LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Eltham Bras? Band which has been established 13 years, has, it is slated, decided to temporarily disband. Mi-ftrs. Ecesley, Crabtrce, and Nuttall have been appointed trustees. > A motor ear, belonging to and driven by Mr. Lightband, with seven adult male puss-engers (eight with driver) made the trip from Now Plymouth to the Mountain House yesterday in 1 hour and three minutes. If this is not a record, it must be very close to it.

At Auckland on Thursday, a youth ! •vas committecd for sentence for destroyin;;' eight postat packets at Onehunga. The lad was a telegraph messenger, and had been given a letter-carrier's duty. He stated that as h< had been Met through for several days running he tore the letters up so that he would not have to walk to deliver them. A North Auckland family ha 9 contributed seven sons towards the war. The father of the family is Mr. J. H. Saies, a Umber worker, of Whangaroa, and the boys who have left for the front are .lames, Frederick, Bert, Joseph, Arthur, Fdwai'd, and Alfred. Alfred has been killed in action and two of ( the others arc wounded. There are still three other sons in this patriotic family and it is possible that the list will be added to shostly. 'We are having a great time here," writes a recently initiated member of the 22nd. Reinforcements who is at present at Trentham. The weather is getting more settled, and ere long we'll nave summer upon us. There are 4000 of us in camp, and it is quite a fair-siy.i-u town. The hours are regular, tha food good, and the training hard. Nothing more is wanting to make us fit. We are fortunate in having very fine officers, we have a piano in our hut and many a happy evening is spent there." It was stated by one speaker at the Hastings branch of the Farmers' Union that one Iniyo? 'n the Hawk'e's Bay had recently purchased 50.000 lambs, at a very high figure, viz., 10s. He said that buyers find Pit information which the farmers were not aware of, and it was the duty of the Government to enquire into the circumstances. It meant that prices were going to be very high. Another speaker pointed out that unless the lambs were of a heayv sort they would not pay for the freezing. The Hawera Star reports a notewoithy instance of endurance on the part of a girl 15 years of age. The other morning the girl, who resides at Kakaramea, was sent to catch a horse belonging to her parents. The animal had strayed out of the paddock on to the public highway, and was making for Manaia, from where it had come originally.. The girl i'i llowcd the horse on foot to Manaia, a distance of 27 miles. She rode the animal back as far as Manutahi, where she became exhausted, and seme friends who were searching for her, took her in for the night. The girl left home at seven in the morning, and did not reach Manutahi until 10 o'clock p.m. I'renni has responded nobly to the Empire's cause, botli with men and irouey, It has a good record in conrcet:on with the fund for Christmas ormforts for the boys at the front, ra'sing its quota of £2O in less than two days. One lady, who has a reputation as a hustler that oven the Wanganui Hussars could not dim, raised £6 5s on an accordion by means of Is guesses, and increased thi to £lO by tiie sale of violets donated by Mr. Halcombe. Violets were surely at a premium, on that day in Urenui. no less than seven bunches being sold at £1 apiece.

A queer old relic of Trafalgar Day was exhibited in a Cliristclmrcli shop window last week, this being an old naval telescope said to have been used by Lord Nelson on board the Victory. The instrument is about three feet long and of the naval "one draw" type, having a easing of polished wood. It is said that the telescope was given bv Lord Nelson to Admiral Hardy, and afterwards given to Commander E. W. Newenham. R.N. It is now held by Mr W. E. A. Newenham, R.N.Z.A., Christchiirch, to whom it was given by his father, the itte Mr W. H. Newenham, of Wellington, who was the late Commander Nowen'iam's brother.

Only within these past few days we have heard, in reply to our enquiries an:oiigst the ir.cn on the spot, that the health of Trentham camp is "rotten," says the Feilding Star, and adds: This phrase is that of a mnn on the spot, who has been in loth camps over a period of several months. "Why," reported our informant, "they have actually again turned our poor sick soldiers out of "the special hospital in the jockeys' room on the Trentham racecourse in order that they might hohl the Wellington races. D.imn their r,u'"«! Why should they be allowed to hold race meetings, anyway, Win we want men for fighting, not for loafing?" The following story is in circulation in Christcluiroh —About the time the KUh Reinforcements was called for some sin;... men on the West Coast were twitted about having put their names down as recruits for the IStli draft. A peifly bookmaker called them shirkers, and advanced it as his opinion that the 18th would n"ver be asked for. He supported his opinion by offering 10 to 1, in any amount, that the war would be over bet:i:'e the draft was called up. The lads toe'/ him up—lo of them—at a fiver a piece. Rumor is that the £SOO will be paid out within the next few d:.vs. , The story is told of a terrible disappointment that befel a "sojer" out at Trentham. They were having a two hours go at trench digging, and our iiere-to-be had not dug far before he came on a fine bright roberto. Then lie was gratified to pick up half a dollar Then, a little later, he scooped up a tanner, a deuce in copper.-: and half a crown. Needless to say, he proved soire digger as visions of hidden treasure rose before his mental vision, and soon the perspiration was rolling in beads from his nian'y for'ed. Ho straightened his back at last, and as he did so lie :'elt something sliding down the leg of his denims. Then the truth flashed upon him. There was a hole in his pants' pockets and he had been sinking liis own capital as fast as he dug it up. DANGERS OF WHOOPING COUGH.

Whooping Cough is much more dangerous than is generally supposed. More deaths result from it than from scarlet fever. There is little if any danger, how. ever, when it is properly treated. Give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and it will keep the cough loose, liquify the touga Mucus and aid in its expectoration. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been iiiid in many epidemics of Whooping Cough and always with the best result*. .Sold everywhere.

Tlie Prime Minister and Sir Joseph Ward cannot obtain in London a nicer 'beverage than Desert Gold Tea, which you can eniov every day, 1