LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Clara Kimball Young's performance in "The Dark Silence" leaves nothing to bo desired. The actress fits the part and the part admiraW/ fits the actress. The picture has been screened to record houses for the past two nights and will be finally screened this evening. The Pacific Cable Board notifies that the Atlantic companies have suspended acceptance of Expeditionary Force messages from the United Kingdom to Australia and New Zealand. Such messages, however, will still be accepted to the United Kingdom. There" are 17 members of the legal profession in the present House of 'Representatives. The farming interest is represented by 34 members, there are .1 doctors, 2 brewers, 6 printers, 1 parson, and the remainder of the House comprises commercial and labor men. Mr. H. Okey has given notice to ask tiie Minister for Defence whehter it is a fact that, should a soldier commit a breach of the military regulations or through misconduct in France causing the forfeiture of his pay, the allotments made in New Zealand to his wife and children are withheld, thus making tho wife and children suffer through the action of the soldier? Mr. Newton King has very kindly lent 'the shop in Devon Street, which was f»rnl,lv used by the Pierrots as a meat U\7:wv, to the Mayoress for Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. It is intended to make nml pack the monthly quota of soldiers' gift parcels in this shop, instead of at tho Patriotic Depot, and as this will be more central it is hoped that New Plymouth friends will avail themselves of the chance of seeing what is being done for our men at the front. An appeal was on the list at Friday's sitting of the third Wellington Military Service Board for Dr. Thomas Alexander Milroy, of Manaia, Taranaki. Dr.i ,T. 'P. Frengley. of the Department of Public Ilea Kb. appeared before the board and snid the Department did not propose to pursue the appeal, which he accordingly I withdrew. It was mentioned that rcsii dents of Dr. Milroy's district had petitioned against his conscription, but the ! Department considered that the district !was adequately supplied with medical foe th<* appeal,

-As a result of the recent flood at Feruhill, Havre's (Bay, the land adjacent to the rivers lias a silt deposit on it over 5| inches in depth. The roads throughout the district are all clean, and the Awatoto road in particular is covered with pot holes of varying depths. Adventure of the most impetuous and fiery kind, adventuro in love, adventure in the net of intrigue of warring secret service—these form the series of wonder scenes of "The Girl iPhilippa" in whien Anita Stewart stars at Everybody's tomorroAv. The story is ibased on the recent vivid novel toy [Robert H. Chambers. Heard outside the Municipal Theatre Napier, the other night. "VVhat's this 'ere fix o'clock sloping mean, Hill?" sail! the finst merry soul. "It means this, mate. They're wantin' to shut the bars at six o'clock, see. An' I reckon that- if you ain't well in by that time, you ain't tryin'," replied Bill. The Norddcutschc Allgemeine Zeitung, of April 18, records, in a list of British airmen and. machines which are declared to have fallen in the German lines on the Western front during March the name of Capt. William S. R. Bloomfield. Capt. Bloomfield is a New Zealandcr, and belongs to Gisborne. It is also recorded, states Flight, that the machine captured was a 2-scater Vickers aeroplane. "Instead of killing him, I ha.ve let him livo that he may daily curse me for withholding death from him. He is the husband of a negress." This iB the dreadful vengeance the hero ('Frank Koenan) of "The Bride of Hate," lias plotted to wreak upon the false friend who is a despoiler of women. The Mississippi River, as it was in the rich days of the cotton planters, with luxurious houseboats lavishly fitted, provide the nrineipal scenes of the picture. "The Bride of Hate" will toe screened at the Empire again to-night and to-morrow.

The Salvation Army is now making an appeal to the people throughout the Dominion for £IO,OOO for patriotic work. Those in New Plymouth and surrounding district who respond to the appeal are kindly requested to forward their donations to Adjutant J. Hultqnist or Mr. S. Buick, Eliot Street, New Plymouth, before the end of this month. All monoy received will be acknowledged. The proceeds from the appeal will be devoted, chiefly to the efforts and work done by the Salvation Army for the comfort and general good of the New Zealand soldier boys in the various camps. Particulars of the patriotic work done by the Salvation Army may be obtained direct from the Army's headquarters, also from its officers and collectors. A generous response is earnestly requested.

Owing to the serious position that has occurred in many outlying districts, caused by medical men going away on military service, Mr. W. T. Jennings.. M.P., asked the Minister of Internal Affairs if he would invite medical men from America to come to this 'Dominion. >The Minister was not favorable to the suggestion, though America has sent 2000 medical men to assist the Allies in the present war. The niplber of medical men in 'Sew Zealand has teen very considerably lessened by death and going away with tho Dominion's troops since the war started. Three sad cases came under CMr. Jennings' notice in a recent tour of his electorate. In each case the stricken ones died on reaching the Taumarunui and Hamilton hospitals,.as the rough journey over bad roads to the railway lines did not give the sick ones a chance, whereas if a doctor had been available the probabilities are that the patients would have been saved. Since the war started there had been in his electorate three medical men who had died, and four had gone to the war.

A voting New Zealand officer, writing to his parents, speaks in a feeling manner of the respect shown by overseas soldiers to the heroea who fought side by side 'with them and died. He says that on Anzac Day, April 2a, sports were held in Canada Park, and while there he witnessed one of the most impressive sights. "The Park," lie says, "is next to the Cemetery, where a-bout 20 or 20 men are buried every day. A football match was in progress, New Zealand v. Australia, when suddenly the buglers at the funeral commenced to sound 'The Last Post,' that most .beautiful of calls. Immediately the whole of the 10,000 Australians and New Zealanders present rose to their feet as one man, and remained at attention till the buglers finished. This happened about twice during the afternoon, about ten men buried at a time, and really I think it was as fine a funeral as a man could have. One can't afford to be sentimental at this game, 'but I am sure, from the remarks I heard passed, that most fellows were touched by the sight."

A grand patriotic entertainment in aid of the Scotchmen's Day at the mart will he held at St Andrews' Presbyterian Hall on 'Thursday evening next. There should he no need to remind coastal residents of the grand patriotic concert which is being held at Okato tonight. A splendid programme has been arranged. Miss Ivy Scott, Messrs Lovcll, Smith, Kay, Coldsworthy, Gadd, M'lsaae and McDonald will assist. A dance will follow. The following lines of men's working shirts are particularly good value' at the Melbourne, Ltd.: Men's plain navy "Advance" drill shirts, 48. lid; men's striped grandrill shirts, 3s <sd; men's dark union shirts, 3s Ud; men's plain blue grandrill shirts, 3s lid, 4s lid, and 5s fid ; men's dark all-wool Crimean shirts," 9s IM. » Waitara and Urenui will ibe visited by Mr. Thomas W. Driver, the celebrated magician and spiritual exposer, after the conclusion of his New Plymauth season. He has .been specially engaged to present his entertainment in Waitara, at St. John's Hall, on Friday and Saturday nights, 'July-13 and 14, and at Urenui on Monday, July 16. The performance is one that can he thoroughly recommended to our readers. Okato is challenged. Vote for No. 00 is the heading of an advertisement from Mr. J. S. Fox in this issue, in connection iwith the baby voting contest, that coastal residents should not fail to read.