LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The net profit' of the year's working of the Wellington municipal electric lighting undertaking is £10,258, and the tramways show a profit of £12,883 Press Association. As an outcome of the present coal itrike, the railway department are warning the travelling public of probable drastic cuts in the travelling facilities. If the strike continues, the curtailment will take effect from.Monday, 23rd instant. In order to allow of repair work being done at the intake the electric power was shut off a little after midnight this morning till five o'clock. We have to thank the electrical engineer (Mr. Bartley) for arranging to give us sufficient power to drive our main printing machine, enabling us to publish at the usual hour, Q.M.S. A. J. Mason (a Petone boy) is reported as having been awarded the Military Medal for saving the lives of three of his comrades who were wounded, carrying one of them into safety under heavy fire. Quartermaster-Sergeant Mason was menl\ined in dispatches afIter $» Sonimebattjo last je**

Some papers are starring the item that at the Ellerslio races on Easter Monday, a "sport" who had been given too great a dividend refunded the money to the tolulisalor clerk. Well, are they all thieves, save onei This is suit vpcb at the Ne'.v Zealand Clothing Factory, and a splendid range of the celebrated H.B. tailoreuls for the auttirn season are now opened up and ready for inspection. It is well to remember that these suits are made in the firm's own factory which enables t'hem to offer the best suit value in the Dominion. Prompt action on the part of Guard J. Richards was responsible for the prevention of a runaway at Tarihi yesterday afternoon. When the imddav train from N T e\v Plymouth drew up at the station, a horse attached to a (rig near the store made oil'. Guard Richards promptly cut across the road and was able to secure the animal before it gathered speed. Had the horse got away, damage would probably have resulted, as there was a good deal of traffic at the time. Captain Walker, the military representative, replying to statements made by an appellant at Hawcra on Monday, that 02 reservists were not much use, said the appellant must, not class all the 02 men in that category. He would like to make it known that all the men who had been classed by the Medical Boards as C2 were soldiers, and if they loafed about the towns doing nothing they would be called up for service and put into the camps, where they would bo compelled to do useful work. He knew that in the majority of cases the C2 men were quite anxious to render service if required, I'and regarded it as a misfortune that they had not been passed for active service ■_Mr. Jas. Malcolm, of Oaonui, was picked up on Thursday night on the roadside,in an unconscious state. It appears he left Eahotu on a bike on the above evening for his home, and that is as far as his memory serves him. A party of motorists found him on the roadside opposite Mr. Fleming's residence. They brought the sufferer to Opunake, then on to Manaia to Dr. Milroy's surgery. The injuries to the face were a clean cut on the right side, laying the flesh bare from the eye to the chin. How the accident occurred is a mystery. Mr. Malcolm himself could not give any particulars. He is at present in a private hospital in Manaia, and is reported to be progressing well.— Times. "In 1807 matters were so keen in the brigade and interest was so high thai; we actually brought a man from gaol to record his vote," remarked the secretary of tho fire brigade (Mr. H. Ford) last night, in giving some reminiscencies of his 25 years' experiences with the brigade. He explained that this was net due to the brigade having gaol birds amongst thoir members, but one of the firemen was engaged watching a prisoner who was to be hanged the next day. This vote proved the deciding factor in the election of Superintendent F. C. Bellringer, who had occupied the position continuously ever since—a, period of twenty years. Tho principles and methods of lifesaving as practised by the Royal LifeSaving Society will be fully demonstrated and explained at the New Plymouth Municipal Baths this evening by members of the society. In accordance with this society's object of spreading a knowledge of swimming and life-saving amona; school children, the demonstration has been arranged with the special purpose of instructing Taranaki school teachers, who are at present assembled in town, in the subject, so that they may impart the knowledge gained to the vhikh'on, To-night men, schoolboys, and schoolgirls will take part in the display, and a" exhibition of fancy swimming and diving will be given subsequently. In reference to the half holiday for factories in the week in which the municipal election will be held, Mr. W. J. Wakelin (inspector at New Plymouth) lias received a circular from the C'hiel Inspector, Wellington. This states that unless the half-holiday for females and hoys under IS in factories is already observed on Wednesday, it will hot be a compliance with the Factories Act if the half-holiday for these employees is given on that day—that is to say, the usual half-holiday on Saturday should be given. In regard to shops, the position is that if shopkeepers who ordinarily observe the weekly half-holiday on somo other day than Wednesday, desire to observe it in that week on election day, it will bei necessary for the Mayor to invite the citizens to observe th& afternoon as a public holiday. At tho weekly sitting of the Magistrate's Court yesterdnyt Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., presiding, judgment was given for plaintiff by default in the following undefended eases: Jas. McNeill (Mr. Hutchen) v. Fred C. Jas. Hawke £5 3s, costs £1 3s Cd; W. E. Kendall and Co. (Mr. T. P. Anderson) v. John Rowan and William Thompson £ll 2s 9d ( £1 (Is Od). In the judgment summons' cases judgment orders were made against judgment debtor? by default, as follows: W. G, hhneny (Mr. Fitzherbert) v. Jack Bishop, order roude for payment of £fi "s on or before April 20th, in default seven days' imprisonment. Frank S. Drury was ordered to pay R. J. Dcare (Mr. Hutchenl the sum of £5 lis on or before April 20th, in default seven days' Imprisonment. Ja s . Ctoss was ordered to pay Fred Jas. King (Mr. Bennett), £lO lis 2d on or before April -2-ith, in default lit days' imprisonment.

