LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 May 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An appellant at the Hawera Appeal Board wrote in support of his appeal: "I have a farm of 172 acres, milking G2 cows, 0 horses, 23 calves and 150 sheep.''

It is announced that the Canterbury Times, the oldest) weekly journal in the province, and the Evening News will shorlty suspend publication in order to save men and material during the war period. The proprietors consider the sacrifice necessary in the promotion of national efficiency.—Press Association.

The No. 3 Wellington District Medical Board, comprising Lieuts.-Col. Guthrie and Fulton, held sittings at New Plymouth on Friday, and at Hawera on Saturday. ,A large number of recruits were examined Captain Burdet (dental officer), Lieut. Ansell (attesting officer), and Sergeant-Major Sill were also present.

Picture patrons who have been looking forward to seeing the world's greatest living actress, Madame Sarah Bernhardt, in the magnificent photo-drama "Jeanne Dore" are requested to note that owing to alterations in . the train arrangements this great attraction will bo screened at Everybody's ■"'lieatr-j to-mor-row and Wednesday, and not at the Empire Theatre as previously advertised. There Bhould be very keen competition in the home industry classes at the winter show to be held here on Jun. 1 12, 14, 15 and 10, for in addition to the usual prizes and special prizes two magnificent trophies have been M:sdames J. S. Connett and T. Smellie as points prizes. These trophies, which are on view in Messrs S. B. \unto and Sons' window, whore they are attracting general admiration, consist of a beautiful rose bowl and an electroplated cake stand and i.ower stand. One trophy is to be awarded to the cookery ■classes and the other to the jam, pickles, preserves, etc.

The ladies of the Red Cross and Patriotic societies took charge of the Mart on Saturday, and did excellent business, *fthile Mrs Dockrill and the young ladies of St. John's Ambulance attended to the sale of badges in the streets, and were also well rewarded for their energetic efforts. The takings were in aid of the Roumanian fund, and reached the handsome total of £122 (is, including • £44 12s 5d contributed by the purchasers of badges, which numbered twelve hundred. Jn connection with the guessing competitions that for the name of a Persian cat ("Sue") was won by Mr. Fitzherbert, and that for the name of a doll ("George") by Mrs. Scott, of Fitzroy.

For Children's Hacking Cough at night, Wood's Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6, 2/0.

The Cromwell canning factory is now permanently established. Upwards of 2000 rabbits aro bandied daily.

North Canterbury recently experienced one of the heaviest downpours as yet recorded. In Cliristchurcb, in the course of one day, H.UOiu of rain were registered.

in a letter received in Waipawa detailing the doing of a portion of the Twenty-second Reinforcements on board the transport, the writer mentioned that a French class, consisting of 70 pirotfs, was held twice a week.

Ziman's syndicate (North Blackwater) is engaged in sinking a deep main shaft to open out the Blackwater reef, and lias just reached a depth of a thousand feet. It is the largest shaft in the Reeiton'field. A small parallel reef, showing gold, was cut by the .-baft unexpectedly at 070 feet.—Press association.

It required a smal fortune to indue; Madame- Sarah Bnrr.r-i i-lt to appear in motion pictures sVimo two y-ur.. hack, when a furore was M-.-ated by Kr acting in "Queen Bess.", This famous actress has again appeared in motion picture"!, this time in the character of ".Jeanne Dore," a triumphant Broadway frature, which will be screen-d at Everybody's Theatre to-morrow aid Wednesday night. A number of farmers around Akaroa, says the local paper, have decided to go in foi fruit growing. One orchard being put in on the outskirts of Akaroa will contain 307 trees, while there will be throe other large orchards put in this year on the same scale. In most cases the trees to be planted are apples of the best keeping varieties and useful for commercial purposes. It should only be a year or two now before Banks Peninsula will bo able to carry on a large fruit export trade.

There are many reputed euros for seasickness—here is the latest that we have read of. A resident of Masterton who is generally subject) to mal-de-mer, claims to have discovered a cure for this distressing trouble. The remedy costs nothing. All the traveller has' to do when he feels sea-sickness coming upon him is to take ten or twelve deep breaths, inhaling as much air as possible. The Masterton man has put this cure to a test, and found it to' bo absolutely effective. A most unusual position arose in the Dunedin Supreme Cflurt on Friday morning when the jury were being cmpannelled in the case against Young Shiel. The panel became exhausted on account of the number of challenges exercised 'by counsel, and then, by direction ol the Court, the Registrar ordered all doors to be locked while lie called on those in Court to complete the jury. ' Six jurors were required, and several wellknown business men, who were in Court through being witnesses in a previous case, were empanelled.

