LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Mr. H. J. H. Okey, M.P.. has received word from the Hon. W. H. Herrics Minister nf Railways, stating that if possible lie will visit New Plymouth during March. " A Wellington press telegram states that for the first time in six years tho police presented a clean sheet at the Magistrate's Court yesterdav mornin" The directors of the Tarnnaki Farmers' Meat Company, Ltd., extend a cordial invitatin to show visitors to inspect the company's works at Smart road. In tho Magistrate Court at New Plymouth yesterday an order was made Under a judgment summons on the application of W. P. Nieoll and Co. (Mr. T T. Anderson) against George Bennett Korito, farmer, for payment of the amount of the judgment debt and cost (£ll 10s 4d) forthwith, in default 12 days' imprisonment, the warrant to bo suspended so long as the debtor paid the sum of £1 per month.
10-mght will be the last appearance of George Walsji in the popular picture success "The Island of Desire." a story of rapid-fire action with many sensational developments. Another popular favorite will star on the new bill tomorrow in the person of Robert Warwick, who features in the powerful World film "The Man Who Forgot." At tho present time there are quite a number of returned soldiers in the New Plymouth Hospital who are quite welt enough to be taken out for drives, and it has been suggested that if a few owners of motor cars were willing to place their ears at the disposal of the authoriies, on say certain days in the month, a time table could be arranged, so that each owner would be called upon only occasionally. With this fend in view the medical superintendent would be pleased to receive the names of all vho are willing to help, and the davs that their -ears would be available for this purpose. He would then arrange a suitable timetable as outlined above. Although only a week has elapsed since the preliminary meeting, the committees in charge of arrangements for the motor gymkhana in Pukekura Park on March 7 are gratified with the encouragement they are receiving. The proceeds are to be devoted entirely for tho Park grounds, which alwavs have been a delight to our visitors and a decided asset to the town. The programme to be submitted is of a decidedly novel character, and quite different from previous efforts. One of the chief events will be the slow driving competition—both for motor cars and motor cycles. Promises of decorated cars are also coming in freely, but the committee wish to urge upon those able and willing to enter decorated cars for the procession, to notify them as early as possible. When at the show farmers should make a point of inspecting the fine display o? ir'achinery exhibited by Messrs J. Young and Co.. of Taupo Quay, Wanganui. A special feature is tho Dynol kerosene engine, whose simplicity of design and construction makes for low cost of upkeep, dependability and long life.. It has no carburettor, no sparking plug, no batteries, no magneto, no pre-hcatina and no wires and will burn any cheap oil. They arc also exhibiting a double ridgor, turnip and mangold, two-row horse hoe and turnip thinner, among other machinery. DON'T RISK INFECTION.
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"I would like to go to llic front, because it. would be a holiday to me compared with what ] have been doing lately," remarked a fanner appellant before the Military" Service Board at Hamilton.
It was reported to the Thames Chamber ol Commerce at the last meeting tl at the value of butter-fat from Hmiraki Plains for the .season 11)10-17 was £72,:j!JU, as agahu=t ;Cii?.,o(j3 for tlie previous season, A considerable increase was expected this season About fiili) 1 - cows are now being milked on the Plains.
A well-known figure passed away on the Solway showgrounds last week, when the Anzac pig that had been so instrumental in raising- patriotic funds, decided to leave this world of trouble). '"Anzac" had been decorated by his patriotic sponsor with the objfect of again being offered in tlie ram fair ring for tlie purpose of raising funds for the .Soldiers' Club but death intervened. Last year '•Anzac" realised over £2OOO in the ram fair ring for the patriotic funds.
American manufacture is famous for speedy construction. In one automobile factory, .Professor Trueblood, in an address at I'alinerston North, said it was stated that the body of the car was placed in an endless track, and as it came along slowly between lines of men each put a part on until the car was complete. The last man poured in the petrol and drove the machine to the chop. "That's bow the thing is done,'' said the Professor, amidst loud laughter.
Complaints having been made, of delay in connection with the payment of soldiers who have returned from abroad, the Minister of Defence received a report from the Claims Board on the subject. The report states: "After inquiry the Board is convinced that on the whole the arrangements of the War Expenses Department in the matter of soldiers' pay are satisfactory. The Board continues to find readiness mi the part of the ollicer in charge of the Department to rectify any irregularities brought under notice."
