LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The small coastal boats trading to Patea are at present all tied up in Wellington owing to the strike in connection with the "mosquito fleet." A Wellington merchant who cabled to Sydney yesterday orders for a certain product, received the following reply: ''Strike continues. No prospects of shipping in the meantime."

In the House on Tuesday afternoon Sir James Allen stated that the second portion of the 29th Reinforcements had arrived safely at a port of call. Private Thomas Clark died of cerebro-spinal meningitis on the voyage.

At the meeting of the Central School Committee on Tuesday, the headmaster's report showed the average attendance for the past month to have been 542.5, the average roll number being 623.2. The report of the inspectors on .the school was read, and the headmaster and st,aff warmly congratulated on the excellent iresults attaiip-'

At the Wellington Military Service •Board yesterday tile chairman announced that the Railway Department, had withdrawn an additional 365 appeals, and these wero formally dismissed. Ifc was ascertained, that 300 men wero drawn in the third railway hallot, the balance being left over from the first and second departmental ballots. Among bequests in the estate of the late G. I'. Donnelly are £IOO a year to Alexander O'Dowd (head shepherd), £IOO a year to Rota (another herd), £2OO to Miss Lavsen (maid ser-' vant), £SO a year to Mrs Barry, £l5O a year to Annie Mary Allan, and £SO a year to Margaret Mary Allan. A very large crowd assembled at the Eltham railway station on Tuesday night to welcome home Staff-Sergeant J. McLeod and Trooper O. Clarry. The Mayor (Mr. T. B. Crump), on behalf of tlio townspeople, gave the troopers a ra-v hearty welcome. The Salvation Army Band was in attendance, and played several selections. In connection with the Waitara babycontest the following figures were screened at the Theatre Royal, Waitara-, last night, as being the state of the poll as supplied to. the returning officer up till Tuesday evenings—Freezers' baby, tlTenui 7200, Uruti 2400, Oko.ke 2100, Mokau 3000, total 20,400; country north baby, 15,380; business baby, 12,120; country west baby, 3800; total votes received, 57,480.

William Fox photoplays have leaped into a prominent place in the moving picture world by the sheer excellence af the production and the power of the story filmq-d. The latest release "Sins pf Men" is no exception to the rule, it combines splendid photographic effects, a gripping dramatic story and a powerful cast headed by Stuart Holmes and Dorothy. Bernard. This fine photoplay will be screened at Everybody's to-night and to-morrow.

The Mart will be run by the Kawaroa Park Ladies' Committee on Saturday next. Fresh cream has teen in great demand, and country people would greatly assist by donations of cream on Saturday, next. The committee are leaving no stone unturned to make the day a huge success. Home-made toffee, cakes, jams, eggs, roast pork, brawn, ham, and all kinds of good things have been promised. Get in early on Saturday to secure some of tho good things. "The price of rubber goods has just been increased for the lirst time since the war," remarked a New Plymouth business man to a News' representative. He went on to explain that there was a sufficiency of rubber on the market, due to the blockade of Germany, which was a tremendous manufacturer of rubber goods, especially tyres, and the consequent fall in the price of the raw material about balanced the extra freight; so that with the exception of some lines of motor car tyres rubber goods had remained at the old figures. Now a slight increase in price is being made. An inquest concerning the death of Ethel 1 Marie Griffey, who died at the New Plymouth hospital on Tuesday while undergoing an operation, was opened at the courthouse yesterday morning, before Mr. A. Crooke, coroner. Formal evidence of identification was given by deceased's husband, John Griffey, a returned soldier carrying on business as a hairdresser at Waitara. lie stated that his wife was 39 years old, he thought, and she left two surviving children. He was married to her in England, ai\d they came to New Zealand about 12 years ago. The inquest was adjourned sine die. The queer title of "Tho Pinch Hitler" is an Americanism draw from t,iii slang of baseball, and it means "the last iic-pc of his side," or "the very last resort.' In the film, which is showing at the Empire to-night, Charles Kay represents an awkward country-bred boy, who saves his side, and restores himself to self-confidence. A new star is featured in this fine Triangle picture in the person of Sylvia Bremer another Australian girl who lias won a place in American movies. Owing to the arrival of a new Metro feature for to-morrow this splendid film-can only be screened to-night.

At the first meeting of the recently reconstituted advisory committee of Ilatvera Technical College, held on Tuesday, a vote of trunkswas passed to the Ila(vcra Borough Council for its splendid offer of a site of nine acres for a technical high school, with the use of five acres for recreation purposes, and also to the Egmont A. and P. Association for their offer of the use of four acres for agricultural purposes, and trusts that tlie Education Board and the Department will comply with the ..conditions of the offer, and thus enable Hawera to have the facilities needed for higher education. Hopes were expressed that something would .be done to start a class Jor dairy instruction and factory work.

