LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 May 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

j In A Gazette published yesterday a I number of Maoris have been called up I for service with the Expeditionary ; Forces. The only Taranaki Native is Toheroa Piko, laborer, of Mokau. | Luckner, Kircheiss, and their servant were removed from Bipa Island on Thursday night, and sent north by the ferry steamer to be interned at Motuihi—Press Association. A ladies' Red Cross matdi was played o n the New Plymouth golf links at Wai ivakaiho on Thursday afternoon. The result was as follows:—Miss Blundell. 110-21-80.: Miss Read, 115-21-94;' Mrs, Johns, 108-10-98; Miss Thomson, 123-24. 99.

The secretary of the Dominion Winter Show at Hawera (Mr. L. 0. Hooker) states that the entries for butter and cheese in the dairy produce section this year constitute a record. This must be considered extremely gratifying in view of the difficulties factory managers have labored under during the past season owing to scarcity of expert laborAn Anny Order published >in this week's Gazette includes among the usual appointments, promotions, and transfers, an announcement that "the undermentioned nurses having married their names are as stated." The list includes four •sisters, seven staff nurses, and one masseuse. Another paragraph provides the information that seven of these nurses have been "struck off the strength of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and posted to the retired list." A publication of unusual interest to growers of sweet peas has just been issued and should be welcomed by experts and amateurs It is entitled the Australian Sweet Pea Annual, and .it i 3 most instructive. The volume contains some 108 pages, and gives the history of the sweet pea from 1099 to the present time. This serves as an introduction to the reader, who may then glean a mass of useful information from the experiences of well-known horticulist? throughout Australia. The publication appears to contain all instruction that is essential for the successful cultivation of sweet peas, a hobbj- that is most popular with gardeners in all parts of Taranaki. Wo are indebted to Mr. A. S. Brooker. of the t 'B.K'!,.Book Shop, New Plymouth, for a review coirv, and understand orders may be left with him. THE POISONING OF THIRTY GIRLS in a Melbourne factory by eucalyptus lollies which were evidently made from the common eucalyptus "brings home forcibly the importance of using only the GENUINE SANDER EUCALYPTI EXTRACT internally. SANDER'S EXTRACT sniffed up the nose and three drops on sugar, is a sure and safe protection from meningitis and t other infections. Applied to ulcers, poisoned wounds, sprains, chilblains, eczema SANDER'S EXTRACT brings quick reFor Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6, 2/6

Mr William Smith, ihe well-known Wairio coal mine owner, is at present in "Wellington with a patent explosive fur the destruction of enemy ships and troops. He will probably leave for England to lay his invention before the British authorities. A collector 011 (he Mosman (Sydney) boat who was taking part in her first charity appeal had such Avinning ways that an elderly man offered ly>r a pound note for a kiss. She blushed adorably and refused, because, she said all her kisses were being saved for a soldier in France.

Word conies from Chicago that capitalists of that city are arranging to seed 50,000 acres of Canadian land to wheat, the entire track to be broken up and planted within ten days by the use of huge farm tractors. Sounds like Chicago! , The lure of the earnings to be secured by trapping rabbits is said to be enticing men in different parts of Otago from their employment in essential industries. Among those who are said to be forsaking work of national importance to become rabbit trappers during the winter are men of military age exempted from service because, of the employment in which tiiey are engaged. "No one spy shall know where the next link takes from," is the motto of the widespread world-spy organisation which is entrusted with the details of the huge plot to destroy the United Stales, in the Greater Vitagraph feature, "The Billion's Plot," starring Anita Stewart, showing to-day at Everybody's. Next week will bo Soldiers' 'Parcel pack at the patriotic rooms. Gifts of condensed milk, jam, meat, paste, cube sugar, sweets, brown paper, string, socks, etc., will be much appreciated to help with this work for our soldiers on active service, who are doing so much for us, liven a few peppermints packed in a cigarette tin, has brought a grateful letter of thanks, and was pronounced "best of all." According to German ideas oversea Eritish troops should not be fighting in Europe. A few Australian soldiers who were captured in France recently, were addressed as follows by a German colonel: —'You come here looking for trouble. You'll get it. You'll get no food until the other prisoners aro fed." The threat was carried out. They were compelled to work seven days a week; were bullied and struck; were half clad and half fed, and barely housed and bedded. One of the soldiers (Private Freeman) was struck with a sentry's rifle and killed.

