LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tlie Moa Dairy Company will pay out 1/3 for butter-fat for November. The Kgmont County Council has decided to instuct its foremen to clear al l gorse, blackberry and noxious weeds froir. the main road frontages of properties within the County. The owners will be charged with the cost. A fine body of 1.10 Rarotongan soldiers, trained in Auckland, left for the Southern camp, by the mid-day express. —Press Association. The quarterly sittings of the Supreme Court will he opened in New Plymouth next Tuesday morning, when civil divorce, and bankruptcy business will be dealt with. At a special meeting of the Taranaki Acclimatisation Society, held last evening, it was decided to close down the fishing hatcheries until a future date to be decided by the society. The Wanganui Agricultural Association's show opened yesterday in good weather. There was a big attendance of visitors from the surrounding district. Fat stock exhibits were a feature of the show.—Press message.

The Regulations Committee of the Taranaki Education Board (Messrs. Masters and Dixon and Rev. Cliappell) met yesterday, and devoted several hours to revising the Board's regulations. The Taranaki Education Board has just received a. notification from the Department that a grant lias been made for a new school at Mount Messenger. Tenders will be called for the work as soon as the plans and specifications are ready. A special meeting of the Taranaki County Council will be held on Wednesday next, to consider the rebuilding of tile broken portion of the Waiwakaiho bridge. The chairman of the Council for the ensuing year will also be elected.

The members of the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board visited the hospital grounds yesterday, and inspected likely sites for the proposed new Curses' Home. The matter of fixing the site will be decided upon at a later meeting of the Board. According to the census just taken, the population of the Kgmont County is ,32(13, being Mi!) 4 males and l.'iGS females. This includes the town district of Opunake, the population of which is ICO, viz., 227 males and 232 females. Last census the population of the County was 3204, and of the town district 511. The former just shows a decrease of two, and the latter a decrease of 52, or 10 per cent.

The Stony River, which has always been admired by travellers round the mountain 011 account of the clearness, of its water, is still running a dirty white as the result of the recent floods. The river usually quickly returns to its normal color, but it is said that there have been very heavy slips along its course in the reserve. A party on ,Sunday went up the mountain to look for the supposed block, which they were unable to find, but they saw evidences of slips. Writes a Patea boy from France:— One fact to be remembered is that the New Zealand troops were among the first to gain all their objectives, and, according to all accounts, our casualties were very heavy. They have told us that we were undisciplined, but there was nothing finer than the way in which our boys went to the attack. They were as cool as cucumbers; you would have thought they were on parade. As for the artillery, it is tremendous. I have never heard anything like it. The guns are talking all the time, day and night, and, of course, when there is an attack they work overtime. We thought we had seen ,ome flying, but'you want to go to the Somme for sights. Our planes were up all the time, not one, but in tens and fifteens, and they gave old Fritz no peace. They simply went backward and forward across his lines 'just as they pleased, and it is marvellous the way they observe for the big guns. The day of the light they were round us all the time, hnding out just how far we had advanced, etc. We have got old Frit?, well beaten in the air, and he find-! it very hard to keep his balloons from being brought down by our aeroplanes. One day there we had thirty odd balloons up, and Fritz had two.

As usual, the Melbourne leads in I values for men's all-wool cashmera socks by offering a stunning line at 1/0 per pair; other lines, wool and cotton, !/- per pair; fine all-wool, 1/!); and the well-known ''Flying Fox" brand at 2/- per pair. Colonial knit socks, allwool, at 1/3, 1/0, 1/9. Best values offered.

It is time to consult the Palatine regarding your Christmas suit—time to pick your tweed from our splendid range of patterns. If you let us make you a suit to measure, you will be sure of a combination of style and economy. Call at the '"Palatine," New Plymouth. KIDNEY COMPLAINT AND GRAVEL COMPLETELY CURED. BY DR. SHELDON'S GIN PILLS. "I had been troubled with my kidneys for months past," writes Mr. J. M'Coll, Trent street, Oamaru, N.Z. "My back was constantly aching and my secretions were disordered, being thick and cloudy. I also suffered with gravel. Some nights I obtained no rest. The pain in my back was so bad and when I stooped the pain shot across my back like someone digging a knife through me. I used a number of remedies, but they were of no use to me, and I was very bad indeed. I was readinn a pamphlet about Dr. Sheldon's (iin Pills, and after 'reading some of the testimonials printed therein given by people snlVering as I was, I determined to try thein. I 'bought a bottle and after taking a few doses I felt much better so continued taking them. I am now completely cured, mv back is stronger and does not ache, and the secretions have returned to their normal conditions; the gravel is also cured and 1 can also rest well at night." Dr. Sheldon's fiin Pills are sold at 1/0 and 2/0. Obtainable everywhere,

The Egmont County Council has decid ■ ed to give its foremen and roadmen an additional...s per cent, war bonus, This makes 10 per cent, rise since the outbreak of the war, the wages now being foremen Kis, surfacemen! 11=. ' !'he census enumerating in South Canterbury luis been completed. The males total iß,o!)i> and the females 18,007, or a total of 3(J,7!)2. fn IIJII the numbers were: Males, 15,742; femalM, 1G,817; or a total oi :15,08!I. For Timaru borough the total is 12,274, as compared with 11,250. The Queensland Worker says:— "Women have voted in New Zealand for twenty years. The lowest death-rate for babies in the world is in Kew Zealand. Women' also ■ vote in Norway, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. The next lowest death-rates for babies in the world are in these countries.''

