LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 September 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The following names of Taranaki mei. appear in the casualty list and hospital progress report issued in Wellington on Thursday: Slightly wounded, remaining with unit—Edward Ernest Barlow (Mrs. H. Barlow, Manaia, mother). Severe case—H. G. Remnant (Ohangai). In celebration of Dominion IJa-v tho New Plymouth Central School will be visited on Monday afternoon by the Ven. Archdeacon Evans, who will deliver a short patriotic address. It is expected that the former headmaster of the school (Mr. H. Dempsey) will also be present.

; The new capital of '£62,000 asked fov by the New Zealand Refrigerating Co. has been very heavily over-subscribed, very nearly twice as much as asked for having been offered. The new capital is required chiefly for providing additional storage accommodation at the company's various works. A member of the Canterbury Trades and Labor Council has been arrested as a defaulter under the Military Service Act and sent into cstmp under escort. He is James Kirkwood Worrell, plumber, ot Limvood, and was drawn in the seventh ballot. His father, H. Worrell, is expresident of the Trades and Labor Council. Messrs. H. Elliot (Auckland), J. A. Frostick (Canterbury), J. Begg (Otago), and T. Moss (farmers' representative), have signified their willingness to act as members of tho newly constituted National Efficiency Board; the other representative to replace the chairman (Mr. W. Ferguson) has not been chosen yet,

A splendid nmtinfie programme ■ is showing at the Empire this afternoon The chief attraction is a bright breezy five-reel comedy drama, "Pots and Pans Peggy," featuring winsome Gladys Hulette, and the supports include "Love and the Iceman" (comedy), the co-opera-tive Topical and a screaming Fox star comedy, "An Aerial Joy Ride." There lis no doubt about where tho best matinee programme is showing to-day. On Wednesday last Mr. J. W. Hayden, president of the Ngamotu Seaside Committee, visited the New Plymouth Cen- ' tral School to present tho cup won by the school team in the marathon race last New Year's Day, and in doing so, congratulated the school on the fact that the cup had now become its property, having been won by its representatives two years in succession. He also presented medals to the six individual members of the team, namely Masters Leslie Jenkins, Harry Hoffmann, Lance Frethey, Laurie Davis, Willie Stroud and Len Smith.

The 'Defence authorities are not very considerate, as most people know. At the beginning of the wiar a Taranaki boy volunteered, but was turned down. He was subsequently medically examined, and, being told he had no chance of going away, married. Next he was drawn in the ballot, was again rejected, and declared 02. He took a position in an outside town, and shifted his furniture, etc. The other day he was ordered into the C? camp. He left his position, made arrangements for the care of his wife and child, and on the eve of going to Featherston, was calmly told by the Defence authorities that he would not be wanted for another month. Such treatment is as callous as it is disgraceful. Private Wm. W. Mathews, who left with the Tenth Reinforcements, has lately been promoted to the rank of LanceCorporal in the new Fourth Brigade. Writing to his mother, Mrs. E. A. Matthews, of Omata, from tho trenches on July 13, he says:—"The trenches we are now occupying are only about three feet wide and with acres of ground around them, so Fritz has to be pretty cute to land his shells in, or very close to them. In fact, only a very few fair-sized pieces have found their way in, and luckily I have managed to dodge them all. Wo have had very few casualties, and I often wonder when advancing how we have escaped, for it is then we see the terrible havoc of war. The weather here is .perfect, and wo are hoping it will keep so next week, as then we shall be holding the front line. Please remember me to my old chums. I have no doubt Hurford iuaii friends .will be interested" to hear ! nit 'j'oin Bennett, who once lived where Mr. W. Adlam does, has been wounde4 sent to England. He, too, was iii this brigade."

In this issue we publish first particulars of Mr. Newton Kings annual Waiwakaiho Bull Fair, which is set down for Thursday, October 4. This sale in recent years has proved very popular with Taranaki dairymen and judging by tho class of -bulls coming forward this season's sale should be in every way as successful. Shorthorns and Holsteins are this season a good lot, the principal breeders of tho district being represented and in addition Mr. D. F. Greenway, of Okato, will be offering a draft of 25 of these classes, and these we are informed are a particularly fine lot. Their breeding is undoubted as they have all been carefully selected by the vendor from herds and breeders down the cqast. In Jerseys fanciers will have a great selection, one particular entry being 12 pedigree two-year-old bulls on Recount of Mr. H. Lopper, and also six yearlingpedigree J.crsey bulls b.v the imported

