LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tile body of the little girl Marianne Joyce Hemingway, drowned in the Patea river on Thursday last, was recovered at a spot three and a half miles above where the accident occurred.

The New Plymouth Borough Council decided last evening to authorise the reforming and tar-sealing of Avenue road to a width of fourteen feet, and Tukapo road to a width of nine feet. The council is to be congratulated upon its decision. Avenue road carries more traflic than any other road into the town, and its condition for some years has been exceedingly bad and dangerous. The following advertisement appears in the llawera Star. It is addressed to Mr. R. W. <T McNeill, chairman of the Piliama (Patriotic Committee and reads: "\Ve, the undersigned, hereby request you to call a public meeting at Piliama to endorse the action of President Wilson in passing legislation to seize the property of enemy aliens, and thus prevent them courting trade with, Oermany." Mr. McNeill is calling a public meeting to discuss the matter.

The manager of the borough abattoirs (Mr. T. J. Reakes) reports that for the month of January there were slaughtered for local consumption 15C eows, 4 bull-, ocks, 524 sheep, 122 lambs, 33 calves and 102 pigs. Compared with the corresponding period of last year the figures show an increase of 1 cow, 22 calves and 44 sheep, and a decrease of 23 pigs. The lambs slaughtered were the same in both months. Two cows, two sheep and one pig were condemned as unfit for human consumption.

Referring to the resolution passed at the meeting of the Labor Council on Friday night, in which exception was taken to the attitude of Adjutant Rowlands, of the Salvation Army, in seconding a vote of thanks to the Rev. Howard Elliott for his recent address ill New Plymouth, the secretary of the Labor Council (Mr. F. J. Lyons) states that Adjutant, Rowlands lias pointed out to him that he was present at Mr. Elliott's meeting as a private citizen, and not an the representative of the Salvation Army. A mob of 78,000 people acted for the new William Fox photoplay, "A Modern Cinderella." They received no pay for their rare acting and yelling, but they paid dearly to appear in the same film with the incomparable June Caprice. This howling scene was taken at the Yale-Harvard football game in the Yale ;Bowl, It appears as a "fade-in" to show the picture of a football battle June imagines when gazing at the photo of her "Tom" in the togs of his team.

An accident of a somewhat serious nature occurred at the East End bathing reserve on Sunday. Mr. J. W. Taylor, blacksmith, of Warea, who was at one time a resident of New Plymouth, was diving from the springboard into the river; instead of going off the end of the board into deep water, Taylor jumped in near the bank of the river, where the water is comparatively shallow, with tha result that lie struck his head and was seriously injured. Other bathers saw that Mr. Taylor was in difficulties, and went to his assistance. He was removed to the public hospital, where it was found he was suffering from injuries to the spine, which had resulted in paralysis of both arms and legs. Mr. Taylor is about 48 years of age.

At last night's meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council, some discussion centred round a recommendation of the reserves committee that notice boards be erected on the railway reserve at Moturoa, previously used as a native burying ground, to the effect that no further burials will be allowed there. Councillors generally agreed that burials in that locality should be discontinued; the question chiefly concerning them was whether the council or the Government should take the responsibility of intervening in the matter. Cr. Browne said the ground was the burying place for the Ngata Whiti tribe, and when a member of the tribe died, he or she was brought there for burial, no matter where the death took place. Eventually it was decided to ask the Railway Department to undertake the erection of the proposed notices.

In her report to the board of governor.! of the High Schools, Miss Barr, principal of the Girls' High School, slated: "I have pleasure in reporting very satisfactory successes in the examinations held in December last, the results of the matriculation and junior national scholarship examinations being particularly gratifying, Of the fourteen girls presented for matriculation, only one failed, ten received complete passes, and three partial passes. Of the six girls presented for the junior national scholarships four received scholarships, Winnie Downs being second for the Dominion." Mr. W. H. Moyes, principal of the Boys' High School, reported that one boy had gained a Taranaki scholarship; 12 passed matriculation; five gained partial passes, and eight 'failed. Three boys won senior national scholarships, and one a junior national. One boy passed the examination for entrance to the Royal Military College of Duntroon. For the whole of New Zealand 1711 candidates sat for matricula- I tion and Oil passed.