The (ireymouth bakers have decided to sell the 41b loaf over the counter for Sd. No delivery by carts will be made inside the borough, but one cjrt will deliver bread from all the bakers out' side the borough boundary at 9d per loaf. The bakers contend that, with flour at £l'i 10s per ton, the bread costs OJd per loaf before the flour leaves the bag. A New Plymouth gentleman received word from a relative in Sydney last night that an important York Street warehouse, having branches throughout New Zealand, hail been warned by the I.W.W. that their warehouse would be burned down. Consequently heads of the departments are taking'in turns the watching of the premises, in conjunction with the usual night-watchmen. The I.W.W. have established a veritable reign of terror among the bigger businesses of Sydney. "Cholera was raging in Kobe when I was there, and there were 1(10 eases a day," said Mr. J. Floekton, of Wellington, who has just returned from a trip to Japan, "and I wonder there were not 1000 eases a day. If you saw the frightful sanitary arrangements of Kobe you would be amazed. Outside premises runs a shallow drain about nine inches wide, and all manner of filth is to be found in that drain. You can imagine the condition of the place in the hot s'.m. I think Japan is fearfully dirty, though the Japs keep their bodies very clean."

There was a slight recrudescence of the diphtheria epidemic in Taranaki last month. Nix cases were reported in New Plymouth, and three were reported in the country. Commenting on the health inspector's report, the chairman of the Tavanaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board (Mr. F. C. Bellringer) remarked at yesterday's meeting of the Board thai the health of the district was not good. It was the duty of all householders to assist the Board in every way to eonserve the health of the community. Great care should be cxecised in keeping back yards and houses clean.

The following note appears in Trcntham camp orders:—''The commandant desires to record his approbation and high appreciation of the action of Private I l '. l r loyd, K Company, lflth Reinforcements, who pluckily, without hesitation, and regardless of the risk he himseif was incurring, dived to the rescue ot Private L. Pickering, who was exhausted, having been overcome by the strong current, and successfully brought him to safety. Private Pickering's life was saved by this plucky action, and the Commandant is bringing the incident, which occurred at 2,15 p.m. on November 10, before the Royal Humane Society.

Disappointment was expressed at the meeting of the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board yesterday at the action faf the New Plymouth Borough Council in cancelling its previous arrangement with the Board with regard to the water supply to the hospital. A conference had been arranged between the Council and the Board with the object of coming to a mutual agreement regarding the price of the water, but the conference was not held owing to the Council deciding to continue the existing arrangement between the two bodies for another four months. The chairman of the Board (.Mr. F. C. Bellringer) said if the Council eotild not see its way to treat the Board fairly, the latter would seriously consider the matter of providing its own water supply. He hoped this would not be necessary. It was important, added Mr. 801 l - riger, that a definite arrangement should be come to before the expiry of the four months. The clerk was instructed to obtain information frtim other hospital boards relative to the prices they paid to borough councils for the water suppiy to hospitals.

The need for re-arrangement of the boundaries of local bodies was stressed by members of the Egmonl County Council on Tuesday. During >1 discussion, it was stated that the Egmont County paid fully £7OO tolls yearly to the Taranaki County Council, and despite that if the Stony River bridge required renewing would probably be cited to pay its proportion. Cr. Reynold? thought the time, would ccnie when there would be two Counties only in Taranaki with headquarters at Hawera and New Plymouth respectively. Cr. Wright, or. the other hand, predicted that the Taranaki County would bc> abolished. It had three distinct'districts with no community of interest. A portion would go to Clifton. Mea district would be a County with headquarters at Inglewood, whilst the Kgmont Council would control the coast road to New Plymouth. The chairman said that politicians would not seriously tackle the question of local government. He thought the Government should take over the main roads and levy a rate for their upkeep. He did not believe in tlio present petty system of each ono keeping their own piece of road in repair, because people were liable to forget their duty to the public. . ,

"A gentleman," says Charlie Chaplin, "should be a gentleman in all circumstances. The last place in the world where liberties with the conventions may safely be taken is by the police and fimiien, who arc looked upon by womankind as their natural protectors. Before producing my first Mutual picture, 'The Fireman,' I spent a week with the boys at No. 3 Engine J-lousc, East Los Angeles. just to get an insight into the inner life of our fire-fighting 'heroes,' as the papers call them. I put in a pleasant week with them," concluded Charlie, "and learned a lot of things about thu humors "of a fire-fighter's life, all of which I've worked into 'The Fireman.' "