LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 May 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The mail train on Saturday evening arrived late owing to delay at Inglewood due to a fatality at the station". No. 3 bore of the Taranaki (New Zealand) Oil Wells, Ltd., is reported to have been flowing for the last eight days, over a thousand gallons of oil having been barrelled up ready for despatching this week.

Considering the several big efforts that have recently been made by the Red Cross Society, through the Saturday mart, the amount taken on Saturday last, which totalled over £ls, was regarded as very satisfactory. The mart was in charge of the girl members of the committee.

A meeting of the Paritutu Troop of the Legion of Frontiersman was held in the Soldiers' Club on Saturday afternoon, Troop Leader G. Goldswortliv presiding over an attendance of about 30. Several new members were proposed and passed. Troop Leader Goldsworthv and Frontiersman T. Luxton were appointed delegates to attend si conference to be held at Wanganui next month. Arrangements were also made to receive Captain D'Esterrc, chief of the Frontiersmen in New Zealand, on his forthcoming visit here.

Passengers from the south by Saturday's mail train stated that there was a long delay in serving luncheon at the Marton railway station. The explanation was that the special train conveying tho southern soldiers who arrived at Auckland on Friday, had reached Marton at breakfast time, and 000 soldiers had been catered for. The refreshment-room staff had had a very strenuous time, having been working under pressure from six o'clock in the morning.

Tho final concerts of the first season of the New Plymouth Male Choir will be given on Thursday and Friday next in the Good Templar Hall. A good programme will be presented, including the choruses "The Voice of the Torrent" fPalliard) and Balfe's "Excelsior.'' Tho vocalists will be Mrs. C. McLaren and the Rev. N. H. Papakukura, while instrumental items will be given by Mr. Arnold O. Sturrock (piano) and Mr. F. W. G. McLeod (cornet). The box l plan is at Collier's. The principal items of tho programme will be given on each evening.

Little Maury Steuart, who played the part of Mary's son in Olga Petrova's latest film masterpiece, "Bridges Burned," is among the most famous of child actors in screen work. He has appeared in many Famous (Players productions with Mary Pickford. "Bridges Burned" opens to-inorrow night at Everybody's.

At the farm, Tikorangi, to-day Mr. Newton King will submit to auction, without reserve, a good herd of 55 young dairy cows, other stock, farm implements, «tc.

The revenue received by the New Plymouth public baths last month was £3 lis ad, last year for the same period it was £8 14s 2d.

The total returns from the tramways last month were ;Clil>B, the number of passengers carried being 12l,8(i(j. There were slaughtered for local consumption in New i'lymouth last month: (Jows 120, bullocks (!, calves 14, sheep 4ti:i, lambs 40, pigs 132, tripes cleaned 12!), 1 calves head and 2 sets of heeli. l''ees due for the month amounted to ,C 105 Is Id and other fees brought the total to an increase of ;C4S ISs i)d over the same period of last year. One of the crew of the Wairuna, Mr R. Donovan, of Auckland, has returned to New Zealand. He was chief cook on the vessel when it was captured by the raider Wolf, and was carried as a prisoner on the Wolf until the Spanish steamer, tile lgotz Mendi, was taken. He was transferred to this vessel, and i owes his liberty to being wrecked on l?.c coast of Denmark.

As regards the Government regulation requiring numbers to be affixed to the front of motor cars, the Inspector reports to the New Plymouth Borough Council: ''lt is pleasing to note that the public have responded unanimously and visitors inform me that in other towns the front numbers are only seen on a few cars while here it is rare to see a car without a number, and in those ca:-os the demand has exceeded the supply of numbers." In a divorce case heard by Mr Justice Cooper at Auckland, the father of the female defendant gave evidence in strong corroboration of the petitioner's story, and in proof of his daughter's misconduct. His Honour remarked upon the unusual situation, and asked whether the witness was aware of any fault on the part of tho petitioner. "No," was the answer, "he has been a most indulgent husband. In fact, he has been what I should call rather a fool."

