LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Kaupokonui Dairy Company directors yesterday decided to erect a branch store at Auroa. The Minister states that the amount of the customs revenue collected in August was -C32G.8G5; excise beer duty, £15,208. The figures for August, 1916. were £340,252 and £13,302. "Gloria's Romance" entered on its last chapter before a crowded house at the Empire last evening. Followers of this popular serial are more than delighted with the finish which is a satisfactory final to a most successful series. Tonight will be the last occasion that this picture will be on view. A Gazette Extraordinary provides that married men of military age failing to support their families will not receive the benefit of classification according to '• the number of children. Under the new regulations men who are not supporting their children will be placed in class A, the same as married men without children.—Press Association. The directors of the Ironsand Company are very keen, as is shown by the fact that most of them stopped at the works all Sunday and most of yesterday night watching the first runs of ore. Naturally the success achieved has afforded them considerable satisfaction. Jean Sothern has never appeared to better advantage than in '/The Cloud," a splendid "Art" drama which commences a two-night season to-night. iPatrons to this popular house are notified that the securing of the picked features of Of) of the world's greatest motion picture pro- • ducers make it possible to change the programme three timc3 weekly for the future. Next change, Thursday, the world-famous Nance O'Neill will be featured in a powerful emotional drama — "A Woman's Past." The Y.M.C.A. commissioner, Mr. Varncy. had a big meeting at Wanganui on Saturday night. He will arrive in New Plymouth on Wednesday morning, and will meet the mothers, wives and sisters of our soldiers in the afternoon at the Good Templar hall. This meeting has been arranged at Mr. Varney's request, to enable him to tell to those who are so deeply interested, something of what he saw of their boys during the fortnight he spent at the front in France. The evening meeting has been arranged for the Empire Theatre, and over 200 v | pictures will be shown of scenes and incidents connected with New Zealand's Expeditionary Forces. The south-westerly gale and spring tide on Sunday night and early yesterday morning caused a heavier and higher sea than usual to beat along the New Plymouth waterfront, with the result that considerable damage was done to the municipal baths at the foot of ATeymoutli street. The concrete pavement in front covered about six inches deep with sand, debris, and small boulders carried up from the beach, the door of the laundry was burst open, the corrugated iron wall enclosing the boiler was beaten in, and a heap of coal was scattered broadcast over the floor. The cavetaker, Mr. Schwartz, states that it is the first timo he has known the sea to rise to a level with the bath buildings. Some damage was also done at the East! End. . In commenting on t'io wholesale | murder committed on the high seas by I Germany, the New York Tribune says:— "Right-side-up men do not need any urging to make them hate Germany today. Moreover, they need not apologise for the fact. If the odious is not to be hated, morality is no longer a thing of the will, but a pure theory, and the affections have no place in the distinction of worth. If nothing and nobody are odious, morality has no meaning. ]f anything conhl be intrinsically odious. Germany to-day is odious. Her diabolical ingenuity has left undone nothing that could make her hateful in the eyes of the world. . . . If a nation may act ■is Germany is acting without bringing down on its head the righteous wrath of mankind, we might as well dump our mora't values overboard and say that whatever is is right. If Patrick Henry was right in hating tyranny, if John Brown was right in hating slavery, it is right now to hate with an indignation as uncompromising as lightning, the nenaee of Prussian ism, along with every name associated with its evil practices." Will prices resume their old level immediately after the war? Sec Hannah and Co.'s opinion in their advertisement in this issue. We are asked to explain an error in our Lepperton correspondent's account of the concert on Thursday evening last, with regard to the cushion, which was actually donated by Mrs. Freestone. Miss Ackland merely undertook the disposal of it. A dance-is to be held in Warea Hall on Thursday next. A MODERN SCIENTIFIC 'PREPARATION. NOT A "HAS BEEN" OF 50 OR 100 i jiiAltS AGO. Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs and Colds is a modern scientilic preparation, compounded on the most ad • vanced, up-to-date specifies of the Materia Mcdiea, combined, in keeping with the advanced science of the age. It is not an old-fashioned medicine used in grandfather's time; but the latest up-to-date specific for people who want intelligent and scientific treatment. Anyone who has not used Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery before will be amazed at the astonishing results obtained, even from the first dose of this Remedy, and any Cough or Cold intelligently treated with this Remedy, according to the directions with each bottle, will yield to its soothing and healing effects. Price, 1/6 and 3/-. obtainable everywhere. 'Twas recently stated—l suppose it is right—that farmers are not compelled to fight. But a secret I'll tell —The next .to go free are thoso that handle ARI gA,rWA TTgA^

