LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Among the passengers on the Moeraki, from Sydney, were 152 returned soldiers (draft 172). —Press Association. The Minister of Defence has received advice that the 41st Reinforcements have readied a port of call, all well, and the last New Zealand hospital ship to leave the Dominion has reached her port of destination.—Press Association. A Maori military defaulter, who was arrested in the Mokau district, was brought to New Plymouth by Constable McGregor yesterday. He will be taken to Hawera to-day and handed over to the Defence authorities there. O/lieers of the Eltham Chamber of Commerce for the ensuing • year have been appointed as follows: President, Mr. G. D. Gow; vice-president, Mr. 0. E. Flyger; secretary and treasurer, Mr. 11. U, Carman; committee, Messrs. G. H. Buckeridge, Bridger, Campbell, White, Thrush, Taylor, Martin. Says the Ashhurst correspondent of The Standard: The late Captain Lance Buehler, who was awarded the Military Cross, was born here. The record of boys from this district who have taken, and are taking, part in this great war, is something to be proud pf. Nine have made the supreme sacrifice, and a Victoria Cross, a Military Cross, a Military Medal and bar, and two Military Medals are the honors won. In the course of the hearing of an appeal at the Military Service Boara yesterday, an appellant stated that he had 26 cows on a farm of 60 acres. The work was all done by liand and the return from the cows for last season averaged £26 14s per cow. Counsel suggested that the return was the nest he had ever heard of for this district. Major Cox said a case had been before the board at Hawera in which a return of £23 had been shown. The appellant was granted a sine die exemption. In the course of the hearing 01 an appeal at the Military Service Board yesterday, a man who was appealing on behalf of one of his sons stated that he had another son 14 years of age who was attending school in New Plymouth. Asked as to how much longer his son would be at school, appellant stated he had three years free education ana was taking a commercial course at the Technical College. "Not that it's much use," added appellant. The chairman suggested that probably the son would be better at homo cow-spanking. Poignantly .pathetisj was the meeting —arising out of the ifieent exchange of prisoners with Germany—of a wounded soldier and his sister in an East End hospital. In 1015 a North Lambeth family lost all trace of their only son, who was fighting on the western front. Recently his sister visited the hospital to see a wounded friend, when she noticed at the end of the ward a soldier in a chair, who, whenever she looked towards him, jerked his Jwad. She went to the invalid, who, she was surprised to find, was her missing brother. He had lost both arms and lega and was dumb; hence the reason for the intervening years of silence.

The West Coast Refrigerating Company intends to provide storage for another AO,OOO crates of cheese at Hawera. It is understood tliat a freehold site has been secured alongside the Winter Show buildings, and all necessary machinery has been purchased. It is intended to have the building completed and the machinery installed by January. The directors have deemed it necessary to take this step owing to having to hold over large stocks this year. Calculating on the average factory output, it is considered that if no more cheese is shipped than last year up to January all existing cool storage will be filled. The estimated cost of the proposed new building and plant is about £14,000. —Star. A somewhat sensational escape from what might have been a serious accident occurred to Mr. and Mrs. A. Bosley when they were returning home from Eltham a few nights ago (reports the correspondent of the Hawera Star). When proceeding over the culvert near the Eltham boundary on the upper Mountain Road a motor ear from the Stratford direction came along and hugged the rails protecting the dip, on its wrong side. So quickly was the ear on them that Mr. Bosley had to throw his wife bodily over the fence, and he himself vaulted over, rolling down the bank almost into the creek. Mr. and Mrs. H. Moyes, who were a few yards behind the Bosleys, had just time to get under the fence. It is said that the car grazed the rails along the filling. The police took the matter in hand, and a Stratford residtn will appear at the Eltham Court on Wednesday next, when the matter wjll be investigated by the magistrate. At a meeting of the Fancy Dress Football Committee in connection with the 3000 Pierrots' stunt, it was decided to hold a procession from the centre of the town 011 the day of'the match, to.'be held 011 Thursday,; September 5. Several is embers Intimated" tlittt there would: be a number of .oomical items introduced 1 during the mutch.. These are guaranteed to be so funny that it is expected many of the onlookers will tumble off the terraces, nSid an; ambulance with "Dr. Dick" in charge will be in attendance. To-marrow evening the football teams will meet at the Soldiers' Club to rehearse stunts, and all members are commanded to be present.

It lias often been suggested that the tweed you could, not get—were those that's spun in Scotland—by trie Wofter in the wet. Up there its raw and —makes you shiver round at night unless you've got a Harris tweed to keep you warm and bright. We've got eighteen patterns only—they're the real mackay you know, and you'll feel sad and lonely unless you call before they go. There's deep red, brown and fawn and grey, all shades that make up neat, and when you've got a Harris on you're "a' rieht tha nicht." Now unless you call to-morrow—the odds are you'll ba late—then yours will be the sororw and you cannot blame the State. But what's the State to do with it—there's 110 one dare tell- j -except that they control the ships that's saving us from . . . Now if you want a real smart skirt for short runs in the car the only thing is Harris—the colors do not jar. Now come right in this morning to The "Modern Tailors'" shop and see the eighteen patterns and perhaps you'll take the lot. Don't sign the wowser petition—they are never satisfied, as they would sooner have prohibition than win the war—but sign our petition. We are fighting for your liberty and freedom, while the wowsers are trying to take away your freedom and that of the boys while they are away lighting for them,—Advt. W. H. and A. McGarry advertise a fresh list of farms in exchange for town property. Barraclougli-'s Magic Nervine Cures Toothache, 47