LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Wellington Education Board has forwarded, as a first instalment, £SOO subscribed by school children for the relief of little sufferers in the recent air raids in England. Remarking that the offence was a very serious one, the Hastings magistrate, Mr. Poynton, yesterday inflicted a, fine of £2O on John Bergine, a milkman, for selling watered milk. Messrs Skelton and Edwin are donating a gold medal as a prize for the jumping competition /which is to be held in connection with the meet of the Taranaki hounds at Motonui this afternoon, In order to allow visitors ample time to get along to witness the jumping the competition is set down for 3 o'clock. "The Girl Philippa" opened to a crowded house at Everybody's last night. The story is bewilderingly beautiful, the love romance in itself being a problem of passion charmingly set and heartbreaking in intensity. Anita Stewart has a role which gives every scope for her captivating charm, and "the rest of the cast is strong and good. This special attraction will be screened again tonight. The Mayoress (Mrs. (Burgess) would be glad to receive gifts of small tins in which' to pack a few sweets for inclusion in the monthly parcels which are i sent to the boys at the front. Any I little tins will 'be acceptable. The flat ! tins such as Three Castles cigarettes j are packed in answer splendidly. Now boys and girls, get busy and do something on behalf of the soldiers.

The majority of the appeals dealt | With at yesterday's Bitting of the First j iilitary Service Board in New Ply- j ■wuth were "sine die cases," that is •-.-pa adjourned from previous sittings ithout, at the time, any definite date ring fixed. More of these cases will ;c dealt with to-day and more again u-morrow, it 'beJng the intention of the ioard to go right through the list a' :!ie present sittings. The executive of the North Taranaki head centre of the Royal Life Saving Society met. in the Soldiers' Club last night, the president (Mr. D. J. Hughes) in the chair. It was decided to recommend the annual meeting to affiliation with the New Zealand Sprf Bathing Association, a body now in process of formation The date of the annual meeting of the centre was fixed for the last Wednesday in August. The monthly meeting of the committee of the Society for the (Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was held yesterday and attended (by the Rev. W. A. Sfinclair (presiding), Mrs. Martin, Miss Wilson. Miss Curtis, Messrs J. Paton, E. Lash, and It. C. Hughes. Reports of cruelty by neglect to a horse on a farm on the Old Hospital Road, and to a monkey by boys at Moturoa, were received and dealt with. Mrs. Martin, Mr. T. Hirst, and 'Mr. R. C. Hughes were appointed a committee to formally settle the conditions for the essay by school children, for which prizes are to toe given.

The battle of secret service wits which went on all over Europe produced many subtle scoundrels like Wildresse, the rufiianly brutal Bulgarian in "The Girl Philippa." He is a paid agent of the French Government, while at the same time serving the Germans, using in callous fashion the dainty girl Philippa as his decoy. The picture well portrays the tingling excitement and the many thrilling romantic situations that made the book Robert Chambers' best seller, of recent date. Anita Stewart has never appeared to greater advantage than in this picture, which is being shown again to-night and to-morrow at Everybody's. The New Plymouth Women's Patriotic Committee were busily engaged all Tuesday evening and yesterday packing their usual monthly consignment of parcels for our men in the trenches, and aa their work was carried out in the shop in Devon Street, opposite Everybody's Picture Theatre, used as a 'butcher's mart in connection -with- the Pierrots' £IOOO Day, considerable- public attention was attracted. Altogether over 500 parcels were made up "by the ladies, under tho supervision of the Mayoress (Mrs. 'Burgess), and they were securely packed in cases at a later* stage and by this morning's mail train will start on their journey to the seat of war, via the. headquarters of the. Y.M.C.A. in London, The contents of each package is in some way different from any of the others, so that the soldiers who receive them 'will enjoy the added pleasures of variety and exchange. Besides the packages there mere a number of cases containing cakes, packed in hermetically sealed tins, and having thus seen the completion of one month's admirable work, the Indies will immediately start cheerfully on the labors of another.

