LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Ilnwcra Chamber of Commerce 011 Monday passed a resolution tliut it was essential that lite dairymen of Taranaki should have representation on the Industrial Efficiency Board. In the Magistrate's Court at Hawera yesterday three Territorials, for failing to attend parades, were each fined £5, in default twenty days military detention.—Press Association. Judgment, by default, was given for plaintiff in the following; civil eases at the Magistrate's Court yesterday:— Rex v. E. A. Guilford, Te Puke, £SO 0s 8d and costs; New Plymouth Borough Council v. Robert Beale, New Plymouth, £1 15s and costs. As a result of the exhibition for a week at Kingston Town Hail of the historic football which the East Surrey Regiment dribbled up to the German trenches on the start ot' the "big push" on July 1, a sum of £54 lis 5d has been realised for the regiment's comforts fund. A London police magistrate, Mr. D'Eyncourt, recently said that after fifteen years' service he had seen bow the state of society had improved. He did not refer merely to drunkennness, but he saw more chivalry to women, the weak and. the poor, and there was less brutality. We were more civilised than we were fifteen years ago. The New Zealand Loan and Mevca.iidraw attention to their Kohuratahi sheep and cattle fair to-morrow (Thursday) at 1 p.m. Full particulars Trill bo found on p&go S of this issue. "

The Citizens' Band will give a municipal concert on Marsland Hill on Sunday afternoon. Arrangements are being made for the entertainment of the Hon. Sir James Allen, .Minister for Defence, at the Soldiers' Club to-morrow evening. An ellort to raise money for the Mayoress' Y.M.C.A. Soldiers' Comforts Fund will be made at the Show on Thursday, when the Women's Patriotic League, the Y.M.C.A. Committee and the W.C.T.U. will co-operate for the purpose. A Y.M. C.A. tent will be erected on the ground. A line lot of drawn thread and point lace runners tray cloths and table covers are being sold at reduced prices at the Melbourne's great stocktaking sale. The goods are all hand made and beautifully finished and at the sale prices are really remarkable value. Prices Is !)d to 4s lid. During the heights of the storm at truck laden with six tons of lime in the Onerahi station yard became ignited through the driving rain finding its way under the double- tarpulins, setting up combustion by slaking the lime. The fire was put out by the stationmastcr, Mr. Mackley, assisted by Mr Russell. The material dumage was inconsiderable, but both men were rather severely burned by contact with the hot lime ill the process of emptying the truck. In connection with the reserved decision of Mr Justice Edwards in the case T. McLellan v. AV. R. Haselden, S.M., and 11. B. Fitzherbert,, a motion for a writ, of prohibition to restrain the defendants' proceeding further 011 a magisterial civil judgment, one of the grounds raised for the'defence was that the Imperial Army Act applied only to his Majesty k regular forces raised in (ho United Kingdom and Channel Islands. In awarding judgment for the defendants, his Honor directed that costs on the lowest, scale should be paid to the defendant Fitzherbert', and not by hi 111. as erroneously stated in yesterday's issue. "To-day I and another comrade visited the French abattoirs while killing was in progress," writes Private Angus MacDonald, of Hedgehopo, Southland, from somewhere in France. "Mules, horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs are slaughtered, and after an inspection the carcases are stamped and despatched to the butchers' shops. Their methods of dressing pigs is quite different from that we adopt in New Zealand. After the pigs have been bled a row of them are laid out and covered with straw, to which a match is applied. This causes the skin to peel off freely, and when finished the meat presents a whiter and cleaner appearance than ours and it is much <|iiicker. During our visit six pigs were killed and singed in five mimit.es and a-half. Mule and horse, flesh do not appeal to u's, and when dining in French restaurants we are strictly vegetarian." Pathetic word picture of small boys walking along lonely streets to deliver telegrams at the mystic hour of midnight or in the darkest hours that precede the dawn were painted at the meeting of the AA'ellington Central Chamber of Commerce. Tliey arose out of a communication from the Canterbury Chamber protesting against the discontinuance of the custom of transmitting telegrams by telephone. Members agreed that telegraph boys might be saved long, lonesome journeys at night time if the use of the telephone were allowed, but the point cropped up as to whether the messages were not sometimes mutilated over the wires. One member announced that he had been particularly unfortunate in this direction, and 011 one occasion an order had gone to a rival firm owing to a mix-up over the 'phone. It was eventually decided to refer the matter to the executive, of the United Chambers of Commerce. A story of the seriousness with which gallant France is taking the war was told hv Major Lumpen, D.5.0., in the course of a lecture at the Returned Soldiers' Club in AA'ellington the other evening. In one place, he said, he found himself billeted in a most comfortable house, every hospitality being shown him. In the sitting room was a piano, and turning to the daughter of the house he asked her, "Do you play?" "Yes," was the reply. "And sing?" "Yes, again was the answer. "Then I hope I may hear you," he continued. To this the girl replied, "I do not sing or play until the war is over." The story spoke for itself, and everywhere in France it was the same. Every frivolity, every amusement waa put aside until the war was won, Major Lainpen considered it was a privilege for the New Zealanders to be fighting beside the French soldiers, and they would gain much from the contact.

