LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Loyal Excelsior Lodge of Oddfellows (New Plymouth) has invested £SOO in the war loan. A Press Association telegram states that the Wanganui Borough Council is investing £4720 from a sinking fund in the war loan. In the House yesterday, the Minister of Defence, in reply to a question put by Mr. H. okey_. said the regulations were bebig drafted to ensure military funerals being given to soldiers who die in the Dominion. The Hawera Chamber of Commerce on Thursday night unanimously adopted a resolution expressing regret at the unfortunate position created by the threatened resignation of the Efficiency Board, and wish that their valuable services will be retained. At Napier yesterday the Chief Justice non-suited G. S. Clapham, who claimed £SOO from the Tribune newspaper for alleged libel in five anonymous letters. The judge held the letter to be fair comment. Costs were awarded on the usual scale. A stay of execution for 14 days was granted in view of an appeal. Sapper Moore-Jones' exhibition of Gallipoli pictures in the Soldiers' Club was again a centre of attraction yesterday afternoon and evening, and it was noticeable that among the many who inspected the works of art were a number who had paid previous visits, but whose interest was still unabated. The sapper will give a brief lecture in the rooms at 11 a.m. to-day, in which lie will describe the pictures and maps for tho benefit of the boys and girls who intend going in for the Gallipoli campaign essay competition. At a meeting of the Taranaki provincial executive of the Second Division League at New 'Plymouth last evening tho following resolution was carried: "That the Taranaki members of the Second Division view with surprise the Prime Ministers statement that the suggested calling up of youtlts of 19 has not been definitely dropped by the Government, and expresses its strong disapproval of the proposal, and further emphatically calls upon the Government to give precedence to provisions for our soldiers and their dependents before any domestic legislation is considered. At the New Plymouth Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., a woman named Elizabeth Gibson was charged with having, on Tuesday last, at Moturoa, wilfully broken six panes of glass in the window of a building the property of Mr. Walter Staites, valued at £1 his, and also with having, on the same date and at the same place, broken two panes of glass valued at 10s, the property of Mr. William McKay. Senior Sergeant Bowden applied for a remand till September 5 in order that the woman might.be placed under medical observation, there being reason to doubt the soundness of her mental faculties. The application was granted. The Citizens' Band will give their second municipal recital at Moturoa on Sunday afternoon, weather permitting, commencing at 2.45. M.P. HITS OUT. The member for stated at that beer was the "working man's tea." The hon. .rentleman's attention is respectfully called to the fact that ARCADIA TEA is pnly 2s 1 per lb, has a delicious flavor, and is used by thousands o£ working men.

'Lieutenant-Colonel Lindsay, Captain Drumnloiid-Fcrguson, Captain Sir Charles Burdett (dental officer), and Captain T. Casserlcy (attesting officer) —of the No. 9 Military Medical Board —conducted an examination at the Coronation Hall, New 'Plymouth, yesterday. Daniel Moriarity. Lepperton, writes at length to the editor explaining in connection with his conviction for "using obecene language at Tnglewood that, it was caused )>y a policeman asking him at a late hour at night for his registration certificate. He holds his language was Dot obscene, hilt justifiable, and concludes: ''J have travelled a good portion of the world; thin is my first charge and iny iir-t onarrel with a policeman." A distressing fatality occurred at Kgutuwcra on Wednesday resulting in the death of Mr. Henry" Phillips, a well-known settler in this district (says the Patea Press). Mr. Phillips, together with a boy, was engaged in cieari.ig a "lip on the road when a large log some distance above them began to roll down the fiillside. Mr. 'Phillips called out to the boy to look out, and thus saved the hoy's life, but he himself failed to jump clear, the log striking him and injuring Mm severely. Willing hands were quickly on the scene, and the sufferer was immediately conveyed to Wanganui. where he expired in the evening, '{'he deceased is survived by a wife and one child, for whom the deepest sympathy will be felt. "The war has been responsible for one thing that should ultimately benefit the New Zealand producer," remarked Mr. J. B. Murdoch, chairman of directors; at the annual meeting of the Joll Company. '-For the first time in the history of the industry we have been supplying the English market for the 12 months, nine months of the year only. For whereas previously the season "was for throe months of'the year none of our produce reached the English market, and the English public had to buy elsewhere. The taste of the English people was such thai, they did not like changing when they were satisfied, and so went where they could obtain the sa'me for the whole year.'' He hoped when peace was declared that they would continue sending shipments throughout the whole twelve months. This was a matter that a fedreation of all dairy factories could bring about, whereas an amalgamation of tw6\ as proposed conld not. "The finest programme we have seen," "A real treat," and other equally flattering remarks greeted the management at the close of the new programme at tho Empire last night. Big "Bill" Farnum is a treat in the delishtful Fox feature "The End of the Trail," which is likely to prove even more popular than his last portrayal in "The Man from Bitter Boots," and William Desmond never appeared to better advantage than in the present Triangle picture, "The Criminal." So interesting is the programme, despite its length, that it appears to finish all too quickly. As one patron remarked last night, "I could go on watching pictures like that all night." "The Price of Fame," a splendid Greater Vitrgraph photoplay commencing at Everybody's matinee to-day, has as its heroine Naomi Childers, wlio is known the world over as a model of classic beauty. She starred as "Beauty" in the great symbolic play "Every Wroman," 'which is a tribute to her fame for looks. She is a compellingly sweet actress, full of dainty ways mid pretty gestures. She cleverly depicts in the closing scenes of the drama that she quite understands the man who is so awkwardly making love to her is not (lie brother to whom she was once engaged, and in whom she, had always found something lacking. Very beautiful photographic, effects are obtained in the scenes where Naomi is entertaining in her sumptuous home. ' Marc MeDermott stars with Miss Childers in this fine production.