LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The tests at the White Cliffs Dairy Factory arc very high at present, the majority ranging from 5.7 to G. The rainfall in TaranMri last month was as follows:—New i'lvmouth 6in, Inglewood 9.96 in, Elti... 5.47 in, Hawera 5.5 in AU voterans and returned soldiers will be welcome at the Coronation Hall this afternoon, and also to the evening concert. The breakwater to-day should prove a source of attraction. The inilitavv regulations, however, prevent the publication of certain shipping information. ' Tim Mr<yo-'-q will ),<• obli-jrid by k- ■>'•'<- '■'< ' r''' V -■■fi:Hi ■■• ;•.,,■)•- ,-.-. i r.i-:.--i-V'--- • = As the result of running into a bank in an endeavor to avoid qpllision with a spring trap, yesterday, a motor-car ,was- . considerably damaged. The occupants escaped injury. Comparatively speaking, Saturday was a quiet day at the Mart. There were' no competitions or other extraneous 1 means of raising money, and the ladies i of the Red Cross Society who had charge . havo every reason to feel satisfied with the result of the day's Bales— £27 10s. It was reported in town yesterday i that Mr. W. Jackson's Inglewood-New Plymouth motor bus, which had been temporarily left on the roadside about &i 1 miles from New 'Plymouth, pending slight i repairs on Saturday night, was destroy- : ed by fire. It is not known how the fire occurred, but at about 9.30 p.m. a New Plymouth motorist, returning to New Plymouth, noticed th'.t the bus was blazl ing merrily. 1 Despite the numerous calls that have i been made on the public of late, there was an excellent response made to the l appeal for funds for Pukekura Park on Saturday. The collectors were busy throughout the day, and on counting up ■ in the evening it was found that, in- . eluding the annual subscriptions, the fine I sum of £IOO had been collected, and , there are still some contributions to ' come in. Last year the appeal realised ■ £IOO. The board should feel greatly in- : debted to Mrs. Doekrill and the band of ; lady workers, for the excellent results achieved. I It was rumored in town last night that two young fellows were lost on " Mt. Egmont. Enquiries elicited the facts ■ that, in spite of the advice of those in ■ charge, the young fellows had loft the • Stratford house at 4 p.m. with the in- , tention of walking to the North Egmont house. At about 7 p.m., as they had not reached their destination, the guides ' at both houses set out in search of them, - though it was previously ascertained / that a party from the Dawson's Falls i house had been to the Manganui gorge, and it was though that pqsßibly the " young fellows had fallen iri with this i party and journeyed to the Dawson's . Falls House. Apparently this theory 3 proved correct, for on the searchers re- , turning after a resultless ohase, they received notification that the men had aril'lived *t pMpW* SMI» house safely.

The local in Saturday'.* issue to tho effect that Mr. G. H. Maunder had given a hospital ward to the Baptist Orphan's Home at Auckland was incorrect. Mr. Maunder regularly contributes to the fund but not to the extent of providing the whole of the money for the new ward. Owing to the special drawing powers of tho Triangle masterpiece, "The Sins Ye Do,'' the Empire Theatre management has arranged to screen this feature for three nights, commencing to-ni'.ht. Miss Willie Burke appears on the same programme in "The Harvest of Sin," another story in the chain-picture, "Gloria's Romance." A very happy company of boys and girls gathered together in the Whiteley i Hall on Saturday afternoon, the occasion boin;. the return of the collectors. About 30 boys and girls had been collecting money for the mission during the day, and at five o'clock they brought the' money to Mr. Davy, for the Children's Mission work. Tea was provided for them and it was a gi'and sight to see the smiles and hear the merry laughter as Mr. Davy asked fiddles, etc., but the crowning part was when cheers were called for Mr. Davy—and three rousing cheers they were. After tea the prizes were given the collectors—according to the amount brought in, so was the value of the books presented. Three collected £1 4s each, and alrogether £lB Is was brought in. Mr. Davy proposes to return here in January. How did it come about that when war came the German Socialists, who professed to hate the Kaiser and all the works of Juiikordoin, went over bag and baggage, horse, foot, and artillery, to the Kaiser? Mr. George W. Cough, in an article in T.P.'s Journal, gives two of uiEjy reasons:—First of all, they were pt-rsaadj..! that the war was really a war against P.ussia. Russian. Czarlsrn [ has all along been regarded by German Socialists as their chief enemy. Czarism was Kniscris-m writ br: ■ Ti was .