said: "I do not desire to be lopsided, but 1 have decided to dismiss the case. It is a public scandal that the Federal Government allows' unnaturaliscd Germans of military age to work among and in competition with British subjects," To the 'Witness he s:iid: ''You and your friend should be interned. Yon should not be allowed to wander at large in the country. It is only to be expected that followers of the British (lag would resent it, and express dissatisfaction it; the Government laxity. We are having our sons and friends slaughtered, while British men and women in Germany have no freedom whatever. I

may be called upon to account for my ■action, but I will take the responsibility of it." Mr. Butler was one ot the Australian contingent who went to the Soudan in 18S5.

The highly amusing Charlie Chaplin comedy that convulsed the audiences at the Empire Theatre on Saturday will he added to the "Bullets and Brown Eyes" programme showing to-night. Evangelistic services are being held this week, on each evening to Friday inclusive, in the Methodist Schoolroom at Frankleigh Park.