Messrs. Webster Bros, will submit to auction to-morrow the whole of the household furniture and effects on account of Mrs. A. R. Benbow, Vogeltown. A free conveyance will leave Webster Bros.' mart to-morrow at 1 o'clock. The sale commences at 1.30 p.m.

Mr T. H. Bates, architect, is preparing plans for a large fire-proof, modern building in the centre of New Plymouth, and advertises that he is prepared to deal with professional and business men for offices and shop*

The total rainfall in Wellington during the 24 hours ended on Saturday morning was 4-11 inches, one of the highest falls on record during the past sixty year::.

A remarkable accident happened to till' steamer Loangana at_ Melbourne the other day- A spare engine shaft weighing two tonß was being discharged from the vessel when the hooks of the derrick broke, and the shaft fell down the hold and crashed through the bottom of (.lie ship.

Beginning with the early spring, it is announced (says the New York l'p.biic) that; the Gulf and Atlantic shipyards will launch a wooden ship a day. The output of ship timbers bv Southern pine mills is now more than 1,000.000 feet a day. It is hoped to double Hint output so that shipyards c<m operate on twenty-four hour schedules.

The generosity and neighborliness of upper Mangorei farmers were evidenced by a kind act recently. Mrs. Worn, who is carrying ou the farm while her husband is on the Empire's business in France, had the misfortune to lose through fire her season's hay crop. 'Recognising her seriouß loss, Mr. Manning King generously donated hay, and now, thanks to the work of other neighbors in carting, there is on the farm as big a stack as the one destroyed. A New Zealand officer, writing to friends in Palmerston, says the Hun knows he cannot heat the English, and it is the growing hordes of British gordiers that are frightening him. "Now we arc taking over more and more of tlie French front," says the oflicer, "and the, Hun knows what that means, and what we mean. Consequently he lias concentrated against Italy in "the hope of a spectacular success, and possibly a successful blow at Italy. But the war is going to be won in France."

In his report to the New Plymouth Borough Council last night, the Borough Inspector (llr R. Day) referred to the by-law relating to bathing on the beaches. He said the public did not appear to be fully aware of the by-law requiring neck to knee costume while bathing on the beaches. Although the majority of bathers observe the decencies there are athers who step over the line. The Inspector stated he intends to prosecute the first offender after this warning.

Scattered over the Waikato, Piako, Te Aroha, Ohinemuri, and Thames districts there are some 200 Slavs from the Austrian area adjacent, to the Adriatic coast. These are mostly young men from twenty-five years downwards, and they aro engaged principally on the drainage of swamps, farm labor, and gum-digging. Mr. J. Cullen, head of the Jugoslav Organisation Office, who Ims returned to Auckland from the districts indicated, has been in personal touch with these Slav inhabitants, and ascertained the direction i n which each man can be most advantageously employed in the event of the Government deciding to call upon the Dalmatians to under" take work for the State.

Leslie George Martin, who, with another boy ot' about the same age, appeared in the Juvenile Court last week on two charges of theft, and for'which he received a birching, was brought before Mr. A. Crcoko, S.M., again yesterday on another charge of stealing. It appears that the youthful offender took a small sum of money from a perambulator which a little «irl had left outside a shop in Devon Street west. Tho perambulator, in which there was an infant, was only left for a few seconds, and it seems'that the boy watched his chance and acted very promptly. The punishment meted out,' to him for his previous offence evidently made very little impression on the boy, for his latest exploit took place the "day after he received the birching. The Magistrate committed the culprit to the Boys' Training Farm at Nelson.

In liis report to the New Plymouth Borough Council, presented ait last, night's meeting, the engineer stated that the attendance at the swimming pool for the month of January, were 3208 (1735 ladies and 1473 men). The figures for the corresponding month of last year were 2110 ladies and 227G men. The number of hot baths supplied was.77, compared with 179 for the previous January. The receipts totalled £27 7s Bd, compared with £39 3s Bd. A record of the number of hot baths supplied has been kept up till now, not a separate record of men and ladies. Permission was granted, (as last year) for a ladies' life-saving class to be held on two evenings a week after 7 p.m. This is necessary, because the morning hour is too early.

