LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Taranaki men of the Twentieth Reinforcements will arrive by the mail train 10-niiflit on their final leiivc. The rainfall at Inglewood for October totalled 13.40 inches.' The heaviest falls were on the 2l)th, with 2.14; on the 10th 1.1)0; and on the 24th, I.sft.

On Saturday, a Hawcr.i lady lost a, hand-bag, in which she had a latter and C 4 in notes. On Tuesday she received through the post the hand-bag and letter, but no notes.

Mr. YV. T. Jennings, M.P. for 't'auniarunui, has received word from the (iovermnent that the application for a technical school for Te Kuiti had been granted.

Weather and circumstance:! permitting, the New Plymouth Citizens' Band will play at. Kawaroa Park on Sunday nc\l, when the pavilion will he open for the first time to a Sunday "atlicr'n.' since its remodelling-.

On the motion of Mr. Quillhm. of New Plymouth, the Supreme Court has granted probate of the wills of Mrs. Mary Josephine Murphy, late of Opuuake, and Lanee-Scrgeant Kenneth 0. Curtis, late of Inglewood, to the executors therein named.

In the Hawera Magistrate's Court yesterday, five youths, railway enginecleaners, pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering'the Hawera railway refreshment rooms. - They were committed for sentence.—Press Association.

It is stated tliat a certain snail dastroyer may be made from the following mi.vhiri': Two double hamUful of br.tn, one cup of sugar, one 10/:spoo>ifi;i of Paris green. Mix dry and leave about the garden. Local lcsidonts v. ho have tried this specific state thai, the snail?, like the mixture and next morning are fotuv.l dead in largo numbers Victor Ciunson was charged in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, that on October 10 he rode a bicycle on the footpath in McLean Street, F..tsroy. T)u fendant did not appear, and evidence of the occurrence was given by Inspector P. Tippens. Defendant was convicted and fined 10s. Tin case against Emma Quick-fall, wlio was charged with failing to register n dog, was adjourned until Wednesday next.

At Dannovirko Magistrate's Court yesterday, Charles Lawrence Noilsen, an employer who under stress of work prevented an employee from attending the animal or casual camp, was fined £lO and J2s costs by Mr. W. (i. Kendrick, S.M. Defendant had applied for exemption, which was refused, but word only came to hand two days after the casual camp had started, and then he considered it was too late for the employee to attend.

Campers-out report that a monster sea leopard came ashore at the mouth of the Toko river last Thursday having evidently been washed up by the high tides (says the Bruce Herald). The leopard measured over 10 feet in length, and was an object of interest to visitors. They pushed it back into the /ivor with manuka sticks, the animal barking and biting viciously. After regaining the water it swam away, but was feen again on another point of the beach across the river. It eventually regained the water, and disappeared. Further consideration has been given by the Chief Justice to the long-standing ease of J. W. Baker v. Francis Joseph Worloy, otherwise known as F. J. Barton, proprietor of Barton's Circus. The claim wns one for possession of certain animals temporarily housed in the Wellington Zoo, and damages for alleged wrongful detention. After hearing evidencce in support of plaintiff? claim, His Honor granted the application of defendant's counsel for a non-suit, with costs according to scale, witnesses expenses and disbursements. Senator the Hon. H. de Largie, of West Australia, who was interviewed by an Auckland Star reporter prior to his departure on Monday evening, said: "The Parliamentary delegate-; who recently visited England had been privileged to see many aspects of the war. They had witnessed the combatants engaged in hand to band grenade warfare some of them had been drawn up in oh son at ion balloons and watched the fightin? proceeding, and some of them lnd beer, fortunate enough to have a flight in a biplane. We have been on the deck of v> hat is probably the largest vesn"! afloat. We have seen big war vessels—cruisers—bigger and faster thnn the Queen Elizabeth. Some, I think, will be already equipped and ready for active service, for they were all but complete when we saw them." The postal and telegraph revenue of the Newe Plymouth postal district for the September quarter'was £17,(128, .as against £11,474 in the September quarter last year. The deposits in the Post Office Savings Bank last quarter amounted to £IM,S!)3, and the withdrawals to £188,301. In the September quarter of last year the deposits were £273,11."). and the withdrawals £9-1,715, but. in that quarter a large number of accounts were transferred from the Wanganui postal district. The savings bank business of this district .last quarter was only exceeded by the Auckland, Chvistchurch, Dunedin, Napier, and Wellington districts. A sequel to a pea-rifle accident which happened at Frankley Eoad on October 23, when a boy named Cecil Bullot was shot through the head, was heard in the Magistrate's Court yesterday George Ferguson admitted that he had supplied his son, a boy under 10 years of age, with a pea rifle, contrary to the provisions of Section 2(1 of the Police Offences Act. The defendant said he had supplied the, rifle to his son believing that as long as be was careful and did not use it off the property surrounding his home, the law was not contravened. The boy Bullot, who was his son's cousin, wns doing very well, and would probably be discharged from the hospital in a day or two. The Magistrate, Mr, A. Crooke, pointed out that the law required that no person under 10 years of age should he in possession of a firearm. He convicted defendant, and fined him 10s. The Prime Minister and Sir Joseph Ward cannot obtain in London a nicer beverage than Desert Gold Tea, which you can enjoy every day. 1 COMES ON UNEXPECTEDLY. Diarrhoea comes on unexpectedly and before the patient realises it a serious (lisoder may develop. During the summer attacks are very frequent and often are s-o swift in their results that life is in danger before a physician can be sum[uioned. Everyone should keep a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea lUrr'cdy in the home for immediate use in cases of this kind. If given at the I fuv.t unusual looseness of the bowels the attack may be avoided. Sold every-

