LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The shooting season will this year open on May Ist and close on July 31st.

Further donations to the Mayor's Bush Fire Relief Fund have been received as> fellows:— Modern Tailors, Ltd., and staff, .£3 12s, Mr. F. Oliver 7s, F. J. Webb (Purangi £1 Ib.

A vessel is arriving at New Plymouth t.'iis week with 1500 tons of coal, part of which Was consigned to the Railway Department and the balance to dealers and local business firms. Advice has now been received that the Railway Departlr.tnt has commandeered the lot. At a meeting of the Kawaroa-Park committee on Friday last it was stated that the receipts in connection with the Easter .Monday picnic totalled x.502 16s. After meeting all expenses there was a balance in hand of £226 3s lOd. The chairman thanked all who had assisted to make the day so successful.

Mr J. Stevens, of Palmerston North, who Ms just returned from a visit to Raetihi, states that' although numerous individual losses in the recent fires were severe, the general destruction is not so great as was at first anticipated. The insurance assessor has already completed 93 claims, totalling £20,000, and the work of restoration lias been carried on with all expedition.

At the Mart on Saturday the accountants, land and insurance agents realised £530. The committees who carried out the work were as follows: General counter, Mrs. anH Miss ill, Pepperell; cakes, Mesdames E. P. Webster, S. W. Shaw, W. C, Weston and V. Duff. M\ss K. Leatham; flowers. Mesdames Orbell, \V. S Rennell, Messenger and Bain, Misses 0. Maekay, D. and 0. Baily; vego tab.'es, Mesdames Gibson and Monteath; Mart and daiijy produce, Mrs. Baily, Messrs Jr. Pepperell, E. P. Wcoster and If. Baily. Donations will be acknowledged later.

Three lads of 10, 11, and 14 years escaped from Glending Home, Anderson's Bay, about a week ago, and the police pursuit, guided by a series of acts of wanton damage and petty pilfering, culminated in their capturu at Ravenbourne. Two of the lads were caught in the bush, but the third led Constable Mackenzie down to the water about Ravenbourne and after making a bluff of turning at bay, plunged into the water. The constable caught him when he had reached deep water and was gping down.

No w that women in England may vote they demand the right to serve on juried. At least that is the ambition of the Good Citizenship League of Flushing. "A woman can fool a man, but she cannot fool a woman," said Mrs Norman Nelson of Flushing, who has been advocating a law to permit women to perform jury service. She believes that many juries have been unduly influenced by a woman lawyer or a woman witness. "Pretty clothes and winning ways may melt the hearts of a jury of men, but we women understand one another's wiles too well to be fooled by that sort of thing."

Whilst driving at Muriwai (near Gisborne) a constable saw a big, healthylooking man on horseback going towards the back country. He accosted the man and asked him to produce his certificate of registration. The reservist, as he was ultimately discovered to be, gave an assumed name, but could not produce any proof of it, and finally admitted his correct name. He was drawn in the ballot at Invercargill over twelve months ago, and had since been taking up farming pursuits in the back country. Thle constable brought the reservist into town, and he was detained at the police station, where an examination of his clothing revealed over £9O in money, besides a pocket book in which he had plans of the road to back stations. He was dispatched to camp by steamer.

The fine weather of yesterday afternoon and the recital by the Citizens' Band attracted a large crowd of people to Pukekura Park. Included in the programme submitted were the items "Garland of Flowers" (Boyer) and "Vital Spark" (Harwood)), "Roll of Honor" (Hawkins), and "Let me like a Soldier Fall" (Wallace), which the band played out of respect to the memory of their late comrade, bandsman Mason, news of whose death in action was received last week. Other items given were, selection "William Tell" (Rossini), Gound's "There is a green hill," for euphonium solo, which was played by Corporal McDonald; "Jogging Along" (Jubb), "The Lord's Prayer" (McLeod), and "The Battle of Eureka (Bulch). The band played well, and the programme was much appreciated. The collection taken at he gaets for the band funds amounted to about £l6.

"The Cure," the latest Mutual-Chaplin, is 2000 feet of the essence of this extraordinary personality's fastest fun-mak-ing. His nerves wrecked through dissipation, he goes to a sanatorium to get cured. He takes with liim his trunk, which is a woefully popular article very promptly in the "Home," It is packed with bottles of every comforting brand, and their discovery is one of the finest screams ever perpetrated, Charlie's efforts to wrap himself round a glass or two of the nasty health-waters are well worth watching, and his .adventures in the Turkish bath chambers are a series of laugh-getters. This ia genuinely the best of Chaplin's productions to date. "The Cure" commences a three-night season at the Empire to-night. To enable the kiddies to see this picture tho management are running a special matinee to-morrow afternoon at 3.15, when children will be admitted for threepence.

The competition for the patchwork quilt, made by Mrs. F. Baily, of Omata, was drawn at the patriotic rooms on Saturday morning, and was won by M. Jolnston. Mrs: Baily is 78 years of age and the quilt was madb of 2423 pieces, all sewn together by hand. The quilt realised £9, which will be sent to the Y M.C.A., to provide tea, coffee, and cocoa, for men at the front.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile draw attention to their Stratford sal« on Tuesday, April 10, at 12 noon sharp. Full particulars will be found on page 8 of this issue.

The Railway Department is inviting applications for the position of porters, al»o for casual handa-