In a letter to his wife in Masterton a New Zealand soldier says: "You may have heard or read about th'e pill-boxes used by the enemy. They are concrete houses built to accommodate 20 or more men, and the walls, etc., are about six to eight inches thick. There are hundreds of them about, and more were used by the enemy as machine-gun strongholds. It cost thousands of lives to take these places, yet they are built from cement supplied by England to Holland, thence to Germany. Thousands of cement casks are lying about near them (the pill-boxes) with the names of the manufacturers still on them. Someone has a lot to answer for in this blunder."

Strong remarks concerning returned soldiers and drink were made by Mr S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., at Wellington on Monday morning. Two men, Arthur Bosward and Alfred Stinson Flack, appeared before him, the formrl charged with a long list of offences—drunkenness, damaging constable's helmet, assaulting the constable, resisting the constable, and using obscene language, and the latter resisting the constable in the execution of his duty, and inciting Bosward to resist. The charges were the outcome of an attempt to arrest Bosward outside the Duke of Edinburgh hotel on Saturday last, when he was drunk. Bosward resisted, and a large crowd collected, including soldiers and returned soldiers. It was stated that the crowd, mainly soldiers, were inciting Bosward to resist, and Mr M'Carthy, in dealing with the charge, said he was not justified in saying that all returned soTdiers were given to drink, but a good many of them were given to roaming about the streets in a more or lesß drunken condition, and they seemed to be of the opinion that because they had ■been soldiers and learnt discipline, and. been away at the front, they were free of all law and could do pretty well what they liked. Returned soldiers, whatever services they might have rendered to their country, had to remember that when they came back here they must obey the law. The Court could not overlook a thing of this sort. The foundations would drop put of society if this sort were allowed to occur in the principal cities without the authorities taking some steps to stop it. Bosward was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and the other defendant, a youth of nineteen, was remanded.

The final showing of Metro's feature drama with Emily Stevens, takes place to-night at the Empire. . A splendid matinee programme has been arranged for this afternoon for patrons of this popular house. The Melbourne, Ltd., are advertising an excellent line of pure wool indigo serge, 58 inches wide, at 16s 6d yard. The serge is fine make and splendid weight, eminently suitable for ladies' costumes, skirts, men's and boys' suits and knickers. The line is an exceptional bargain and cannot possibly be repeated later on.

The ladies of Hillsborough who will have charge of the Red Cross Mart today have succeeded in gathering a very fine assortment of foods for disposal. Amongst the special lines that will be on sale there will he some fine quality mutton, lamib, chicken, pork, poultry, geese, ham, sausages, and possibly some turkey and pheasant. The Mart will he opened for business at 9 am,, and purchase are asked to have all their parcels removed hy four o'olock this afternoon. A HANDY REMEDY FOR INDIGESTION AND DYSPEPSIA. For a long time it has been recognised that bisurated magnesia forms the best of all remedies for indigestion, dyspepsia, heartburn, flatulence, and other forms of digestive and stomach trouble, many remarkable cases having been reported by those who have made a practice of taking half a teaspoonful of this simple antacid in a little water after meals. Only one difficulty stood in the way of the universal adoption of this method of treatment, and that was, in the original powder form bisurated magnesia was not adapted for use by those who were compelled to take meals away from home. But even this slight difficulty has at last been overcome, and the genuine bisurated magnesia,is now available in the form of small compressed tablets, put up in handy pocket flasks, and obtainable of high-class chemists everywhere.