LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 October 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

_ A London cable states that summertime m England ends at 3 o'clock on Monday. In the course of his address last night, JJ'r. S. G. Smith intimated that he would again address electors m New (Plymouth prior to the election. Speaking in the Conciliation Council vestarilay, Mr Barle Giles, Commissioner, said there were always three parties in any dispute—the employers, the workers, and the general pu/blic. He regarded himself as the representative of the public, and said he felt sure the publie recognised his. position as such and that they, looked to him to conserve their interests as well as the interests of the» immediate parties in a dispute.

The special course of instruction in wireless telegraphv which is advertised in connection with the Technical College should attract a full class of adult students. The instructor (Mr- Connoly) is a recognised teao'ner of the subject, and has been engaged in similar work in Auckland. The differ-jnt methods in use will be fully illustrated and explained by means of apparatus.

A couple of line fishermen who were engaged a couple of hundred yards off the Napier beach, about a miie to the south of the city boundary, landed no fewer than six sharks. The smallest was five feet in length, and the largest seven feet. One line landed two sharks at one time. The early appearance of sharks ofl' the town beach does not speak well for the coming summer bathing in the surf, says the Telegraph. Each of those landed was quite capable of giving a swimmer a nasty nip. The inability of a business to show profits was advanced yesterday at the Conciliation Council as a reason for not granting an advance in wages to the employees in the particular traile in connection with which a dispute was being heard. The Conciliation Commissioners said the point had nothing whatever to do with the dispute. The council and the Arbitration Court had always held that -if any business was unable to pay what was considered a reasonable wage, the sooner that business closed down the better.

At the sitting; of the Conciliation Council at the Magistrate's Court yesterday to consider the bakers, and pastrycooks' dispute, frequent reference was made by the employers' representatives to the attitude of the Board of Trade in refusing to allow any increase in the price of bread in Taranaki, while [other trades were allowed to increase the prices of their goods without restriction. The bakers pointed out that though bread was looked upon as the staff of life, t!'" employers should be allowed to eii'v a price for it that would place t!i' in a position of being able to give their employees what was considered a reasonable wage. The Commissioner (Mr T, Harle Giles) in commenting on the point said that although any increase in wages granted might be passed on to the consumer, lie believed the public was not prepared to accept bread at a low price at the expense of the workers engaged in the trade.

A South Australian fanner, Mr Joseph Nykiel, has reached London, after bein? interned in Germany since the outbreak of war. He was in Germany, visiting friends near Posen. He was kept in solitary confinement for four weeks, and was then taken to a prison camp at Zerbst, in Prussia, where there were 12,000 prisoners. The treatment was very brutal, and the dieting was on the ipost meagre scale. During 13 month at Zerbst he witnessed dogs being set upon prisoners, and one 70-year-old Frenchman was badly mauled by the animals. The prisoners were frequently told that they would be shot as spies. Many were lashed to posts for hours, with their feet just touching the ground. The dirtiest camp work was given to the British prisoners to perform. When Mr Nykiel told an officer that he was an Australian, the officer remarked: "The Australians are too democratic; that sort of democracy won't answer here." He was removed to Ruhleben in 1915, where the treatment was much better than at Zerbst. The attitude of the Germans towards prisoners changed greatly in 1917. The German soldiers often searched the tubs for food or begged for food from the prisoners' parcels. Receipt by the latter was regarded by the Germans as proof of that Britain was not starving.

The Value of Appearances. Everybody nowadays knows the value of appearances. and that persons are judged first by their looks. Many a man and woman, too, owe their pon-success in the business or social world to some personal imperfection. It may be a head of grey or faded hair, a dull or lifeless complexion, or a humiliating growth of superfluous hair. If the remedy for all these disfigurements lies within your grasp, why not avail yourself of it? Miss McELwain, the wellknown dermatologist (English and American diplomas), through our advertising columns, offers free advice to all suffsrers, and readers, are asked to avail themselves of this generous offer without delay. Summer brings the need of a full quota of dainty light blouses for the many occasions demanding pretty attire. Read Morels advertisement Jor blouses,

"A competent bushman would do more in a day than the men we arc getting now would do in a week," said a sheepfarmer who was a 'witness in a case in the Supreme Court at Gisbome. "He would be under contract and would go for his life,"

The Wairarapa News says: We have seen post lasses, baker girls, massenger girls, and .'girls working in the fields. The latest case to come under notice happened on Wednesday, -when a woman was seen driving her husband's traction engine, and doing it capably and well. Iridescent pawa shell, which was much used by the Maoris to ornament their wood-work is to have a trial by a British firm of button-makers. Enquiries were received through the High Commissioner, and specimens are being sent from collections of the Dominion Mussum. German prisoners on Somes Island have made good use of pawa shells for inlaying on carvings and other wood-work. A dairyman driving into Nelson on a recent morning found a young woman on the Wakapuaka road in a state of collapse (says the Chronicle). She was clad in her night attire, and was wearing a raincoat and boots. When found she was unable to speak. Having been identified, she was taken to Relatives, but as there was no change in her condition, and as she was unconscious of what was happening arotind her, she was later in the day removed to the hospital. It was stated that the young lady was a member of a boating party out in the harbor on Sunday week which had some difficulty in getting back to the shore, and it is believed that this had some effect on her mental condition.

