LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mails which left New Zealand on September 15 arrived in London on 22nd hist.

The first new potatoes on the Dunedin market realised 12Jd per lb. for 401b. and lOd per lb. for nnothei lot.

The hostesses for Friday's patriotic tea in Eahotu Hall are Misses E. Dew, Daisy and Hilda Wright and Mrs. Robert Newport.

A London cable states that in the New Zealand appeal ease of Gillies v. the Gane Milking Machine Company judgment was reserved.

A Press Association message says that at the Wanganui Court yesterday, the Magistrate, Mr. Hewitt, fined two lads each £5 for not attending parades.

A London cable states that over four million boys and girls have this month subscribed £'15,000 towards the "Jack Convwell" fund to endow a ward for disabled sailors.

A.man was arrested by plain clothes Constable Fitzgibbon yesterday charged with stealing a raincoat from the White Mart Hotel. The accused will be brought before the Magistrate's Court this morning. The Gishorne Licensing Bench decided not to grant a conditional license for th« Turf, Club's races, the chairman remarking that members wanted to follow the example set by the King, and thought it not desirable to grant any more licenses during the currency of the war. A Wanganui Sister on the Maheno, writing to her relatives about the vessel's trip from France to England, stated that they carried over 11,000 wounded. Owing to the smallncss of the ship and the difficulty of loading and unloading the wounded, the writer doubted if the Maheno would be kept long in Home waters. At Auckland, in May last. Mrs M. Rudd, formerly of New Plymouth, was knocked down by a motor-car and sustained serious injuries, SubsequcntlJ an action was brought by Mr. and Mrs. Rudd against the owner of the car. and on Thursday last the case was concluded, £IOO general damages and £0!) 15s special damages being awarded plaintiffs, with costs totalling £l7 Ms. Writing to the Auckland Star, Mr. Kirkcaldie contradicted a statement by Mr. Parr, late Mayor of Auckland, that General Sir William Robertson is a Scotsman, with a marked Scottish accent. He says. "General Robertson, is a Lincolnshire man, and when he enlisted in the army was a speaker of the Linolnshire dialect. Apparently he has not lost it vet,"

The followirig extract, which' strikes an heroic note, is from a letter received by a Wnnganui man from the father of one of the officers who fell in the recent fighting in France:—"Our boy died the death he hoped to die, for in -a letter to us just prior to the big assault at Flenri he said that if only their efforts were succesful he could die happy. He wiu leading his men when he received serious wounds in the legs and abdomen. His mother and I find great consolation in the fact he lived so he died—faithful to his duty."

A resilient of Midliirst claimed damages from the Taranak'i Education Board in respect of three heifers which; he said, lost their lives through licking paint from the grass at Radnor school. The writer said the paint had been spilt by the Board's carpenters. The heifers were valued at £ls. The overseer (Mr. C. H. Moore) said it was debatoable whether the cuttle should have been near the spot. The matter was referred to the chairman for his report. Mr. Stanley Grant, representing J. C. Williamson, Ltd., was in town jesterday to make arrangements for the pre sentation of the celebrated picture spectacle, "The Birth of a Nation," ,which will be shown at the Empire Theatre at an early date. Mr. Grant states that a staff of eleven people, including two operators, two electricians, a stage manager, a musical director, and others, accompany the picture, with a special plant. "Things that were done by German soldiers in Suvalki, things in my own house which I myself saw, cannot be told. Things were defiled in a way which it would seem nothing but degeneracy could explain." The foregoing is a portion of a crushing reply by the Marquise Do G'ozdawa, a Polish refugee, to allegations against the Russians made by Judge Nippcrt, of New York, who, filled with conceit by the condescension of the Kaiser, is now vilifying Russia. The inßri|itisc says:—''Every holy image in the churches, every cottage ikon with the image of the Virgin or saint was defiled. When 1 returned to my'own house 1 found untenable tilings had been done with everything that was finest and most delicate. A beautiful library, with old manuscripts, was deliberately ruined."

A young man named H. Jenkins, employed at the Motor Transport's garage, mct~\vith a very painful accident on Tuesday. He was engaged in starting a ear, when the machine back-fired, with the result that his right wrist was badly crushed and bruised. An X-ray examination*at the hospital yesterday morning disclosed that while no bones were, broken, the bones'and cartilages of the hand anil wrist had been displaced. Mr. Jenkins, who will bo disabled from working for several weeks, has been singularly unfortunate lately, as he had only resumed work a few weeks ago after being disabled for two months "with a broken wrist (the right) as the result of a backfire from a car in the same garage. Letters were received at the Taranaki Education Board's meeting yesterday from the Te Roti, Tikorangi, and Lepperton school committees, protesting against the "arbitrary action of the Board in depriving the committees of the right to close the local schools in case of an epidemic breaking out." The committees considered they were in a better position than the Board to judge the wisdom of closing or keeping open the schools in cases of emergency. Mr. S. G. Smith supported the views of the committees, and again expressed his disapproval of the circular the Board had sent to committees. The tendency, he said, was to deprive school committees of all authority. Members disagreed with Mr. Smith, and considered the Board should in all cases be consulted when the closing of schools was ir. question. It was decided to "receive" the .letter* ' " "•

A cable message states that tlio Paris Academy of Science lias awarded a geographical prize of £4OO to. Sir Ernest Shaekleton in consideration of his Antarctic explorations. "We are not seriously affected by the War Regulations," remarked Mr. R. Masters, chairman of the Taranaki Education Board at the meeting yesterday. "Only six or seven schools are concerned, and notices dispensing with the services of the temporary male assistants of these schools have been sent out." A movement has been started in London, headed by the Lord Mayor, to confer the Freedom of the City on the three flying officers, Lieutenants Brandon, Sowrey, and Robinson, who have been instrumental in bringing down Zeppelins. Brandon is the Wellington boy who has the honor of downing the first Zejipelin in England. The planet Jupiter, which is visible in the north-east after sunset, made its nearest approach to the earth at 1.30 p.m. yesterday, a position it attains once "every 12 years. Had the sky not been overcast yesterday the planet, with its four moons, would have been discernible with the aid of ordinary opera glasses, white a telescope, magnifying 12 diameters, would hap shown the disc of the planet.

