LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 June 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The committee appointed by the Racing Conference to go into the question of the reduction of racing met on Wednesday, but nothing transpired.—-"Press Astociation.

A Maori named Whaingaroa Wirihana was committed for trial at Hastings yesterday on a charge of manslaughter of the newsrunner Rupert Mnncy, on May IS, by driving a motor at excessive speed and running over deceased.

The Mart on Saturday will be stocked with good things *by the Westown ladies and Women's Patriotic League. Any country or town friends can leave their gifts to-day at tho Criterion Hotel. 1 The Mart will be open as usual this day evening between 7 and S o'ejock. ''Once shocked by the sight of a freshly plucked goose" smartly defines Hezokiah Hibbs, the caretaker of the town morals, who calls to reform Penelope (Lilian Walker)', the wayward neroine of "Indiscretion," the fine Blue Ribbon feature showing at tho Empire at present. It is understood, states a Wellington press message, that the revised list of justices of tlje peace will shortly be issued by the Justice Department.' Some hew appointments ave being made, also a number of names are being taken off the register.

At a conference of dairymen and fanners under the auspices of the New Zealand National Dairy Association in Hamilton, it was resolved to recommend that the standard for cream be raised to 38 per cent., and that suppliers be penalised after a second period of warning.

A unique motion picture "The Romance of Lloyd George," was screened at Everybody's last evening, and will be repeated to-night. The subject will prove of interest to every Britisher at the present, time, and those who did not t'iow the picture last night should make an effort to do so to-night. Some timo ago £IOO was sent from New Zealand to purchase comforts, such, as tinned fruit and vegetables, for men on the Philomel, but before the goods arrived the ship had changed her quarters, and it was deemed advisable to distribute them amongst the men on other ships of the squadron, especially ships' that had been associated with New Zealand, and this was done.—Press Association.

'At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., three cases were heard in which the defendants were charged with breaches of the Taranaki County by-laws. The fines imposed were as follow', Mr. J. H. Quilliam appearing for the county in each ease:— Frederick Sampson, driving a trap at nijrht without proper side lights on Mountain Road, near Sentry Hill, ss, costs £1 8s; Ernest Rook, allowing four draught horses to wander at large on Richmond Road, 10s, costs £1 8s; Peter Arnold Oakenshnw, allowing one horse to wander at large on Richmond Road, ss, with costs £1 Bs. To-day the Melbourne, Ltd.,- inaugurates its' great annual reduction sale at all the firm's liranches. These sales are famous for .genuine bargains, and our readers wouid be well advised to take full advantage of the reduced .prices.

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A recent Opunake Times hud in it tho paragraph which follows: "Three years ago yesterday, the first Bod of tho Opuuakc railway was turned. Hearing of Iho future development of this coast, Kaiser Bill started the war just to block our enterprise, —him." The matinee programme at the Empire to-morrow will . consist of "Tho House of Fear," a thoroughly interesting detective drama (which opens the programme), tho Gaumont C4raphic, "The Part Played hy Air in Inspiration" (educational), "Romance of Lloyd George" (interest), and two screaming comedy pictures "Bridget's Blunder" and "The Chalk Line." The admission price for children is threepence. Some extraordinary lemons have been grown by a resident of Epsom, Auckland, says the Herald. One specimen of the fruit plucked from a branch which bore several others of like dimensions measured 21in in circumference one way and 18'/ 2 in another. Tho weight was 21b 6oz. When cut the lemon proved normal in every respect, save for the extraordinary thickness of the inner or white rind, which was fully 2in in depth.

