LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 May 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The flour-milling industry has been added to the list of essential industries on the recommendation of the Efficiency Board.—Press Association. At last night's meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council the Museum Committee reported tha.t the tender of Messrs J. T. Julian and Son, Ltd. (Auckland), £3077, for the erection of the museum, had been accepted. Twenty-seven applications for the position of borough accountant came before the New Plymouth Borough Council last night, when it was decided to defer making an appointment till next Monday evening's meeting of the Works Committee, the town clerk in the interim to reduce the number to the three most eligible applicants, A deputation from the lo'bal branch of the Royal Life-saving Society, consisting of Messrs D. J. Hughes and P. ,T. Flanliagan, waited 011 the New Plymouth JJorough Council last night with a request that they be granted the use of a room for meetings and instruction purposes. The application was referred to the Baths Committee. A letter was read at last night's meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Counc/1' relative to the Westown-Vogeltown-Frankley Road bus, in which the proprietor, Mr 15. J. Baker, stated that he was quite unable to continue running the conveyance under the present conditions. He was prepared to accept a subsidy or sell or lease the bus to the council 011 terms co be arranged. The matter was referred : to the Tramways Committee for consideration. ...

The pratice of street preaching in Ctiriie street, especially 011 Saturday nights, was the. subject of a complaint that came before the New Plymouth Borough Council last night, it being stated that traffic was often obstructed thereby, and inconvenience caused to the public. Tt. \yas decided to limit the sphere of the speakers' operations to an area between

Currie street and Powderham street bridge, the Mayor pointing out that the Council could not consistently stop thwn altogether as long as the Salvation Army was permitted to hold gatherings in a public thoroughfare. A serious accident happened yesterday morning near Normanby. It appears that Mr. John Gillespie, accompanied by his little niece, was driving to the factory, when his horse, 011 passing the county roller, bolted. The result was that the trap capsized and both occupants were thrown out, Mr. Gillespie was badly bruised, but most unfortunately the little girl fared much worse, bavin? one arm fractured and hor head CINES. If you want to contribute directly to the occurrence of capillary bronchitis and pneumonia, use cough medicines that contain cocaine, morphine, heroin, and other sedatives, when you have a cough or cold. An expectorant lil" Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is what i needed. That cleans ont the eultuv. bed? or breeding places for the gevms of pneumonia and other germ diseases. That is why pneumonia never results from a cold when Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is used. It has a world-wide I reputation for its cures. It contains no morphine or other sedative. Sold every--1 where.

Ever keen on the trail of those who are eligible, but not in khaki, Mr. J. I). Shepherd mentioned at a Farmers' Union meeting in Invercargill (says the Southland Times) that i« his district there wan a family of thirteen sons with none awav. "ThirteonV" queried an incredulous one. "Ves. Thirteen grownup sons," returned Mr. Shepherd. "Must be a German settlement," said Mr. Jas. Milne.

A New Zealander, writing from the French front early in March, says:—The Hun has got back as far as he intends to go at present, and we shall have to force him before be will go back any further. He has blown up all his dug-outs and carted away all his material, leaving us nothing but smashed and obliterated ,roads. It is no use saying that any rot has set in on the German side. The retreat has been very well carried out, and the Huns have just retreated according to plans. For many years the best rubber was that which' came from the banks of the Amazon. The people of that country enjoyed a practical monopoly, and determined to keep it. Not a rubber seed would they let get out of the country, nndc-!' heavy penalties. But in 1876, by means of generous presents here anil there, venturesome Englishman sailed out of the Amazon with 70,000 rubber seeds, and that was the start of the great rubber plantations of Ceylon and the Malay Peninsula. It was 2!) years after these seeds left the Amazon before the first plantation rubber was ready for the market, and then the total was only 145 tons. That was in 1005. Last year it was close to 10,000 ton?.

A cow which escaped from a shipment landed on the Petone wharf provided some excitement for traveller.-, oh the Hntt Road on Thursday, says t..« "Post." The animal had got 011 to the l'etone beach, and being unable for some time to get away, owing to the seawall, had endeavoured to quench its thirst with sea water, with the result that it went mad, and ran amok. In the morning it was engaged in holding up the traffic'on the Hutt Road, charging even motog lorries; while cyclists, when they came in view of the beast, which was frothing at the mouth, generally made discretion the better part of valour, and crossed the fence on to the railway line. During its "outing" it visited the Grand National Hotel, to the great consternation of the staff and visitors, who quickly sought safety. It' is said that some of the latter 'never stopped running till they got home."

The building trado in Auckland is very slack, and a Wellington resident who lias been on a visit to that city states that there are many fine residences to lot. There is (says the "New Zealand Herald") very little disposition in the direction of speculative building. This is owing largely to the great advance in almost every class of material used in the construction of buildings. Timber lias risen in price and there also have been increases in builders' ironmongry and requisites of all discriptions. The advance in the cost of roofing iron since the outbreak of the war has been 110 loss than about 120 per cent. There has been a similar vise in the price of nails, and as a builder expresses it, "bent nails soon will be valuable enough to pick up and straighten."

"Switzerland is a.land of tragedies," writes Miss Madeline Doty, ill the Nation. "They hit the eye wherever one walks. The country is inhabited by trembling old people in deep mourning. Their sons are all dead. They have come here to forget. These sorrowing aged ones bring tiny grandchildren. The land is swarming with cnrly-haired, dancing-eyed, pink and white perfections of baby-hood. They are the prize children the belligerent nations are trying to save. • Uesmo, this mixture of old and young, there is the awful human wreckage of war. Soldiers who have gone erazv and walk with shuffling feet and hanging mouth, tubercular warriors, gasping and white and men who are only stumps riding about in wheeled chairs. All that is best and worst in mankind is here in evidence."