The German submarine menace has not appeared so formidable lately, but (says a writer in the London Evening Standard) I hear from a traveller that Germany is making great efforts to attain another "success" like the Lusitania. With this object, it is said, a man recently jumped overboard from a certain liner. The captain, however, refused to stop his ship. Afterwards the man's cabin was searched, and it was discovered that he had plunged overboard for the Fatherland, in order to slow down the ship, and so present an easy prey to the lurking submarines. "The worst part of this life," recently wrote Trooper A. Philps of the N.Z. Mounted Rifles operating in the Canal zone, to his mother, Mrs G. A. Philps, of Rongotea, "is the continual loss of sleep It takes more out of a man than loss of food. Men who are wounded in tin .skirmishes here often a long way from camp, have a rough time getting back. The terrific heat and the flies and the shortage of water knocks them out. and then they have to be carted in light spring carts, or in cradles rigged up on the sides of camels. In this way wounds that would not be considered serious under ordinary circumstances often proved fatal." The system under which stipends of clergymen in the Auckland diocese arc paid through the vestries instead of through the diocesan office was condemned in unmeasured terms by Bishop Averill at the Anglican Synod. "The system," he said, "is a disgraceful one, and if men had not large hearts and large souls they would never consent to take Holy Orders and to be treated in such a way." He said that ho knew of many humiliations to which the clergy were subjected under the present system. They should be paid their stipends in a* honorable and respectful way, and this could, be done only through the diocesan office. "The clergy," the bishop added, "have feelings as well as other people. They have to live, many of them on a miserable pittance, and at least it should be given to them in a decent way." "Thee will be a great boom in tho building trade, not only here, but all over tin, world,.after the war cease 3." Such is the opinion of Mr G. Simpson, who was discussing a paper on some increases in the cost of building at a meeting <of the Technological branch of the Otago Institute oh Tuesday night. Mr Simpson believes that people who are holding back in the expectation that building will be cheaper after the war, are making a great mistake. His reason for so thinking is that the enormous amount of rebuilding required in such places as the North of France after the war will keep prices up. Then here we have largely stopped building during the past two years, and the same thing has happened in the Old Courtly, so that the moment the war stops there will be a vast amount of buil'ing work to be gone on with. Half a century ago (says the Wellington Post), three residents of Wellington —Messrs. Chas.F. Worth, Charles Gillespie, arid William Christian Smith, who were bosom friends —entered into a compact that when they died each one's cof. (in should be encased in concrete in such a way that the whole block could be lifted out of the grave and removed to another part of the distinct should the ground be required for building or other purposes. Mr. Smith, who was an architect and builder, drew up plans and specifications for the proposed graves," and he and Messrs. Worth and Gillespie signed an agreement in connection with their novel arrangement. Messrs. Worth and Gillespie, who died some years ago, were buried in accordance with tho trio's peculiar scheme. Mr. Smith passed away recently, and his coffin was lowered into a bed of concrete in Karori Cemetery, tho mode of interment being identical with that followed in connection with the burial of his two old friends. The finest towel values in the Dominion are to be found at the Melbourne, Ltd. For example: extra large white towels measuring 27 x (10 inches, 2s pair; large heavy striped towels measuring 24 x 48 inches, best English make. 2s Cd pair, and a special line of large brown striped linen towels, Is Od each. It's wisdom to buv these now.

Mr. DAIjtY FARMER! As a progresshe dairyman what you arc after and perhaps already using is SYKES' DREXCH! Why? For these five sound and convincing reasons: 1. Because it makes cows clean quickly in the natural way. 2. Because it prevents Catarrhal discharge which is apt to result in contagious abortion. 3. Because it will cleanse the blood and act as a safeguard against Milk Fever. 4. Because it will jet as a tonic, not a purgative, and tone up the digestive organs. S. Because it has the iargest eale of any Cattle Drench in Australasia, and is regularly used and recommended by breeders of Stud Stock and Dairymen everywhere. Stocks in all dairying'centres. Price Is Cd per packet, His per dozen. It costs 8d to drench a cow-.

The Xew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., wish to draw the attention of the public to their supplementary bull fair, which they are hold.ing in their Stratford yards on Monday, October 30, at 12.30 p.m. Full particulars will be found in our advertising columns on page 8 of this issue."

Mr. A, De Bavay, the eminent analytical chemist of 'Melbourne, testified, at the Supreme Court of Victoria that SAXDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT compares with other eucalyptus products like well-rollned and matured brandy compares with raw spirit. By insisting on the (JENUIXE SANDER. EXTRACT you will get t:.e advantage of quality and will be safe from harm' ful by-effects. No experimenting with SANDER'S EXTKACT, ' '