The kiwi lays the largest egg of New Zealand's living birds. Sometimes the egg is five indies and a-half long. The eggs of the North Island 'kiwi, tlie Southern 'kiwi, and the little grey kiwi of the West Coast and Nelson districts are white, 'but the large grey kiwi or roaroa, Apteryx Haasti, lays an egg with a delicate greenish tint. The smallest New Zealand egg that of the rifleman wren; it is three-fifths of an inch long, and is laid in a. neat, compact, comfortable nest in a hollow tree. Although godwits are in New Zealand in the spring, summer, and autumn in the tens of thousands, there is no authentic record of them having laid an egg in the country. The same may be said of the sandpiper and the knot. It is stated that another shore-bird migrant, the red-necked sandpiper, sometimes lays its eggs and rears its in New Zealand, but I do not know ol the presence of this egg in any New Jse». land collection. Most of our shags lay white eggs, but the piped shag, "which is the common coast shag of the North Mind, lays a pale-blue egg; and the black shag, which is almost a cosmopolitan, lays a pale-blue egg. Our owls like owls all the world over, lay white eggs almost spherical in shape. It j s believed that this is the primitive shnpo of eggs and that the pear shape came in later stages of development,. The most beautiful New Zealand egg is that of the fern-bird. Tt is described in rapturous terms by Mr. H. Guthrie-Smith, of Hawke s Bay. Ho says that it is "heyond imagination lovely, most elegant I in shape, of n diaphanous pink spotted with dots of brown, innumerable as stars m clear darkness, freckles on a fair beauty s face, the shell too exquisite for rude, human touch; treasure fit only to lie in a fairy princess's palm." How the "Apostle's" covetous designs were frustrated by the girl, how she killed him just as he was about to capture her, and the result thereof, qaake "A Mormon Maid," now showing at the Eippire Theatre, a photo-drama you will never forget.

Melbourne Ltd., pure wool and fast .<lyo hosiery is famous throughout the Dominion. These prices are uninatcliable. Ladies' plain cashmere hose 2/3; ribbed cashmere hose 2/11; llama finish hose 3/0; lisle thread hose, with cashjmere feet and tops 2/11; yellow label llama hose 4/6 per pair; men's pure wool cashmere aoeks 2/3 par pair.

A writer in one o£ the city newspapers has 'been compiling figures showing the large sum of money that has been put through tlii! totalisator during the past two months, and his total amounts to £1,214,048.

Ergot lias made its appesrance again in the Masterton district, and is causing mortality among both sheep and en ale (says the Daily Times). The fungoid growth is very prevalent on cocksfoot grass this season.

The contributor of "A Reporter's Dinrv" in Collier's, writes: "The Maoris were our next entertainers. The Maoris are colore'd gentlemen from Xew Zealand., They were being taught how to capture a trench. Before tihey left their own dug-out they sang a battle hymn that would make an American daneq and scare n German to death. They went through their manoeuvres with an incredible amount of pep, and acted as if they could hardly wait to get into real action against the Boche. Personally I would have -conscientious objections to fighting a Maori." A Bohemian reservist, a descendant of one of the original Puhoi settlers, caused somo amusement at the sitting of the First Military Service Board at Auckland on Thursday. He said lie was a single man, 30 years of age, and "was too young to get married-" He could write only his own name, and was unable to speak English jiroperlv. His brother was "too fat to milk cows." In adjourning the case sine die, the chairman (Mr. F. J. Burgess, S M.) told appellant to "go home, settle down, and get married," and appellant murmured as lie left the box, "I will when I get home."

