LOCAL AND GENERAL.
We acknowledge receipt of the sum of £2 3s, being the proceeds of the Pukeho (Tarata) children's fancy dress ball, towards the Y.M.C.A. funds.
A good crop of stone fruit is promised in the New Plymouth district this year. Thanks to a fine spell a week or two back, the fruit has set well, and unless frosts occur there will be abundant fruit.
A resident of Avenue road yesterday counted between the hours of 5 and 7.30 a.m., no fewer than 348 cars going south, presumably to inland picnics, the gathering at Waverley perhaps attracting some.
In the opinion of an Auckland business man, the livest towns in the North Island to-day are Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth and Hamilton, in that order. For building construction, New Plymouth, he said, held its own with any town in the Dominion.
Some of the canvassers for the Red Cross on Saturday had diverting experiences. One lady relates that at not a few houses she heard the mother, sotto voce, direct the children to say that "mother is not at home to-day." Another collector visited fifteen houses and secured three pennies. At the next, however, she received a surprise. It was a humble building, and a very old lady emerged, exclaiming: "I'm so glad to see you. I've been expecting you to call. I've got these to give you," and she produced two'half-crowns. "There, now," she said, "you've got what I've saved. I have a boy at the front, and I know the Red Cross does a lot of good." Which repaid the crestfallen collector for all the rebuffs she experienced in the course of the day. Mesdamos H'. Baily, Matthews, and C. Gray, who took charge of the mart on Saturday, for the Red Cross Society, wish to thank the soldiers' wives, mothers, sisters and sweethearts who assisted them at the mart and stalls, also the children of the schools who collected eggs, and Miss Taylor, of the Technical College, and her classes, for making Bweets. In connection with the art union of the decorated cake the gratifying amount realised was largely due to the assistance of Mesdames Hill, Smillie and Connett, the Misses Warren and Hammard, and the firm of Young and Logie, and it is desired to thank them as well as Miss Tunbridge for making the cake, and Mrs. Alexander for icing and decorating it. The drawing of th» art union was performed bv Mrs. J. W. Wilson, in the presence of the police. Thanks are also due for the donations of produce and fancy articles, which are too numerous to be acknowledged individually.
It was proved at the Supreme Court of Victoria, at- Melbourne, tliat (1) SANDER'S EXTRACT is much more powerfully healing and antiseptic than ordinarv eucalvptus preparations; (2) SANDER'S EXTRACT does not depress the heart like the so-called "extracts" and crude oils; (3) SANDER'S EXTRACT 'i* highly commended by many authorities as a safe, reliable and effective household remedy. Get the genuine—insist if you have to—and be
A word to the wives is sufficient. Serve Hay ward's MILITARY PIOKLE and the success of your dinner is assur■«l. All store*
The directors of the Bell Block Company donated a box of butter to the patriotic mart on .Saturday. It has been definitely decided by the (.'ovi'iiiiiicnt to set up n Commission to enquire into the question of Defence expenditure. The. Prime Minster (Riaht Hun. W. F. Massey) says' the personnel of the Commission had not yet been decided upon. A donation of £IOO was recently made by the Auckland Teachers' In. stitute for the purchase of wool to be made into clothes for soldiers. The wool was distributed among 33 city and suburban schools, and in three months the children have 1 made (100 pairs of socks, 200 mittens, and a large number of scarves and balaclava caps. An interesting ornithological phenomfenon has been noticed in the Nelson district. Several years ago there were large numbers of blackbirds in the district, Init very few thrushes, then for. a number of years blackbirds became scarcer and thrushes more plentiful. Now the position is again reversed, blackbirds once more regaining the supremacy of numbers. Iron-ore and kaolin are said to abound in the district round Wyndham. in Southland. A sample of kaolin has been submitted to an expert if chemistry, who is visiting Invercargill. When pure, this substance makesk the finest chinaware. Iron-ware appear! abundant in the Mokoreta district. | There is plenty of outcrop at different places. Samples of the ore have been analysed, and yielded a percentage of 80 to 00, The Dunedin master drapers have decided to close their shops daily between the hours of one and two o'clock for lunch, and on Fridays between six and seven o'clock for tea. This course has been adopted as a "war measure," being rendered necessary by the shortage of male assistants. The object is to carry on with as small a staff as possible in the meantime. With a view to reducing deliveries they also decided to ask customers to carry their own parcels where possible.
