LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 October 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Foxton Mai'istrate's Court on Saturday, Wallace Stanley Martin, IS vi.ars of age, pleaded guilty to five charges of arson and was committed to the Wellington Supreme Court for sentence. The return of births, deaths, and marriages for the district of New Plymouth (Mr. J. S. S. Medley, Registrar), for (he month of September are as follow, last year's figures being given in parenthesis in each instance: Births, 33 127); deaths, 15 (ft); marriages, fl (14). [-or the nine months, ending September HOth:'Births, 300 (205); deaths, 127 (10-1); marriages, 83 (87). The Collector of Customs (Mr. R. B. D. Eyre), reports that the net customs rollected during the month of S'.;.cemhnr amounted to .€5303 12s m, and the hcei duty to £lO7 14s :V ' For the corresponding month of. kist year the figures were Customs .C32KP os, and beer .duty ■en-2 3s. The great increase in enitoni* Inst month ,is due to the arrival of a Ir.rgo a .iniint of draucry which had been blocked for some time owing to the congesl'.iin of cargo. ft has been mentioned in these columns before, but it may be as well to mention it again: Parents o." next-of-kin who icecive advice from the Minister ot Defence that one of their relatives at the ■out is ill or wounded are allowed, upon production of the Minister's telegram, to stnd a cable, free of charge, inquiring into the nature of the wound. And in ten days or r fortnight later, another free cable inquiring as to the progress made by the injured soldier, is permitted.

.flicre was 'i most picturesque scene in Vnkckurn Park yesterday afternoon at tlie conclusion of the Band recital. The hills adjacent to the rotunda were, dotted with hundreds of people, and every seat and coign of vantage was occupied. At the first note of the National Anthem, every one, as if electrified, rose; every man's and every boy's head was bared, a'nd the crowd stood while the Band pi.iyed the air. 'the beautiful natural background of trees and ferns and rowers combined to lend an impressively ss of solemnity and grandeur to the familiar tune that is toe often lacking. Tn Saturday's notice of Air. Newton Ivng's Waiwakaih'i Bull Ktir several animals that are catalogued for sale were omitted from the advertisement. In today's issue full details are given. The Melbourne, Ltd., have full stocks ."•f men's working shirts as follows: 'yen's Harvard and flax shirts ■>< lid, .Is lid. ;!s lid and -Is Ud: men's blue grandv',.l shirts !>s lid, Us'(id, 4s fid, 5s fid; •nen's indigo advance drill shirts 4s lid; ess. drill shirts 5s fid; tweed shirts 4s I Id; engine.rs' and firemen's black satteen shirts 3s lid and 4s lid; flannel undershirts, all pure wool, 4s lid. . MAKE IT A HABIT. Make it one of your regular habits to keep Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea T.emedy in your home as a safeguard a.'ainst a sudden attack of bowel complaint. It is certain to be needed sooner or later and when that time comes it will be needed badly, it will be needed quickly. Sold everywhere-

At the Magistrate's Court on Saturday morning, a iirst offender for drunkenness wns convicted and discharged. The school children of Hawera. recently collected over 14,000 bottles to be sold on behalf of the fund for providing soldiers with Christmas comforts. Recently all the workmen of the Genen'. Electricity Company, Berlin, struck work because of the arrest of Dr. Liebnecht. The following morning 200 Cof :iiem were sent to the front. An American paper heads its' reports of the opening of the British offensive with the title, "Some .Fight," in big black letters. Our only comment on this heading is "Some Don't''—and they live mostly in U.S.-land.—Free Lance. \ew Zea'and products entered for export last week were valued as under:— Hotter ..-C3077, cheese £00!), frozen lamb £-> : 4»0, frozen mutton .£27,883, frozen Leef, etc., .118,580, gold' £57,00fi, grain and pulse £4oBG, hides and skins £1(1,!/<7, kauri gum £3BO, flax and tow £0338, tallow £0179, timber £4022, wool £40,407; total, £201,921. Some idea of the quantities of fertilisers imported into New Zealand may be gained from' the fact that since the war began 30.000 tons of ground raw phosphate has been received from Makaten Island, and 4000 tone from Ocean Island. This would represent a total of over 70,000 tons of manufactured superphosphate if it were all turned into this fertiliser, but a portion of the phosphate is used as a base for other manures. About .three-quarters of the imported phosphate from the sources mentioned was landed at the Port of Auckland.

