LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A lad named Robert T. Vowless was at the New Plymouth Magistrate's Court yesterday, granted exemption from attending drill,'on the ground that he lived more than nine miles from the nearest place of drill.

formed at Eltham on.Wednesday evening, inned at Eltham n Wednesday evening embracing Eltham, Mangatoki," Rawliitiroa, Rotokare and Mata, whilst Mangammgi, Pukengahu, Matapu, Eraser road and Fmnerty road are to be approached: to join the new body. It is understood that one of the Union Company's smartest coastal vessels will be taken over shortly by the Government for the carriage of frozen produce from New Plymouth to Wellington (says the Dominion j.

Eor breaches of the county by-laws' tho following defendants were fined as' stated at the New Plymouth Magis- 1 trate's Court yesterday. Mr. J. °H. Quilliam appearing for the county council:—D. F. Green way, wandering' cattle, 10s and costs lis fid; James Browning, driving motor car at excessive speed, £1 and costs £1 9s 6d; Elienezer Wooldridge, plying for motor hire without a license, £2 and costs 17s Gd.

Mr. and Mrs. E. Stohr had a very nar row escape from a serious accident when motoring home from Opunake on Sunday evening (reports the Eltham Argus). A pin came out of the steering gear, and the car ran off the road, but fortunately did not capsize or collide with anything. Mr. Stohr immediately stopped the car, lie and his wife alighted and secured a lift home from a friend in the neighborhood where the accident occurred. 0

I A question about home service men was asked of Sir James Allen in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, by Mr. C. A. Wilkinson. He asked wh„ was the position of men who volunteered for active service and were subsequently classed fit for home service only. Were they to be retained for homo service, or could they return to civilian pursuits? Sir James Allen stated that if a man did not volunteer for home service he could go back to private employment. He was not discharged from the Forces, but was given indefinite leave without pay.

A motion picture of far more than usual interest and filled with a sublime and beautiful romance is "The Regeneration," a five reel Fox feature screened at Everybody's .last evening. The picture is from Owen Kildare's immortal book, and deals with his own life and the beautiful but sweetly pathetic romance with "Mamie Rose." "The Regeneration" will be finally screened tonight. To-morrow the favorite Clara Kimball Young will appear in the latest Selznick feature, "The Foolish Virgin," another photoplay under the "wizard" director, Albert Caperialli. Several cases were brought before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., at the New Plymouth Magistrate's Court yesterday, in which the defendants were, charged with breaches of the borough by-laws, in having left their motorcars on the north side of King Street unattended and for a period of more than five minutes. Inspector Mcllveney stated that the borough council had by resolution set apart an area on the opposite side of the street where- cars might be "parked," but in these cases ears had been left on both sides of the street, causing considerable obstruction to through traffic, the thoroughfare being a narrow one. Tho defendants—Michael Healey, Eustatius Griffiths, and Alfred Henry Steed—admitted the facts, but pleaded ignorance of tho fact that they were in any way offending. Each was convicted and ordered to pay coits amounting to 7s.

'the soldiers' "Big Push" committee v.'islies to state that the big art ur.JK.. for which are on view in Hellringer's, will be drawn on Saturday night. Ints'i: Hv; ;..Tel::-.sers of tickets are ashed to bear this in mind.

FLI-KEELO KILLS FLIES. Awarded first and special gold medal at the Auckland Exhibition. Successfully used throughout the Dominion. Have you tried it? IT IS STOCKED BY ALL CHEMISTS AXD STOREKEEPERS, and is MADE BY BBITISHEKS IN* ■THIS DOMINION 5

The potato-planting being done at Wanganui East by some patriotic citizens \6 proceeding apace. Jp to Saturday last It} miles of rows had been planted.

The London J}aih Express learns that M. Kerensky, addressing a. gathering of personal friends at Petrogra'd, staled:— "I am suffering from an hereditary disease, and have not long to live. i must hurry up my work of liberating Russia. Peace now would mean that the 'Russians in future would be the vassals of the Kaiser instead of the Czar. This would be worse than over."

A message to the Sydnev Sim from Calgary says that t\vo Eskimos have j-bcen found guilty of the murder in the Artie regions of two priests. Another message from Houston (United States) says that murder charges have been preferred against 34 negro soldiers as a result of the killing of 17 persons during the riots at Austin.

"In the earlier part of last century," noid Mr. C. H. Poole, M.P., at the Sailors' Friend Society in Wellington, "there was H, very common standardised type of ship of 400 tons gross.. Why the tonnage should 'be no more than this puzzled m.lny people, until it was pointed out' that all ships of 500 tons and over had 4o' carry a chaplain." (Laughter.) The theory that more boy babies, than girls are born in war time lias been re vivud in the report of the British Regis-trar-General for 1015, The births registered ir. the year numbered 814,014. Males numbered 415,205 and females being 1940 to lOC*, while ordinarily a slight excess of femsJc births is" recorded.

