LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Citizens' Band will play at the East End Reserve on Sunday afternoon next.

A Wellington telegram states that tile Wellington quota of the 23rd Reinforcements went to camp 02 men short.

A London cable states that Sir Joseph Wiyd emphatically denies the report circulated in New Zealand that he is succeeding Sir Thomas Mackenzie.

The West End Bowling Club opens its season to-morrow (Thursday) afternoon, when the usual match, President v. Vice-president, commencing at 2 o'clock, will be played. The Salvation Army sale of work, which had to be postponed last week on account of the wet weather, will be held to-day in the Salvation Army Hall. All ladies arc cordially invited to inspect the goods on sale.

It costs £2O to break the antishouting laws at Rotorua, £5 at Tauranga, and £1 10s (without costs) at Wanganui. These (says the Masterton Ago) are recent magisterial decisions. Fines of £:i and £2 were imposed on offenders at New Plymouth.

A successful euchre party and dance was held in the Kawaroo. Bungalow last evening. Over thirty couples were present. Two hours were devoted to progressive euchre, fhe first prize was awarded to Mrs. Yates, who won 13 games. Dancing followed, and was continued until midnight. As the result of representations made by the Royal Life-saving Society, the East End Committee on Monday evening decided to form a branch ,of the society at the East End. The importance of this branch foT the' purpose of affording protection to bathers was recognised, and those present decided to become members of the branch. At the Eltham Court on Monday, a young iran named Stevens, charg ed' with drunkennes and resisting the police, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Mr. T. C. Stanners, J.P.. was on the Bench. Defendant was taken through to New Plymouth th° same day.

Something in the nature of a record run per motor was inaile last Sunday by Dr. Mackin, of .Wellington. He left Wellington on Sunday' morning, at about 4 o'clock, intending to proceed to the New Plymouth Mountain House. Having a good run, he reached the hostel at 8 p.m., in time for tea. Dr. Maekin was accompanied bv Mrs. Mackin, another friend, and chaffeur, who are staying at the hostel foT a few days. "Any man who drives over the Warea bridge with a load of over five tons takes his life in his hands." This opinion, expressed by the bridge forenmiij was mentioned during a discussion at the Eginont County Council meeting yesterday, when it was stated that very' heavy loads were taken in motor waggons over the county bridges, which were suffering damage. Many other bridges, it was stated, were in a similar condition as regards danger under heavy loads.

A final reminder is given of the Boys' High School Sports, which take place to-morrow commencing at 11 a.m. Everything points to a -successful meeting, and, provided weather is favorable, everyone present is promised a good day's sport. The recently completed boarding establishment will bo open to the public. Afternoon tea may be obtained on the school grounds for Gd., the proceeds to be devoted to the Soldiers' Comforts Fund. A oordial invitation is extended to all friend-; of the school. It will be seen in our ' advertising' columns that the New (Plymouth fiifls' High School, which is now carried on in a newly-erected concrete building, ia a healthy locality, and with ample grounds, is now available for pupils, and parents desirous of securing for their daughters the best higher education that can be given should pay the school a visit. There is every prospect, now that a suitable boarding-house has been provided within a few minutes' walk of the school, that the Girls' High School will rapidly attain a popularity equal to that of the Boys' High School. Miss Barr, M.A., the principal, has a highly trained and qualified staff, and that lady will also be in charge of the boarding-house, the situation of which is certainly one of the best and most salubrious in the Dominion. The secretary, Mr. W. "Bcwley, will be ! pleased to an3\ver all inquiries, _

About ones in every hundred rears or thereabouts n down or comedian arises, whose art is so exquisitely popular that hr becomes almost an institution. Folks universally laugh at him while he lives, and three or four generations after he is dead. Charlie Chaplin is this century's clown. He has no natiopal or radical delimitations. The}laush at him in England and France just as they do in America, Australia, or Fiji for that matter. Generally speaking, it might be said that 05 per cent of"the millions who go to pictures are Chaplin enthusiasts, while the remaining 5 per cent., who, perhaps, have not seen his newest successes ara 2. little afraid he is not proper. Chaplin's latest effort to amuse his admirers throughout the world is "The Fireman," a new "Mutual" comedv which will he presented at "The Empire" for the first time to morrow night. «!♦ The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., wish to draw the attention of the public to the sale which they are holding in their Tarata yards on Friday, 17th 'November. Full particulars will be found on -page 8 of this issue.

Windows filled with the daintiest fabrics and wearing apparel, household requisites for smartening the home in anticipation of the approach of Xmas, splendid variety of millinery, costumes, blouses, skirts, hosiery and Dent's gloves are to be found in great variety at Ambury's. Attention is directed to an advertisement dealing with Child's Patent Water Ballasted Motor Road Roller and Tarring and Sanding Combine. The saving of labor and superior quality of work done by this machine should strongly recommend it to local bodies.

