LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 March 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

During the last four weeks there were ii.-i admissions to the Hawera' hospital, 27 patients were discharged, three died and 3G remained.

The members of the Women's Patriotic League spent a pleasant afternoon in Pukekura Park 'yesterday, and were entertained to afternoon tea by the Mayoress (Mrs C. 1:1. Burgess).

The Ohuva district will be well represented at the inauguration of the visit of the Ho :ie liners to New Plymouth. Her thirty prominent settlers from that district intend making the trip through by car.

An accident occurred at the corner of Gil! and Liardot streets on Wednesday afternoon, which resulted in a boy named Charlie Feck being admitted to the hospital suffering from cuts to the head, arm and knee. The. boy was riding a bicycle from Gill street into Liardet street, ahd collided with a motorcar coming in the opposite direction.

On a recent Saturday night an argument arose in a restaurant between a local solicitor and a sergeant-major, an I they subsequently had it out in a piile street in the "good old British way." The police yesterday brought a chsirec of committing a breach of the peace against P. B. Fitzherbert and Swrjjv.ti.v-

Major Cvompton. The former shouldered the blame and was lined £3, and the charge against Crompton was dismissed.

A deputation from the Citizen's Committee iu comieci.ion with the forthcoming visit of an ocean liner to the breakwater, .waited on the executive of the Xew 'Plymouth Einplovers' Association yesterday morning with a request that I lie business people of Xew Plymouth -liould observe a whole holiday on 'fileslav next. \Uter hearing the several peakers, it was unanimously decided by .lie executive to ask local business men to observe the whole day.

There is only one SANDER EXTRACT, and that is why the people reject the many inferior and harmful substitutes and just as goods. SANDER'S EXTRACT is free from the objectionable qualities of the common eucalyptus, .-andor's Extract cures all infectious diseases, all winter ailments, ulcers, burns, -prains, eczema, etc. Insist on the IiKXUINE SANDER'S EXTRACT,

The area of land leased from Maoris in New Zealand 'is 2,020.<]10 acres. Rawke's Bay lieada the list with 733,-

"Thero is a large number of smail grocery businesses in the market just now,"'states counsel at the Wellington .Military Service Hoard on Tuesday, -and 1 am instructed that buyers siiupiy cannot be found."

"Some twelve years ago King Edward VIT. —we have reason to know," says the Saturday Review—'''returning from

successful diplomatic round 011 the Continent, said to a member of his family: ''Thank God, I have put the war off ten rears.'"

The daughter of a Tarana'd farmer has taken charge of her father's farm in the absence of her only brother, who is now home 011 final leave. With the assistance of one twelve year old school boy. she milks by machine lortv-tive cows, night and morning, looks after the plant, starts the engine and takes care of the dairy stock. On Sundays she drives her aged parents to siiurch in the car and often plays thu jrgan. Such an example of the fine old colonial spirit is good to meet, says the Patea Press.

At) the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr A. Crooke, S.M., William Jvtreiiii was convicted and fined it/- for riding a motor-cycle without proper lights. A. H. Gilbert was limited in os for allowing a horse to wander 011 Frankley Road. For committing a breach of his prohibition order Pikikete Biscuit (Mr J. 11. Quilkam) was convicted and fined £l. A tine of 10/- was imposed on J. W. Kurta, restaurant keeper, for selling a packet of cigarettes after hours. The charges preferred by the police against •lames Mount and Albert W:|'rd for making wagers in a billiard-room, were adjourned until March 23.

One of the statements that enemies oi the Military Service Act have been making is that some of tlid men conscripted for .military service have committed suicide rather than perform the duties allotted to them in the camps. The statement, the Dominion is informed, is without a shadow of truth. The fact is that since the beginning of 191(1 there have been six suicides, and in that period over :!0,000 men have passed through the camps. The percentage cannot bo considered a high one, and in no single case is there any evidence that the Military Service Act caused any one of the unhappy men to take his own life.

During the voyage from England of the last Now Zealand hospital ship those on board witnessed a Dutch steamer being waylaid by a German submarine in the Lay of Biscay. The officers on the hospital ship distinctly saw the submarine's conning tower, and observed her signal to the Dutch ship to hea 1 . 1 to. A conversation was carriod on at a distance of about a quarter of a mile, but the vessel with the New Zealanders on board did not tarry to see the result of the encounter.