The annual report of the Wellington Electric Tramways and Lighting Department shows that tramwuy receipts last year totalled £207,946, compared with £197,904 in the previous year. Working expenses were £145,385, against £118,817; capital charges, £43,601, against £41.927; net surplus, £lB,960, against £27,120. Expenditure on now works last year was £4.1,571. The total capital expenditure to March 31 was: On tramways, £752 455; power suppjy, ;EW{j2l; lighting, £12.182, Receipts from power supply last year totalled £15,440. compared with £12,703 in tlie previous year, and net surplus was £172!), against £1306. Passengers carried by trams during the year show a dfiilv average of 55.235. Thus considerably more than the total population of the city is moved every day. Difficulty in obtaining materials hampers construction of rolling stock to meat the demands "of traffic.
"It is of course against, the rules to take away stock found," writes an Auckland officer on the Sinai Tfront. "One day our regiment rounded up a nice little mob of sheep, which were divided around the squadrons, and in most cases promptly cut up and placed out of sight. One sheep was tied up at the headquarters cookhouse for the colonel's mess, when an assistant provost marshal began complaining to the colonel about our regiment confiscating sheep, and the colonel was biißy explaining that his boys would not. think of doing such a thing, when the animal under the coat bleated and wriggled, and the coat fell off and the sheep had a game with himself by gambolling round on his tether only a few feet from the assistant provost marshal. There was a row, of course, but that did not matter. We had the mutton."
In view of the development of cerebrospinal meningitis cases, strict precautions are being taken in the Reinforcements Camps against' the spread of the disease. At Featherston, thp whole of the Reinforcement in which the fatal c.s.m. case occurred on Sunday was'reinoculated against c.s.m., and put through the inhalation chambers. In addition, swabs were taken of the throats of the entire Reinforcement, and two doubtful carriers were found. The contacts were sent into isolation, and disinfecting steps were taken in regard to the institutions. There being only two admissions to hospital for influenza at Featherston, the trouble there is regarded as having practically ceased. At Trentham on Sunday similar precautions were taken. The man who succumbed arrived on October 2nd from Featherston Camp, where he had been for a month. > Mr. Ben Fuller and his brother John are exercising their energies in many directions. There is scarcely a branch of the theatrical business that they have not exploited. At present, for instance, there is a Grand Opera Company headed by Cappelli singing under their direction, ft sensational London submarine play in "Seven Days' Leave" playing for them, stock melodramatic companies both in Melbourne and New Zealand, two huge pantomimes about to astonish and delight—The Bunyip in New Zealand and Robinson Crusoe in Sydney. Seven revue companies are playing under their management, and innumerable vaudeville artists imported from the world's biggest music halls and circuses. In addition, they have several musical comedies in the box waiting for a suitable opportunity for production, and contracts signed and sealed with the world's greatest magican. The atmosphere of ancient days, as seen in "Intolerance," to be seen here at Everybody's Theatre, on the 25th and 26th instants, inspired a wonderful study in research work. Fifty people were engaged in that alone. Reading up the history and collecting facts, Mr. Griffith used to go over personally each one's narrative, and read it for himself, go that every detail would be reproduced in its historic accuracy. Griffith was also the first man to Use what is called the "close up and fade out" effect in motion pictures. He was also the first, to make use of the switchback. Griffith is credited with a genius and a soul, and one can easily believe it. He is a writer and a dreamer, and it takes that to make a picture. They call him the iron man in America. An actor himself, he directs all his principals, and has a way of getting the best out of them. In somo of his Babylonian scenes the walls were so high, and the area so vast that Griffith had to use a stationary balloon to direct the vast organisation. But lie made "Intolerance" the greatest picture in the world.
Next Saturday the patriotic mart wift be in the charge of the Victoria League, and all members, past and present, are asked to help to make the day a success by contributing cakes, pastry, produce, flowers, pot plants., etc. .
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