LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 February 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The vital statistics for Hawera for January are as follows:—Births 20, deaths 10, and marriages 4.

Letters of administration have been granted in the estate of the late Thomas Benjamin Salter. The next Government valuation of wool at Waitara will take place on Tuesday. There are 2000 bales ready for inspection. Administration of the estate of the late Thomas Bepjamin Salter has, on the application of Mr. Hughes, been granted to Mrs. Jane Salter, the widow.

The New Plymouth Convent Parochial and Inglewood Convent schools reopen on Monday, February !>. The Stored Heart High School, New Plymonth, re-opens on Wednesday, February 7.

A Press Association' telegram from Dunedin states that the Government has purchased the residence of J. C. Watson, of Invercargill, for use as St. Helen's Maternity homo. The residence, which is situated in one of the highest parts of Invercargill, is ideal for the purpose, being provided with every modern convenience. Two acres of land go with the building. The necessary sum for furnishing the building will be raised locally. I)r. Valentino will shortly visit Gore * district in connection with the proposal to establish a maternity home there.

At the inquest concerning the death of Henry Robert. Mehrtens, drowned at J.cpperton on Monday in a pond on his property, Herbert John Mehrtens, farmer, stated (the Waitara Midi reports) that on Monday, 20th, shortly after noon, he heard that his brother Robert was in trouble with a horse and cart in a deep pond of water near the housi. He ran down to the pond, from whence lie saw deceased sitting on the horse's neck undoing the harness. Deceased culled out to bring another horse to pull the one in the pond out. Witness ran to a paddock, caught a horse and harnessed it. On reaching the pond the horse which had been in the water was standing on the bank, but deceased had disappeared. Men dived and recovered the body in about ten feet of water. Deceased was in the habit of washing his cart out in the pond. Deceased was unable to swim. Nina Libeau, 11 years of age, schoolgirl, of Eltliam, who was in the cart with deceased on Monday, said that deceased took his cart to the pond to wash it, and drove the hor.it into the water. The bank was steep, nnd before the animal could be checked it got into deep water. When she saw deceased could not stop the horse she jumped out of the hack of the cart into a shallow part of the pond. She rail to the house and informed deceased's sister-in-law what had occurred, and then went to deceased's brother. She saw deceased aiid horse struggling in the water, and the two then got separated. A verdict was returned of death by drowning accidentally, no blame being attachable to anyone. The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., draw attention to their sale in their Stratford yards on Tuesday, Oth inst., at 11.30 a.m. Full particulars will bo. found on pag« 8 of this issue.

THE MELBOURNE, LTD. MEN'S WEARABLES. The following goods may bo obtained at all our six stores without any price variation. Our goods are one price from Xew Plymouth right- to Wan?anui. Read those incomparable values; Men's wire cord trousers, Gs lid; men s cotton cord trousers, (is (id; men's dark saddle tweed trousers, 10s (id; Roslyn all-wool saddle trousers, 13s 6d: imported saddle trousers, l'2s !>d to 18s (id; riding ireeches 13s fid to 27s (id; double fronter denims, ■ls lid; men's grey denims, 3s lid; mc.'i's odd tweed vests, ?11 sizes up to eights, 4s Id; men's all-woo! N::w Zealand knitted socks, Is 3d, Is (id, Is fld; cashmere socks, Is. Is (id. Is (Id, is lid; men's Japanese cotton singlets, Is, pants to inate.li. Is 3d; men's Kiue Island harvest hats complete with strap, Is 6d. Call or writo to your nearest »tor» at N»v Plymouth, Ingle vroodL, RtntUsH, KU&M< 8»«M» mt WaatajnV

The returns for tlifl A;. i w Plymouth tramways (luring the mont h of January amounted to .£1124 C 9 Id. The host previous month's returns was £OOI 12s 0(1 in December. I'eferring to idle and baseless rumors with referencu to matters connected with the war, His Defence Minister nays the Pre?.;; Might point out that official information is always published. If r, ship were sunk, for instance, ho would let it be known as soon as be was certain of it himself.—Press Association.

Though the Tarnnaki Farmers' Meat '■Producing Company's Works at Smart Itoad have only been working about three weeks, t.liey haw; already in store about 18,000 carcases. As a carcase is estimated at 1101b., this means that nearly 10(H) tons of meat is ready for shimnent.