Some weird reasons are given to Military Service Boards by appellants seeking either total or temporary exemption from service. Seldom is it that Scriptural authority is quoted, but yesterday a member of the Jewish persuasion wrote, referring the Third Wellington Board to Deuteronomy, chapter 24, verse 5. The Bible used to swear witnesses was called into requisition, and the reference was found to be as follows:—"When a man hath taken a wife he shall not go out to war; neither shall he be charged with any business; but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife, which he hath taken." The Board was absolved from the necessity of deciding this delicate domestic point, the appellant having been found by the Medical Board to be unlit for any but home service.

At the ceremony in connection with the installation of Wor. Bro. V. H. S. Griffiths as W.JI. of Da Burgh Adams lodge on Thursday night, the newly installed master invested the following ofr fleers for the ensuing year: 1.P.M., Wor. Bro. P. J. H. White, D.G.S.; S.W. Bro. K. B. Pain; J.W., Bro. E. L. Parken; I'reas., Wor. Bro. E. Chatterton; sec, \ior. Bro. F. C. J. Bellringer, P.D.G.D.C; •Director of Ceremonies, nor. Bro. H. J, M. Wells; organist, Wor. Bro. W. M. Perry, P.D.G.0.; Senior Deacon, Bro. D. Ritchie; Junior Deaenn, Bro. W. E. Keating; Inner Guard, Bro. A. G Mason; Chaplain, Bro. E.' A. H. Robb; Senior Steward, Bro. W. R. Home; Junior Stewards, Bros. V. W. Ardern, E. Turner mid J.. Waddle; Tyler, wor. Bro J. Asher, P.D.G.J.W.

At the Dimedin Supreme Court last, week William L. Sh'iel was charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of Neil McCulloch on February 14. Death resulted from injuries sustained in a collision between accused's motor cycle and McCulloch's push bike. The judge, summing up, said that if there was no collision it was impossible to understand how McCulloch was knocked off his bicycle. The jury, after 25 minutes' retirement, returned a verdict of guilty, with a strong recommendation that accused should be dealt with leniently on account of his youth, and the absence of n sense of responsibility. The judge said such hecklessncss as prisoner luid been guilty of should be put down. He had every desire to give expression to the jury's recommendation, but it was his duty to impose a reasonable term of imprisonment. He would make it as light as he could. Aceused was sentenced to six months' hard labor.

The Melbourne, Ltd., have just completed the purchase of a big clearing line of boys' Roslyn tweed sport suits at an advantageous figuie enabling the. firm to sell the suits at from 27s 6d for size fl, to 32s Od for size 14. The suits are splendidly made, good, warm winter weights and in pleasing shades of browns and grey mixtures.

The need for fertilisers to enable the most to be obtained out of the land is being more and more recognised by dairy farmers each year Unfortunately this year, owing to shortage of shipping, there is every indication that supplies of fertilisers will be very scarce. Farm. irs should, therefore, take advantage of the opportunity oll'ered by Mr. Newton King and book orders for Ephos Phosphate as advertised.

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The Corriere d'ltalia learns from Kuril, h that tlic Austrians, in retaliation for the guerilla warfare waged by numerous Montenegrin bands, are systematically hanging women. Two hundred women have been hanged in three villages. Thousands of people are awaiting sentence.

Trooper Clutha Mackenzie, in speaking at the Soldiers' Club, Wellington, on Saturday night, related some rather amusing experiences. In church one day, during the singing of a hymn, a lady in the pew behind, evidently seeing that he had no book, handed him one. Feeling a tap on his arm, ho thought the collection plate was being handed round, so lie laid sixpence on the opened hymn book which the unknown lady was kindly holding out to him. Owing to the restrictions on good.* traffic on the railway, a number of Hastings and Napier linns have gone in for motor traet/m, and one manager informed a Hawke's Bay Herald reporter that his firm had definitely decided' that, even if the original train service were renewed, their custom would not go there, as the proprietors were satisfied that cost of parcels, etc., per car was not only cheaper but more satisfactory, and the goods ranched their destination much more expeditiously,

A motor-car standing ir- Dixon street, Wellington, on Friday night, suddenly burst into flames, and appeared to b'« doomed to destruction. A cry of "Fire!" —the alarm was rung—n dense crowd gathered. With commendable promptitude two taxi-drivers hastened up with their chemical fire extinguishers, and just as the crowd in Cuba street parted to allow the fire brigade motor engine to sweep round the To Aro House corner, had succeeded in mastering the outburst, and saved a valuable new car.