"Onward New Zealand!" Contingents of the 10,000 men nobly offered to the Imperial Government received a gTeat send-off on their departure from Wellington to fight for King and Empire. This is pictured in "Tlie History of the War' showing to-night at The Empire. Twenty-four applications for electric supply was received by the New iPlymouth electrical department last month. The winter load at the station Is steadily increasing and the plant, says the engineer, is operating satisfactorily. Census figures show that nearly half of the cultivable agricultural land in the United States is lying idle. In New York State 37 per cent, of the agricultural land is unfarmed, while in New Zealand alone there are 30,000,000 idle acres, according to United States Senator Warren Ci. Harding. In connection with the mild outbreak of typhoid fever a warning should be issued, states the sanitary inspector in his report to the New Plymouth Borough Council. "Typhoid is sometimes called dirt disease and is caused by actual conflict with filth. The utmost care should be taken by everybody to keep food clean and free from flies. The slightest defect in a drain should be reported at once, and the utmost care exercised with regard to cleanliness ol hands, etc., before meals. It is on record that patients who have recovered from this disease are still carriers and can infect other people for 20 years. It will thus be seen that much care is required and that cleanlihess is the best preventive."

lii a speech at Liverpool, Admiral Lord Jellicoe said:—"l look upon the late Lieutenant-Commander W. E. Sanders, V.C., as one of the great heroes of tho war from the naval point of -view. He came to me after he had earned his V.C., and I had the pleasure of shaking hands "with him. The story of his deed has yet to he written, but the man who realised what his deed was was his op. ponent, and I am not giving away any secrets when I say hia opponent was a German. (Applause.) It was with the greatest possible grief that I heard later of Lieut.-Commander Sanders having been killed in the exercise of his duty. He was a New Zealand officer and I have had painted certain incidents of his exploit which I propose to send to New Zealand after the war, as a tTibute to a very heroic deed." (Applause). The Vestry of St. Mary's Church has been presented with a large framed photograph of the late Rev. E. C. Cook, who, after acting as assistant curate at New Plymouth, went into camp in 1916, and was reported a short time ago as having been killed in action in France. The photograph is the gift of deceased's parents, who reside at Wliangarei, and was at their request conveyed to the recipients through Mr. Harle Giles. In making the presentation to the Vestry at the Vicarage on Friday night, Mr. Harle Giles referred to the long standing friendship whieh he had enjoyed with Mr. and Mrs. Cook and their family, and his admiration for the many fine qualities in deceased. The handsome gift was highly appreciated by all ths vestrymen, whose feelings of gratitude were suitably expressed by Messrs S. W. Shaw and J. Paton, and, on the motion of Mr. A. Crooke, the vicar was requested to write a warm letter of thanks to the donors. The photograph, which is a speaking likeness of Mr. Cook, may be seen at tlie Vicarage. It will subsequently be hung in the vestry of the j church, where it will most probably re- [ main until the new Sunday School is I built.

Farmers of the Bell Block district are reminded of the meeting which is to be hold in the Bell Block Hall to-night, when Mr. G. H. Buckeridge, provincial organiser of the Taranaki provincial district of the Farmers' Union, will give an address oil the achievements of the union, also on Maxwell's bookkeeping for farmers, with special reference to income tax returns.

The trick of buying up all the debts that a man owes, so as to crush liim by suddenly demanding immediate payment, is used with dramatic effect in the "Tar Heel Warrior," finally showing to-night at Everybody's.

The Melbourne Ltd. is the cheapest house for good ladies' underwear. Ladies' natural-shaped ribbed undervests, short sleeves 2s lid, long sleeves 3s (id; childern's while wool ribbed vests, Is 7d to 2s (id; women's white wool ribbed vesta, 3s 6d; women's natural combinations, 3s lid and 5s lid; women's famous "Jason" fine cream cashmere combinations 15s Cd; O.S. ditto, 16s fid. Jockey's costume suits Enid Bennett even better than the gorgeous frocks she has worn in some dramas, and "They're Off," her latest Triangle play, is far the best of her performances to date. Showing to-night at the Empire.

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