THE MELBOURNE, I.TD. CHILDREN'S WASHING HATS A smart showing of these goods is on view at all the Melbourne, Ltd.'s six stores. White linen hats for boys or girls with or without'cords, Is 3d Boys' khaki washing hats, Is 3d. Boys' smart mercerised cotton tussore hat-:, with silk cord, Is lid. Pure Jap silk tussore hats, 2s 3d. Extra, fine quality ditto, 3s 6d. Large size white linen hats for girls and young women, 2s 3d. All above washing hats are guaranteed not to have brown pacer interlining in the brims.

It is reported from Nelson that that, district. will soon have 1,000,000 cases, of fruit to dispose of per season. It is reported (says the Age) that some of the buyers operating in the Masterton district are offering as nuich as Id per lb in advance of the recentlyannounced Imperial Government prices for stock.

A Napier young lady, whose brother is on active service, lias consented to a request from local residents to take up her brother's former business, that of a taxi-car driver, and will commence a taxi service at once.

The London Daily Mail cabled to its New Zealand correspondent for the result of the New Zealand Cup race. Evidently the Nort'holiffe group of papers proposed to "star" the big New Zealand race for the information of the thousands of New Zealand soldiers who are now at Home and in the trenches in France.

Drivers of mail motor 'b>ises strlko bad luck at t.'mes. On Tuesday week the mail driver had no less than five different cars to convey the mail from Warea to Opunake. In each instance something went wrong with the works ana a. fresh ear was obtained so as to deliver the mail with utmost dispatch.—Times. "We are on the eve of putting into operation the conscript system in New Zealand," said Dr. McNab recently. "I wish to take up an advocacy for the conscript. Whatever you or I may think of the young man who is forced, under penalty of law, to go to the front, we know that we 'have to manufacture a proper weapon of defence." 1 "All -prisoners are fools," said his Honor tiio Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) at the Supreme Court at Wellington on Wednesday . ''When I said so a few years ago 1 was contradicted, but I am more convinced than ever of the correctness of that view. Only a fool would attempt to escape and thereby lengthen his fern of imprisonment."

The smartness of the Japanese is sho\> n in a British Consular report from Tainan. It states that the Japanese discovered that the Chinese eopper "rash" could te melted down at a large profit. Enormous quantities were purchased and sent to Ttingtno, wher? they were melted down for export to Japan Hint used for the manufacture of munitions of war.

The freezing works of the Fielding Fanners' freezing Co., at Aorangi commenced slaughtering'yesterday monitor beef and mutton. A s uffieient number of drafts of sheep and cattle has already .been booked, atitl further drafts which are due later will enable the boards to continue without any stoppages during the whoie season. The killing capacity is 41) bullocks and 1(100 sheep per day, but tlii? will probably be exceeded.—Star.

The returns which farmers have, to make in regard to their incomes for taxation purposes, are so complicated that mistakas are almost unavoidable. The Waikato Times tells of a farmer who had filled up his return to the best of his ability, and had brought himself in as liable for the payment of some £250 in tax. In order to make sure that he was right in his figures he submitted his return to a certificated accountant, not with the idea that he woul.l be saving anything thereby, but in order to see that his return was correct The result of his consultation was that when his return was completed ho had nothing to pay. A prophetic passage in one of Sydney Smith's .sermons, preached to the Volunteers ill ISO 4, is worth recalling just now in the light of M. Joseph Reinach's eulogy of the British soldier and the Kaiser's recent reference to us as 'icecold haberdashers." "I have," said 'Smith, ''a boundless confidence in the English character .... From this

prostitute nation of merchants—as they are in derision called—l believe more heroes will spring up in the hour of danger than all the military nations of ancient and modern Europe have produced. Into the hand* of God, then, and His ever-merciful Son, we cast ourselves, and wait in humble patience the result."

Working men will find the Melbourne the best and economical place to purchase their apparel. These as examples: Men's grey Cenims, 33 lid; wire cord troucers, (Is Ud; saddle tweed troupers, Ila fid and 13s (id; odd vests, all sizes, 4s lid; good worsted trousers, 13s (id; working shim in black sattecn, 3s lid; plain blue and striped grandrill 2a lid, 3s 6d, to 4s lid; Harvard and Oxford flirts 2s lid, 3s 6d, 3s lid and 4a lid. Incomparable values. At last Friday's Patriotic Tea nt Rahotu Hall the hostesses were Mesdaracs Heddenvick, Evans, and Robertson