LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

English mails, via Vancouver, are due at New Plymouth to-day. Australian mails, ex Manuka at Wellington, are due this evening. A donation of £7 7a has been revived by the New Plymouth Fire Brigade from Mr. Newton King. A garden .party under the auspiSes of the Eltham Belgian Guild will b« held In the Ngaere Gardens on Thursday next. Proceeds will be devoted to Soiiliers* Comforts and the Guild work. The usual weekly meeting of the Egmont Lodge, 1.0. G.T., was 'held last r.igbt, Bro. F. E. Ohappell presiding. It was decided to hold a concert at the Old People's Home this (Tuesday) evening.

The annual value of new war pensions granted last week was £7777, bringing the total amount granted to nn annual value of £"228,881, less £32,000 for pensions which have ceased ■swing to death and other causes,—Press Association. The Korito school children have an honors board of which they feel justly proud. Theirs is only a small school, situated close up under the mountain, but seventeen old boys have answered the call, and have gone forth to do their duty in the war. At the recent examinations in practical music conducted at Hawera. by Mr. Arthur Hinton, the following pupils of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Munaia, were successful:—lntermediate Local Centre: Olive Vinten. Higher Division: Moina Cook. Elementary: Lucy Davis, Rita McVicar. Primary: Elizabeth McPhillipa, Ivy Vetch, Katie McPhillips", Esme Hudson. All presented .passed. The electric lights failed during the flinging of a hymn in St. Mary's 'Church on Sunday evening. Dr. A. W. Averill, Bishop of Auckland,, who was conducting the service, asked the congregation to be seated After ten minutes' interruption tlie lights were put in order, and the service was remimed.

Don't let money slip through your fingers! You can save a lot by attending the sale of samples at the New Zealand Clothing Factory's New Plymouth branch. Prices for all cotton, woollen, and leather goods are advancing, and will still further advance before the v;ar is over, so seize this great chance of laying in a stock of clothing and footwear at bargain oricea.

A party of twelve Mew Zealand soldiers who have lost limbs lire going back to England by the hospital ship Mamma to have artificial limbs fitted. At the send-off to the recruits at New Plymouth railway station yesterday morning was a venerable, brave old lady, who was seeing he>" sixth son oil' to the front. The seventh, the last, is also going shortly The London Catholic "Who's Who" has compiled a list of Catholic officers who have served with H.M. Forces in the present war. The Roll of Honor numbers over 5000 names, and includes Australians, New Zealanders and Canadians.

The Borough Council last evening confirmed a recommendation from the Works Committee that the chimes of the post office clock be stopped between the hours of 11 p.m. and « a.m, the cost of making the alteration to be borne by the Council. The conditions under which subsidies will be paid to public libraries are stated in the last Gazette. The distribution of the sum of £2500 voted for this purpose will take place on or about March 31 next, and applications must reach the Secretary of the Education Department not later than January 20, 1917.

At a meeting of the Works Committee of the New Plymouth Borough Council, held last even-tig, it was decided to recommend the Council to continue the existing arrangement with the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board for the supply of water for a further period of four months, making a period of six months in all, and that on the expiration of that period the Board be charged at a rate per gallon to be fixed by the Council.

The Boys' High School annual sports are being held on Thursday next on the school grounds. The track is in firstclass order, and fast times should be recorded. The inter-aeeondary schools event is this year to be run over 100 ■yards, and teams have been entered from the Stratford District HigJi School, Technical College, and the Boys' High School. The new boarding establishment will be open to the public during the afternoon. From New Plymouth comes a story of a patient who was taken to the Hawera hospital to be X'-rayed for the purpose of discovering injuries (says the Eltham Argus). The injuries could not be located, However, those interested wore not satisfied, and took the patient to New Plymouth hospital, and there the injury was at once located. Our informant states that at Hawera Mie patient was photographed without the clothes being taken off, whereas at New Plymouth the patient was more thoroughly treated, and was stripped. That is how the story comes to us.

A. proposal to revise the tram ser vice time-table was submitted to the Borough Council last evening by the tramway engineer and manager (Mr. R H. Bartley). The proposal provides for a 15-minute service on the main route, in lieu of a 20-minute service as at present observed, and certain modifications in the time-table on the Morlov Street route providing for a reduced service during the slack portions of the day and a more frequent service at the biasy periods. The Council decided to defer consideration of the proposal until next Monday evening. Many years ago the Hon. Dr. McXab met a friend in Wellington, who was accompanied by two small boys. Dr. McN'ab asked their ages. Told what they were, he exclaimed: "When the great war occurs, they will just be ready to take their places in the firing line!" The other day he met his whilom friend. "I've come to Wellington, doctor," he said, "to see those two boys of mine off to the front!" Dr. McXab had forgotten nil about the prophecy until his friend reminded him of it. The Minister was ona of the few leading men of the Dominion who knew of Germany's fell designs, and lie ntumped New Zealand, and afterwards England, in favor of national military draining. Then he was looked upon aa a harmless crank; now ae is accounted i wise man, with the gift of prescience.