The Hon. G. W. Russell says he expects to have the main report of Professor Prince (the Canadian fisheries expert, who visited New Zealand in 1014 to report upon the fish supply) in tinufor presentation to the next session of Parliament. He also intends to present to the Cabinet for approval a bill upon the same lines as the Fruit Preserving Industry Act, 1013, to enable the Government to advance money for the purpose of establishing cool storage for fish. Consideration is being given to the construction of a cool chamber at Island Bay, near Wellington, and requests for a similar institution have been received from Helensvillc. Soundings are to be taken in the vicinity of Lyttlelton to soe whether a suitable site can bo obtained in the locality for the acclimatisation of Stewart Island oysters.

The outlook for the shipment of dairy produce from Auckland is causing much anxiety to thoso engaged in the industry, says the "Herald." At the present moment the local freezing works aro blocked with frozen meat, and stored butter and fruit, with little prospect of an early clearance. Unless some relief is obtained before August, when the new dairying season will open, the prospects of the dairy farmers will be serious. They will not even have the modified satisfaction of knowing, as will be stockraisers in like circumstances, that the herds can be kept grazing in the paddocks and can be realised upon when times become normal. The products of the dairy factories cannot be allowed to accumulate, without deterioration, unless room tan bo found for them in the rerigerators. The hopes of the farmrs, therefore, centre upon, the chance hat the shipping situation will imrove within the next few weeks, or lat, at any v' some vessels will line to the 0 of New Zealand in hicli sufficieni .it or dairy produce ,n be shipped io enable some of the tter to be placed in store when the ew season begins. It is interesting to note that 'Morev's this issue are advertising some winr blouses, and it is advisable that yoif" ould inspect their showing. Turn to eir announcement for fuller details. /Every patron of the Empire The (to-night will be presented with a card photo of the popular actress. Billie Burke. Miss Burke will nlso pear for the last time to-night in ''The Gathering Storm," being the fifth chapter of the fascinating film story, "Gloria's Eouiance." 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. Sander's Extract cures all infectious diseases, all winter ailments, ulcers, burns, sprains, eczema, etc. Insist on the - GENUINE SANDER'S EXTRACT, |

Referring to the death of a comrade whom lie had 'promised to brill" liomo safely, <t Masterton soldier writes: "I wish I were in his place, because lie had his father, mother, sisters' unci brothers to live for.' He was young, and hail a promising career, 'Whereas 1, well, 1 have no 'brothers and sisters, only my dear old dad, and ho was prepared to give me as his all towards this terrible light for Liberty."

In a letter to an Auckland merchant an Eastern flour broker who recently visted New Zealand, says:—"l may live to see Manchuria. North China, and Liberia furnish the world's markets with 10,<100,001) tons of wheat yearly. The grain, with proper care, can bo brought up to the standard of Canadian hard wheat.. The land is there, only no Chinese have the grit to go in and farm it on a large scale. In time we may find the .laps, doing it. They have not the wheat land in Japan." "Of the many thousands of British soldiers with whom i have come in contact since leaving New Zealand with the hospital ship," Baid Captain-Chaplain Bead at Palmerston North. "I never met one who said he was sorry he had gone to t'ho front." (Applause). All the same, the chaplain added, the Tommies v.ore emphatic enough about the other iellow doing his share also. "We have done our bit," they would say, "and it's up to the other c'haps to ;'ome along and carry ou." I am going to tell you that the next three months will determine the fate of fiennany. I have been collecting a great deal of information through somewhat special sources—about the position of things in Ilunland, and I •have complete evidence, that the Kaiser and liia devils know that they cannot hold out more tlmn another three months —unless in tlm meantime some unforspcn success in the war comes to their aid.—Horatio TSottomlev.

A New Plymouth falling launch liad an adventure with a big shark recently. Th:> fish was observed to he in pursuit of a lav»e bnrracoula. The hunted fish swerved around tlio launch with the shark in close pursuit, when the barracouta leaped into the air. As it fell towards the water the shark thrust its head and shoulders out and: took its prey in mid-air and promptly swallowed it. The shark remained in close proximity to the launch and the fisherman put out a strong line and succeeded in hooking the monster. After a the shark was brought along side the launch but, was found to be too large to take aboard. An attempt was made to despatch the shark with a sheath knife but after a few stabs the fish bit through the heavy line and escaped. The Mart next Saturday will be in the charge of the Croquet and Tennis clubs, and on .Tune the accountants and land agents will be in possession. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, draw attention to the preliminary notice of the clearing sale they are holding on account of Mr. James Spriggins, Bcaconsficld P.oad, on Wednesday, May 30.

Famous hosiery barenins at the Melbourne, Ltd. —Ladies' -black cotton hose, Is pair; plain black cashmere all-wool hose, Is 1-I*l pair; fine quality ditto, 2s lid pair; all-wool black -cashmere ribbed hone, 2* 3d pair; three-quarter socks, sizes 3 to 10, Is 9d to 2s f>tl; men's black cotton and wool socks. Is pair; finer quality, Is fid; all-wool ditto, Is lid and 2s; Colonial all-ivool knitted socks. Is pair; fine Mosgicl socks, grey Is Od, black Is fld pair. It is not often that picture patrons have, an opportunity of seeing such a world-famous artist as Madame Sarah liernliardt, but thnks to the enterprise of Everybody's Theatre management local residents will have an opportunity to see the "Divino Sarah" at this popular bouse of amusement to-night and tomorrow night in one of her greatest dramatic successes, "Jeanne Dore." It has been decided to show this big attraction at the ordinary rates of admission, viz, (Id and Is.