A concert was given by Mr. f'leororc Tweedie in the (loud Templar Hull last evening. The programme consisted of songs, recitations, speeches, gramaphono selections, and acrobatic demonstrations. There was an attendance of about jjO youths, who enjoyed the entertainment submitted.

The new borough roll is now being compiled, and electors, more especially those having a residential qualilication, should see that their names are on the roll. In accordance with the regulations, the names of over 1200 electors who did not vote at the last Mayoral election have been removed from the roll. Any person over 21 years who has resided in the borough for the past three months, and in the Dominion for twelve months, can be enrolled.

The two cups won by the Taranaki horse Depredation at Te Awanmtu and Auckland are at present on view in Mr. J. Bennett's window, where they are attracting considerable attention among sportsmen and others, both because of their appearance and as a record of the sterling performance put up by Mr, It. Barlow's Campfiru horse. The Te Awanmtu Cup is a magnificent silver trophy, whilst the Auckland Cup is of 15-carat gold of chaste design. Both arc suitably engraved. Mr. R. Barlow is to be congratulated on the ownership of two such valuable trophies. The Defence Department is drawing attention to section 33 of the Military Service Act, which requires that the I young men of New Zealand Rliall enrol in the Expeditionary Force Reserve on attaining the age of 20 years. A gen- | eral order instructs officers commanding districts to see that the section is rend once a fortnight during the period of the war at parades of Territorials and Senior Cadets. Every young man who is not already enrolled should apply for a form of enrolment at a post cilice as soon as possible after his twentieth birthday.

Referring to the purchase of cheese 011 behalf of the Imperial Government, the Hon. W. D. S. McDonald stated yesterday that he had heard the view* of representatives of the factories, and also representatives of the merchants and agents, with regard to the position of consignors under contracts made before the issue of the requisitioning order. He hoped to be able to bring about ail agreement that mould cover the difficulties that remained, and would be lair to all the parties A general order issued by the Defence Department states that plain clothes may, '*as a special privilege, be occasionally worn by ollicers and other ranks,- when on leave, when attending private meetings, on urgent private •business, or when engaged in outdoor sport and recreation." The privilege is to be regarded as discretionary. All ranks are enjoined to remember that "New Zealand is in a state of war, and they may at any moment be required to exercise discipline or carry out urgent orders. The wearing of plain clothes must not again lie reduced to an everyday custom, as in peace-time" Ollicers and men in the training camps must not wear civilian clothes without tha permission of their camp commandant.

Incidents denoting' that it is difficult for wrongdoers to('escape the long arm of the law are continnally coming before the Court. Wednesday (says the Wellington Times) provided a further example of a man, alleged to have committed an offence years previously, being eventually discovered and brought from abroad to answer the charge. The person in question was a well-set-up man named Howard Patton Gandv, who was called upon to answer a charge of forging a cheque for £'2o, purporting to have been signed by one Sarah Mitchell, and with uttering the same on January •22, 1901. Detective-Sergeant Cox, who had charge of the ease for the prosecution, in asking for a remand, informed the Court that, the accused had been in South Africa, and was deported back from there. A remand was granted to Februarv J. bail being llxeil in a sum of £SO, and one surety of £SO.

Men's summer underwear bargains at the Melbourne, Ltd.: Brown cotton singlets, 2s (id; brown cotton pants, '2s lid; merino singlets in Shetland and natural, Is lid; pun Is to match 2s fid; men's natural singlets with half sleeves and ventilated gussets, 4s iid; pants to match 4s lid; lino natural singlets, famous "Oceana'' make, 5s lid.

Several States in U.S.A. raised on cutery against "Tlie Hypocrites." The censors were aikeel to prevent the exhibition of the film, but in all except two cases they withheld their hand, because they knew that those who objected were cither portentous dullards, or those very hypocrites who had been cited in the film. Jn Chicago and Pennsylvania the censors would have none of it; England refused it. But in Australia and New Zealand the authorities looked at the broader, beautiful side of the production, and have earned the thanks of tens of thousands of women and men who have thus been afforded an opportunity of witnessing "The Hypocrites," the most wonderful production of all time.

Rev. A. 11. Colvile, vicar of St. Mary's, would Tie glad if those to whom he loaned books will kindly reiiirn t liitn next week.*