Wreckage has been picked up on Waihi beach, including a mast supposed to bave belonged to the launch Pearl, used by tlio (lerman escapees from Motuihi. The mast is fitted with a hinge, and it had broken off at this point. A piece of timber presumably belonging to the scow Moa was also found on the beach.
The practice of departing soldiers giving away badges, chevrons, etc., to their ludy friends was referred to at the Defence ■ Expenditure! Commission at Palmorslon North, when the chairman suggested that possibly the high price of these was fixed by the authorities so'as to discourage the practice. A witness who was giving evidence said lie had hail his badges Kii.ce he went away to il:e front., anil would not. give them a'.vny to anybody. There was a general laugh when it was suggested that perhaps the reason was that ho was married.
A narrow escape from a serious accident was witnessed at the, .Post Office rrihvay crossing at Palmorston North as the Napier express was entering the Square. A man named Howard, who was riding a motor cycle towards the crossing, evidently did not see the. train until too late, and in order to avoid a collision steered his machine along the side of the line between the Square reserves. The cowcatcher of the engine then struck the back of the cycle, throwing it eloar of the line on to the grass. The train was promptly pulled up and it was found that Howard was practically uninjured, although the cycle was somewhat severely damaged, t
In speaking of the fallmg-oIT in the output of dairy produce in the Auckland Province during the current season, Mr. Kobert Burns, president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, stated at the annual meeting that it could be attributed to several causes. One of the main eauscs, he, said, had been the uncertainty regarding the calling up of the Second Division. A great number of Second Division men in the country, who did not know what their position was going to be, we're afraid to go on with the dairying industry, as the consequence, if they were taken away from their work, would bo serious financial!}. They, therefore, sold up their herds. The weather had also not been so favorable from n dairying point of view as last season.
A sfory told by the Hon. G. W. Russell at the gathering of early settlers the other day concerned an owner of a brewery who was a Sunday-school teacher and a parson. "An election was being held in the church for the appointment of a committee in connection with the British and Foreign Bible Society. The brewer, who was a faithful church-work-er, was nominated, but someone objected to him, as he manufactured intoxicating liquor. "Well," said the parson, "if you bar a man who manufactures beer, I suppose yon will bar a man who drinks it. At that rate, you will have to do without my services on the committee." Both the brewer and the parson, said Mr. Russell, were elected as members of tlie committee without further ado.
The story of a "waster,'' a man who. went to the war and then came back only to be looked upon as a "sponge" and shunned, was told by Sergeant M'lvenzie. of the Victorian branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League, at a meeting of the Sailors' and Soldiers' Fathers' Association in Melbourne. He related (says the Age) how, wearied of the "waster's' importunities, some of the returned men on the stall' of the State War Council turned up the man's record to see what he had done. "Pozieres," they read, "B undergoing SKI days' field punishment. Stretcher bearers all shot down. A call for volunteers!" Then came the brief, but telling account of how B stepped into the breach, and for 70 hours staggered in and out of tho firing lino bearing the wounded to sflfety, "And that is the man," said Sergeant M'Kenzie, "whom we are now calling a 'waster'!" He pleaded for a more generous spirit in regard to the returned men who occasionally fell from grace. "Who eould tell what their record might be? There were plenty of people ready to call out, "waster," but up to the present time there had not been many hands *put out to help such men along,'
Farmers who are coming to live near town and requiring a home should inspect the properties advertised by Mr. R. A. Large, on the front page of tUis issue.
