LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dining the last two or three nights two valuable dogs owned by residents in \ iviau iitreet have been poisoned. The procession, this morning leaves Anljyn Street at 10.30, and that in the evening will be marshalled at 7 30 p.m. near the railway station, and will proceed via. the Post Office, Dc'on Street, and Liardct Street to the Park. Fireworks display at fl p.m. in the grounds. At the adjourned inquiry into the circumstances of the death of Mrs. T P. Smith, alter.hearing the evidence of Dr. Wade, the Coroner (Mr. A. Crooke, S.M.) relumed a verdict that death was due to shock from pulmonary embolisms of the left lung. Registration of the Tahora Land and Sawimlling. Co-, Ltd., as a private company is reported by the Mercantile Gazette. Tlie offices arc at Hawera. Capital; £30,000, in 30,000 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: Stratford, J. H. Robson, 401.10; Hawera, H. AV. Lewis 1000, T If. Gillman 1000, J. Fov 1000, H. D. F James 1000, T. .Struthcrs 1000, J. Were •500. Objects: To carry on businesses of sawntillers, timber merchants, traders in lumber, timber-growers, sash and door factories, joiners, etc. From the publishers we have received ft copy of the Christinas number of the Auckland AVoekly Mews. It is profusely anil beautifully illustrated, and quite up to the previous high standard set by the paper, which is rather remarkable considering the scarcity and increasingly high cost of paper and everything that enters into the cost of publication. As a souvenir of New New Zealand to send to the boys at the front or Home it is unrivalled. • In the West Coast mines and the Jlanawatu llax swamps the workers have liailed "Jimmy" Simpson as friend and brother, but in the centres financiers, men of letters and city magnates liave .ounted it an honor to sit on the piatform while this b.!g Canadian delivered his famous "Labor v. Liquor" addressInto it this gifted orator has put the best of his heart and mind, convincing the emotional and logical faculties of huge audiences everywhere- The Good Templar Hall is engaged for Oct. 29th, and is expected to be filled to overflowing in virtue of Mr. Simpson's mental Ftreneth, magnetic personalty, and dramatic power. The following, taken from a letter written by a Wellington resident to a lady in Hawera, gives some idea of the position in regard to house-hunting in Wellington: —"The house, in front of us was empty and the landlady was to be spen there from 7 to 9. It was a Saturday evening, and Dad had been to the Ilutt, and when he turned into our street lie thought; there was a fire or something going on, by the crowd- There were hundreds, I think, and the house is 32s (id a week." It might bo stated that ■the house is an old one of six rooms, having a very small yard, and being in a small street.—Star.

Recently Mr- Townsend, inspector of machinery for the Marine Department, spent some days in New Plymouth in* steeling the work and equipment of tho engineering department of the local Technical Colllege. As a rcsut' of the inspector's report, tho Marino Depart ment lias forwarded the following letter to the Director of Technical Education: "Adverting to previous correspondence on the subject of recognising service performed at the engineering classes of the Now Plymouth Technical Colllege as qualifying service to enable those who perform it to obtain certificates of exemption from; examination as third-class engineers, the Minister of Marine has approved of two-thirds time for day classes and one-third for evening being allowed, with a maximum of two years."

The director of technical education m Taranaki speaks in very high and hopeful terms of the work at present being done by tine returned soldiers who are taking advantage of the facilities offered tliem of taking courses in trade or business subjects. There have been a number of men who have attended the College at New Plymouth and also the school at iiawera. At the latter place there are at the present time five men taking various subjects, and they are doing good work. A pleasing feature of their studentship is the fact that arc entering very thoroughly into the social and sporting activities of the school, and with great readiness and marked success ta!:c the younger boys and coach them in t heir games, and they also take supervision for the director at any time required. So beneficial, indeed, is their presence that the director r-ays ho thinks the school is getting quite as much out of them as tliey receive from the school They are a fine type of man, and tljeir manly influence 011 the boys is regarded with much satisfaction.

Owing to unforeseen circumstances, it lias been found necessary to postpone the Red Cross concert at Pungarehu that was advertised to take place to-morrow (Tuesday). The date will be announced later. X.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency to-, Ltd., as agents for Messrs W. and R. Fletcher N.Z., Ltd., draw attention to their list of receiving dates for pigs for November. They had advanced the price of baeoners from 7d to 7ld per pound until further notice. • A fascinating story, told in a fascinating manner, and with a fascinating heroine. There you have '•Heiress For a Day," the Triangle drama now screening at The Empire, with Olive Thomas as the heiress. The 'Melbourne, Ltd.,'s stock of moil's and boys' panania hats is probably the inest in the district. The., goods have been in ported direct from the manufacturers in Japan, thereby reducing the "in between" charges to a minimum. Customers can rely on getting better valufi in these goods at the Melbourne than elsewhere. Prices 8s Gd to lfis fid. How a woman fought for her honor and her children is the big theme of the World film feature "The Tenth Case." showing finally to-night at Everybody's. June Elvidgc. is the wife who hears a divorce court judge rule away her happiness, bul la ter sees the judge's wife, "The Tont,li Case," m exactly similar web of circumstantial evidence. To-morrow Margarita Fischer stars in "Miss Jac!<y of the Armv" a companion pietura to the popular "Miss Jacky of the Navy.' 1 "NAfIOL" for Influenza and Catarrh.

A social entertainment by St. Mary's Clnivcli choir will lie held at St. Mary's Hall to morrow evening the proceeds to be in aid of the eleclric'lighting of the school.

