LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Now Zealand produce entered for export last week was valued at £ 730,037, including: Butter £1.7».5,523, cheese £221,387, moat £114,540, and wool £133,022.- i -Press Association. A grant iias been made by the Education Department for a new school at Mount Messenger. Tenders will be called for the work as soon as the plans and specifications are ready.

The Government has decided to erect four 'workers' dwellings in New Plymouth. Nine applications r or tiie dwellings have been received, and a ballot will be held. The site of the dwellings has not yet been chosen but it will probably be at Fitzroy. Arrangements are in hand to estab fish a brftss band at the New Plymouth Boys' High School. Thirteen instruments have been received, and a number of the boys will be trained in the use of them by Mr. F. W. (i. McLeod, the conductor of the Citizens' Band. A Paris cable states that the French nine crop is estimated to yield about 40,000,000 hectolitres. The quantity available for the season 19111-17, including Algerian, is 5,320,000. The champagne harvest is one of the worst on record, the phylloxera having caused extensive damage. Owing to the scarcity of labor, the prospects for future crops are not rosy. Albert Williamson, a laborer, 44 years of age, was found lying dead in his residence in Gilbert Street yesterday morning. There wns blood on the bed-pillow, and on the floor in front of the dressing-table, and a. blood-stained razor was found on the table. Deceased was a married man, with an adopted child, and he was well known in New Plymouth. He had been very depressed lately, owing to ill-health. Last month he was arrested on n charge of attempting to commit suicide, and remanded for a week for medical observation. He was afterwards convicted, anil ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months. It is believed that the injury from which Williamson died vesteiday was self-inflicted. Ail inquest will probably be held to-day. A lad named Keith Roy Hoskin (Mr. II R. Billing) pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Messrs, J. B. Connett and H. R. Cattley, J'sJP., to a charge of allowing horses to wander on South Road. Mr. J. TI. Quilliam appeared for the informant, the borough inspector, and pointed out that the municipal authority viewed offences of this nature very seriously. Complaints had previously been received of horses wandering on South Road. In these days of.motoring, the danger caused by wandering animals was evident, and it would be readily seen how necessary it was that offences oi' this nature should be put down. Mr. Billing explained thai his :lient was taking the horses at night from the stable to the paddock, when a motorcar passed and frightened the animals. They scattered, and the defendant was unable to find them in the dark. lie got up a-t 5 o'clock next morning to look for them, but, unfortunately, the inspector was up at 1.30, and hail them in the pound by 2 o'clock. The defendant was a mere boy, not yet 18. Counsel asked for a lenient penalty A fine of Ids, with 17s Gd costs, was imposed. The Christmas '''smokes" for soldiers' tins, specially prepared by the New Plymouth Patriotic Committee, will assuredly be one of the most popular gift.i for the men at the front. The tin contains four plugs of Havelock tobacco and five packets of Three Castles cigarettes, and is put up in a specially designed eoloi'ed label. Stamped ready for posting, it costs only 3s. Bought in the ordinary way ; it could not be got for less than 8s Oil. Orders are being taken by the Taranaki Daily News, J. Avery, Ltd., C. Carter, J. Abbott, G'ilmour and Clarke, J. W. H. Martin and L. A. Nolan. Country readers may send to any of the above, with soldier's full address, and a small card or note to be enclosed The tin, like a letter, goes straight to the soldier, and will be posted in time to reach him for Christmas.—W. J. C'haney, lion, treasurer. WOOD-MILNE TYRES ARE GUARANTEED FOR 3500 .MILES. In itself, that is a fine guarantee, hut many a Wood-Milne Tyres has done close upon 1.5,000 miles—that argues sound construction, doesn't it? The Wood-Miine is a BRITISH Tyre—that's the secret—the Wood-Milne Tyre is made from the very best rubber .ind cotton fabric procurable, and is conscientiously and carefully vulcanised. So for downright durability, for reasons of economy, and because they are British, you should certainly use Wood-Milne Tyres. Be a practical putrioaJkhd specify Wood-Milnes straight awa™ In any case, write for details to your Garage, or N.Z. Depot, 107 Vivian Street, Wellington. 1.5

XO liKPKIKVE. When you apply Barraelongh's Pro frrendrn to a Corn, the affendm' has to die. Nothing euros Corns so certainly--■ try it; I/-, chemists and stores.

A loiul explosion followed (lie lighting of . the gas stove in a railway dijiinLr car at Mercer last Friday. The windows of the car were smashed, and the door of the oven of the stove was broken. The attendant, who was uninjured, had a remarkable escape. 'J'hc cause of the explosion is unknown.

