LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Farmers' Co-op. Organisation expect to open at Waverley shortly. A start is to hj« made at building the vards on Monday As the patriotic rooms were closed when the men belonging to CI draft left for camp their hold-alls have now been forwarded to Tauherenikau. The appointment of Mr. J. Wjlmslmrst on the Douglas School Committee, in place of Mr. J. Main, was confirmed at yesterday's meeting of the Taranaki Education Board. An application was received by the Education Board, at its ieeting yesterday, for a child under the age of fourteen years to leave school. It was decided to point out to the applicant that the board had no power to grant such permission. The Patea Press sayj: Rumor has it ihat the local Chamber oi Commerce will shortly consider a project which, if it materialises, will make Patea in tha near future a town equal to PaJjueraton North.

One young Nelson lady lias a prolific correspondence at Hie seat of war, says the "Nelson Colonist. The postman on Wednesday last delivered a huge package of no less limn Ufty-tw 0 letters at her residence. Surely this must be a record. Sergeant Davidson, of the permanent sta/1 at Featherston Camp, was charged at the Magistrate's Court on Monday with exposing indecent pictures to a little girl 111 a street of Masterton on Sunday afternoon. Accused was remanded till Friday, bail being refused. A serious accident recently occurred at Mr. W. G. Stead's residence, Flaxniere, Hustings, Whilst engaged in pumping up the tyre of n motor-car with a patent pump, William MaJhalm, of Christchurch, chauffeur for Airs. 0. G. Stead, sustained severe injuries through the sudden explosion of the |«imp. His left eye was Mown out, his left arm fractured in two places, and one of the bones in his face fractured, while he also received several abrasions, A girl, aged 14 years, got into difficult ion while bathing off the OtakLTeach Inst Wednesday. Her cries for help brought several ladies to the scene, but as they were unable to swim they could make but little attempt to reach the girl A horseman tried, and although the water was not deep, failed to be of service. The child, in the meantime, was making frantic efforts to reach the beach, and although exhausted, she finally succeeded. She was immediately taken into Otaki, where s'hc recovered. The Goeben and the. Breslau represented the German Navy in the Mediterranean at the outbreak of the war, and, successfully evading capture, reached the Dardanelles. Later they were "sold'' to Turkey. The vessejs have taken part in various small engagements, and have several times been' reported to have been damaged or allowed to become so much out of repair as to be worthless in battle. S*hc German 'battle-cruis-er Goeben, a vessel of 28 knots and 22,-ti-tO tons displacement, carries eight 11inch guns. She was built in 1912. Her Turkish name is Yawuz Selim. The Breslau, renamed Midillieh. was a vessel of 4500 tons built in 1911, and carried twelve 4.1-inch guns. Iler speed was 27 knots. The Red Cross Mart will be re-opened on Saturday, February 2. At no period of the war has the work of the Red Cross Society required more aid, and with the big struggle before our boys during the present year, the call for sustained effort on our part cannot go unheeded. On February 2 the mart will be in the charge of the nurses of New Plymouth. Last year a fine record was obtained, and this year it is hoped to improve upon it. The matron and staff therefore confidently appeal to all old patients to rally round them with saleable contributions, such as poultry, eggs, cheese, jam, pickles, bottled fruit, hanm, vegetables, fruit, cakes, home-made bread, etc. A nurse will be at the mart on Friday, February 1, to receive contributions from 2 to 5 p.m., and from 7 to 8 p.m. There will be no raffles or guessing competitions.

The following extract froln the New York-Tribune forms an interesting commentary on the views of those critics who see Germany victorious in all her operations:—"As between the British and the Germans no one should mistake tile advantage that rests with the former. i The' British have taken five prisoners to I'he Germans' one, and five guns to the Germans' one. They have occupied more than a million square miles of German colonial territory, whereas the Germans have not reached a foot of British territory. They have banished the German flag from the sea. They have blockaded the German ports. They have destroyed the bases of German ' trade. By every sign and token that one can adduce, the -British have triumphed over the Germans so far as the war has been a struggle between these two nations. Were the war to end to-day, on the basis of things as they are, so far as the British and Germans are concerned, no one could fail to concede the extent of the British victory." The following is from the Wairoa Bell: "A remarkable scene occurred at Hoanga on Tuesday, shortly after noon, when a number of people assembled on the Hoanga wharf to see Mr. Forbes-Eadie, who has gone into tfrentham Camp, off to the war. There appear to 'be rival factions at Hoanga, or at least there were on the wiharf. One gentleman addressed a remark to Mr. E.idie which did not please that gentleman, and with that long reach of his, and his great swinging fist, he landed his interrogator a fearful smack on the eye, and felled him. Other assailants followed, and were floored in turn. One particular friend of Mr. Eadic, seeing that wrath was arising in him, could stand it no longer, and full of mortal terror, he fled for his very life, as if tlhe 'eavens were falling. To see this lightning streak was the one piece of humor about the whole business for the spectators. JTr. Kadio gave the assembly a good tongue-thrashing, and enjoined upon all Hoanga to put their house in order against the day he should return from doing the King's business. Yes, Hoanga will miss Mr. Eadio, who is a man of very forceful character."

