LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 June 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

resident of Motueka has gathered 173 bushel .cases of Sturraer apples from six trees.

It is said (eays the Otago Daily Times) that there is a likelihood that the Kaitangata miners will shortly hold a secret ballot on the question of their union withdrawing from affiliation with tiie New Zealand federated Goal Mine Workers' Union.

A letter was received by a Pal merston North resident from his brother, one of the few remaining Firsts (date March JO) that he had only 8 l / z days' leave in 2% years. He is one of the seven left ■on duty out of 133 who went out from Palmerston North when the call cßinc.

A somewhat unusual notice appears in the Gazette, a declaration disqualifying a person named therein from holding a certificate as an , engine-driver. The period of-disqualification is life. 1 "A man just from Ireland is no use on a New Zealand farm. You might as well take the 'boots' out of an hotel." A witness giving evidence before the Military Service Board at Wanganui the other day. A woman over 00 years of age and her husband, also over 60, of Hakataramea, South Canterbury, have lately been engaged putting in their wheat, all their sons having been taken for the war. The woman has been ploughing and driving a four-horse team.

The two electric motor lorries ordered by the Kongotea Dairy Company have been delivered. The lorries are capable of carrying a load of two tons each. They are fitted with Edison storage batteries and were charged at the Wanganui Freezing Works before making the journey from Wanganui' to Eongotea. The trucks will be utilised for the collection of cream.

The story of a woman who had been bad, who reformed and parried a parson who was good. So good was he that when the hidden scar in his wife's past was revealed to him he was for casting her off. Then a man who was not good, from the parson's point of view, interfered, and Boihe new standards of virtue and goodness brought about a happy climax when things, looked hopeless for the good woman who had been bad. Such is the ground work of the fine World film featuring Ethel Clayton that finishes a local season at Everybody's to-night. An instance of "marrying in haste," and it is to be hoped not "repenting at leisure," is told as.followß:—The following waß overheard in the park, says the "Pall Mall Gazette": "Yes, we met and were engaged at once, and married, and then my husband returned to the front. He wrote and said he was •coming back on leave on Saturday night, and I wanted mother to come Wtih me to meet him."- But khe said she never ■heard of such a thing, flatly declined, and told me I must go alone. 'Well, mother,' I told her, I want you to come with me,. because I'm afraid I shan't •recognise him!"

The Sydney Bulletin has the following: "Billjim, prisoner of war in Germany, writing home to his people at Burwood (N.S.W.), told them in a letter just received to save any stamps thero .might be 011 his envelopes until his return. To meet this strange request, the stamp from his dilapidated envelope was removed. Then was bared the staggering mr-sage: 'Tongue cut out!' It seems incredible; but until the horrible suspicion is set at rest there will be one more Australian family tormented with anxiety." "I might also congratulate you on •the fact that this young man is one of the very few of your. body who has been classed as fit," said Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., Ito Bishop Julius, when ithe latter appealed on behalf of a clerk in Holy Orders at the Christchurch Military Service Board, "Otherwise I might say that the majority of them pre, physically, weeds." "Only physically, though," rejoined his Lordship with a smile. "Ou, yes," aided Mr. Bishop. There are thrills in plenty in "Truthful Tullivcr," the Triangle play in which William S. Hart commences a threenight season at the Empire to-night. The big moment of the picture comes when Hart as the editor of the local paper who is establishing some sort of order in a lawless community is forced to forsake the printing press for more practicable methods. He lassoes two of the chief desperadoes in a saloon and then jumps his pony through a glass window trail' ing the captured men behind. The picture is full of charm and romance, which is pleasingly interwoven among the dashing virile class of incident so well "put over" by Win. S. Hart. Billie Burke will please her many followers in "Tangled Threads," the new chapter of "Gloria's Romance."

"America is not the place for Australian slackers, for the Government there has intimated that they must either register under the conscription ischeme or get out of the country," Baid Mr. Coote, of Angus and Coote, Ltd., who is back in Sydney, to a reporter. '•lt is surprising to find that there are -more than 1000 Australians in America, nearly all of whom left the Commonwealth since the war commenced, and only a few have made good. Since <Ainoriea spoke of conscription there has been much uneasiness among the slackers, who recognised that-there was no way of avoiding the measure, because the authorities know just who they are. Unless they have made arrangements to leave the country before names- are .registered they must stay and fight. Some of them came back 011 the steamer by which I travelled," continued Mr Coote, "and I understand that ft big will return shortly."