Fate rarely grants us what, >vc crave petwix't the. crude adn t,!ie grave. Anticipating boons to come Makes phantom happiness for some; But when witli croup a child lies sick Relief is always needed quick— Wise parents such relief assure By purchasing Woods' Peppermint Cur l . Carry on! You will do your work more cheerfully and successfully if you drink an occasional cup of Desert Gold the Queen of Teas. Delicious, refreshing. stimubvtdor wholesome. Order to- «•»*• " '1

The strength of the national demand for the 0 o'clock closing of hotels, remarks a contemporary, may (bo gauged from the fact that bo far there have been presented to Parliament 64 petitions containing almost 140,000 signatures. More petitions are to 'be presented. An effort is to he made to have the lot referred direct to the Government for consideration in order to obviate great delay in reaching a definite legislative decision. At the deputation to the Hon. G. W. Russell recently, with regard to the cinematograph ftfm censorship, Mrs. A. R. Atkinson told ft story of a little 'boy who had been taken to a picture theatre where he had seen some Charlie Chapiin pictures. When lie was saying his prayers that night, he snid to his mother, "Mummy, ■will Charlie Chaplin tte in Heaven?" She replied that she thought he would he. "Oh!" exclaimed the little follow, "won't foe make God laugh." The latest appliance to avoid theft of motors is a secreted svren attached to the exhaust manifold!, which ilie owner locks into ©peratine position when he leaves his car. If someone starts it up without his knowledge the shrieks wake, all the sleeping police in the neighborhood, and they at once gather round to discover the cause of the distuifoance. Even a hardened thief cannot face it out, and experience has proved that ibis courage fails him, and he aibandons his plunder with alacrity. A fine example of patriotism has been shown by a Patea family of whom four brothers are now serving the Empire. Ono had an eye shot out in the Gallipoli campaign, and the first was drawn from Tiulls in a ballot held recently. Some time back he had a foot injured in a motor-cycle accident, and after three enlistments in svtacessio» failed to pass the test. He thqn weat to wWa' an operation on his foot was performed. Upon being drawn in the ballot) he passed easily, and as he hails from a fighting family it gave him great pleasure.

Early marriages ■were strenuously advocated. 'by Dr. Truby King, in the course of a lecture in Christehurch, on tlic score that earlier marriages would mean a larger and healthier -population. Children born of parents at the height of their vitality were ibetter born than the i children of parents in later life. Mr. \V. 33. Carmichael, managing director of Messrs. Carmichael and Co., of Svdney, tlic suppliers of paper to the principal New Zealand newspapers, has just returned from .the United States and Canada, after a visit lasting over four months. He states that the partial isolation of New Zealand and Australia is inevitable, and it is difficult to see where supplies of newa printing paper are to be obtained. The paper is available, but there are no bottoms to carry it.

At St. Andrew's Preshyterian Hall | to-night an entertainment is to be he'd in aid of "Scotch Day" at the 'Patriotic Mart. Songs, duets, instrumental items and realistic tableaux are included in the programme, so tha*. there should be a largo attendance. Admission is by "Coin," to be placed in specially characteristic Scotch envelopes, which will be supplied at the doors, and the envelopes will subsequently be hung up on a "Silver Tree" in the hall by attendants in Scottish national costume. These attendants will alsrt> dispenso sweets durin" the evening as a means of swelling the fund. Full particulars appear in the advertisement on page 1. More Melbourne bargains: Ladies' navy print aprons, 2s lid; linen dowlas or tea towelling, 23 inches wide, fld yard; no-inch, Is yard, 50-inch Is fld yard;. 80-inch unbleached fine herringbone sheeting, Is lid yard; Horrockses' 36> inch calico, B%d yard; plain navy "Advance" drill, ls'3d"yanl, 30 inches wide. A public meeting of all Second Division. men is to be held in. the Hfill, Haw em, to-morrow (Friday) eveni»g at 8 o'clock, when New Plymouth and others will give addresses. Farmers are invited to note that the clearing sale advertised on account of Mr. George Taylor at the Orenui yards on Monday next has been withdrawn. Tenders are invited by the Labor Department for the erection of four workers' dwellings in New Plymouth.