"The first and best element in the education of children is the building up of character," said Bishop Averill'at the Papatoetoe Orphan Home recently, "and any system of training which does not put the training of life and service in the first place is not real education at all. It is 110 use merely teaching children morals or civics. Both are good in their way, but unless some foundation Is given upon which to ground such training tliey must fail. Civics and morals can never be substituted for the training of children in the true religion of Christ. We must all go back to school and home days for the best and most lasting influences of life. Every child is a potential hero, and that is what we must aim at—to make our children heroes in civic as well as in military life." The lives of several Australians have been saved during the last few days by the adoption throughout the Australian dressing stations of a regular sytem of blood transfusion (says a London cable message to the Australian papers under 'dnte of September Bth.) Many wounded who should otherwise have survived have died in the past owing to heavy loss of Wood putting them in a ; condition in which they could not stand the strain of an operation. A system has now been organised at the Australian dressing stations whereby in such case the blond | of another man can immediately be injected, and an operation performed, where otherwise death would be certain. There is no difficulty whatever to find men to volunteer to give their blood to a comrade. Slightly wounded men with a cut foot, a small bullet wound through the arm, or any other small "blishty" wound, readily offer. The Australian Press delegation visited one dressing station, where the lives of men unquestionably were saved in this way, while the lightly wounded, who gave their bVood, walked out immediately aEter the operation, whistling, to light cigarettes.

Twenty "years- ago to-day (writes "Mercurius" in the Hobart Mercury oi Ttli September)- wo were all tossing up our caps in lionor of Lord Kitchener's victory over the Khalifa at Omdurnian. In looking up the records of that memorable time, I chanced to corns upon a remarkable letter, written by General Gordon in 188T "Every Briton," he says, "should think of the future of his country, and should insist upon the Government passing a measure for compulsory training. So,far as England is concerned, she need be under no immediate apprehension. But in 1910, or thereabouts, there will have risen a naval PoAver which may prove mightier than she. If that Power gains the supremacy, England will become extinct, both as a sea and a land Power, and all her dependencies will fall into tho clutches of Germany. You may not live to see this; but if you are living when that time comes, remember my words!" It was in 1010 that Germany revived her famous Nsivv Programme!

An officer just returned from the front related to n representative of the Melbourne Argus last week that the first question asked by an Americanised German prisoner was, "Say, why do they call the "Australians diggers?" and he had to admit that he did not know. Enquiry among those recently from the trenches show that the origin of the expression is vague.. In 1914 the Australian soldier was frequently referred to as "Tommy Cornstalk." After the Gallipoli landing he became "Bill Anzac.' Later the whole force was simply "Anzacs" They were described as "great diggers" about the time of the first Pozieres attack. It is said that a British officer passed a body of men at work with the pick and shovel, and asked, "Where do these men come from?" The spontaneous chorus came back to him, with many smiles: "We are not soldiers, vc's diggers." So many of the later reV 'cements came from West Australia, many of the eastern men were ' the mining fields, that "digger" ■iisiest to the lips; and then the corps were all "diggers." So the , 'nree seemed to have accepted L ,iy the title, which constantly recurs now in letters, cable messages, and cartoons.

Housekeepers are reminded of the following standard Manchester goods on sale at the Melbourne at less than current Tilted. Horrojjkses' 132-inch A 1 calico is Gd yard; Horrockses' yard wide AH calico, Is 8d yard; Ryland's famous 72-inch grey twill sheeting, puro and strong, 3s lid yard; Ryland's 72-jfneh grey herringbone sheeting, 4s 6d yard.

A National Pride: This is 110 idle boast. Smokers throughout the Empire unanimously agree that State Express, the famous all-British cigarettes, are absolutely unequalled in quality, purity and high-class methods of manufacture. Obtainable at all high-class tobacconists throughout New Zealand.

j It will be of interest to place on record the fact that in threo years the Overseas Club has raised £252,444 for the tobacco fund. Australia and New Zealand contributions (grouped) head the list for the .'world. ' -

A double funeral took place in Wellington on Thursday afternoon, when the remains of two old settlers were laid to rest. Mrs James Harper, aged 82 years, died a few days ago at Waipawa, and her husband, eighty-six, passed away a couple of' days later. A growing practice of converting Into tenement houses dwellings that were originally designed for single families has beeH noted in Auckland, and i* now under consideration by the Works Committee of the City Council. Brought to an American dressing station on the banks of the Ourcq, a wounded German captain kept repeating, "One, two, three" monotonously., An enquiry of a nurse elicited this explanation: "Oh, all those German officers do that. You see," said the nurse, who was administering ether previous .to an operation on the German officer, "an average person talks when under the anaesthetic. It is like talking in your sleep. The Germans know this and every officer we get goes under the ether . while counting. The result is that, instead of talking, and giving information, they keep right on continually." Sex Beach as a story-teller reached the zenith of his fame with novels dealing with life under wild and primitive conditions. His first "high society'' novel, "The Auction Block," created a sensation, for Bex Beach dwelt with the problems of modern city life in the same bold and vivid fashion as he had treated h'is Alaskan life studies. "The Auction Block" has been picturised by the gigantio new film-producing company, the Goldwyn and it is an amazing jnas«

Why is smoking so often attended with results that causes medical men to order tlieir patients to either discontinue the habit, Or greatly modify it? It is simply because the percentage of nicotine in most imported tobaccos is so high, and it is the nicotine in excess that renders smoking injurious. Now our N.Z. grown tobaccos contain small a percentage of nicotine that it is practically a negligible quantity. Both Gold Pouch and Three Diamonds are almost free of nicotine and besides, they are now toasted., Toasting develops the favor, removes all deleterious properties and makes the tobacco climate proof. Toasted tobacco is recommended to those who study their health and appreciate a pure tobacco. Two full ounces for a shilling.