A meeting of the committee of the JCew 'Plymouth branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ivas held yesterday. Present: The Rev. W. A. Sinclair (voted to the chair), the Rev. F. <i. Harvie, Messrs J. Paton, P.' Hirst, 10. Lash, Sandford and li. C. Hughes (secretary). The secretary reported that the alleged cases of ill-treat-ment of horses 011 the Mount Messenger section of the Main North road were being investigated by the police, and that ho had sent particulars of a case ot alleged ill-treatment of ahorse at Moturoa to Sub-Inspector Meliveney. It was decided to hold the annual meeting of the branch in the Soldiers' Club on the 25th instant, and to request tho ministers of the various denominations to preach "animal sermons'' on the preceding Sunday. Cheap haberdashery lines at the Melbourne's great semi-annual reduction sale. Black or white dome fasteners 2£d dozen, hair-pins Id packet, Boslyn 3-ply wool fid skein, Clark's machine cotton all numbers 3d reel, Clark's cTocliet balls 5d ball, Sylko 2£d reel, wliite tapes tfd bundle.

There is only one SANDER EXTRACT, and that is why the people reject the many inferior anil harmful substitutes and just as goods. SANDER'S EXTRACT is free from the objectionable qualities of the common eucalyptus. •Sander's Extract cures all infectious diseases, all winter ailments, ulcers, burns, sprains, eczema, etc. Insist on the GENUINE SANDER'S EXTRACT.

Although it has a soft, delicate taste, Desert Gold is a full flavored tea, and economical housewives find that it makes more cups of delicious tea to the lb than any other brand. It is real thrift to purchase this high-grade tea—Desert Gold—for it gives full value for every penny paid; the best quality at the price on the New Zealand market. Our readers an; recommended to use it Neularly—all grocers sell it. Order the 2/2 grade, tisn everywhere. 12 For Children's Hacking Cough at night, Wood's Great Peppermint Cure. 1/Q, 2/(5.

. Jo less than three country postmaßt-< ers on the East Coast were called up ia the Msfc ballot.

Kea9 are still all too plentiful -jm the Mackenzie Country. On ono station recently fifty of these birds were tilled in three days. Their heads are worth 2a each.

The New Plymouth Boy Scouts desire to acknowledge receipt from Messrs Sutton and Sons, through Messrs Webster Bros., of a number of packets of seeds for planting in the patriotic gardens.

One favorite form of speculation on the Wanganui-New Plymouth train at present is counting dead lambs in the pad-, docks passed by. The mortality appears to have been fairly high in the strip o/[ country between Okeliu and Waverley. —Wanganui Chronicle. Sir Joseph Ward has received a cable from a legal man in London who moves in the big financial circles which says, in addition to the usual congratulations, that the loan is being talked about in all his circles, It will clearly be a good advertisement for the Dominion.

. Mr. Massey stated on Tuesday that the Government at the present time was jnaking arrangements for a supply of kerosene from the United States for the people of New Zealand. The Prime Minister subsequently explained that a steamer chartered by the Government for the carriage of produce would be coming to New Zealand shortly, and would make a call at an American port in order to load oil for New Zealand.

The question arose at the iPatriotie Committee meeting on Tuesday night an whether landlords could legally increase the rents of houses let to wives of men who were away fighting at the front. Several cases, it was pointed ou», had come before members of- the committee where rents had been increased, and it was felt that if possible they should protect those women. The matter will be inquired into. The. following will represent the New Plymouth Soccer Club in their cribbage and euchre tournament against the Fire Brigade this evening, at 7.30 p.m.: Cribbage—P. Pox, J. Bennett, T. Williams, G. Woods, W. Key, H. Feek, C. Sadler; euchre—E. Elliott, J. O'Brien, R. Bennoch, Pedder, W. Batten, Ingham, Turnbull, G. Wheeler. Tho> well-known motor garage business of Messrs Norton and Ciiplcn has been acquired by tho Farmers' Co-op. Organi? sation, Society. The firm fixed ,uj> the business deal on Friday last, and, with their customary energy, had taken stock and were in active possession on Monday morning. They have acquired the freehold of the land right through to Regent street, and taken over the whole concern as it stood.—Star.

A correspondent writes to the New Zealand Methodist Times: "On a recent Sunday in the Hawera circuit five services in all were conducted. The minister of the circuit 'was in bed with influenza and his place was taken by lady speakers, with the result that four of the services were thus provided for. At IJawera, Miss McGregor, of the P.amabai .Mission, and Mrs. Harrison Lce-Cowie occcupied the pulpit, and at other places Mrs. Dlamires and Sister Nellie were in evidence. This record is of a specially noticeable character because there was no dearth of acceptable local preachers, always willing to help."

A strange accident occurred at the Christchurch Hosprtal on Thursday afternoon, whereby a returned soldier named John McGregor sustained serious injuries, including a fracture of the skull. Several nurses were engaged in the operating theatre, when McGregor crashed through the glass roof and fell to the floor. Luckily there was no operation in progress at the time, and the nurses escaped the flying glass, but McGregor was seriously hurt. He was supposed to have been hosing down the glass on the outside of the roof, when he slipped and fell. It was reported on ' Saturday that his condition had [ slightly improved. Some of the complaints .made by men unjustly called in the ballots are justified. But other complaints are not. Recently a man with a wife and five children was drawn in the ballot as a First Division reservist and summoned for medical examination. He protested and the authorities examined his papers. It was found tiiat in completing his own registration form he had not stated either that he had children or that he was married. An even more remarkable caso is that of a man who died on service in Samoa and was subsequently drawn in the ballot. A comparison of the registration form, on which the ballot operates, and "the attestation form, on which the military lists arl placed, showed that the man had varied the order of his Christian names and given his occupation first as a barman and then as an accountant.