LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

- A Wellington press message states that- judgment '.vas reserved in the Seoul--Ib-: case. As the result of Saturday's campaign, Mr. A. B. Gibson, secretary of the local bmnch of the Hod Cross, yesterday forwarded the sum of £SOO to the Ked Cnss headquarters in Wellington. inquiries mauc at the hospital yesterday eeilicted the information that tli-> condition of the I: -y, Cecil who was admitted on Saturday suffering; froi.i a pea-rife bullet wound in the head, is much improved. .At a meeting in Palmerston North on Monday, it was decided that the propose! memorial to Dr. Martin s'.-u'd hie'.'. O.k for:r of i ,Hn !nrslii|> for ineiieal students, and that a bust of i!ie doctor be erected at the hospital. This proposal replaces the old one to add a memorial ward to the hospital. Newton King in this issue publishns particulars of his Urenui. Stony River, Okau, and Uruti sales. The lists contain several lines of nice cattle.

Tim guessing competition conducted by Mr.\ Hocbtick, in aid o f the Soldiers' (.'■/intods Kund ivaa <lr. wu at the Coronation Uull on W'odi-.c-iiii . night. The prh*-. a cake, went . t .. , ( , .lames, who drew the winning number, A'S7, Tlie comnctitiou rcii'-scd the sum of .Ci 10s.

The Chief Postmaster, Xnv Plymouth, has been adviser.! that a supply of forms of applications for registration' of orchards will reach him shortly for distri'.ution to per.-ons growing fruit trees, who arc bound to register their orchards or gardens. The supply should be available in a day or two. A Wellington contractor informed a rewrted last week that the scarcity of good labor was acute at the present tin.- in Wellington. Several contracts could not be l.ndertaken owing to the lev- good laborers available. In many instances contractors wero assisting otlurs in lending the services of their permanent hands. Sentence of twelve months' imprison-m.-'it, reduced bv tlie confirming authority to nine months, has been promulgated in the case of Bernard Charles Strokdale, a colliery blacksmith, in England who wa's recently tried by courtlmvtial for chopping off his triggerlirger to evade military service. His deience was 'that he did it in a fit of temper, caused by being arrested at the coll.cry.

According to ?ome statistics quoted by the Rev. J. L. A. Kayll, at the sitting of the Anglian Synod recently, there wore 80,000 persons over the age of 15, in 1913. in the Auckland diocese, who were returned a« members of the Church of Kngland. >)f this number, lie said, only 9090. were enrolled as communicants. Of the estimated number of males over tlie age of 21. less than 14 pev cent, were registered. In the year mentioned. 3322 Church of England children were born in the diocese, and only 2547 were baptised, thus showing a 10-.ii of about 15 per cent. The ChurcA -of .England, Mr. Kayll added, had married only 55 per cent, of its proportion of brides, whilst some other denomination had married more than their proportion. In burials, he observed, amidst lnrpjiler. the Church "showed up well." with nearly SO per cent. The weekly offerings represented an average of less than a penny iier head of the Church population. Those figures. Mr. Kayll remarked, made "a bad showing."

The Melboiir->o Ltd. announce the arrival of a superb lot of Swiss embroideries inactions and all-over embroideries on line quality longcloths direct from manufacturers. All widths are represented and the prices range from 2d to 3s (>n per yd.