T.ord Knutsford, speaking after his reelection for the twenty-fifth time as chairman of Poplar Hospital, told how he once asked Florence Nightingu'■ to tell her experiences. "No, I won't do that," she replied; "aiul I want you in remember this, and remember that an old woman told it you—'Never dwell on the rtiiseries of the past. Think only of the present and the possibilities of'the future."

There is a remarkable difference in the two islands between the willingness of men to serve at the front. Tor the Twenty-ninth Reinforcements 1440 men are required in the North Island, and 717, or practically h.an, are voluntary recruits. Jn the South Island 879 men. are asked for, and only 101 have volunteered. Canterbury, from ivhicii J72 recruit? are required, has provided seven voluntary recruits.

Since the Military camp was cnlr.ltlishrd at Featherston the Frsitherjion County Council has expended rome ;S 1200 on the road between Featherston and Greytovn. Previously, less than £IOO a year had kept the road in order. Rome CO or SO motor cars have been licensed, and the Featherston Comity Council is protesting against the fee's going to the township instead of the country that maintains the road.

The ravages of the kea have been so bad this year throughout North Canterbury that pome of the high country stations are taking unprecedented step* to meet the trouble. Not only lias the price per head been more than doubled, and guns lent and ammunition supplied free, but permission has been given to shoot at birds hovering over or settled amongst sheep paddocked for the night. No greater evidence could be asked of the serious nature or the damage done than that on the chance of killing one bird a sheep-owner is willing to risk the lives of animals worth perhaps 35s each.

"The Allies to-day," states Patrick Y. Alexander, in a recent issue of '"Flying,' "have complete superiority of the air, but it has been achieved at a tremendou. expenditure of effort and money. We have not less than 500,000 persons in the British air service alone., including thousands of aviators, the mechanics and the manufacturers of aeroplanes and aeronautic supplies. Aeroplanes can be seen in flocks anywhere. Every ship that leaves British ports is escorted by aeroplanes until it is quite a way beyond the Irish coast. .We „lso have large airships, which we expect will be superior to the very best Zeppelins. We have in use at present hundreds of small dirigibles less than 300 feet long, equipped with aeroplane bodies. They are capable of staying in the air 50 hours, and go at a speed of about 33 miles an hour, They .are very useful in submarine warfare and " coastal defence."

Theda Tiara' in tlio Pox photoplay verof "Carmen" will be finally shown it Everybody's to-night. Charlie Chaplin makes his, appearance again to-mor-row, commencing at the matinee in his original vaudeville act, '"'One u.m.," the ';Hes„ Mutual comedy. Marguerite Clark and, Robert Warwick again appear at "The Empire" to-night, each m a 3,rcci feature drama. Reserved scats at Colliers.

DIPHTHERIA—HOW IT MAY BE AVOIDED. ! • ™ i R usually contracted -when the ch: id lias a cold. The cold prepares the child's system for the reception of germs. When there are cases of diphtheria in the neighborhood children that have colds should be kept at home and olf the street until recovered. Give them Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and they will not have to' remain at homo long. It also cleans out the culture beds, which form in a child's throat when it has a cold, and minimises the riek of contracting infectious diseases.

The first frost of the season is reported irum Christchurch. The other night a sharp frost played havoc with tomatoes and marrows, and a large {•rower reported that half his crops of tomatoes was ali'eeted and would probably be spoiled. During the Ilawke's Bay election contest and afterwards statements were made that Sir John Findlay would be taken into the Cabinet immediately. This is not correct, says the Dominion. It is very improbable that any appointment will 1h? made to fill the vacancy now existing in the Cabinet until (lie return of Mr Maswcy and Sir Joseph Ward from .England.

At the meeiing of the llawera Hospital Hoard on Thursday, the Health inspector (Mr. A. Cray) reported that seventeen cases of infrrtion.K di-eases were notified—one of phthisis anit one of typhoid fever in llawera borough, two of :• ;•:<rlcif fever, and one of phthisis in Elthai'i fTorcm'h, one of scarlet fever, two of diphthcYi:! and one of phthisis in Hav.era county, two of scarlet fever and one of typhoid fever in Eltham county, one of diphtheria in Waimat.e We't county, .one of typhoid in Manaia, and two of diphtheria in Kaponga. Three samples of milk were forwarded to the Dominion analyst from llawera.. Various food shops were inspected throughout tiie district, and several bakers were uotilied not to use labels for loaves with the statement "weight not guaranteed," and to substitute a true statement of tiie -weight. One baker was warned for having bread on the top of his cai't not sufficiently protected from dust and flies.