, Mr. J. W. On\ of Mapiu, near Tunmarunui, lias six sons on active service, viz., Rifleman If. W. and Arthur Orr, oi tlio New Zealand Bific Brigade; Trooper Leonard On, of the Australian forces; and 'Privates Norman, Percy and Ernest Orr, who liavc joined various New Zealand reinforcement drafts. Of the halfdozen young warriors only one lias so for met with any casualty—Riflcmar. 11. W. Orr, who was lately reported wounded. Before going to France the young rifleman took part in the fighting in Egypt, notably in the operations against the Scnussi at Mersa Matruh last Christmas. The Ofrs liave also a mimiior of cousins in the lighting-line. In point of foot, with one exception, every cousin of theirs within the military age has enlisted.

It is not necessary to go from home to find marvels of surgery and medicine (says (in exchange). Last spring there was put aboard a transport in Egyrt. the wreck of a once well-known New Zealand athlete. It was his one chance. Three days at sea, so his comrades said, would bring him promise of life or a canvas shroud in which to journey down to "Davy Jones." He was almost completely paralysed, the result of a wound in the spine. When the boat touched at her first New Zealand port he was one of the cheeriest men on the ship. Tie could move his toe! And his delight was childlike. lint he was weak, and terribly thin. A few months ago he was seen in an open vehicle provided by his friends to allow him and other convalescent hospital patients to witness a pasoant. Today he is custodian of a soldiers' club. Great excitement prevailed in monkey land at the Ngaore Gardens Zoo on Monday morning, where a double event occurred, two monkeys being born. These make a most attractive exhibit, the actions and antics of both parent find offspring being so human like. There is much fun in store for the young visitors to the zoo during the coming season. This year bids fair to become a record in the increase of animals and birds born in this small but interesting collection. <A few weeks ago two young "Lonrjrs," were born, and diieks I Mandarin). swans, golden pheasants, and parvots are nretmring for the responsibility of family life. Children's summer hats are in full supply at the MclbonrnciLtd.. at the following prices. Children's white or khaki linen hats with cord. Is 3d; boys' khaki or white linen hats, Is 3d; children's mercerised poplin hats, with cord, tussore shade, Is lid; children's tussore silk "Peter Pan" hats. 2s 'id; cream tussore silk hats with silk cr.nl. very nribby, 3s (id; boys' and youth's pedal straws with leather baud, fls lid; boys' Island hats, Is »d. The Empire Theatre management will not screen the World Film Corporation feature "Woman and Wine' at the matinee to-morrow. The principal item for the matinee will be ti Tnsnigle-Key-stone comedy entitled. "Stolen Maeic," featuring the inimitable comedian, liaymond Hitchcock. "Woman and Wine" will be screened for the last c ; me at Ihe evening perforriiauce to-morrow. To-morrow, at bis mart, Mr Newton King will sell by auction two gor-d freehold sections situated in Molesworth Street in the E'tate of the late A. A, Pin son, also the goodwill of the lease ot two sections fronting Devon Street West, and Powdcrluim Street. Investors will do well to get full particular of both these properties from the auctioneer.