-if.■ solute monarchv imd'hHi c -•.■n !.y hi;-!. a poor little drop of civil 'n'Mi'm .iih! iParlianvntnrv action a- .i.yiii.;; hi (Vie:-j sia and the Herman TCmpie-.. hi i!i.- :.c i md nlace, the neenmnlnted jir.i.ii-vty end funds of the !" ! ..cialist Trade T.Tin'n-e.j. valued at £4.500,000 would ho," Vt-i h grave danger of confiscation :f the y.,v policv of the Government had hi ev <>;. nosed. The nainfnt!y nccm>i!;!:ii;ed tret. sury wotild have gone in n ilny if ti:. trade unions had been out •:, v. ed. It happened in a crovV. citv trnmcar recently, says the Wellington IJ-.sf.l J -.sf. Tho principal actor in Hi.' drama vi\s a, tall man in faded khuki, "-Imsn !.■!'. iufiirt.p labor he placed n cv.Mrctii. ;<.•-! tweer his litis, but how to '.!::ht i' v\>■:(■'{ harder still lift mould !•■','. ImV iie match-box and strike a lnn.tch with hi; one remaining hmid. Seier.il limes hj: os'-aved this, but cadi time he hud to give it up. All this in fh ?inoking compartment of the cnv. All arm 1 ::.: Inn "' v c wmi ni'3-e:. r'l.e.. ..0.,': j f ; W-'l»s or (li.-«!lS--illg file ',:»■!-!■ V.--.S. But not one o r fiioui lrvl •'..■..■ ... <,r. - : nvii" 'tit's hei .' '.': a man (•";,.;.',■! : n il,. ir defenee. At List a voting h'd;. wh* ■■■.■!:> ill the smoking compartment c'tr... to 'it- ; aid and lit his cigarette for him. Perhaps it was thoughtlessness on the part of the men, perhaps indifference, but in any ease it was one of those little things that make a wounded man wonder whether he has not suffered in vain. The use of toliungaism to quell and soothe the violence of insane people amongst the Maoris is a custom that is still preserved among certain native tribes. A Maori named Henry King, why is a member of the Moiisonui Maori Cpuncil, was questioned by Mr. Justice Stringer at the Auckland Snpi'Mi"* Court is to the native custom of dealing with insane people. The witness sa'd thai, an effort was alwajs made to work toliungaism on the person who was bereft of Ins souses, with the object of getting rid of the evi' spirit. A specially violent person would be taken to a native supposed to be a lohunga—a prophet—who would use gentle and soothing words to him. Often it was necessary to tie an iiuanc person down until the spasm of violence had passed away. The witness had known of two cases where tohmigaisin. had been tried, ?,nd the subjects subsco'ientlv banded over to the polic». Questioned further, the witness said that the word "porangi" was used by Maoris to denote madness. A mad nerson was always gently used, and the co;unund "wainiaric"—be gentle, be still— xns generally given. When Himleiiburg was on flic Wp?l front early in the. year he drev a. V-'<- '1 line on the map, and said Ru|jp' , f"hl must retreat to the positions marked, o ':(•!■-,- ot!!' y/>ly (vrlv-s vh n . Loudon cw""<- . activity is shown on "cMs lir.e, and thov.;ands of civilians and tens, of thousands ',. of war prisoners are being compelled to , build trenches and dug-outs, and make a itrong general defensive position, Ccr : . tainly the Germans are now retiring at 1 .such a Tate—"literally running," as an '"Australian General just over from, iiw : front tells me to-day—that they must 1 have some strong position in their rear 1 as an objective. Otherwise they would 1 not take time to carry put the devilries ■ and savageries which are disgracing their . movements. They are in haste; but this . does not prevent them from poisoning the water supplies, pillaging the towns ' and hamlets, driving back all civilians : of working ages, and laying traps too humorous to mention Thousands of ] their men have been engaged on tlm ! work of destruction and depredation. . They have burned all bridges over waterways, destroyed roads, torn up railways, burned all houses th.<y could reach, filled Wells and reservoirs with rubbish and 1 more damnable poisons,' broken up the ' furniture and walls of the simple French 1 'dwellings, and left no beauty, no home- ; : steads or farms or villages, but only black ruins and devastation everywhere; The country is different from that along the old battlefield, for in place of chum--1 ed and charred loam is green field and pure forest—different also because dead' 1 silence regins instead of the constant bursting noises of the artillery. But'uo , civilisation is left. On Wednesday night residents of Toko district are tendering a farewell social in the Coronation Hall, Toko, to (Private ; A. J. Lees. ' Look out for the meat market, accountants' and' land agents' day at the , Mart—Saturday, June 10. Prim.! Warea ' mutton, will somebody give us a porker. . Advise Box 145.