LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tho Egmont Village School are holding a picnic at the East End Reserve to-day. Tlio takings on tho New Plymouth tramways on Wednesday amounted to £ll9 Us 9J. The previous best was £B2, on Xew Year's Day, On Wednesday nearly the whole of Mr. Newton King's stair from all brandies attended the function at the Breakwater. Advantage wag taken' of the occasion to have tho staff photographed. Some 1-23 members were included in the photo, and about half a. do2«n were absent owing to sickness and other causes. The mart on Saturday will be in charge of Fitzroy and th : Women's Patriotic Committee. A sp endid stock is promised. Another attra< Hon will be a huge jumble stall, for which gifts are wanted in any quantity. Tfliese may be left at Jones' stables on Triday afternoon. The' mart will also be open on Friday evening from 7 o'clock to receive goods. i> Some people have oueer ideas of relationship. In a debt "'ease at Opunake, the judgment debtor, in giving evidence as to why an order should not be given against him, enumerated the large family that be had to keep, among which he included his "son-in-law." Inquiry by the solicitor elicited the fact that he meant his second wife's son, that is his stepson. A soldier on furlough, to a Palinerston parent:—'! think there is every chance of the show being finished this summer. Everyone in England is very confident though very vague as to how the end is to be brought about. People talk about destroying the Hun enemy in the west and driving them over the Rhine, but after being through the Somme show I realise that that is bosh. lam certain that they will come in for a very good hammering in the west this spring and summer. I believe that that, combined with internal discontent, will see the end."

There is said to be a scissors famine in America. Formerly they were largely imported from Germany. Now that business with Germany is' entirely shut off, the native supply must be relied on. since England, the only other avaiiaoie source of production, has none to spare. American makers hesitate to go to the great expense of installing machinery sufficient to take rare of the home demand because of the uncertainty as to what will happen in the way of renewed foreign competition when the war ends. Also, the skilled labor for making these goods has to be trained and educated, and that comes only with slow process of time.

A trip to Awakiuo with a traction engine, "pulling a large steam boiler, is something of a contract (states the Waitara Mail). Yet it was accomplished a few days ago by Messrs A. W. Johnston and Frank Clare. Their original contract was to go as far as the Mokau ferry, where they thought there would be diiiiculty owing to the boiler's weight, but as that was overcome, they agreed to go right through. The pull over Mt. Messenger, thanks to the good state of the road, was accomplished comparatively easily, hut a little further on. the state of the Government bridges halted them, and the structures had"to be propped up. It was slow work at the ferry, but once the strain was se«n the progress was sure. We understand this is the first time a traction engine has gone through from this end to Awakino.

At the .Magistrate's Court, Opunnke, yesterday, Mr. A. Crook, S.ir.. presiding, judgment for plaintiff by dofaiilt was given in the following cas'S:—(Phillips Bros. (.Mr. Marshall) v. M. BUhop, £l3 Ss 10d (costs £1 17s fid); C A Trotter (Mr. Marshall) v. Whiro Bat Jii £7 7s fid (£1 7s Cd); J. R. Stewart (Mr! Marshall) j v. Rourangi, £5 5s (£1 lis) • C, Jenkins (Mr. Marshall) v. Broughtoii £2 »s (ISs). summons eases orders were made by default for the payment of the following amounts before March 23, with the usual alternative:—!'. P. Hughson & Sons (Mi. Marshall) v. Meri Peri, £7 10s 4d; same v. Chas. Warn, £ll 13s 4d; same v. Noho Te AVihiti, £lB 13s ftd; Charles Lyttle (Mr. Govt) v. George Epai, £4 lis. Orders were made by consent for the payment of £2 per month in the ease of f P. Hughfon & Sons v. F. Kahili, claim £45 IDs Od; and same v. George Inia claim £7 4s 4d. In the defended case' P. F. Ralfe (Mr. Marshall) v. J. N. Harris (Mr. Gow), a claim for £7 8s 8d for rent of house, also ono month's rent in lieu oi notice and various incidentals judgment was given for plaintiff for £5 •fc, less £2 His Id paid into Court, with costs 14s. Muriel Harris (Mr. Marshall) applied for an order of separation, maintenance and guaidianship against her husband, John Nelson Harris (Mi. Gow) After Hearing evidence, the Magistrate adjourned the case for a month to see if the parties could not arrange a settlement.

