LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 December 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Bayly Memorial Sports will be held 011 the New Plymouth High School grounds to-morrow.

There are said to be 80 Latter Day Saints, or Mormons, wrforking the Mnoris of New Zealand at the present time.

Arrivals in New Zealand from oversea during November numbered 1053, ami departures 1199, as against 2531 an-1 153S respectively in the previous November.

Produce entered for export l.ist tveelc was valued at * £537,252, including: Butter £231.031, cheese £70,7i)4, meat £100,'428, hides £23,742, flax £47,758, and wool £53,511. Instead of the men for the 24th Reinforcements concentrating on December 11,. as originally instructed, they will be granted leave from 2 .p.m. on the 11th to '2 p.m. on January 2, The 'chief postmaster (Mr., C. hj, Uurton) advises that persons intending to send Christmas greetings or mes-

sages to soldiers for delivery in Kngland or France should lodge -the messages not later than December 12. Owing to the inclement weather yesterday, the Technical College sports were postponed. They will be held in Pukckitra Park to-day, commenting at 11 a.m.

The new theatre, "Everybody's,'' next U: the Criterion, will probably be opened on Thursday evening. The wark has taken nearly a year, and trie building represents the last word in theatre construction, as well as in equipment. The provisions of the Finance Act as relating to friendly societies were explained by the Registrar (Mr. R E. Hayes) at a meeting of local meiKl trs of friendly societies in the Good Templar Hall last evening. Mr. C, 33. Bpllringer presided over a fair attendance.

A combined meeting of the two Wellington railway unions passed a motion yesterday t'hat the time had come when all railway workers should be united for their protection. It was also resolved to recommend the executives of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants and the Engine-drivers, Firemen, und Cleaners' Association to take a vote of members on the question of the federation of the two todies, and, in the event of the vote bolno; favorable, an immediate conference will be held to consider the action necessary at Palmerston North, and any other scheuu-s put forward by the branches. If you are doubtful, and will not take the word of thousands of dairymen all over Australasia, give Sykes's Drench a trial this season. Pick out 12 cowa of EQUAL MILK YIELD, EQUAL AGE and EQUAL TEST. Treat six by the Sykes's method and six by your own. Take the test through next season, and YOU WILL PROVE for yourself that Sykes's cows have p-aid fox their treatment by 1000 per cent. Let science plus experience come to your aid. Sold at Is fld per packet, 10s dozeu, (It costs 8d to drench a cow). Sold everywhere.

It pays to drench your cows with Sylces' Drench! It makes cows healthy —healthy cows give more milk—more milk means wore money.

lie who now, 111 this Dominion, strikes against the necessary arming of democracy in its own defence, puts shackles, not on militarism, but on freedom (says the Wellington Post).

''Site drives me to drink," said a defendant in tho Auckland Magistrate's Court. ''He is not much of a man who is driven to drink by a woman," retorted Mr. V. C. Kettle, S.M. Extract from 11 letter received in Kew Plymouth:—"A preacher in the church told us that it was now known, through a German woman spy, now in prison, that tlie Germans had decided, in the event of their landing troops in England, to kill every male infant they could lay their hands upon." The deed of transfer of the property at Greytown, valued at about £20,000, presented by Mr. A. P. Whatman, of .Ylasterton, to the Patriotic Association, for settlement by returned soldiers, has now; been prepared. The trustees in which the land is vested intend visiting the property at an early date, with a view to cutting it up into suitable sections.

A good is told at the expense of a rather loquacious Gisbomo pnbl'.can. He became quite concerned when he learned that two strange -members of the police force had arrived in Gisborne for the purpose of detecting breaches of the anti-shouting regulations. '•'[ know them," he said, very confidingly, to * number of patrons in his bar, "and if they come in here with their little game I will throw them out!" The visiting policemen were at the time among his patrons, and it is reported enjoyed the publican's innocence immensely.

