LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wellington reports that war loan certificates issued through the Post Ofliee have now reached a total of £1,040,000. In the Supreme Court, Auckland, yesterday, the Crown Solicitor intimated that the six charges against Run no* dealt with at the original trial would not be proeeeded with, the position being that accused can be called to answer these charges at any time. Judgment, by default, was given for plaintiff in the following undefended vivil cases heard before Mr. A. Crookn, S.M., in the Ma«istra'.e's Court vcst»rday morniu: A. Hatrick and Co., Ltd., v. Alan V). Cuff, motor garage proprietor, Stratford, CO os 4d; Christopher Carter v, A. 11. Gilbert, farmer, Matapu, £2:>. A complaint was received by the East End Reserve Committee last evening that the life-saving apparatus on the reserve had been seriously damaged by vandal'. Members of the committer: warmly expressed their indignation at the thoughtless conduct of the irresponsible persons who had committed the mischief. The committee resolved to do its best to protect the property of tin! Surf Club.

At the Magistrate's Court. Rotorua. yesterday, before Mr. Dyer, S.M., Mi:a Tnupoki and George. Tait were each fined £2O and costs on a charge of attempting to shout for one anojher. They passed money to one another in the hotel bar in view of a constable. Notice of appeal was given.—Press Association.

In reply to n question regarding the employment of interned :i! : ens on road works, the Minister for Defence, lion. James Allen, stated in Auckland last week that, provided local bod'os e/uarantecd the behaviour, control and safety of the men, he saw no reason why they should not be utilised. if application were made, the Government would consider the matter.

A judgment debtor appeared in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, and was called upon to explain why he had not paid a debt amounting to £4 lf>?. Debtor said he was a married man with two children. He was an engineer by trade, but for some time, past had been laboring. From May 2nd to October 2nd he had earned £27 10s 3d. He had paid £1 off the debt, but he had been unable to pay any more. He was questioned as to how much he had spent in drink. He replied that the amount spent in his way was not more than is per week. No order was made. A meeting of representatives from Kltliam, Te Koti, Muiala, Ofakcho, Okaiawa, Normauby, Opunakr. and Hawera was held at llawcra last w:>ek, under the chairmanship of U:e W:i. Archdeacon, of Waitotara, to consider the formation of a new Anglican parochial district, with Normanby as tin. cntre. The Archdeacon and the vicar of llawera briefly jutlined the proposed scheme. After considerable dUciission, a resolution was carried approving of the formation of a new parochial d!strict, to comprise Normanßy, Te Koti, Rata, Kiri and Fraser road, Matapu, Ararata, Mereinere and Okaiawa, subject to certain difficulties yet t 0 be settled. —Stai.

Tim Christmas ''smokes" for soldiers' tin, specially prepared by the New Plymouth Patriotic Committee, will assuredly b. l one of the most popular gifts for the men at the front. The tin contain? four plugs of Havelock tobacco and rive packets of Three Castles cigarettes, and is put up in a specially designed colored label. Stamped ready for posting it eosti only .'is. Bought in th° ordinary waj it could not be got for less than (Is (id. Orders are being taken by f he Taranaki Daily News, .1. Avery, Ltd., C. Carter, J. Abbott, Gilmour and (.'.arke. Country readers may send 'o any of the above, with soldier's Mill a l.lreo? and a small card or note to be enclosed. The tin, like a letter, goes straight to the soldier, and will be posted in time to reach him for Christmas.—W. J. Chaney, lion, treasurer.

New suits for men and boys are in fine selection at the Melbourne, Ltd. An excellent array of the very finest materials procurable, cut and finished in the ri',-bt fashion, and at prices always lower than competitors. Boys' tweed and fine serge sport suits in fine variety. Every woman has a chance of getting something for nothing by saving Camels off DESERT GOLD TEA packets. There are £SO in Prizes, and hundreds of consolation gift prizes, 2

The funeral of the late Private E. fi. TuiiircejifT, who died at Trentham on .S:ititr<luy, last which was previously announced would take, place • to-day, Ims been postponed until to-morrow.

At the Hnwerti N.M". Court yesterday. Paul Crcsscy pleaded guilty to three informations under the Stamp Act, in that he signed three receipts, liable for ■stamp duty, without affixing the necessary stumps as required by law, and was fined tl() on the first information, and i:5 on each of the other two informations, with costs.

The Chronicle reports that the first prosecution in Wanganui for breach oi the anti-shouting law resulted j» three young men being fined .'los each yesterday, whilst the barmaid who supplied them was fined 10s and had her license suspended for six months'. In the ease of the licensee, judgment was reserved.

