LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 August 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ilie suppliers of the Mangorei Dairy Company yesterday unanimously decided to vote £IOO to the Bed Cross Fund and .t'SO to the Mercantile Marine Service Association for British Merchant seamen and their dependents. Cabinet has approved of the erection of a convalescent ward at Masterton Hospital for returned soldiers. The Wairarapa Patriotic Association will contri500?'' , th ° De ' f<mco Department f .WOO, and the Pu/blic Health Department £3OOO towards the work. Mr le Homing, of Otakeho, states that 3G yejirs ago land on the Plains was sold at 25s to £2 an acre in its natural state. Now it is sold at from £SO to £3O per acre.—Witness.

In to-day's issue Mr L. G. Neilson, M'anaia, inserts an advertisement calling attention to Jiia stock of artistic household furniture and general furnishings. A visit of inspection of the norr

A dead bullock lias been lying alongside '(Die Main Road, .between Stratford and Ngaere, for the last three days, and a subscriber writes to know what the local body is thinking of in leaving the animal to pulril'y on a public highway. It would scarcely strike people that Monday's was the heaviest rainfall thai wo have had in Elthara for some time. The measurement, of the. heaviest day's rainfall that wo had last month, was 30 points, but yesterday, we learn from Mr r>. Gow, the fall measured no less than 64 points.—Argus.

Tlie Mayoress (Mrs 0. II P.urgess, M.B.TC.) and the Women's Patriotic Committee have decided to entertain all the workers who helped in connection with the Cafe Chantan't at a social in Whiteley Hall oj> Wednesday evening next.

A meeting was held in the Rolland Hall on Thursday night at which it was decided, to have an "Irish Day" at the Red Cross Mart on September 21. A strong committee was formed to make ail the necessary arrangements. It was ato decided to make an effort, at a date to be arranged, on behalf of the Patriotic Committee funds.

Further subscriptions to the Amlbury Memorial Fund have Ibeen received as follows! Mr and Mrs A. Crooke, Dr and •Wis* Wade, Mr E K. Da vies, £1 Is each. Miss Barr (per New Plymouth S.H.S.)' and Mr and Mrs P. V. Sainton, £1 each; Mr .T. Sanson, Boon Bros, and Mr and Mrs A. H. Arnold, 10s ea/eh; total £43 13s.

At the Inglewood SM. Court yesterday, before Mr A- Crooke, S.M., a young man named J. Mack Flannery was charged with attempt to commit roipe on a married woman at Kaimiro. Accused was unrepresented. On the application of Sub-Inspector Hu't'bon the Count we» cleared. After hearing the evidence of the woman, her husband and Constable Long'bottom, Flannery, who asked no questions, said lie would plead guilty, and was formally reanand'ed to New Plymouth Supreme Court for sentence. The New Plymouth Women's Patriotic Committee have received further letters of thanks for gift parcels from men at the front, by the last Home mail. The supervising secretary of the Y.M.C.A. in London has written in regard to £IOO paid to the Y.M.C.A. at Wellington, stating that Mr Day, field secretary in Franco has been of the committee's desires respecting tlife expenditure of the money, and that the amounts will be spent as indicated. Included in the mail is also a letter from "S. B, Hopkinson," who received a parcel from the Ladies' Committee, at which he expressed great delight, as he had been a resident of the "little village" for 10 years. The assistant-matron of the No. 1 New Zealand General Hospital, Brokenhurst, has written to a New Plymouth lady saying "I want in a few lines to tell you how very grateful we are to you for that lovely box of food stuffs for the boys. Food and food stuffs are so difficult to obtain, and though we are very much ?>e',tcr off than tile civilians, yet we do so love to give the boys the very 'best we can, and these come in as a great blessing to us. When a party of boys are invited out or sent out visiting, we have in many cases to send the tea, sugar, .butter and .bread with them, taking it from the daily ration, which has to be carefully dealt with. Your gift box will ho used in that way, and so help the sisters in the wards."

"If I must have a consort, bring me at least a man," tliia is the desperate cry of the little Princess in "The G'ilded Cage" when she finds herself pressed by the condition of her country, to marry. Alice Brady, supported 'by Irving Cummings and Montague Love, have the leading roles in this world film triumph ivhinh is showing at Everybody r e to-day and to-night. The Good Templar Hall has been reserved for Apri Kith by the Emerald Isles Entertainers for Irish Red Cross week.

The expeditionary force mail closes on Monday next at 0.15 a.m. The mail for United Kingdom, America, etc., via Vancouver, closes on Tuesday, August 13th.

Seldom, indeed, dwes the literary talent of tho Dominion get such an opportunity for the display of its powers as is now offered in the great prize essay competition on the subject of "Why New Zealand should adopt the proposal of the National Efficiency Board for the immediate and permanent abolition of the Liquor Traffic." The scale of the prizes lifts the competition on to a very high plane. The first prize of £IOO is a sum well worth winning, while the second and third prizes of £SO «nd £25 respectively are also sufficient to amply reward those who receive minor honors. Printed schedules of particulars can be obtained by wiring or writing direct to the Secretary, New Zealand Alliance, P.O. Box 1079, Wellington. Those desiring to enter should write ait once, as all essays must be completed, and reach Wellington by Monday, E>th September, IMS. All telegrams should be addressed "Temperance," Wellington.—Advt.

Pedestrians in Devon street this afternoon need not be alarmed at the wild juvenile stampede between one and two o'clock as all the happy kiddies around New Plymouth will be making for the Empire matinee where the ever popular Charlie Ohaplin stars in a big "Mutual" laugh producer "The Count."