"You don't want to put all the direc- j tors in tho grave," remarked the chairman of a dairy company recently when a, supplier suggested that something .should he done which was contrary to the act. "Weil, I don't know about all of them," replied the shareholder doubtfully, amidst laughter. The high prices offering in England for stock are commented on in a letter dated .June 21, written by a young New Zealand soldier, J). Cottle, to his grandfather, Mr. Cottle, of Cottleville Terrace. The writer, who was at Codford at tho time, says:—"They had a sale hero a few days ago, and fat lamb? brought !)Xs. 1 have seen just as' good sold in New Zealand for 18s (id. Cows we would consider worth £lO brought £■lo to £00." A letter received from a soldier at the front (states the Oamaru Mail) ,incideiually mentions the number of callow youths the Germans have in their fighting lines on the West front. In one ot tho recent great battles the New Zealanders, on charging up a hill, were eonfronted by a number of youths whose ages ranged from about 14 years upwards. So boyish were they that the New Zealandcr,; could not bring themselves to treat them as fighting men; and many of these boys had their lives spared to them because of their almost infantile appearance. 1 In a letter to his mother in Hawera, Private li. B. Taylor mentions rather an unexpected meeting he had in France with a lady formerly of Hawera. Ho says: I had a day's leave, and went to visit a town some miles away. While I was walking up the streets I met two New Zealand nurses and they stopped and spoke to me. One was the district nurse in Hawera for two years." He adds that at time of writing his regiment were ''all out of the line and arc well back having a spell. We have sports every day—horse jumping, racing, running, swimming, wrestling, in fact every kind of game imaginable." Sir Thomas Mackenzie was on a visit io Grimsby recently, states the London correspondent of the Lyttelton Times," find when in that great northern town inquired into a new industry there with a view to seeing its capabilities fu>New Zealand. In the fishing industry, which has in that Lincolnshire port attained such huge dimensions, fish heads, bones, and livers are being utilised in the manufacture of a food for poultry. The new food has already found wide .acceptance, and being produced at a price dictated by lits cheap source—a .former waste product—it is a welcome addition to tho depleted supplies of poultry-keepers, >vho iind it hard to keep down their feeding stuff bills with grain and other ordinary fowl food at war prices. Two Germans have produced n baking flour, fodder, and fat out of the bu's of limes and beeches. ''According to expert estimates,'' about 500,000 tons of new flour can be produced in Germany every year, and it is said to need less vcfist in baking than ordinary flour. The new food, according to the. German authorities, smells and tastes good, has about the same nutritive value as barley, and yields about four times as much fnt as barley, the fat "looking and In si ins like butter." The Impeuhi.l Com OlHcg is, however, somewhat sceptical. H says, as quoted by the "Times" that baking tests of the new flour mixed with when ten flour gave a satisfactory result, but that the harvesting of the* buds and the preparation of the .flour and fat involve such an expenditure, both of man-power and money, that it hardly seems likely that the invention can be exploited at present. The decision of the Government concerning Ihe suggested lowering of the military age to nineteen years will be known when the Expeditionary Force Bill is introduced, probably about the end of next week. The Bill has already been before Cabinet twice, but it coiltains many matters requiring attention, and the. finishing touches have lipt yet been given. It is possible the proposal to take boys of rtineteen years into training camps will be dropped, at anyrate until some of the classes in the Second Division have'been taken. Military opinion, it is understood, is in favor of lowering the age, on the ground that young men up to years of age respond most readily to military training. New Zealand is stated to be the only belligerent country in which the military age is higher than IS years at the present time, but., on the other hand, all other countries where conscription is in force have taken young married men. Ccmnmnications that are reaching Ministers and members of iP'arliament indicate that a strong body of opinion in the Dominion is opposed to the enlistment of nineteen-year-olds at the present stage of the war. