LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A public meeting at Patea last week adopted a proposal to raise a loan of £IOOO for 'the purpose of providing sivimming baths for the town. Mr. V. Pearce, M.P., has contributed £2O to. wards the cost.

The Y.M.C.A. is father and mother to your boy at the front. Everything the organisation can do is being done, and the extent of their help is only limited by their funds. Come to the help of the boys on Y.M.C.A. Day—March 10, Everyone must help—and to the utmost. Herr von Kuhlmann (German Foreign Minister) will, at an eariy date, marry Marie Anne, only daughter of the late Tlerr von Friedlander Fuld (known as Germany's "coal king"), and the divorced wife of the Hon. John Freeman-Mitford '(son of Lord Redesdale), to vhom she Was married Bhortlv before the outbreak of wax

| A Christchurch Press reporter was i" I, formed the other day on good authority tliat the coming session of Parliament, which wils provisionally arranged to open oil April i), will now eomnieuee on April 4.

A Hienihe, of the Napier Telegraph ,s)all' asked the ifon. T. M. Wilford what he thought of the latest suggestion that aeroplane postal services were coming in New Zealand, "Think of it?" replied Mr. W'ilford; "why it ia as certain as that day follows night. Take this," he continued, "us a tolerably good indication. For the past two years there has been n regular postal service by aircraft between Sicily and Italy. That .sort of thirg will eome here all right." "Tipping," or the making of presents to members of ships' crews by troops travelling 011 transports, nas been prohibited by the Defence authorities, slates ihe Melbourne Age. A special military order has been issued in regard to the matter. Soldiers are also forbidden to purchase food frmn any member of a transport's erexv, and it has been ; nggestcd that officers commanding troops should consider the advisability of declaring the vicinity of the cookhouse out of bounds, except when meals are being actually drawn.

Bosie Taylor, nine years of age, whose parents reside at Oeo, died in the. Tia. wera JTospit.nl on Monday, reports the Star, while recovering from the.-effects of ail anaesthetic. The little girl was admitted to the hospital oil Saturday suffering from appendicitis. Dr. Thompson commenced to operate at !1 o'clock, while Dr. Teh Tlewins administered the anaesthetic. After the operation it was notic. eil that the patient showed signs of collapse, and although the doctors did ali that human skill could do, she died at J 1.40 o'clock. The parents will have the sincere sympathy of the community in their bereavement.

A meeting of the New Plymouth Pierrots was held last night for the purpose of completing arrangements in connection with the visit to Tnglewood to-morrow to assist in the patriotic carnival there. Tt was resolved to accept the offer of the mis proprietor for conveyance flierc and back. Tt was deeded (o meet e.f Hooker's sample rooms at 11 a.m. and to leave for Inglewood at 12 noon promptly. It was stated that 2»> members had signified their intention of going. The request from Hawera for assistance was declined, and the action of the chairman and secretary in replying to a telegram asking for a visit, from the •Pierrots for Saturday next, stating that (hey could not undertake two en gagements so close together, was confirmed.

No more sweet or dainty actress appears on the screen than charming little Viola Dana, who stars at the Empire to-morrow and two following nights in the fine Metro play, "The Girl Without a Soul." a picture which shows how a girl with no talent except being sweet and wholesome can by some be considered to be soulless. The change will also include the big circus drama "Peg 0' The King" The further extension of denominational education bv the Methodist Church was foreshadowed by the Rev, W. A. Sinclair in his address at the opening session of the annual Methodist Conference (savs (lie Ota go Daily Times), when he said: "Methodism, which was born in a university, must ever care for the higher education of its young people. The need is urgent for the establishment of secondary schools on a distinctly religious basis under the control of the church. This question must be anproachcd afresh with a. view to somathink definite being done." There is perhaps no other city in the world so rich in architectural glories as Venice. One of the greatest, treasures of the "Queen of the Adriatic" was the Bridge of the Rialto, the most important of the three bridges spanning the Grand Canal. This bridge was built, in 1588-02, and is lined with numerous shops, and during the long period of ■Venice's magnificence was the foensing:front of her world-wide trade. It was .here that Antonio spat upon the Jewish gaberdine of Shylock. The Bridae of Sighs—rendered immortal as much •bv Byron's poetry as by the grace of its construction and its unique historical associations—was built in 1595-1605. It connects the Palace of the Doges with the publio prisons—henct its rather sinister name. The Palace itself, facing the Piazetta and the lagoon, was begun in Sl4. and has been five times destroyed bv fire and reconstructed 011 n more magnificent scale. Its magnificent court was begun in 1485. Among its world-famous features are the Scala dei Oiganti, a richly-ornamented flight of stairs, and the great council hall, in which the meetings of the nobili vere held.