It appears that the human being responsible for the beatitudes of the new gospel made in Germany is Dr. Fuchs, who holds the appropriate position of head surgeon at the Baden State Lunatie Asylum. Some of the doctor's precepts are as under:—"We must be educated to hate properly, to worship and venerable hatred, to love hatred. Unto us have been giveii Faith, Hope, and Hatred. But Hatred is the greatest of all these."

Those thoughtless people who spoke of the Old Country being played out and decadent would have to' revise their opinions, stated the Hon. W. C. Carncross at Eltham on Wednesday night. Britain was carrying an enormous and inconceivable burden, but it was not only her own burden she was bearing. Her own proper burden she i-'ould carry as easily as an elephant could carry a fly, but"she was also doing gigantic work for the Allies—work that could not he done elsewhere, and which proved how wonderful were her resources.

According to a West Coast soldier, who was taken prisoner by the Germans, it is evident that some of the wminded now in German hands are not badly treated. Writing to a Christehurch friend this week, Lance-Corporal Charles Richardson. of Greyinoutli, who was captured or. July !), says: ''l am wounded and in a German hospital. Am now able to get up from my bed, and am being treated very well. Will be kept here till the end of the war. Hope it won't be long. I expect I shall be posted as missing, but 1 am only wounded." The note waf> written from Kriegsgefangenenlager La i-ce-Corporal Richardson received nine ivoiiml.s and was unconscious when made prisoner; when he regained consciousness lie awoke in a German hospital. Six sons of Mr. D. W. of the railway workshops at Invercargill, and formerly officer representing the Railway Department in the oversight of the manufacture of locomotives in the foundry of Mcssrj A. and fi. Price, at the Thames—have done their share in upholding the hono-r of the Empire. All six were in the trenches at Gallipoli. Three of their number have returned, disabled for furt'her service, and have received their discharge from the Army. A fourth, Private D. W. C.irew, was killed in action on Septem>r 12. Private Carew was a native of Auckland, and at the time of his enlistment was engaged in farming at Invercargill. Two other brothers are still in France serving with the Australian forces.

A curious experience befell the crew of a "tank" that helped to clear the Ciermans out- of I'oureaux ("High") Wood. It climbed into the enemy trenches in the wood and did terrible execution wit'i its puns, when the occupants tried to bolt to their support trenches. After rakin" the ground for half an hour, the commander found th[>t the infantry had not arrived in accrrdance with the plan. Ho and the crew got, out to reconnoitre, and while in the licrman trench some r.f the enemy reappeared The commander made them surrender at the point cf the revolver, and just then the infantry arrived to take charge of the prisoners. ''lt was an awkward moment," he said, "for ctlunvise he couid not have taken them back in the car, and they mipht have realised that these few men were absolutely alone."

'llie New York American publishes a special article by Ma?j Nordag, the famous scientist, who, writing from Berne, .Switzerland, expresses the conviction that the enmity engendered by the war in the belligerent nutions hits penetrated so deeply into the souls of the people that it will continue long after the war. He says that the precedents of previous wars has encouraged the belief that the hatred created between the various European nations by the war will quickly die ft way when pc-act is restored. "This was my opinion at the outset of the war,' : lie says. "I confess I do not hold it any longer [ have now the melancholy eonvittiou that the enmity between the belligerents, or at least some of them, will lon/: survive the war. Hatred has eaten itself too deeply into the souls of the people; it nas 1 too completely soaked their whole thinking and feeling ever to be completely extirpated.''

In a letter dated September IS, to a friend in Palmerston North, Nurse' Curtis makes a reference to the death of Dr. A. A. Martin. In this connection she says:—"Long ere you get this you will know of the death of our littie doctor man, which occurred last night at 12 o'clock. Seeing he came to my ward while I was on night duty you may like to know a little about iiow lie lied—poor chap. 1 hadn't long been on duty before one of the captains came and told me he was brought in escorted by Dr. Simpson having been badly wounded by shells at •> p.m. yesterday (Sunday), and without dressings having been done. I did not know he was . seriously wounded, or would have gom down to see him before he had 'lis operation. Tin boys told me he gave them some messages to give, so he must have known lie would not live. They took lim straight to the theatre. The bul;.'t, or piece went through the right Jiide of the face near the nose, through Jftis mouth, and lodged, I think, in the neck. They did not take that out, but plugged the hole. He also had, a wound in the right arm just oil or near the elbow, and the intestine was pierced in five places. When he was brought back from the operating theatre I wan with him. Colonel M-> (lavin came, and we did some artificial respiration. One of the nurses never left him for a second; but in no time bis breathing gradually went again. He never regained consciousness from the anaesthetic, and thank Heaven for that, or lie wculd have suffered. And so the little man lias gone to his last long rest. He has done his duty in this war right royally and well. As nurse 1 laid him out. I just felt as though I would wake up soon and find it all a dream." Earraclough's Nervine stops Toothache

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