LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 June 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Cabinet decided yesterday th

Charles Butler, murderer of the girl Foster at Canterbury, is to 'be imprisoned for life.—Press Association. An application is being made by the Waitara Borough Council to the Government for a £ for £ subsidy up to £2OOO on account of, flood damage to the town bridge. During April there were 35 men cmployed on the Opunake branch railway, 70 on the western end of the StratfordMain Trunk line and 43 on the eastern end.

Two small boys were playing together at Inglewood, on Saturday, when one threw a short piece of wire at the other, hitting him in the eye, the result being that he may lose his vision.

Patea Rifle Club fired a match with Tahora for the Taranaki Shield on Saturday, Tahora winning by 672 to 070. Rifleman A. Gibbswas the highest scorer for Patea (90), and Riflemen W. Cleaver and A. Jones for Tahora .(88). The telegraph office advises that the Pacific Cable Board notify the suspension of the. system of deferred cable service from the United.lvingdom. Messages at the deferred rate are still being accepted for the United Kingdom.

The Taranaki Farmers' Meat Company have put through already this season '34,f1d0 sheep and lambs and 6100 cattle. The works up-to-date have cost £84,400, and the building of additional storage is contemplated. To try and define Mary Pickford's charm would e as sensible a proceeding as to try and analyse moonlight. She holds all hearts and there she stays. In "The Girl of Yesterday," showing at Everybody's to-night, she is seen in one of thd very best mediums of her art yet filmed.

The Wellington branch of the RVlway Officers' Institute has resolved that 1 the executive committee be urged to take ail, steps possible to secure to members of the society an increase in pay of 15 per cent., as some assistance towards combating the present high cost of living.— Press Association.

As showing the hold racing has on the community, the fact is worth mentioning that hardly a taxi-cab was procurable in Wellington on Tuesday, almost the whole of them having lieen engaged b" punters for the Otaki races. It is understood that a s'-nilar state of affairs existed in Palmerston North on Tuesday.

An unusual incident occurred at the Tuarangi Old Men's Home, Ashburton, a few days aro, when the Military Medical Board v.' .ed the institution to examine two of its inmates, who were practically cripples, but 'whose names were dwwn in the second ballot. Of course, the men were placed in Class D, unfit for service.

It is notified in the Gazette that by the additional, regulations under the War Regulations Act, 1914, it has been made unlawful, without the permission of a military authority, to hoist, or otherwise coi..picuously display the 'white ensign or the blue ensign, or any flag so closely reaemblinsr the same as may be calculated to deceive.—Press Association.

The proficiency awards gained during the season by 'boys attending the New Plymouth High School were to have been presented yesterday 'by the Royal Life Saving Committee at the school, but owing to the boisterous weather the ceremony was postponed, as it was impossible to hold it in the open air, which the absence of an assembly hall renders necessary. The awards will be presented during the week. The electrical department of the Wellington City Council has imported a lifesaving device called a lung motor machine, for pumping oxygen into the lungs of anyone suffering from suspended animation through an electric shock. Experts itate that death is not always instantaneous as the result of shock, and that the early ues of this machine may save the life of anyone unfortunate enough to come into contact with a live wire.

The Pacific Cable Board nnnounces that, in addition to posting the original received copy of all week-end telegrams for the United Kingdom from Montreal, a duplicate of each mesage is posted one week later. As no information regarding the forwarding of mails has been disclosed by the post offtco, no guarantee can be given that both copies will not travel by the same steamer. No extra postage is required.

The San Francisco waterfront is the scene of most of the action of "The Wharf Rat,' the Triangle play showing finally at the Empire to-night, and the play is remarkable for wonderful and interesting scenes of this busy harbor with its strange variety of shipping. Despite the blizzard that raged last night, there was a splendid audience, at the Empre to see "The Wharf Rat" and Glora No. 8. It was a 'delightful change from the discomfort of the street to the cosy comfort of this popular picture house. Don't stand shivering these cold mornings and telling yourself you'll have to get some warm underwear 30on, Step into one of those unshrinkable underwear suits the Big Store, Waitara, offers you on page four and you'll feel happy all dajy. Do it now! Mr. 12. J. Baker announces in this issue that ho has taken over the 'bus service between Inglewood and New Plymouth, formerly run by Mr. W. Jackson: He will be drivuvg the 'bus himself, so that clients can depend upon messages, and parcels having his personal attention.

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