One of the largest buyers of pigs in Canterbury predicts that in six weeks' time bacon will be so scarce that ordinary people will not be able to pay the price for it. | Marriage, says a writer in the "Out- ' look," has a fatal effect on music. For some occult reason, as soon as a girl is j piano—the grave of so money and. time—retires out of active life, and, swathed in "art draperies," burdened by vases, cabinet photographs, and imitation "curios," serves less as a musical instrument than a warning. Music as it is taught is not bo much a flne art as a bad habit. The population of Berlin, in January, was declining at the rate of 300 per week, with practically the same ratio in England. The cessation of war does not decrease the death-rate immediately. For years after the Franco-Prussian war the death-rate increased. It takes nearly 20 years after a great war for the death-rate to be restored to the normal average. How widespread and deeply rooted is the smuggling evil on Holland's frontiers despite the sharpest repressive measures, may be judged from the fact that in the southern provinces of Limburg and North Brabant alone 11,000 persons have been banished from the regions declared in (i state of siege. Moreover, on June 30 the prisons there Avert all full, while thousands of smuggling cases were awaiting trial, Up to the end of June 2,259,000 Iron Crosses had been bestowed, including 49,000 "first class" and 2,500,500 "second class." For war services at home 5105 were given. For every 500 Iron Crosses awarded on the field one was awarded for home service. In the field one cross was handed out at the base for every 125 granted at the front. But the statistics do not state —what the number 'shows—that Iron Crosses have rained down at the rate of over 2000 a day since the war began. ."We do most emphatically protest against the use of concrete headstones on the graves of our fallen heroes, as being altogether too mean and perishable for the tombs of men who have given their lives for their country. Furthermore we know from experience that concrete headstones will not stand the severe frost of Europe. If we are to perpetuate the memory of these brave men, granite is the only material we can use."—Text of a motion passed by, the Auckland Stonemasons' union.

The use of cylinders in duck shooting was condemned by the Council of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society at last mecTmg. One speaker said the practice was to put the cylinders in. convenient positions in lakes and streams about two months before the shooting season commenced. The ducks became quite used to the presence of the cylinder.?, and when the shooting season opened all that was necessary was for the cylinders to be baled dut, The "sportsmen" were thus able to get inside and so be below the level of the mud or water. The ducks swam and flew up to the cylinders quite fearlessly, and were ruthlessly slaughtered, which was considered to be unsportsmanlike While in France in July last the Queen and the Prince of Wales visited the battlefield of Crecy, which is situated in the department of the Somme, abjUl; 14 miles north of Abbeville. Here, we are told, the iPrince stood on the e,.'act ,gpot, as tradition gives it, where the Black Prince stood nearly 600 years ago on the famous day when he assumed the now familiar Prince of Wales's feathered crest and motto,, which had belonged to the slain King John of Bohemia. The battlefield of Crecy, according to the Times' correspondent, is precisely as it was then, the roads and wood and landmarks being unaltered, and the hill is there from which, beside the windmill, King Edward stood and saw his victory. Physicians and surgeons available for private practice in Germany are so comparatively few in number and so overworked, besides being subjected to numerous other physical hardships, that they have applied for the extra rations granted to men engaged in so-called "heavy" and "heaviest" work—i.e, arduous forms of munitions. A writer in the Berlin Medical Society's official organ says that a physician in Germany nowadays either has to walk enormous distances, drive his own motor-car, or ride a bicycle. It is not uncommon to make journeys totalling 50 or 75 miles a day. All doctors are feeling the strain of tiiese unusual exertions, and regard themselves entitled to bigger food allowances.

Commencing to-night (prices of admission to the Empire Theatre will be sixpence to all parts. There is a splendid double programme to-night, Gladys Hujette in a Gold Booster comedy drama, ''Pots and Pans 'Peggy," and Irene Fenwick in a Metro wonderplay, "The Child of Destiny." On Monday the popular Enid 'Bennett will he featured in the latest Triangle success,

The heroine of "The Foolish Virgin" Iras too modest to be an artist's model for his Madonna painting, hut She was willing to trust her youthful purity to a man she had 'known only one week. Sad for her was to,he the disillusionment of her marriage, and tragic the consequence of her hasty rushing into the great compact of life. Clara Kimball Young stars in the powerful Selznick feature which is showing at Everybody's to-day und to-night. No stone is being left unturned by those responsible to ensure the success of the patriotic concert which is to be held in the Warea Hall on Mou.lay evening. Residonts of the district are fissured of ft musical treat, for- the proj gramme is to be supplied by well-known New Plymouth performers, among whom may be mentioned Misses Bennett (2), Cocker, White, Mrs. Hooker, Messrs McAlpine, Okey and Dunstan. At a clearing sale held on Thursday at Tuna (Midhirst) by Mr. Newton King, on account of Mr, H. W. Hancock an average of £l9 2s was obtained for the herd. This, it is believed, constitutes a record for Taranaki.

A portion of Brougham street will be barricaded to-night to permit the Citizens' Band giving their recital in connection with the "Big 'Push" in comfort. The bandsmen are asked to assemble at 7.30 in plain clothes.

Boys' clothing is priced so reniarknfbly low at the Melbourne's reduction sale that it would handsomely pay heads of families to 'buy ahead for Christmas requirements. It is a recognised fact that clothing of all sorts is going to bo very much dearer so that solid reductions during the firm's sale should be largely availed of. Mr. A. De Bavay, the eminent analy> tical chemist of Melbourne, testified at the Supreme Court of Victoria that SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT compares with other eucalyptus products like well-refined and matured brandy compares with' raw spitlft. By insisting on the GENTSINE- -SAWDER EXTRACT' ytftCTift- £&t-tue advantagd