That the world is after all a very small place was shown some few molilalia ck when a well known Taranaki settler famous in football circles got out of a railway train somewhere in E<*ypt This particular settler with the oiu fighting blood of the men of Devon in his veins being too old to enlist in the New Zealand forces journeyed to the Old Country and after a year's study and training obtained a Commission in a Yeomanry Regiment. ' Shortly afterwards he was drafted to Salonika but by some means or another the ship arrived in Egypt instead. On stepping out of a train at one place he walked straight into the arms of a Hawera bov m the uniform of a New Zealand Mounted Rifleman. As both were old friends of many years standing the surprise of each at meeting was great. But it was nothing when in reply to a query as to what he _ was doing the Hawera boy said: "I'm in your brother-in-law's troop. He's over there," and sure enough the brother-in-law just then came walking across the platform. The yeomanry man imagined his brother-in-law to be then engaged in other work in New Zealand latter imagined the Yeomanry man to he in Britain or on the Somme. Both afterwards spent Christmas Day in the land of the Pharoahs.—Patea Press. Methodist Church Harvest Thanksgiving Services will be held on Sundav next, 25ta, at Waitara, Tikorangi, and Urcnui.—Advt. CAUSES OF STOMACH TROUBLE. Sedentary habits, lack of out-door exercise, insufficient masticatjon of food, constipation, a torpid liver, worry and anxiety, over eating, partaking of food and drink not suited to your age and occupation. Correct your habits and take Chamberlain's Tablet for the stomach and liver and you will Boon be well again. Sold everywhere.

Thos. Silsby, of the clerical staff of tlm Porirua Mental Hospital, was chcrged in the Magistrate's Court yesterday with forging the name of Dr. Has.-ioJl to a Government voucher .purporting to be an authority for the payment of £8!) 14s Od to'.T. Thompson, Wellington. He was remanded till March 28. Bail was allowed, accused in £2OO and a surety of a similar amount. It was stated that other charges were pending involving a large sum.

A peculiar accident to a New Zealand soldier is described by the London correspondent of the Auckland Herald. The soldier was.in London on sick furlough and purchased some potasli tablets for a sore throat. He put the tablets into his tunic-pocket where there were some loose matches, and the result was that while in a tramcar he suddenly became enveloped in flames. He was 1 severely burned about, the legs, and will be confined to bed far at least a month. Soldiers consequently have been warned against carrying potash tablets loose in their pockets.

An American paper states: "One of the most wonderful of all medical discoveries was joyfully announced at th* Cook Country Hospital in Chicago on January 4. The cure for infantile paralysis, the scourge that has killed and maimed thousands of children, is given to the world by Dr. John W. Nuzum, resident pathologist of the hospital. Having practised medicine for three years only, this young, slight, very retiring physician, has given the world what it has prayed for since the terrors of infantile paralysis were first known. Mr R. T. Cane, jun., offered 25,000 dollars last August to the man who would first find a cure for the plague. In all probability this reward will go to Dr. Nuzum. A few months ago three physicians in different hospitals simultaneously discovered the organism that causes the disease. They are Dr. E. Rosenow, of the Moyo Bros.' institution in Rochester, Minnesota; Dr. George Mather of the Sprague Memorial Hospital, in Chicago; and Dr. Nuzum. Dr Nuzum, however, was the first to develop the scrum. He has isolated the organism out of tlie spinal canal, which makes early diagnosis possible. A ease can now be determined in twelve hours after the spinal fluid is drawn. He has the serum that cures the disease, which can be checked to prevent an epidemic, because of early diagnosis. It is possible that people will eventually be made immune against infantile paralysis by vaccination."