The local agents for the Ford car were notified a few weeks ago that all cars supplied from subsequent shipments would be the."new model." No more information was available, so patience bad to be practised until the cars themselves prrived. Tho first ear, which arrived yesterday, fulfils all expectations. The exterior is most pleasing, a streamline bonnet and improved radiator, together with domed mudguards front and rear, give an altogether different appearance to the car. Several minor improvements have also been made. The car, which is arousing considerable interest among those who have seen it, is on view at the garage in Liardet street. Any man who has a love for New Zealand will like New Zealand's tobacco, Cold Pouch Aromatic, grown in Hnwke's Bay district; it is all that perfect tobacco should be, has a delightful flavour of its own, is cool, sweet, and minus hite. Moreover, Gold Pouch contains a very low peroentage of nicotine —only P/ 2 per cent.—and is therefore harmless when compared with imported tobaccos with their i per cent, and 5 per cent, nicotine strength. Economical also! For a shilling you get a bag crammed full with 2} o/:s of Gold Pouch. Try it because it's New Zealand-grown and because 'tis the best you can try. Cigarette smokers! Use New Zealand-grown "Three Diamonds" Tobacco. For Influenza take Wood's Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails, 1/6, 2/0.

Lecturing at Napier on the Somme offensive, Lieutenant 11. T. Morion, of Fcilding, spoke very highly of the Maori men of the Now Zealand divisions. They got very little of the attention of the correspondents who wrote in glowing accounts of the deeds of the, Anzacs. But the Maoris worked on at any task, )in matter how fatiguing or dangorous, and never complained. They had always the cheerful reply for a comment on their long hours of duty that "Every day will he Sunday when this job is over." The Commissioner of Taxes state; that the Department is aware that a very large number of men who sliouln have paid their income tax have not Bent in returns of their income, and so have avoided the payment of taxes up till the present, but those farmers are not likely to escape altogether, says the W'ollington Dominion. The Department has been collecting information about them for some time, but because the stall' is below strength, it has not been possible to make use of this information at onee. When the present busy period is over it is hoped that all the men who have been evading payment of their income taves will be discovered. When they are discovered they will have to pay treble the amount that would otherwise, have been demanded of them, this being the penalty vhich the Department has power , under the Statute to impose. If, however, the Commissioner is satisfied that the default on the part of the particular man is due to ignorance or inadvertence, he may at his own discretion excuse the payment of the penal rate of, treble the ordinary tax, and accept the amount of the tax plus Id per cent, additional, this being the penalty imposed in all cases for late payment. Tn order to discover the defaulters the Department is using not only the country rate rolls, but the returns of dairy factories, and other sources of information which it has. Men's mercery bargains at the j.ielhouriic, Ltd.: Men's pyjamas, full size, r>s Gd; men's grey cotton tweed shirts, Cs Gd; 'men's Iful size flannels, 4s (id; men's Irish lawn handkerchiefs, full size, 3 for Is; men's blue grandrjll working nhirts, 3s fid, 4s (id, and 5s Cd; men's Harvard shirts, 3s (id, 4s Od, and <s lid; men's plain navy "Advance" drill shirts, 4s lidj men's all wool Crimean shirts, lis Cd; men's Mosgicl socks, wonderful value, Is Cd pair. Last winter's coat Is contrary to this winter's fashion. Moreys have' a fewwords to say about their COO coats they have in stock. Read to-day's advertisement.