LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

No butter, no margerine, no cheese, no bacon, but no matter! No grumbling. -A Farringdon Street shop notice (London). The percentage of fit men of Class B men at Wauganui on Monday who passed was 40.7, thus, leaving 59 3 per cent who failed to pass the test,. Mrs Burgess wishes to thank the teachers and children of Courtney street school for their donation amounting to £1 7s, to bo devoted to the Blind Soldiers' Fund. "We are going to put our foot down on pleasure work, and make it a condition that essential work must be done " said Mr. H. W- Bishop, S.M., chairman of the, Second Canterbury Military Service Board, when the case of a 'motor engineer was being reviewed. "To much pleasure-driving is going on." An extremely heartless hoax was perpetrated at Auckland on Sunday. Two ladies in different parts of the city received telephone messages, alleged to be from Dr. Maguiro at the hospital, stating that a serious accident had occurrred and requesting the ladies to proceed without delay. Inquiry at the hospital revealed that the messages were bogus, and the mater was ommediately reported to the police by the hospital authorities. A case of garrotting is reported from Hastings. It is stated that on Thursday evening a returned soldier was hustled by several .roughs, and egged into a row in such a manner as to make him appear to be the aggressor. He was then brutally beaten and kicked and robbed after which his assailant made off. It is understood that, one of the gang was recognised, and more will likely be heard of the matter. Ethel Barrymore gains many admirers by her portrayal of the unhappy wife in the Metro wonderplay "Life's Whirlpool," now showing at the Empire. It is a -powerful story ably acted by a strong east, and produced up to the usual unapproachable "Metro" standard. The ninth episode of "Peg o' the Ring" is also showing on the same programme. , For Chronic Chest Complanits, Woods' Great Pepjj«nnint Cure, 1/6, 2/6

1 A Melbourne message slates Hint the price of butler in Victoria has been increased to l-t9s per cwt. Imports of motor vehicles into Xevv Zealand during the past three mouths total 1171, or K> per day, including Sundays, according to the Trade Review. These would occupy nearly 10,000 tons of the freight space which is so scare, and the selling value here would run into over ,000,000. In the report of tiie Hawera Court proceedings which appeared in Wednesday's issue, th« Vivifie Medicine Cowas represented as having .pleaded guilty to selling a medicine not true to label. The charge was not that the medicine was not true to label but that the label did not indicate the percentage of alcohol contained in the bottle, as required under the Sale of Foods and Drugs Act, 1!)0S. During the hearing it was pointed out that since the omission had been brought under the notice of the proprietor every bottle sent out had h een properly labelledA woman writer in an English paper says: Those who are inclined to look upon flic pacifist propaganda indulgently should read, mark, learn and inwardly digest the figures relating to the number of men, women and children who have been done to death by German U-boats or hostile aircraft since the war began. In round figures they come up to 14,120. These, be it remembered, are non-combatant people, who under the Hague Convention should enjoy immunity from attack.

A whale fifteen feet long was captured Macandrew's Bay, Dunedin, on Friday. Mr G. C. Smith noticed a dark fin moving through the water and he quickly rowed out in a dinghy and succeeded in tying a rope round one of the flukes of the whale and towing it ashore. It made a strong bid for freedom, but was held fast with an ordinary anchor. Later Mr Smith towed the mammal up to the Dunedin wharves, where it was hoisted ashore by means of the Harbour Board's crane. It was then dispatched to Burnside to be boiled down.

In an article in Hie American Magazine a writer says:—"There are two tilings the soldiers always carry with them: photographs of the liome folks.' The pictures, often with a small Testament, are always in the breast pocket, over the heart. I think they sometimes are put there as a charm to ward off bullets. Anyway, that's where they always arc. And the look in a man's face when lie shows you the picture of his mother, his wife, his children, and you say—as you always do—that they are very beautiful, will bring tears to your own eyes. And those packages of letters. They carry them around for months and road them over and over until the creases are so worn the sheets will hardly hold together." By the last mail front Sydney, Auckland merchants received notification of an advance in the cost of a certain brand of cigars. One firm that had enquired regarding an order not fully filled received the following letter: "We beg to refer to our letter of the 25th May, 1910, in reference to your order. We beg to state that our principals write that they must either cancel the balance of your order in accordance with the terms of our letter, or charge you an increase of 100 per cent on 'pre-war rates." To this extra cost has to be added the duty of 12s per lb on these cigars, which means that what we formerly retailed at 2s 3d for 25 will now co'st 4s lid.

The friends of the late Captain Buehler will be interested in the following passage from a letter just received from him. "I went out with 25. men to bring in a party of Huns who had surrendered. As soon as we were nenr enough, however, the Huns fired on us, and I pot one bullet through, the pants and another in my right brea3t pocket. My pocket books turned the bullet. I went out later myself to look for my colonel who I thought was wounded. I found him dead. I came on three Huns hiding in a shell hole, and these surrendering, I made them stretcher bearers. Machine-guns, however, were turned on us, and one prisoner was killed and another wounded, so I got back to the trenches with a. man and a-half. I send you my pocket book (i.e. what's left of it) and a small oak pannel from the ruins of Ypres Cathedral." The following is vouched for by a Wellington soldier just returned from the front. A soldier who was terrorstricken with the roar of guns and the sickening sight of slaughter, decided on drastic steps to bring about his removal from tho danger zone. He calmly removed one of his boots, and, pointing the muzzle of his gun at one foot, blew off two of his toes. He replaced his boot and reported as wounded. The army doctor who dealt with the case decided that there was only one solution to the problem of a mysterious.bullet that could blow off two toes and at the same time leave the 'boot covering the same miraculously intact. The imprudent young soldier found himself back in the trenches several months later, having served a sentence of six months' imprisonment in the interim. Owing to a (felay in transit, the Fox film, "A Small Town Girl," did not reach New Plymouth for screening at Everybody's last night. If safely to hand, this picture will be screened next Tuesday and Wednesday.

A fine selection of men's warm pyjania suits is on hand at the Melbourne, Ltd. Strong striped flannelette pyjamas Os l\i; Horrockses ideal cloth pyjamas in a variety of pleasing stripes Os (id and 10s Cd. All sixes. These are worth 3s Gd a suit more on to-day's price of the cloth.

Second Division Reservists are reminded of the general meeting of the Second Division League to be held in tfce Soldiers' Club this evening at 8 p.m.. when a full attendance of all interested ir requested

Those in want of a motor-cycle, whether solo or side-car combination, should -pmise the list of bargains advertised in this issue 1 by the Eltham Motor Cyel& Depot.

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