LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We have to acknowledge receipt of thp Public, Works Statement and Estimates forwarded to us by the chief postmaster at Xew Plymouth last night. On the motion of Mr Austin Bewley, probate of the will of the late 2nd T.icut. Howard Burton Grave (M.M.) lias been granted by His Honor the Chief .'Justice. Sir Robert Stout, to the e.veciitrix therein named. In order to test the available strength of Ihe Citizens' Band, the bandmaster has arranged to 'be at the bandroom at 7,;!t! this evening-, when he hopes that all members who are well will be present with their instruments. ft is notified in the Gazette that a-pro-clamation lias been issued by the Imperial Government prohibiting the importation to the United Kingdom, except under licence of the Board of Trade, of oleo, stenrine, tallow, olive oil and onions —Press Association. The' chartered clubs in Wellington have forwarded to the Government a protest against the inclusion of the (i o'clock provision in the Uiqtior Bill. Six o'clock closing wbb acquiesced in by the club 3 as a war measure, but they* con- , aider ar. unfair advantage was now being taken of their former complaiiance, iiiid n-k to lie heard, on the matter before the Bill reaches the Upper House.— I'rcss Assoc. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday. before Mr A. Crooke, S.M., John (irill'ev. who had been brought in from Wniliwn in a state of lielpless drunkenness was. on the application of the SnbTnsj.eclor of police, remanded for seven days for medical treatment. Wm. Goodwin was convicted and fined 5s icosts 7s) f«r failing to chain the wheel of an express van which ho had left standing in the road at the Rangiatea Ifojiia on November 25. The hearing of the charge of assault against C. A. \\ illianis was further adjourned till ■laiimirv ti.

The chairman of .tlie Taranaki Hospital Hoard lias been advised that the restriction placed upon church services, public meetings, stock and auction sales, have now been removed. A leading farmer in the Rakaitt district. himself*a well-known .judge of stock, relates how, at the recent metroMilan show in Christehurch, he and three other* had a warm argument conccniiii" the merits of the sheep judgingThey were i\JI younger than hp. and prominent, men in the stock world. Along cmne the influenza, and within four days the'three were dead, Imior.tneo conduces to many tragedies Unit have occurred {says the Auckland Star). Within the-city there dwells a woman and a fairly large family. Member-:. of the family were ill, and the woman herself had been down with, the complaint. Assistance was called in, helpers came, and they found the house none too clean. But the shelves contained hot ties of the standard medicine distributed by the Hospital Hoard, castor nil. and oilier medicines useful for keeping away disease. The woman had made use of none of these, and appeared to be utterly helpless. When asked why, she said she didn't know how to use them, a I'd didn't know what to do. So she siimilv waited till she got assistance, while the family were all slowly dying. A correspondent writes:—Owing to the cuttim;-out of joods trains north and soiilh, the mixed goods trains are having heavy louds. Guards and other officials make every effort to keep up to the time-table, but this is not always possible. On Wednesday night the mixed goods train received a "rally" at Lepperton from the Waitara passengers, who were evidently tired of waiting in ibe cold and darkness for the train. The "barrack" was against t-hein, however, when they found that the train was not going 011, but was to be side-tracked to allow the Wellington train to pass. And vet there are some people who say Wo should not complain of the railway service' Probably if they had the same humbugging io put up with as the regular traveller, they would change their opinions.

Tlio possibilities of manufacturing vinegar from apples were discussed at a recent meeting of Nelson fruitgrowers. Tt was stated that from sno.nno to 1,000,000 gallons of vinegar are consumed annually in the Dominion. the great hulk of it being a mixture of wood acetic and malt extract. 11 was contended that if the existing taw were so administered that only the brewed article could be labelled "pure vinegar," from 300,000 to 400,000 bushels' of apples could be used annually in the production of vinegar. The meeting decided to ask the Fruitgrowers' Federation to take action in' the matter. J Many well-to-do people have abandoned that "keeping up appearances" which was aiujiexpensive toll paid to snobbery and what the neighbors said. The neighbors are in the same position. and can no longer afford to be censorious. The latest recruit to the simple life is the Bishop of Salisbury, wtio tinils there is no pleasure in. running a palace while coal is so dear, and is betaking himself to a cottage. Thanks to the war. many rich men are poorer. But. on the other hand, many poor men are richer. There will always be rich and there will always be poor. There need not. however, be any very poor, or any very, very rich. The thing is continually to raise the standard of comfort and to trust the old human motto of "three generations between clogs and clogs" to prevent money stopping too long in the same family.—Daily Express. (XINCHEK CROSS TYRES are all good -the quality is uniform. Finest rubber, expert chemists, latest machI inery, skilled workmen, all ensure utmost value in the BRITISH CLINCHES 1 CROSS. Try a set. 8 "NAZOL" for Influenza And Catarrh,