LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 June 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Section A of the Red Cross Committee waa in charge of the mart on Saturday. A plentiful stock of goods was received, and when the day's takings were totalled, the satisfactory sum of over £22 was recorded.

It is desired to point out that the entertainments for the school children today will be held whether the weather is wet or fine. If it is wet there will, of course, be no procession. Owing to the large number of children to be accommodated, parents will not be admitted to the theatres. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6, 2/6 For Chroxrio Cheat Complaints,

The registrar (Mr .T. S. S. Medley) has supplied the following return of the number of births, deaths and marriages for the district of New Plymouth for the month of May, 1918, the figures for the corresponding month of last year being given in parentheses: Births, 40 (38); deaths, 13 (15); marriages, 10 (4) The Stratford County Council is reducing a hill and filling in a dip between Tariki and the toll gate. In wet weather the road is a quagmire. Recently nine cars were stuck in the mud, which was over the running board, one of the cars containing a child grievously ill, on its way to the hospital. It is suggested that if a portion of the new road was fascined until the metalling is completed, traffic would not be impeded. Tie cost would be small, and the convenience to the public very great.. The piloting of a locomotive and a heavily laden log train over a lofty trestle bridge, which is ablaze, is one of the feats of th 6 hero of "Sudden Jim," the Triangle drama now screening at The Empire. He is just barely over when the whole huge structure blows up skywards, dynamited by the gang which is fighting him.

A collision between a motor car and a horse-drawn vehicle, 1 attended, fortunately, with no very serious results, occurred on Saturday evening -at the corner of Devon and Eliot Streets. The motor car was driven by Mr. P. B. Eitzherbert, who had two ladies with him at the time. Beyond breaking the windscreen, little damage was done to the motor car. Mr. Eitzherbert sustained a nasty cut on one hand, but no one else was hurt. Two horses were attached to the vehicle, the pole of which was slightly damaged, but not sufficiently to prevfent the occupants from proceeding on their journey. A seaman named Oscar Kutsen was brought before Mr, A. Crooke, S.M., at New Plymouth, on Saturday morning, on a charge of deserting from his ship. From the statement made by Sub-Inspector Hutton, it appeared that the man had been given leave to go ashore, but had overstayed his time. On the information of the captain, a warrant was issued for his arrest. The man was seen in the vicinity of Okato on Friday afternoon, and was arrested that evening by Constable O'Neill at Rahotu. When accosted by the constable, he admitted he was a deserter, and refused to return to his ship.. Ho was still in a refractory spirit when brought before the court, and declined to return to his ship. Accused was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, and in the event of his vessel sailing before the expiration of that time he was to be put on board. In connection with the Empire Day celebration to-day, Mrs. C. H. Burgess, president of the New Plymouth branch of the Victoria League, has arranged a children's entertainment, by means of which the children of New Plymouth will be enabled to make a gift towards helping the orphans of English soldiers and Bailors who have given their lives in the war. Some lantern slides which the local league has feceived from the London Victoria League will be shown at The Empire and Everybody's Theatres, and a short address will be given at each place. The children of the local schools will take part in a procession to the theatres, and it is expected that over 1000 scholars will participate. The procession will form up in Courtenay Street, opposite the infant school, at 1.15 pjn., and will proceed via Courtenay, Currie and Devon Streets. All the children below Standard 3 will go to Everybody's Theatre, the remainder going to The Empire. Each school will carry a banner bearing its name, and each child is to carry a small flag. The Citizens' Band will head the procession, and the schools will march in the following order: Westown, Frankleigh Park, Vogeltown, Roman Catholic, Fitzroy, West End and Central. Each child has been asked through the school teachers to bring 3d as a gift towards the war orphans in England. Entries for the competitive divisions of the National Dairy Show are scheduled to close on Saturday, June 1 To give those living at a distance an opportunity of gaining schedules, entries by post will be received up to Wednesday, June 5. Manawatu Poultry Association entries will be accepted in like manner. Information may be had from the secretary, Box 85, Palmerston North. "You're only a joke—her plaything de luxe," says the infuriated young brother-in-law of the heroine of "Husband and Wife" to the millionaire lover who is always calling. Finally at Everybody's to-night.