LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 October 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tim Commercial Hussars ami iSwaukt-rs' Hand are arriving from Winganui on Friday iti^lit, ill costume.

Xlie sum 1 of €1") lias been added to the Comforts Week Fund as a mult of tho patriotic golf tournament at Waiwakailio links on Monday. As a sequel to the raid on a "twoup" school oil Saturday, thirty-seven men appeared in the Auckland court yesterday. The principals were fined £75 each, and all the others, 34 in number, £3 end costs.—Press Association.

To-night all tlic local Pierrots are reminded to attend the musical rehearsal, for Saturday's proceedings,. at the Soldiers' Club. Helpers are also wanted for the wrapping of the hundreds of Sale" parcels at Hookers' Sample Rooms. On the motion of Mr. Billing (Messrs. Weston and Weston), probate of the will of the late \V. J. B. Paton was, on the 20th inst., granted by Mr. Justice Edwards to the executrix named in the Will. In the estate of the late L. P. Sole, administration of the will annexed was, on the 10th inst., granted to the applicant by the Chief Jusice (Sir Pvobert Stout), on the motion of Mr. Billing (Messrs. Weston and Weston). No fewer than 307,500 bottles of all sorts and sizes have been collected by the school children of Dunedin and suburbs in aid of the Belgian Fund. These will be offered for sale shortly. Why not a Taranaki bottle collecting scheme? The Wangamii mercantile houses have decided to give daylight-saving a trial, commencing from the Ist of next month. The offices will open at 5.30 instead of !) o'clock, and close at 4.30 instead of 5 p.m., as at present. These hours have been tried for the last two years by one local house, with, the Chronicle understands, with most gratifying results. A Press Association message says that the New Zealand Veterans' Association lias received advice from the Commissioner of Pensions that the number of Maori War veterans in receipt of pensions is 127."), died during the year 112, died up to date 370. The association lias set up a committee to make representations to the Government to secure the old age pension in addition to the war pension for veterans in need. Say? the Farmers' Advocate:—For years past the producers of this country have realised that our produce has contributed heavy profits to middlemen in England whose connection witTi the big American meat companies has long been recognised though not always definitely prove.i . Since the outbreak of war, tho independent butcher lias largely been pushed ojt of the trade, and every day the grip of the Trust has been (manifestly strengthened, and unless some very strong measures are adopted to prevent it, the bulk of the trade will be in their hands.

A boy named Cecil Bullot, the son of Mr. H. W. Bullot, of Westown, was admitted to the New Plymouth hospital suffering from a pea-rifle wound in the head. It appears that on Saturday last the boy Bullot and his cousin. George Ferguson, were playing together in Frankley Road, when the latter took a pea-rifle* with which he purposed to shoot rats. Ferguson went away and was soon afterwards joined by Bullot. Ferguson tried to take a cartridge out of the rifle, but it jammed. Ferguson continued to work at the weapon, and it exploded unexpectedly 'The bullet penetrated Bullot's jaw, and seriously injured him. Bullot's condition is described as serious.

Judgment, by default, was given for plaintiff, by Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, in the following undefended civil actions:—Joseph West v. Alma Henry Gilbert, farmer, Mntapu, £B, costs £1 4s Cd; Webster Brothers v. Mrs. B. M. Adams, Hawera, £lO 2s 7d, costs £1 10s Od; G. Pearce v. A, Whittington, borough employee, New Plymouth, £3 ss, costs 10s. Frederick William Bismark, a laborer, of Fitaroy, was ordered to pay Bain and Co. fid Sa forthwith, in default 14 days' imprisonment, the order to be suspended provided defendant paid £5 at once, and tlie balance on or before November 30. It was pointed out at last week's meeting of the Farmers' Union executive that the tax on butter-fat was a particular class tax, and a very restricted one. It was a question between one section of the community and another section, admittedly the hardest-worked section of the producing community. The small farmer was to be taxed to relieve another section of the community, which was a small section compared with th« farming community. The fact was stressed that owing to the shortage of labor, farmers were to-day working long hours which they knew in many instances worked out at something like fld per hour; and the question was asked— What man in the town would work for !ld per hour? The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile wish to draw the attention of clients to their sale wliieli they a'c holding in their Matau yards on Friday, October 27, at 1 o'clock. Full particulars will be found in our advertising columns on page 8 of this issue. White marcella quilts in good variety have opened out at the Melbourne cx "Delphic." Prices are as follows: Ten quarter size, lis Od; twelve quarter, 15s Od; better qualities eleven quarter 15s (id; twelve quarter, 18s Od. These goods having been bought before the recent heavy advances now show a considerable saving over present day prices.

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