After the destruction of t'iio office of (lie Wairarapa Age on Thursday night Wairarapa .Daily Times went to the assistance of its contemporary, and the Ago was published as usual the next morning. The fire means a Beverc loss to tiie Age Company.

ting on towards the allotted span, lias mended or paid for mending in her own house over 42,000 pairs of socks lielonging to wounded soldiers in adjacent hospitals. She employs a woman at a guinea a week to help her. And mending ofter means refooting, darning holes large and small, and washing and ironing. The socks come to her house by the sackful.

''The fifteen-inch guns of the Queen lilizabeth are really wonderful," said Lieutenant-Colonel (Dr.) W. Kino-ton Fvfi'e at Wellington the other day." "I one day witnessed through'my glasses the firing of one of these guns, and the shell landed on two Turkish batteries, both of which -were entirely destroyed. This shows you what these big guns can do."

Wiiile war has been destroying immense quantities of materials and machines, this very destruction has enabled large manufacturers in Britain to make "an enormous accmnmulation of wealth" (in the words of Sir Joseph Ward). This he described as a "very remarkable, a very extraordinary, thing—a concomitant of the great speeding-up of production."

It 3s interesting to note tbat it takes 17 gallons of petrol to keep the 400-li.p. Liberty aeroplane—the type adopted as standard in America—in t'he air, and this is stated to be 40 per cent, less than is generally required to fly similar power aeroplanes of other makes. The approximate cost of flying a big pqwercd machine, including every incidental down to interest on capital, wages, repairs, etc.j is said to be about 2s per mile, ,

A well-known Invercargill musiciansoldier, writing from one of the largest training camps in the world situated, in England, mentions that 10,000 German prisoners" are at present interned near where the New Zealanders are located, and that they are particularly well fed and housed. He says that when it was announced recently that arrangements had been made -with Germany for an exchange of prisoners and volunteers were called for from the ranks of the Huns to return to the Fatherland, only about 50 men stood forth from the great body of internees.

A serious aspect of the nature of the claims received by the Wellington Solfliers' Relief Committee is t'he increasing number,of requests for financial assistance or for personal advice, regarding the severance of a domestic relationship no longer possible. Some men have instituted divorce proceedings upon their return 'from the front; others, some of them with several years service, have obtained special leave for this purpose. The committee has suggested to the Hon. Minister of Justice that t'iie Crown should make some provision tending to enable soldiers returning on leave or discharged from the N.Z.E.F. to meet the expenses of divorce proceeds ings, "when it is shown that the soldier is in no way to blame.

Writes Mr. C. G. Young, Wanganui, who haa just returned from a visit to the States:—l was impressed with the office and business system prevailing in the States. There was a freedom, and entire absence of conservatism about it, that was most refreshing. "Enter," and ''Walk in" greeted you 011 the doors of business institutions alihost everywhere, and you simply sailed in with an ail- of proprietorship. What a contrast to the average business house in England, where you entered with rather a feeling of diffidence. Foster Frnser, in his book "America at Work," in achapter on "Phases of Commercial Life," also refers to flhe difference in the business ideals of the two countries. Quoting from one paragraph he says:'. "Go into an average American office, get straight down to business, and in three minutes you get a 'No* or a 'Yes.'" This, in the main, is largely correct. System prevails.

The Prime Minister stated at Wellington on Wednesday that he 'had been very glad to learn that the Prince of Wales was going to make a tour of the Empire after the close of the war. New Zealand would have a very hearty welcome for the man who, in the ordinary course of events, would some dayoc-i cupy the British throne. "Tho Prince of Wales will come to us in days' of peace," said Mr. Massey, "and I hope that he will be.accompanied by a squadron of modern. warships, some of those great fighting.. ships, battleships or battle-cruisers, which during the last four years have been guarding our Empire in t'he North Sea. And I would add, as my personal suggestion, that I would like to see these warships bring to our shores .representatives of . the regiments that have fought beside our own men in the war—representatives of the men who fought at Gallipoli; at Mons and the Marne, at Jerusalem and Bagdad. I. believe that a visit of the kind I am suggesting, by representatives of all t'he fighting forces of the Empire, would help greatly to stimulate national sentiment. The might of Britain will need no illustration after the present war. But the visit would draw closer the ties of kinship."'

Under date 16th inst., t'ho Post's Sydney correspondent thus refers to the "peace" celebrations "on the other side" when the Rotterdam fabricator announced that the Kaiser had abdicated and Germany had capitulated:—But it remained for the country to "go the limit." Country centres do not get their news with the precision and clearness of the city, and the country almost decided that the war was over and that now was a glorious opportunity for celebration. Bands paraded, processions were formed, the eloquence of local Bumbles wa,s released in floods equalled only by the good liquor which flowed. By Monday morning, most of the country towns were sober again, but some refused to believe that the war was not over, and kept it up on Monday. Newcastle shipping arrangements, for instance, were upset because the miners were "mafficki|g" on Monday and would not 'hew coal. The Mnitland minine districts went mad. Everyone in Goulburn refused to work, and business was at a standstill. It is reported that Gouttrarn is working to-day, but with a wet cloth round its head. Wagga and Bathurst spent a lively Monday, mostly "-iven over to argument, and the people of Ipswich, Queensland, insisted on having ft day of joy, no out being permitted to work. A motor-car snip is edvertised on page I of this issue. "NAZQL" for Influenza and Catarrh,