During a visit to Wellington last week, Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., saw Ministers and Departments ie a largelysigned petition from settlers in Okau, Kotare and Rerepaka districts, asking for an improved mail service. A report is being obtained to see if it is possible to give effect to the wishes of the petitioners. Similar matters from Aria, Kaeae and Olmra were also placed before the Hon. Dr. McNab, Acting-Post-roaster-General. A resolution passed at a meeting held at Ohura, from Mr. Denniston (secretary), asking for telephonn communication between Tatu and Taliora, was forwarded by the member to the Hoa. Dr, McXab. Petitions from settlers in Upper Awakino Valley road, asking for the erection of two bridges and culvert, which have been authorised, war, dealt with by the Minister of Public Works. A similar petition from settlers at Pouata survey district, Kohurauhi, asking for road access, was also dealt with by Hon. W. Frascr. A number of educational matters were brought before Hon. J. A. Hanan, and a new school was authorised at Whawharua, and authorisations for enlargement at Maticre, Pio Pio and Te Kuiti were granted. A large number of matters dealing with Defence claims were satisfactorily arranged. Suitable land for returned soldiers, at a reasonable was brought ander the notice of the Acting-Miuister of Lands.

Tho Melbourne, Ltd., are showing an extraordiuary fine range of men's and boys' suits in all the latest fabrics and styles, In boys' "sport" suits, in addition to a smavt lot of imported and Colonial tweeds, there is a grand line of fine indigo serge suits at prices ranging from 22s fid to 42s 6d according to size. Men's ready-to-wear suits, beautifully tailored, are shown at from 3!)s Od to 75s in all pure wool fabrics, incltuling indigo serges.

In response to a representative request on the part of Eltham people, the Hon. W. C. Carncross will deliver a public address at Eltham to-morrow evening concerning his recent trip with the Empire Parliamentary Association delegates. The proceeds will go in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund.

COMES ON UNEXPECTEDLY Diarrhoea comes on unexpectedly and boiore the patient realises it a serious diswder may develop. During the summer attacks are very frequent and often are to swift in their results that life is in danger before a physician can be summoned. Everyone should keep a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy in the home for immediate use in eases of this kind. If given at the first unusual looseness of the bbwels the attack may be avoided. Sold every* where

In consequence of the retirement of Mr. C. Ahier from the firm of Henry Brown & Co., Mr. 15. H. Tribe has. been uppojntc(l general manager of the firm.

A< a recent Ashburton wool and skin salej a bale of Southdown wool was sold for 23! d per lb. The price constituted a record for the Ashburton district.

There has beqn a revision of the regulations regarding the eyesight standard necessary in recruits for general and home service. Men who have lost the use of the left eye will be accepted for general service, and those who have lost the right eye will be taken for home service provided they are otherwise fit. It lias also been decided that men who can be made fit by undergoing minor operations will be compelled to undergo that treatment. I

London Opirion states: "Two inventive New Zea landers have solved a problem whiih seems to be important, al thoiigh, personally, I have never experienced the urgency of it. It is the soldering of aluminium. On reaching J.tmdon they obtained a cast-iron patent, as well as getting the glad hand from scientific and commercial men. The War Office asked for a demonstration at Woolwicb Arsenal, and was so satisfied that it grabbed tho patent, and has sailed in to do big things on. its owii >cjcount wilu the invention."

Nowadays, writes a correspondent, one hardly ever picks up a newspaper but flhere is not something in it regarding the part women are .playing on farms in Great Britain. In Canterbury we have women doing the work of their sons and brothers who are at the front, grubbing gorse, hoeing turnips, attending to stock, and keeping the "home fires 'burning" in real earnest. A day or two ago in the Carew district two enterprising young women, were to be seen, rigged out in male attire, on the topmost branches of iarge fir trees, plying the axe with might and main. There was a sale of rare books on New Zealand at Wellington on Friday last, and observers noted that books by Hoclistetter and Diffenbaek brought good prices, Whereas the British writers on New Zealand failed to reavh any startling figures. Some comment was heard when a well-bound, well-preserved Bible, with reference notes, was put up by the auctioneer -and did not even secure a bid of one shilling, though there were several clergymen present at the sale.