Settlers who have* had the sad experience of seeing their cattle die as the result of eating tutu will no doubt be astonished to learn thiit the plant has a value, and that attempts have been made for many years to acclimatise it in Europe. Tutu, or to give the botanical name Coriaria lisafolia. is stated to grow onlv in Now Granada and New Zealand. sWp.SIW voars asro the Spanish Miss : on in the 'former place discovered the valno of tutu for the purpose of making an ever-lasting ink. It; is asserted that a cantain's log and mission documents which had been written with ink made out of tutu, still exist in Snain, and although over .150 years old the color remains as good as ever. What is even more strange, some documents recently recovered from a ship sunk mam' years ago could clearly be read as they were also written with tutu ink, which is jet black. Recently United States Consular reports contain the formulae fo> making ink from tutu berries. ' It is also stated that this ink has been used by the Government of Spain for official documents for over MO years, the ink being supplied from New Granada. This plant, which has been alteinpted to be destroyed on most, farms on account of tihe danger to cattle, in stated to have a large percentage of potash, and efforts were made by the Germans to acclimatise it in Europe for that reason, but ■without success. Gifts for the park afternoon tea may be left at the patriotic depot to-morrow. Wednesday, or at the grounds on Thursday morning. The Mayoress wishes to thank r Cock, who has donated a ham for Pukekura 'Park Day. The Technical College students, under Miss Taylor, will be in charge of a sweet stall on Park Day. and Chet.wode school is kindly -providing sweet " boxes and sweets. Mrs. P. Chaplin, late of King's Court Hotel, Ohakune, intimates that she baa taken over the Ngiunolu Tea Kiosk, which will be open for morning and afternoon teas from 9 a.m. till 7 p.m. A super six ear is at the disposal of those wishing to go or return home from the beach. I If your throat is sore and irritabl.; take NAZOL, It will give you relief.

M : !I< is now (id per quart in Taihape.

Alone lio did it! "Yon can't tell me anything about rearing a lamiiy," said the lion. (i. W. Russell to a deputation at Wellington on .Monday. "I have brought ill) a family of fourteen."

yuile a number of Australians have recently escaped from prison camps ,n Germany. In nearly every case their knowledge of buslicraft and sense of direction have been of great value, and in several instance-, they have displayed remarkable ingenuity and capac'ty to withstand the severest hardships.

It is evident that Sir inn Hamilton is of the fame opinion still that the evacuation of t':e Galtipoli Peninsula ,was a mistake. "Our invincible sailors and soldiers,"' he says, "sailed away, not Localise they lost a trench or a gun, not because of the Turk, nor yet because of the German. As to the reason—in war time no soldier is free to say what lie thinks; after a war no one cures what a soldier thinks."

the special Medical Board, comprising Lieut.-Col. Glinn, Captain Mercer, and Major Hlaekett, M.C., re-examined iij, Hawera 50 C2 reservists on Monday, says the Star; Of thk number li were classified A (lit), IS lit for CI camp, 23 <•'2 (home service), and three were deferred. There' vvili be a sitting of a district board in Hawera on March 13 and 14 to deal with the 15th ballot reservists and also voluntary recruits. ,

A Khandallah resident attempted, a few days ago, to board a moving troop train, slipped, and fell between the carriages and the platform. A porter who saw him disappear shouted to him to keep still and to keep his arms straight. The train was pulled up, anu the man assisted on to the platform. With the exception of a few scratches and a fairly severe shock, >lie was uninjured, although 10 or 12 carriages had passed by him.

A telegram from Fremantle to the Melbourne Herald on February 15 states: Jn the course of his last annual report to the chief Protector of Aborigines the manager of the Moora Bulla and Violet Valley aboriginal stations, stated that a new tribe recently visited Violet Valley. It had evidently travelled a long distance, and was unknown to the other tribes there vho referred to the visitors a? salt water biacks, thereby intimating that they had come from near the, coast. The natives wore no clothing whatever, not even the usual loin cloth and could not understand linglish.

Whether a polling booth wilt record one thousand votes on the election day or only a few does not concern the electoral authorities, their duty and aim being to see that provision is made in accordance with statutory requirements (says the Lyttelton Times). The cost lo the State of some of the votes recorded 'in the Southern Maori election must be a tolerable item. At Tahuahua, in .Wednesday's election, two natives exercised their suffrage. Taliuabua is an islet in Queen Charlotte Sound, and a motor launch had to be chartered from Picton to bring in the return. The duties of the deputy returning o.'licer and his associate at Slope Point, on the south-western coast-line, consisted in the record of one elector's preference, while if there are any electors in the vicinity of R-omoana they failed to put in an appearance, a blank being recorded at this booth.

Ladies' are again reminded of the immense savings to >be effected by shopping at the ■ Melbourne, Ltd.'a, great stocktaking sale. As the season advances prices of . all commodities will become higher so that housewives laying tip even a two years' supply will be aeting wisely.

Thcda Bara appears for the last time to-night at Everybody's in the Fox special feature "The Vixen,' a well constructed story of a woman's Braving for power and the methods she used to that end. Theda Bara is superb in the part of Elsie Drummond. There will be a complete change to-morrow, when the feature will be •'Sunlight's Last Raid," a Great Vitagraph production from the pfin of Cyrus Townsend Brady, which is sufficient guarantee for the excellence of the story.