LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A man named Wilfred Gabbing was arrested at Bahotu on Monday by Constable O'Neill on a charge of faffing to parade for camp.

A London cable states thai the New Zealand journalists are visiting *e training camps at Salisbury Plain. "Any man to vote on that would not have the conscience of a cross-cu* saw," remarked a supplier at a dairy factory meeting.

Inquiries into several cases of da-mage to property in the locality known as Tiger Town" have resulted in three small boys being called upon to make explanations. Tlhe accused will appear in the Juvenile Court on Saturday. A man named Luston, who at one tune belonged to New Plymouth, and is said to have been wanted for some time on sundry charges of allegedly obtaining money by fake pretences in Wellington and Ohristchurch, has been arrested at Oamaru.

At the Military Service Board's Hatvera sittings yesterday, a settler at Toko stated that ho had inserted an advertisement in the Daily .News f«r sliaje-nrilkera and got 25 replies from &11 parts of the country. According to a Londton eeble received last night, the Oovenit Garden Estate Company has purchased the Mce of 'Bedford's Oovent Garden estate of 18 acres, including tfie market, €he Opera House, four theatres, a police court, and 25 streets. It is understood that the price was about two millions sterling.

At a sitting of the Magistrate's Court at Ifawera yesterday morning, before Mr. W R. Haselden, S.M., Bangi AJhu was charged with drunkenness and a breach of his prohibition order. He was convicted and discharged on the first charge, and on the latter was fined 20s or 14 days' imprisonment. In addition to the two men who were nearly washed off the Patea western wall on Sunday, ther?, waa very nearly another river fatality to record on Sunday night (says the Press), Constable Armour being called at a late hour ito a man who was up to bia armpits in the river, endeavoring to ford dt "to save him going over the bridge."

A meeting of, the committee set up of representatives ! of the dairy factories of Taranaki in connection with the dried milk question was held on Tuesday. The secretary (M*. G. H.'Suclceridge) reported that a good deal of''information had been received and ns&f'e was expected. They hoiped to be irf'-'a' position to place their report before a further conference of factory delegates in about three weeks' time. 'i' l '

Mr. J. S- Connect, president of the Taranaki Agricultural Society, y/vterday addressed the suppliers at the annual taieeting of the Ralhotu- Dairy Company in furtherance of the campaign initiated by himself some three years ago,- and asked for a continuance of the support accorded the society. At the conclusion, the majority of those present decided to continue their 'membership, and reference was made to the excellence work done by the president in connection with the society,

At the inquest on H. O. Kattelty, drowned in the Patea BiVer recently, the coroner's jury .brought in the following -verdict:—"That the deceased, Harold Oscar Kettelty, came by his death on Tuesday, July 23, lfll'S," through shook, following upon rupture of the bladder and crush oi the left kidney, the injuries being sustained out of and in the course of the deceased's employment through his being crushed between the travelling cage and a gantry, on the eastern side of the Patea. Elver, tlie injuries being caused in a purely accidental manner, no Mamie being attachable to anyone."

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 other infections. Applied to ulcers, poisoned wounds, sprains, chilblains, <y*amft :SAp>Eß^;E3pi^l»rs^,g luick'W<K 1 uick'W<K

The position of the Copper Trail is as follows:—Auckland, 1!75 miles, reaching Taumarunui; Wellington, 47 miles reaching Otaki. , '

The net Customs returns at the port of New Plymouth for the month of July v/ere £2807 Os Id, beer duty £350 17s <sd, compared with' £3385 8s lOd and £11(52 Is 2d for the corresponding month in last year. The decrease is attributed to the shortage of shipping. It was resolved by the Farmers' Union conference on Tuesday that the Government hi urged to regulate the prices of manures and control supply of oil fuels so that the requirements of essential industries will haYe precedence. '•*

It was proposed iby Mr. R. Pugg, of Auroa, at the Farmers' Union annual conferenco in Wellington on Tuesday—"That the union resist any attempt to extend the principle of the referendum." Considerab}«| PPP o^ol * to the remit, 1 Mich'came from Taranaki. An amendment that the words "ibeyond the limits of the liquor question" Should ;be added was carried. The n.otion amended was, then adbptedBumors were current in town yester-. day of strange lights having been seen in the sky in, the direction of the ranges leading up to the mountain, which, from their movements, were; mwpeoted of probably being attached, to a» aeroplane. Other stories were circulated of mail matter supposed to have been washed up on the beach along the coast. Investigations along the sea front brought nothing more to light than some blank cards,from the Base Eeoords ,; ' A youth about .18 yeats of jfge, "named Norman Henry Ward, was arrested on TUmrsday of last weeik on charges of alleged indecent assault on two Kttle girls between the ages of four and sk years, on the foreshore on the day previous- Accused appeared on remand before Mr. A. Crooke, S3f., yesterday. The ease wa s heard in camera. "Ward, who pleaded not guilty, reserved his defence, and was committed for trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth. Bail was fixed at one surety of £SO and two of £25 each.

The ways of the m:!itary are hard to understand. Men are put in the 01 camp apparently because they ore unfit and to Mid up their health. This is done Iby providing them witlh teats that are not weather-proof, the consequence being that in weather like we have bad .of late their bedclothes are continually damp and the men themselves are miserable. This treatment is probably prescribed to enure them to the hardships of war. At the same time the fit men, in the Al camp, are given huts which in the bad weather-do not affectihe comfort of the men.

The Patea Press, in an adverse criticism of the Now Plymouth Harbor proposals, saya:—"There were equally sanguine spirits at IN&pier some few years ago who were quite convinced that the fertile lands of Hawlce's Bay would provide the necessary produce *o .warrant Home liners visiting their port, and a coatly and amibitious harbor scheme was launched, with the result that the ratepayers are still looking for the ocean liners, whilst a fortune has teen sunk in (harbor works with practically no result." The Press forgot to mention one fact, namely, i&at Home liners have for the past two seasons been calling at New Plymouth and taking away produce. This fact disposes of the comparison. At the Hamilton Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, William Fleming was charged with a breach of the Military Service Act by Refusing to answer questions put to him by a police constaJMe. The police evidence was to the effect that accussed was engaged in bushfelling at Mahccnui, and when asked for his registration' card was unalble to produce it. He refused to answer any questions. It had since been ascertained that he was recently discharged from Wanganui Prison, where he served a month for failure to enrol. The police characterised the case as one of deliberate shirking and defiance of the law, and asked for a substantial penalty. Accused was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.

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