It was proved at the Supreme Court of Victoria, at Melbourne, that (1) SANDER'S EXTRACT is much more powerfully healing and antiseptic than ordinary eucalyptus preparations; (2) SANDER'S EXTRACT does not depress the heart like the so-called "extracts" and crude oils; (3) SANDER'S EXTRACT is highly commended by many authorities as a safe, reliable anil effective household remedy. Get the genuine— insist if you have to—and be
Under the will- of William J). Sutherland, of .Kgaipu.Station, Eimikuru, Mmtinborough, shuepfarmer, who wag killed in the fighting at Bellvue Spur in October last a .sum of £!)(I0 was bequeathed to such fund or funds for the relief of wonnd<'rt soldiers as the trustees of the will should think fit. The trustees), Messrs \). .Sutherland and Alexander Dunn, have now decided to allocai" the money to the Y.IJ.C.A., the Rod Cross. and tlio Salvation Army in equal shared. The Dunedin Star in an editorial tribute to the late Dr. Bedford, says: "Others there are in the community who may equal lnm in intellectual richness, in mental erudition, in legal lore, in worldly wisdom ;"but we shall }ook in vain for one like Dr. Bedford, 1 "who hart tiie lucidity that could translate abstruse problems into fhe speech of common men-, and the high moral passion which in flic end of the day wins the war and is the justification of everything." At a representative meeting at-Piltama on Friday evening the enemy alien qucstio was discussed and on the motion of Messrs It. W. J. McNeill and S. Camp hell it was unanimously resolved: "Thai this meeting of residents of Pihamn and district, heartily approve of enforcement of the legislation as\laid down by President Wilson for the internment of all enemy property #nd we#ould urge upon the liovernment'of Ne\v Zealand th« urgent need for more •stringent regulations regarding the same,"
Herewini Wakafua, of Waitotara, son of iwiora Wakarua, was killed on the French front about a month ago. When Herewini decided to go to the front he ami hits father' talked tho matter over, and the latter said that as, in the ordinary course of events, ho had fower years to live than the son, and as the son had just completed a very good education it would be better for Iwiora to go. This proposal, however, was not acceptable to the son, who persuaded the father to let him go, the father promising that if the son were killed he would go to take his place. True to his word Iwiora left for camp on Friday, where lie is now in training to take his place in the Great Fight.—Star.
Another of the few remaining New Zealanders who took part in the fWit at Eureka Stockade lias just died—Mr. James Wilburd, a resident of Bathurst* for over half a century. He had attained the great age of ,87 years. He arrived in Australia when 10 years of age, and was amongst the men who took part in tho riots at Ballarat in December, 1854, which culminated in the attack'on tho Eureka Stockade, where a number of men were killed. Mr. Wilburd was wounded in the melee, and always retamed, the old Winchester riflo he used on that occasion. An old gentleman still lives at Arch Hill who arrived at the stockade the mining after the fight, and saw the bodies of the miners laid "out prior to burial.
Writing under date London, December 4 the London correspondent of the Otago Daily limes says: Barely a fortnight ago since there occurred outside an En"lish port a calamity which is not the lust of the kind during this year. lam safe in relating the broad incident, shorn of detail. A big refrigerated boat, bearing frozen meat of a value midway between £250,000 and £500,000, hail ar. rived at one port, but, with her meat all undischarged was ordered out of port (o unload the precious food cargo at another port not far distant. Of course a U-boat was waiting .outside the first port, and seven hours after she had loft the first port under a terribly inadequate convoy she had two torpedoes in her, one on either side, and another valuable'food consignment was lost to the nation. This i<, not the first, nor the second, nor the third ghastly mistake which has ended similarly from, I believe, the same port, and how in the name fo all that is intelligent such colossal blunders can be repeated passes my comprehension.
After being a recluse in an Anglican community for 23 years, Miss Pemberton (in American lady, has been received into the Catholic Church. She first came under the influence of the late Father Maturm when he was in Philapelphia. Coming to England, she entered the All Saints' sisterhood, an Anglican community, at St. Margaret street, London, making her profession in 1885. Sent out to the branch of the sisterhood in BaltU more, U.S.A., she was recalled on ao. count of her religious doubts, and was sent to Cowley, Oxford, which is under the direction of the Cowlev Fathers. Still unsettled she desired to live the life of o recluse, and did so fpr five years in a convent, separated from the rest of the community. This was in 1894. Five years later she took a life-vow of enclosure. Early this year she corresponded witb a former sister of this Anglican community—-since a convert, and now the Mother Superior of a convent in Sussex— N and ultimately was received into the Catholic Church on the eve of All Saints' Day.