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Manutahi Dairy Company on Wednesday, Mr. S. C.' Tonks, chairman of directors, remarked that most people would not realise that the butter-fat tax meant to a small factory like Manutahi; they did not realise that £Ol4 represented 10s per cow. The largest supplier to the Manutahi factory contributed no less than £172 to that tax, and the smallest supplier just under £lO. He had heard it argued that a man with a hundred cows could well a fiord to pay the tax. He (the chairman) was not there to judge whether lie could afford to pay it or not. but what they could judge was that the man with a big family, the widow, or in many cases the siiaremilker, could not afford to pay it. He had in minn the case of a widow not many miles from Manutahi, who was sharemilkiiig 120 cows. She was an elderly lady who worked 10 hours a day. and was assisted by one son and two daughters. She had to contribute £25 towards this socalled butter tax in order to allow Mr. Maodonald and his following to have cheaper butter Not only did this | widow contribute £2. r > towards this inequitable tax, hilt she had also contributed three, sons to fight for the colors. Could anyone argue that here was not a ease of altogether undue hardship?—, Star. It was proved at the Supreme Court of Victoria, at Melbourne, that (1) SANDER'S EXTRACT is much more 1 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 remedy. Get the genuine—insist if you have to —and bo FLI-KEELO is the only insect powder manufactured in New Zealand by Britishers. NO FLIES CAN LIVE where FLT-KEELO is used. Flies carry diseass. FLIKEELO kills flies. Obtainable from all chemists and storekeepers. 1 THE TASTE TELLS. You can tasto the apples in Russetta Cider, the delicious flavor that tells of pure apple-juice. Just that and cane sugar make this best of all non-alco-fcaiits (took. Ask i'or

Professor Maemillan Brown has returned to Christclmiclt after a trip of a most interesting nature amongst, the most easterly of the Pacific Islands, mostly those in French possession. After visiting several of the Society Group (states a Christchurch paper) he went south to Rapa and Tubnai, investigating and photographing the stone images which had never been subjected to the operation before. The Professor also obtained a number of fine .photographs of the iwtivea, both men women. Visits were paid by the Professor's party to the Gambier and Paumotu Group, and then a return was made to Tahiti. The United States Consul happened to be there at the time, and the French Governor made a good deal of his visitors, who were treated to a round of festivities, feted, and compli;as being .representatives! [oT Franco's Allies. * A State' proecsaiorfal kind of trip was made all round the islands, which lusted for four days. . 'Professor Maemillan Brown also visited "the Marquesas, which he said proved the most interesting inhabitants. The Leeward Islands were also visited, and the Professor was enabled to carry out a most valuable series of original investigations, and obtain a very line series of photographs of the people and their ancient architecture. Says a correspondent of the Clirist.ehurch Press: I am reminded of an incident at one of Mr Lloyd George's political meetings in a provincial town in England some years ago. The chairman of the meeting, in introducing the speaker, said, among other things that probably the audience, having heard so much about Mr Lloyd George would be disappointed at not seeing a bigger man. Mr Lloyd George, in acknowledging the introduction, spoke something like this: "Our worthy chairman's references to my height makes it clear to me that in these parts you have a different standard on measurement from what we have in Wales. You apparently measure a man from the chin downwards, but where I come from we measure him from the chin upwards." Motorists using the Cable Bay road on Sunday last (says the Nelson Mail) had exciting encounters about a couple of miles frt>m town. Each car that came along was charged by an excited cow, which singled out motorists as fitting objects upon which to vent the fury of its mid-winter madness. The dexterity of the chaffeurs retarded the gaining of bovine satisfaction for most *if the afternoon, but persistency was a prominent feature in the cow's composi--1 ion, and as one car approached she waited with lowered horns in the centre of the road regardless of the mueh-tooted motor-horn. As the car began to slow down she came at full tilt. A solid collision resulted, and the animal got badly knocked about in its endeavour tn prove a martyr to the right of bucolic citizenship.