The return of the hospital ships Marania and Maheno is, says the Dominion, due to instructions from the Imperial authorities. The Australian hospital ships are-also being used to bring back wounded soldiers. Some Australian wounded were brought by the Marama, and it is expected that one or more of the Australian vessels may come here with New Zealand wounded. The date of return of the vessels to home waters is not yet known. There was much discussion at the Solidcrs' Comforts Week Committee meeting yesterday as to the wisdom of allowing children with decorated exhibits to participate in the procession on Monday next, and it was eventually decided that they should not be, but should assemble at the AVhitclcy Hall with their exhibits and join the procession. One elderly member of the committee was emphatic that it would be a mistake to allow children with floral exhibits and pets in the procession. He claimed to speak from experience, "for," ho said, "I was a decoration in Mrs. ~—'s car last year—yet she won first prize:"

That gifts for soldiers;do roach their destination is proved by every mail, for letters are continually arriving acknowledging the same. At yesterday's mooting of the Soldiers' Comforts Week Committed Mrs. Burgess exhibited a label from one of the tins of butler that had been despatched, among other Sifts, many months ago by the Women's Patriotic Committee, to Egypt. .The label bore the woiyls, "Butter gift'from Mr. Hughes, Oinata, New Plymouth. We hope this butter will reach you in good condition. Please let us know if possible. Xevv Plymouth Women's Patriotic Committee."' The gifts eventually found the destination in France, having been forwarded there from Egypt, and this particular tin of butter fell to the lot of Sergeant R. P. flreatbaeh. of New Plymouth who enclosed the label, which is as olean as on the day it was type-written, in a letter to the Ladies' Committee. Two delightful stories of the lia.bu Indian are forwarded liv a correspondent with the South Africans in German East Africa. The Indians poetically run the raihvavs in O'-nuin fast Africa, and one of the lud : .in stationmasters at some little siding sen'; the following wive, to headquarters:—"Station attacked by Hermans. Please send soldiers. Ami personally proceeding to jungle." In the sorond vase a Babu statioimiastor in almost demicM circumstances proved that he was made of sterner stuff. Jie was about the most laconic, competent,-deadly earnest stationmaster and marksman combined that ever lived. A regiment of men such as lie would end the war, ror this is the wire lie sent: '-One bundled Germans attacking the station. Send immediately one rille and 100 rounds .".mm'jnition."

Fifty tins (cadi four Dillons) of whitebait is the estimated quantity of these little fishes required to satisfy (Jreymontli's daily menu (say; the Argus) detailed at about £1 pr.- tin, tliis is equivalent to an expenditure of £,')!) daily on a welcome delicacy, <vpoeia!ly ir. this part of the Dominion, where tis'h are none too plentiful, the icon] factories aa yet are unable to obtain full supplies. The price offend on Friday for canning purposes \v:i' 12s nor tin. Several lots of the whitebait have lieen sent to Ohristchureh, and a steamer which left the wharf for Wellington direct early in the week is reported to have had three tins placed on .hoard at a cost of £2 10s per tm. All that is needed to make the imhisi-y a continued success, as well us coiisidfrtb'y lessening prices, is a eor.tinu.ince of good weather and the absence of floods from West Coast streams.

A case involving patent rights was heard by his Honor th? Chief dustice (Sir Robert Stout) at Wellington on Friday, when .1. B. MacEivan and Co., holders of a patent right :n a machine used for agitating milk ir. t!>e process of cheese-making, askc! lor the issue of a writ of attachment against .Joseph Ilopkirk, of Hnwcra. Ilopkirk i» til? maker of an agitator, and it is alleged hy MacEwa'n and Co. that his machine is an infringement of thoir patent. As the result of recent litigation, it was held by the Court of Appeal that Ilopkirk had infringed MaclCwan and Co.'s patent. It was contended in previous cases' that the difference in the machines was in the way t'i» blades were set. llacKwan and Co. now claim that Ilopkirk has attempted to evade the decision of the Court of Appeal by setting the blades o'f his machine lnngtiiuui/snlly instead of alternatively lpngtitiitlniaHy and transversely, as is the ease of MacKwnn and Co.'s patent, and also that the blades are made removable, so that it would bt easy to alter them for a transverse set. On this ground the application for a writ of attachment was made. The hearing was adjourned. The annual genera' meeting of tin Park Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club will be held at the Soldiers' Club this (Wednesday) evening, at S o'clock. j SIELBOURXE, LTD., SHIRTS. • GREAT VALUES.

Paradoxical as it may seem, the Melbourne, notwithstanding the high prices of shirtings, has never before offered such low prices on men's shirts. The reason is not far to seek. We are now manufacturing our own shirts, and as the materials have been advantageously imported direct from Home manufacturers we are enabled to eliminate the wholesalers' and' other middlemen's profits and sell on a rock bottom basis never before attained by us. Result, these prices, which tell a wonderful story of underselling competitors: Men's Harvard shirts, -2? lid, 3s (id, 3s lid, •1s lid; men's blue grandrill shirts, 2s lid, 3s (id, 4a fid, 5s 0<l; men's S.S.S. drill shirts, 4s lid; men's black sateen shirts, 3s lid and 4s (id; men's Union shirts, 4s lid; men's white matte tennis and neglige shirts, 3s lid; men's white mercerised striped repps and fancies, 4s lid; ecru mercerised stripes, 4s lid; "hoys' tennis shirts a{l sizes, 2s lis and 3s Odj,