<J(; im proved at the Supreme Court of Victoria, at Melbourne, tliat (1) SANDER'S EXTRACT is much more powerfully healing and antiseptic than ordinary " eucalyptus preparations; (2) SANDER'S EXTRACT does not depress the heart like the so-called "extracts" and crude oils; (3) SANDER'S EXTRACT is highly commended by many authorities as a safe, reliable and effective household r"~cdy. Oet the . .nuiflt if you have to—and be

It is stated lliat a farm on the Waitara Road, owned by Mr. Jas. Purdie, has changed hands at the record figure for this district of £7O per acre. A business firm in Kaponga finds it cheaper to send motor lorries through to N T ew Plymouth empty, in ofder to cart benzine from. New Plymouth to liaponga, in preference to making use of the railway to Eltham. The result of the district swede competition in connection with the Taranaki Winter Show is as follows: Maketawa district 1, Lepperton district 2, TarataPurangi district 3.

Judging irom the insatiable demands for sports materials (says a delayed cable) the Australans are turning the part of where they are resting into a playground. The Comforts Funds have supplied 2500 bats, 3000 cricket balls, 1000 footballs, and quantities of other materials. Orders ifor playing cards have heached 25,000 pack 3.

Shortly before ft o'clock on Saturday night an alarm of fire was given, the cause being an incipient outbreak in Spedding's garage, Devon street. It ap f pears that while a motor cycle was being fixed up for a trip it caught fire, and for a brief period tho building wag in some danger. The flames wore quick, ly extinguished, however, and although the fire brigade was promptly on the spot, its services were not required.

Although priceß are ,vory high for stock, some farmers in Hawke's Bay are not reaping all the good things credited to them (says the "Herald 1 '). The excessive moisture, it is stated, has proved bad for lambs, and as high as 50 per cent, mortality is recorded. It is common in certain parts of the district to roport 30 to 40 per cent, lamb mortality, and tho winter can '.hardly be said to have started. The outlook for lambs, therefore, is very serious, and complaint is general that barelyi drops jfmd turnips—the essential feed for lambs—is practically nonexistent on account of the want of farm labour. Dealing with fats, the position is equally uncertain. Contracts made for fat wethers, delivery ahead, finds buyers to-day with lowconditioned sheep, and this complaint is general. The reason for sheep going off is generally credited to the unusual rainfall, causing the feed to have 110 •substance. 1

Soldiers on the point of leaving for the front arc usually embarrassed by .the liberality with which friends and relatives shower upon them presents which it is assumed will be of use to them in their military life. It is therefore desirable to make known the fact than any articles beyond the officially issued kit have to be discarded on arrival in England. As a matter of fact, when a soldier comes to the actual .campaigning part of his career he has •with him only as much as he can carry lon his back.' A letter from a young i.Aucklander now at Sling states that on the arrival of his contingent at the camp an inspection parade was held, at which any missing article of issue was supplied, but everything else in any man's kit "was taken away. The sacrifice was in some cases heavy, For instance, one man lost a brand new Bleeping-bag which must have cost the donor about three guineas, and cameras, musical instruments, and other impedimenta all went the sauje way. At the same time the writer of the letter states that in his experience he has found the issued kit fall and ample, and that there is no room in the pack for anything else. "But it would be as well," be adds, "to make it known to men leaving with reinforcements that at the end of the sea voyage they lose all their extra gear."

An important sale of New Plymouth property will bo held by Mr. Newton King at his mart, Devon street, on Saturday, 3flth instant, when the whole of Mr. D. Berry's valuable properties, situated at the corner of Queen and St. Aubyn streets will be submitted to the hammer. Situated on high ground, almost oppoeite the railway station, the land would make an ideal site for a lar»e and up-to-date private hotel, thfl want of which in New Plymputh is so generally adn-'tted. Quite apart from this, however, the various allotment* are admirably suitable for residential or business purposes. The present dwelling is large and roomy, and being so centrally situated is well adapted as a residence for anyone in business. Full particulars may be had upon application to Mr. ,J. E. Wilson, solicitor, or from Mr. Newton King. 1

The Taranaki County Council notifies that the bridge over the Mangania ptream, generally known as Whisky Creek, on the Junction Road, between Eemont Village and Inglewood, will be closed for 24 hours from 8 a.m. on Tuesday, 20th instant. The following extraordinary values explain why the Melbourne, Ltd., continues to maintain its reputation as the premier house for ladies' fashionable blouses:—Cream radiants. blouses, 6s lid; 10 mommo white silk blouses, lis Cd, 12s fid and 13s 6d; navy and black silk blouses, 12s Cd and 13s Od; crepe de chine blouses, 17s «d; pink, sky and wedgewood crepe de chine blouses, IDs of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth (Second Group) are notified that subscriptions, will be due and payable on Monday, June 25, at the Secretary's Office, Currie street, from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.; 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

HOME ECONOMY*.

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