Charles William Rene Nieholls Broglie, who was arrested at Christchurch last week as an enemy alien, has been residing lately at "Rcdcliffs," Oamaru, the home formerly occupied by the late .Mr P. W. Buckley, a well-known horse.owncr. He Was ori a motor trip to Christchurch with his wife when the arrest was made, and the latter accompanied him to Wellington. It was generally understood in Canterbury that Broglie's nationality was French. It is stated that the reason P. C. Webb, M.P. for Grey, is not appealing against his sentence of tnyee months' .imprisonment for seditious utterances is that the War Regulations Act provides that persons convicted under the Statute must remain in gaol pending the issue of an appeal in itheir favour. He estimates it would take two months to set the machinery of the appeal law in motion, and by the time the appeal had Imcp. adjudicated he would have served the sentence imposed on him. In the circumstances he lias decided not to proceed with his appeal. Mr. W. B. Martin, a Thames miner of many years''standing, has a specimen of unique value which he unearthed at the Hape Creek. The Temarkable features of the stone led him (sayß the Auckland Star) to visit the Auckland Museum to glean information as to its identity from Mr. Cheesoman. That gentleman informed Miiin that it was petrified vegetation, its component parts being opal, jasper, flint. In the course of his comments on the unusual specimens, Mr. Cheeseman remarked that he had never seen a sample of stone of the like before. On a polished side a petrified frond of fern of the maidenhair species lies spread over the opai •surface, looking as natural as if in the living state. English newspapers are making a praetico of using quotations from the speeches of statesman in times of former wars, and applying them to present circumstances. It is recalled that in ISO!) Pitt said: "We ought to have a due sense of tho magnitude of the danger with which we are threatened; wo ought to meet it in the temper of ,mind which produces just confidence, which neither despises nor dreads the enemy; and while, on the one hand we accurately estimate the danger with which we are threatened at this awful crisis, we must recollect on the other hand what it is we, have at stake, what it is we have to contend foiy-> It is for our property, it is for our liberty, it is for our independence, nay, for our existence as a nation; it is for our character, it is for our very name as Knglislimen; it is for everything dear and valuable to man on this side of tho grave."

Writing from Sinai, an Australian (W. M. Came.) says:—"lt in a wonder•ful place. Here Joseph passed, a captive slave, to the' greatness that came to ho his. Here came his brethren, wandering tribesman seeking food in Egypt. Here came Jacob and his people overlanding their flocks and herds to the land of Goschen, somewhere about the present town of Zagazig, there to multiply and wax rich- and great; then to wane into captivity until the exodus took thorn into Southern Sinai. Here came Mary and Joseph and the Son of .Man. Here came caravans and armies marauding tribesmen, and nomadic, shepherds with their Hocks —Arabs, Syrians, Persians, Israelites, Egyptians, Romans —and in more recent times French, Turks, and now ourselves. Ourselves — English, Scottish, Welsh, Australians and \ew Zealanders, Indians, West Indians, and Egyptians! An Imperial army, surely!" Lord Northclifl'e, speaking recently in London, said: —I have had an experience which has been given to few in this room —that of spending two days with the American soldiers in France, of whose prowess and achievement too little has been said anywhere.—(Cheers.) When 1 said in something I wrote lately that the ■ American soldiers in France numbered 50,000, I rather under-estimated their strength. I made that calculation on statements supplied by French as well as by British authorities. The great fact is that more than 50,000 yohng Crusaders havo crossed the Atlantic to join an army in which they are not fighting for King or country, but against what they realise to be the curse of the world at this moment—the attempt of the. Germans first to dominate Europe and then America.- (Cheers.) In seeing those Americans one gets some idea of what the American army in being would be like. '

Mr Aler. Douglas, about whoso

•hereabouts there was considerable anxiety during the floods on the Tuierl, and who was erroneously reported to have been drowned, has had experience of moro than one flood (says the Dunedin Star). He tells of his adventures ina Taieri flood more than 40 years ago, when he was working on a farm between Mosgiel and Outran], and within a mile of the spot where he was marooned -this week. On that occasion, when the flood rose, he took refuge in a straw stack, and had to remain there for two days without food. Eventually a draught horse was led by hunger to the vicinity of the stack. He managed to secure the animal, and just as he mounted it with the intention of endoavouring to make for dry ground lie raw ft boat approaching with the object of rescuing him, and he naturally took this mode of conveyance in preference to the equine exploit which he had contemplated. On each of these occaDions fears were entertained for his safety by his friends, and each time it was sported that' he had been drowned. Ho remarked with some gusto that it was Tiot every man who could say that he had been twice reported as drowned and yet was still very much alive. PARENTS. Protect your children against diphtheria. Give them Sykeß' Formalin Tablots—all stores l/«