The amount paid in wages to the Wellington waterside .workers for the paat two weeks constitutes a record for the port. On Friday (says the Times) be. tween £SOOO and £OOOO was paid in wages, and over £OOOO the previous Friday. Altogether £12,00!) wa9 paid out for work done in conniption with the loading and discharging of cargoes from ships at the several wharves and quays, but slightly over £IOOO of the amount constituted back pay. It is said that in a few instances individual workers drew from £8 to £0 per week for their labor.

A good story is told of a Southland farmer who recently discharged his duty of filling in his land and income ta\. returns. Discussing the matter of the value of his dairy cows with some friends lie innocently gave the information that '•ie valued his cows for income tax purposes at £6 per bead. Some time after he held a clearing sale and the cows realised £l3 per head. Someone sent a clipping of the newspaper report to the Income Tax Department, whereupon certain correspondence emanated from Mie department, which was of Bpecial concern to its recipient.

The impression that exists among a large proportion of the public, that cerc-lsrn-spinal meningitis is a highly contagious disease is an erroneous one. The disease is contracted through close contact with a patient or cerebro-spinal meningitis carrier. Medical science has discovered that the breath of a patient suffering from the disease is not in ordinary circumstances serin-laden, but that the cough of a patient is. Experiments have proved that a colony of the germ can be cultivated from a patient's cough, but not from his breath. A danger of contagion exists in cases of influenza and measles where the cerebrospinal meningitis bug may be present.

"The fruit on Pitcairn ia sompfy rot ting for lack of a suitable markc! ■ "• it," said a Wellington gentleman taken a keen interest in that roii. spot in the Pacific, in the course < conversation with a, Post rep.v'ei "Hugh juicy oranges, luscious yellow bananas, and the hundred and one other fruits to be found in the tropics, grow in profusion, and it seems a pity they should be wasted. I .inderstand, however, that with the adve-nt of the regular mail service from New York which has been inaugurated by the vessels of the U.S. and A. line trading to New Zealand, arrangements have been made to establish a fruit trade between Pitcairn Island and the Dominion."

Indications point to the fact (says the Christchurch Sun) that the potato harvest in Canterbury is a particularly heavy one. Fifteen tons to the acre have been recorded from the Rangiora district, whilst the fact is vouched for that at Hornby, in an area of a little over two acres,' forty-five tons of tubers were lifted. Some districts, as iB always the case, have produced much heavier crops than others, but one cannot generally help being struck with the large number of full sacks standing in the paddocks. Men wanted for potato digging are demanding high wages. Some are being paid £1 "2s per ton for their •labor. Writes a returned soldier to the Wellington Times:— When I arrived in New Zealand, the welcome I received was characteristic of that accorded to others. Before the ship was berthed and before I had time to embrace my mother, an officer brusquely thrust a paper into my hand. It was my discharge. Nobody asked me how j. felt, or whether I required medical treatment, nor did anyone show any concern about what was to becomo of me. Another official,' equally intent upon "welcome" handed me a railway ticket. "You must travel by to-night's train," he said. I told him I was a sick man and could not face a night's travel just coming off ship. Moreover, my mother had just completed a railway journey, and could not undertake another so soon. It was no use. Unless I took the train at once, and faced a journey of several hundred miles that night, my ticket was valueless. Those were my first experiences on landing—my official welcome. Since then, I have had some battles with the gentlemen of the Permanent Staff—those gentlemen whom you represent as so eager to extend a welcome to returned soldiers. Eventually, I have been fairly treated, but not by the Permanent Staff. Fortunately, there are others in authority above them. But all the returned men have not fared so well as 1 have. However, you will hear a great deal about some cases when Parliament meets. I am told that it is sedition to ventilate the wrongs of soldiers in the newspapers just now.

THE POISONING OP THIRTY GIRLS in a Melbourne factory by eucalyptus lollies which, were evidently made from the common eucalyptus brings home forcibly the importance of using only the GENUINE SANDER EUCALYPTI EXTRACT internally. SANDER'S EXTRACT sniffed up the nose and three drops on sugar, is a sure and safe protection from meningitis and other infections. Applied to ulcers, poisoned 'wounds, sprains, chilblains, eczema, [SANDER'S EXTRACT brings quick re[lief and permanent cure.