That Germans should bo paid in their own coin with the "Hymn of Hate" was a suggestion made by Mr. Wiiford -.n the course ot a war lecture in Wellington. The German fcople failed to understand the psychology of the British. They decorated Lissancv; but the Tommies in the trencher, learnt the '''lm of 'Ate," and sang it with gusto. The •Hymn of Hate" should be printed, and a ropy placed in every British office,,warehouse, and shop, ?.o that when the German commercial traveller came again to woo he might read on the walls of the warehouse what Germany thought of the people whose money he was trying to get.

Our brave sailors were actually hooted upon their return from the Jutland battle when they landed in England, after participating in a fight in a manner which again showed the world that the ability and strength of the British Navy is not a myth, but still an established fact, imt that England is still Mistress of the •Seas (says a returned New Zealander). Many of these fine fellows were so completely overwhelmed that they wept bitterly. 'Twas truly an ungrateful and bitter welcome to glorious men who have fur years safeguarded and protected through trying ordeals our shores and o.ir commerce, and prevented onr foes from landing and invading old England.

The .greatest achievement in the history of advertising has been the use of its potent influence by the British Cio'•ernment since the outbreak of the war in August, 1!)14. A wonderful result was obtained in securing recruits and also in obtaining workers for the munition works. But in eomiection with the dotation of the loan the results were most marked. At a cost of £30,000 over I'OO millions were raised within a fortnight, or £3 for every £50,000 subscribed. It is only .fair to state that the advertising done by the British Government wes arranged by experts and did not take the form of the stereotyped fiat official intimations with which we are familiar.

In Hip course of nn appreciation of the late Majoi Arthur Martin "A Surgeon and a Man," Mr. E. D. Hoben, in the Christehurch Evening News, says: As a *i!7!>eon he was undoubtedly a genius, burn—and made. But beyond his proved worth as a consultant, diagnostician, and operator, he was a man of striking personality with exceptional faculty of expression and an immense capacity for study, research, and original thought. As a writer and speaker lie had the same c.'fts of inspiration, lucid exposition, ann direct act'on which had made his fame as a surgeon and made one of the minor towns in New Zealand a great medical centre. 1 to which people flocked for advice or treatment from all parts of the Dominion and from far beyond it—as far as Australia and America. At the Willowvale Stud Farm on Friday next, Mr. Newton King's dispersal s'lle of pedigree Holstoin-Fricsians will be held. This herd's reputation is known not only throughout Taranaki hut through the whole of the Dominion, as i'ic proge.iy of il\e cue Ihet have been sent from the province have proved equally as good as their dams, and the young bulls sent away have turned out great sires. One has only to turn up the record from time to time. As prizewinners this herd is quite without its I'oual in this class, having won chsimmon- • \ ips on end at all the best shows throughout the Dominion. The whole ■j" the catalogue mid the fifteen calves ivill be sold to the highest bidder.

Speaking in favour of herd testing at didhirst last scasnr, Mr. N. Fulton, 'airv instructor, said New Zealand was a i;ocd country for dairy cattle, and we had «s good dairj cattle as could be got in the world. There was now a good demand for those cattle, more particularly in America. We had started on tne lines of obtaining good authentic stock, and if we continued on the Unci 01 authentic records foi our dairy cattle people would turn their attention more and more to our cattle, and we would lie able to supply the world's markets. He further stressed the importance of fanners obtaining pedigree bulls with authentic '.'arentage iccords. In this connection '.t behoves Taranaki dairymen to take 'peeial note of the big list of pedigree llolsteiii-Friesiaiis. which will be offered r.t Mr. Newton King's dispersal sale at Bell Block on Friday next. In this issue we publish a preliminary advertisement in connection with Mr. Kewton King's Inglewood horse fair and Inglewood bull fair Entries are invited. In Mr. Newton King's advertisement in connection with the Inglewood sales it vas stated that his next Inglewood sale would be held on Wednesday, October 4. ! 'Jiis should have read Wednesday, October 11. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., notify that there is likely to be a good demand for springin.'; heifers at their Stratford sale or Tuesday, and that clients would do well to yard this class of stock, THE POISONING OF THIRTY GIRLS in a Melbourne factory by eucalyptus lollies which were evidently made from the common eucalyptus brings home forcibly the importance of using onlv the GENUINE SANDER EUCALYPTI EXTRACT internally. SANDER'S EXTRACT sniffed up the nose and throe drops on sugar, is a sure and safe protection fiom meningitis and other infections. Applied to ulcers, poisoned wounds, spring, chilblains, eeiajna, SANDER'S EIKTRACT bring* „o,ui<* ft. ■Uef and DermafcenJ cu£%" . ■.,*,-• J '' '•■ ■ '■-'•'Xr %("•-■