Jt is common knowledge (says the Melbourne Age) that ever since the beginning of the war goods consigned to neutral countries have ultimately found their way into the liands of the eueniv. ;In fact, numerous instances of the kind have been traced, and the tightening of the British blockade was the result. The disconcerting discovery lias now been made that many of the cargoes which have left Australia, particularly for the East, have been filtering through to Germany, and in consequence of this leakage the Commonwealth Government is now considering the whole question of the exportation of shipments which leave these shores. It is probable that an important decision will be arrived at shortly.

An official preiiminarv estimate of tlie 1!)17 whe4t crop in Frame shows a remarkable' reduction in the yield per acr<; as compa'.vi with the average. The total yield is put at only 18,000,000 quarters, and iv the area sown amounted to 10,392,600 acres, this indicates 13.8 bushels to th;* a»e, against an aver ay: y.eld of r.bout 20 i'.uslio!*«. On the assumption tliat I'ie estimate be approximately coriect, France will require to import foreign wheat on a larger scale than ever bofore- The norma I pre-war consumption ■vas forty-four million quarters, but owing to the extraction of flour from wheat having been raised to Sfi per cent., and to tlie compulsory admixture of other grain, the consumption b officially estimated at thirtyseven million quarters. That would leave n deficit of nineteen million quarters.

The following ladies have kindly provided afternoon tea at tho Soldiers' Club during November, December, and January: Mesdames Lister, Gilbert, Jenkinson, Jury, Hughes, R. Gray, R. Bartley, A. Bartley, J. Austin, J. A. Hwing, J. White, Nolan, Simcock, Bradbury, H. H. Street, Foote, Young, Eberlet, A. lv. Smart, Waugh, Misses Oxenham, Jury, Sole, Healy, Street, Capel, Purdue, Hartnell, Bennett (2), Arden, Warren, Hammond, Godfrey, Wilkinson. The guests numbered 031. The management committee wish to thank tliese ladies, also Mrs. F. G. Evans, for Christmas donation of £i 4s, Red Post weekly subscription, Central School Standard 11., Miss Bennett's counter box, and a few friends -who help regularly to support the club. A musical afternoon arranged by Mrs. Wood was very much swroreciated. F

A case presenting some remarkable features came before the Supreme Court at Dunedin on Tuesday (says the Otago ■Daily Times). Last month a man named David Henry Hill presented a monjyorder for 7s 6d fit the post office ill Oamaru, and the clerk, who was not accustomed to the work, made a singular mis take of handing to Hill the sum of £7 6s, instead of 7s <id. Hill accepted the money and walked out, without acquainting the clerk with the mistake he had made. Mr. Justice Sim stated the law very clearly on the matter, pointing out that if a man receives ft sum of money which lie must, know was paid to him in mistake, and which he knew he had no right to, ho was as: guilty of theft as if he had put his hand over the couuter and taken the money. When charged with the offence, the accused pleaded guilty, and after hearing the facts his Honor released him on probation ■ for 12 months, on condition that ho refunded the money and paid the costs of the prosecution.

The word Bolsheviki in Russian means "those who want more." It is synonymous with the Latinised term "Maximalists," and is applied to the extremist international Socialists—those who denied the principle of nationality. "Bolsheviki" is the plural. To mt the "Bolsheviki Government" would "be similar to saying the "German Government" without the possessive indicated. The proper term is ''the Bolsheviki Government," the word Bolsheviki being applied to the members of the party in the plural sense. The Bolsheviki riuik next to the Anarchists. After the Maximalists are the "Minimalists, 1 ' also, international Socialists, but less radical than the Bolsheviki. Then follow the Social Revolutionists, the Social Dcmo«rats, the Labor Party, and Peasants, all comprised within the Russian proletariat. Coming to the so-called bourgeois classes, the Constitutional Democrats are nearest to the Workmen's and Peasant parties, and it is in them largely that the hope of revolutionary Russia iies, as they embody the elements of Russia Lest fitted to assure permanency to the democratisation of the country.

In response to a number of requests the management of Everybody's will, to-night screen the Chaplin comedy "The Shopwalker." This was Charlie Chaplin's first comedy under the "Mutual" contract and is an absolute riot of laughter.

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