"When the war enjls," says Mr. J. L. Garvin, "we have to find work for 8,000,000 persons, and build, at the smallest computation 150,000 houses, with a lack of raw material for the purpose'. France,and Belgium cannot wait for their rebuilding, but must take the first comers. It is the most imperative and urgent problem Great Britain ever had to face."

At the West End School Committee meeting last night ihe head teacher reported that, owing to the withdrawal of the Central School staff, the proposed patriotic carnival of the' combined schools (Fitzroy, West End, and Central) has been ahandoned. The West End school has therefore decided to confer with the'Kawaroa Park. Committee relative to an entertainment,in aid of patriotic funds.

If all housemaids were like Peggy in "Pots and Pans Peggy," her name on the books of a registry office would create a riot when the housewives found out. She keeps all her housework up to date while engaged in' furthering the happiness of two young lovers, meanwhile foiling completely a far-reaching scheme of treachery,,against her country. This splendid picture, with a Metro wonderplay, ''The Child of Destiny," will be shown on the change of programme at the Empire to-night. There is also a fine Topical Gazette in support.

Speaking in Christchurch this week of the war work done by the Salvation Army throughout the world, Commissioner Hodder said that the Army had over 50t) hostels and hutments, and in these about 1,300,000 soldier's and sailors were cared for monthly. During a month in one hut alone, over 20,000 sheets of paper and 10,000 envelopes were distributed to the men free ot charge. The Salvation Army also had thirty Red Cross cars, twenty-five of" them being in France, and five in Russia. In these over 200,000 men had been carried from the trenches to the dressing stations.

It was rather suprising to find women writing of Princess' Mary as "old-fash-ioned'' in her dress, and as "needing advice," if you please, says a correspondent of the London Daily .Chronicle. She was more than modern this week, when she had an aeroplane escort for her train to Southend. But what her critics mean comes simply to this: the beautiful girl wears costumes which reach the ankle and the neck; she scorns the knee protectors which answer for skirts and the waist belts yoked to shoulder straps which are called blouses. She is not old-fashioned; she is high priestess of a cult largely forgotten—dress which combines grace and beauty with modest d/gnity. An extremely beautiful display of the Auroii Australia was witnessed* in the Southern portion of the Dominion a few nights ago. A Dunedin paper says the •rays emanating from the horizon were bright and long, and the whole sky, from south-east to south-west, was illuminated. But more beautiful still wa3 the roseate hue which spread in irregular shape almost, to the zenith. This mass of color continually changed in bulk and asumerl strange shapes (once it was just a huge, rough, all-red map of the -British Isles), and threw out detached splashes away to the west. The whole effect—the rosecoloured patches in the lightened sky, with the,masses of black cloud in tilt foreground and shot through with the bright rays—was a glorious one. Professor Sefton Delmer, who was interned at Ruble-ben and afterwards free in Berlin and repatriated recently, 'lecturing at Hamstead, described an incident of Mr. Gerard's visit, to Wittenburg camp. His motor ear was covered with dust, in which one of the interned men, prevented from speaking to the Ambassador, scrawled "We want bread." A German officer wiped it out. The American chauffeur said: "What the devil are you doing there? This is American dust. American territory.'' That was the true American spirit. Speaking of his own experiences at Ruhlebon, Professor Delmer said our men sang "Are we down-hearted J" to the tune of "Son of My Soul."

An interesting description of Chinese domestic customs is given in a letter recently received from a New Zealand missionary, now in Pekin, particular reference being made of the city "cries.' The writer says:—"The strangeness of our surroundings helped to keep away Kleep the first night, and also the fact that at regular intervals som-cone passed our place shouting something in Chinese. We thought it must ho a night, watchman, but we could hear others in the distance, and sometimes the call would be different. We discovered next morning thai: salesmen come around until 2 o'clock in the morning with all kinds of wares for sale, and the "songs of the night" came from these gentlemen. Some of the calls are very weird, and worse than all the "fi.-b-ohs," "wild rabbits/' and "iiornmjr papers'' that ever were iieard in the homeland!" Only two m-re days and the Melbourne's great semi-annual Naie will he a thing of the past. It will be remembered as a noteworthy event by virtue of the astonishly low prices for goods which in a. few weeks' time will be almost doubled in price. The wise ones aru buying now. Kor Children's Hacking Cough at night, Wood's Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6, 2/0.