The extraordinary efficiency of the Lewis gun, which has come into such great "so in the operations of the Allies in France, is demonstrated by a story told by Captain Carmichael, M.C., of the Australian Imperial Forces, who is nt present in Auckland. On one occasion he was with one of his gunners in an advanced post of the Australian lines, which were about seventy yards separated from Fritz's pill-boxes. In the early hours of the morning, when there was .t heavv fog, the gunner was standin? alongside his quick-firer, ever on thft alert,, but for the moment put out of action by the darkness and fog. He was talking to Captain Carmichael when there came a sudden lift in the fog, and at the same moment the moon shone-out, showing up a mass of Germans going into the the trenches, probably to relieve those already holding the line. The targe? was a splendid one, but what counted most was the amazing swiftness with which the Lewis gunner got to work. Tn a fraction of. a second he had seen the Target and was pouring in a stream of lead. Other gunners picked up the. target almost immediately after, and the result was shown in the morning, when under cover of a Red Cross flag, the Germans came out to pick up their dead and wounded, and continued to pick them up until noon that day. Later Captain Carmichael recommended the Lewis gunner for the Military Medal, which was duly awarded,' and shortly afterwards the clever marksman gained a bar to his decoration. Incidentally, Captain Car-' mtehael .said that it took at least six months to make a soldier efficient in the use of the Lewis gun. PURCHASE VERSUS LOANS. "Please Mrs. Jones, would you lend Mother some more of that lovely tea that we borrowod yesterday, and please tell us the name of it?" Mrs. J.: "Certainly, dear. It's Arcadia, and she can get it from any family grocer."
If your throat is sore and irrita take NAZOL; it will give you relief.
A well-known citizen of Wollingtot recently lost one of his sleeve-links am) offered £1 reward for its recovery. Tlu missing link was found by a lady whe duly delivered it to the owner and received the promised reward. Being ol n generous turn of mind she sent the unexpected wealth to the Y.MC.A. as u donation towards Ued Triangle Day
The motor ''scooter" has come to Wellington. This is un advanced editior of the ordinary push scooter with a little motor in front, two pneumatic wheels, set close to tho ground, one behind the other. There is a vertiea 1 standard control with two handles, and two rubber-carpeted steps for the driver who stands erect.
Mr Holland wound up one his speeches at Wellington with an appeal for equality ; of sacrifice, and declared that the Government were now preparing to send the boys of nineteen to the front. "We will want all of them," interrupted one of the audience. "Yes," retorted Mr. Holland, "you grown-up men would shelter yourselves behind Immature youths. Why don't you go to the front yourself?" The audience applauded, and the interrupter subsided.
Count von Luckner, who is now imprisoned on Itipa Island in Lyttelton Harbor, lists decided to write a book giving his experiences since setting forth on his memorable voyage in the Seeadler. Tho Count, by the way, is said by those who know him to be of very powerful physique. So strong are hid hands in fact that it is possible for him to bend a copper coin by pressing it between his thumb and forefinger.
The first application in New Zealand for the cancellation of a publican's license under the War Regulations was made in Queenstown last week, when Inspector Foully, of Invercargill, applied before the Whakatipu Licensing Committee for the cancellation of the publican's license held by ,Tamea Christie knowles, of Glenorery Hotel, the Southland Times reports. Accused had been three times convicted for breaehea of the Licensing Act. After hearing the defence by Mr. L. Turton, the commitfee retired. On again taking their Beats the chairman (Mr G. Craickßhank, S.M.) intimated that the license was cancelled, the cancellation to take place on 9th March.
A New Zealand private soldier recently arrived at an Australian town in a transport, en route for the front, and as he had left a wife and children behind he was naturally anxious to send a letter to them. Unfortunately for him, no shore leave was granted, but with a couple of mates, he determined to step ashore and past his letters. ySnatching a favorable moment the trio evaded the guard and got ashore and after posting their letters and having a look around, came on board but were unlucky enough to be "spotted," A court martial was the result and the private was the first to be tried and pleaded guilty, explaining the circtun.stances of the case. Before being sentenced he claimed the right to defend hi* comrades which the court had no option but to grant. So brilliant wa* the defence put up that the men were acquitted and afterwards the Court deeided to acquit the pleadtr. It then transpired that he was one of the ablest of the Dominion's lawyers worth someHh:ng in the neighborhood of £OO,OOO. And he was a private.
Unusual feats of horsemanship are shown in "The Pendleton Round-up, 1016," to be introduced at the Empire tomorrow. The taming of and the riding of untamed steeds is highly exciting. A further attraction at the theatre is "The Lifted Veil," in which dramatic masterpiece Ethel Barrymore enhances her reputation.
Women s Christian Temperance Union holds its monthly meeting next Friday afternoon, at 2.30, in the Lodea ft™™ Good-Templar Hall.-Advt.
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