An incident of the German submarine campaign and the repiv of the British Xavy is related by an officer of the Mill Mew Zealand Reinforcements. "The \ew Zealand transports were nearing Old England," writes the officer, "and had entered the danger zone. In the morning nothing was in sight, but at 7,'iO a destroyer joined us. She had passed us during the night and picked up our other ships, and so had to turn round and catch lis up. We still went lull speed, but on a zig-zag course, and everything went well until about 10 a.m., when we came abreast of a large cargo steamer that had stopped for some reason or other. We watched her with curiosity, and could not make out what the lowjving craft just astern of her was. \\ u wore about two miles away from this ship, anil even as we watched Ave were surprised to see a great spout of water rise from her foreliold. Thou the mysterious craft was explained. It was a German submarine. Our destroyer immediately swerved off and made for the scene. When about three-quarters of a mile from us she opened fire on the submarine astern of the ship, and on a second that appeared at the bow. She only fired about six shots and then sped on. When she arrived at the stricken vessel she circled round, and then went in the the direction of a small sailing boat, which proved to contain the crew of the ship. After taking the men on board she rejoined us, and her commander signalled: "I believe I have sunk both of the German submarines," and when the navy 'believes' it has sunk a vessel it is a poor look-out for the crew of that vessel." DON'T MET. Dr. Sheldoifs Digestive Tubules digest what you cat, and allow you vo eat all the good, wholesome food you want. If you are suffering from indigestion, you. will be surprised at the' speedy relief they will give you. If your case is of long standing, it will require a reasonable time to effect a remedy, for Nature cannot replace worncut tissues with new ones by magic. But when, by the use of this preparation,, the stomach is given absolute rest, and abundant nourishment and reconstructive materials furnished, recovery is certain and permanent Price h (id and 2i fid. Oh'AnuibU

By an oversight the expenses of a Wanganui firm of solicitors were not included in the costs against the Wanganui Education Board in connection with the recent Supreme Court proceedings over the acquisition of land for school purposes at Aramoho. On Wednesday the firm wrote to the boijrd appealing on moral grounds for their costs, as the legal position was evidently untenable. The conclusion the board arrived at was that they had already paid sufficient in connection with the matter. The annual training camp of the lltli (Tarauaki) Regiment opened at the Rewa Ki'wa rifle range on Monday, when 1(14 long-distance men or men who hau been unable to attend drill during the year, went into training. Lieutenant Crutch, adjutant of the regiment, is in charge, ami other ollicers and noncommisMoned officers are Lieuts. Quiliiani and Ueid, .Nev^cant-Major Collins, W. 0., R.O.M.S. Ingham, R. 5.11. William' son, and .Sergeant-Major Crompton. The ramp will be removed to the Waiivakaiho Show Grounds on March (!, when the remainder of (he regiment will go into training