Though the price of butter for home consumption has been limited by Order-in-Council, it appears (savs the Auckland Herald) that New Zealand coastal shipping secures no advantage. Apparently, butter for ship's stores is not included in the limitation scheme, and, therefore, it is liable to be subject to the ruling export price. This would mean, it? is understood, (in increase to the shipping companies of between :id and 4d per pound. The position is regarded by the companies as unsatisfactory, so far as toastal shipping is concerned, and an effort is to be made to remedy it.

A Wellington resident has received from an ex-Jsew Zealand farmer, row residing in Sheffield, a letter dated £eotember 2(5, which contains the following reference to daylight saving:—"We :ire fast running into winter; oil Saturday night we go back to Greenwich time, and have to put all our flocks back o:;e hour. It bus been a great success—the experiment of putting our time one hour ahead for the summer—and I expect it will become a settled institution. I noticed in n paper some time ago that you benighted people would not entertain the idea. You little know what you missed."

Champagne continues' to arrive in Auckland, from under the very eyes of the Hermans (remarks the Auckland Herald. The shippers of a recent consignment of a brand report that it was taken at night put of the cellars in Hheims. actually under t'hell lire, and cartod l.j miiej by road before being put on board a train for Marseilles. These advices were dated on the ")75th day of the bombardment of Rheims, and the writers mention that although I lip office premises, which were above ground, were totally eliminated, the damage to the stock in the cellars was onlv nominal.

New Zealand's extraordinarily generous support of nil effort in aid of Imperial interests line* sometimes receive some of the credit due to it, states tlie London correspondent of the Lvttelton Times, as witness tlie following, which appeared in the Financial News of October 14:—"The ooittinned wlioir-lieart-ed sympathy of tlie people «f New Zealand with those in the Old Country who are suffering through the hardships of the war is shown by the faet tln'i out of a total amounting to ,C 111,320 sent from all quarters of the Xavv League for the relief of distress among the dependents of naval men lost in the North Sea battle, no less than £87.311 fis S;l of this sum—-78 per cent.—has been received from New Zealand.''

One who has lived long in Egypt describes a scene at Shepherd's Hotel on a night when several New Zealand officers had arrived in Cairo after months of desert life. "They were made very welcome—partly because they were Xew Zeaianders. Those chaps did themselves uncommonly well, I assure you. The very band everted itself for them, and played tunes which the New Zeaianders love to sing. Your men have a good name here. People are glad to see them come in, They are a liine-looking Jot, and the desert has made them even more fine. They appreciate a good meal. Some of them say that tliev like Egypt, but they ail admit they will be glad to get home again." The writer ends his letter with, ''Sew Zealand Jias done splendidly."

A meeting of the New Plymouth Retuned Soldiers' Association was held iast evening, when Mr. C. W. Battel, gcniral secretary of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association, addressed the gathering. Mr. Batten said there were 18 other associations in difftrent (parts of New Zealand, and they represented 3SOO returned soli.'it,rs. It was .the object of the hiud body to affiliate every association, so tKr.t a strong organisat'on sliouM he formed. Many of the returned soldiers would find it extremely difficult to settle down to work, and it wo, Id be one of the objects of the association *o provide facilities which would ai-sh-t tliem to get back to civilian life. The association, said Mr. Batten, had done mush good in the direction of settling grievances of soldiers, and had assisted in the running of soldiers' clubs. Mr. Batten submitted a draft, copy of the rules of the Association. These will be discussed at length at ft meeting to be held this .evening. Tho drapery to be sold by A. L. Nolan and Co. to-morrow at Anbury Bros.' old premises includes praotica'ly all lines usually Btocked. A3 it is to be sold without reserve, it should afford mothers a good opportunity of securing some real bargains. Sale commences at U a.m. BOILS AND CARBUNCLES. Boils begin as little pimples. If Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment is well rubbed in at this time, they will disappear, and give you no further trouble. If a boil is developed, blood and matter must be fequeezed out, and the wound dressed with Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment. Persons suffering from boils should rub the parts affected thoroughly twice a day with Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment,. This will prevent the growth of a wholi crop of boils. Price 1/8 and 3/-. Obfinable »»f»vwli«re. 1