The endurance of a brnve woman, and mother of a large family, was sorely tried wilien slip appeared before the First Auckland Military Service Board to ask for the release of her son Frances E. Downey from the CI Camp, at Featherston, in order that the family might live in moderate comfort during these expensive times (says the Auckland Star). Even with that little relief the Board was in a position to afford the appellant, the case seems to present an element of hardship. Mrs. Downey, who lives at Matakohe, explained tlliat she desired her son at home because he would have to foe her main support. Since her son went to camp in. October her husband had met with an accident which totally incapacitated him. Previously the family had depended upon her husband and the son, but &he had been compelled now to ask for her son back again. She had ten children. The ages of six of them ranged from two to thirteen years, and four were older. One son (16) was in the Post Office as a cadet at Wellington, one had returned from the war and could do only light work, owing to an injury to his knee, the subject of the appeal was at eamp, and the tenth was a daughter who earned lier keep. The ap ; pelknt wept, pitifully while under a. lengthy cross-examination as to her evidently poor means and as to the remote .ways in which they might be increased. The Board very carefully weighed the matter, and. uoon completing its consideration. deeded to gTant the request of tho mother. Ask distinctly ' for SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, or else you I niav receive one of the man v substitutes. The GENUINE SANDER hXTRACI cures colds, fevers, indigestion; prevents infectious diseases and heals ulcers, poisoned wounds, skin diseases, burns, sprains, etc. It is much more powerfully antiseptic than the [common eucalyptus and does not depress irritate like fcbe latter.

■ In connection with the carpenters arid joiners' deputation to the Minister of Labor last session, Mr. Jennings, M.P., has received the following reply: ''The Secretary of Labor tilings it desirable that the Arbitration Act be amended at an early date, to enable unions to make provisions in the rules for benefits, as a number of unions have already had provisions in force for years, under the impression that they were voted. The best course for members, pending the amendment of the Act, would be to form themselves into friendly societies for benefit purposes only, and apply to the Registrar of Friendly Societies for registration. A horse which broke away while being detached from one of May and Arrowsmith's delivery carts at the rear of their premises, just before one o'clock yesterday, caused some excitement in Carrie and Powderliam streets. The horse galloped out of Currie lane, and at the corner ,of Currie and Powderliam streets two,or three bystanders made attempts to capture the escapee, but without successi. The horde's progress was somewhat impeded every few paces by his treading upon a chain which was dangling from the harness he was carrying, The truant equine turned up Roba street, with the evident intention of going to an old grazing paddock. "One proof that our forces in France are to be a self-contained unit," says an American exchange, "is that new rolling stock is now being made for 'over tuere. After the United States declared war it was decided to equip a whole railway system in France for the transportation of American troops and supplies to the front, and a special type of locomotive was designed and finished in SO days. These engines are now bein« turned out at tilie rate of 20 per day! A special freight car, with three times the capacity of the ordinary French car, wa s also designed, and these also are being turned out in enormous quantities When complete, the system will contain 080 locomotives and 9000 freight and other cars, which is more than the number employed on the whole of t'he New Zealand railways. At yesterday's meeting of the Taranaki Education Board, 'an objection was received from a certain school committee against the appointment of any lady to the position of head teacher, on the ground that past experience made it essential that a male teacher should be appointed. Mr. Trimble moved and Mr. Dixon seconded, and it was unanimously resolved, to inform the committee that the board could see no reason for departing from its previous decision when making the appointment to which objection was taken. In the discussion which followed two members of the board said they had been approached, by members of the committee on the subject, and they had replied that the board was doing its best under abnormal conditions to fill all appointments, and that they considered the one in question a very suitable appointment. Another member -said ■he thought committees should recognise better than they did the difficulties of the present conditions. He said committees who secured teachers at all, just now, could almost be considered fortunate. A picture tihat is certain to attract l>ig crowds is the Metro feature. "Peggy Will o' the Wisp" in which Mabel Taliaferro stars at The Empire to-night. Tho story as unloided in the picture shows how a warm-hearted lassie, Peggy Desmond, followed the example of the famous Irish bandit, Rory O'More, who robbed from tho rioh to give to tli.j noor and how as the mysterious "Wilt o' the Wisp" she lield up wayfarers and tlimi rode away like the wind to give her spoil to the needy poor. The story further shows how Peggy her sweetiieart to capture and unmask the bold highwayman, and also how she, by her bravery and cleverness, saved her' sweetheart from the shadow of death. ~