LOCAL AND GENERAL.
In the course of his address at the Empire Theatre last night, Mr C. Todd said he saw -one very good omen in regard to the prohibition poll, in the fact that it was on Aprl 10th, 1630, that Father Mathew and John Martin signed their first temperance pledge card. Mr YVilford has been, advised that the wreckage found on the beach at Waikare is not part of the missing Awanui. as it does not correspond to any part of the vessel.—Press Association. The New Plymouth branch of the New Zealand Federation of Labor has selected Me«srs Fred Stansfield and George T. Langlay as nominees for the position of members of the Taranaki District Hospital and Charitable Aid BoardAn additional attraction at the Old Girls' concert will be a violin solo by Mr Rupert George, whose playing was so much appreciated by the large audi, once at Miss Pike's concert. The Nsw Plymouth Boys' High P'chnoi sport,, postponed from November on account of the epidemic, will be held on Friday of next week, April 4th., on the school grounds. Parents and friends are cordially invited to be present. A farewell social will be tendered to the Rev. AV. A. and Mrs Sinclair in AVhiteley Hall at 730 to-night. Addressee will be given by representatives of the Church. There will also be musk- and refreshments, and an opportunity will be given for members of the congregation and the general public, who nre invited to attend, to say good-bye to thp guests of the evening.
The quarterly meeting of the Loyal Excelsior Lodge of Oddfellows was held in the Foresters' Hall on Tuesday evening, and was presided over by N.G. Bro Cyril Bellringer. Two new members Were initiated into the Order and two were proposed. Pro. G. A. Corney was elected a trustee, vice the late Bro. W. Tl. Free. A vote of condolence was passed to the relatives of the late Bro. George George. A Feilding soldier who has just returned from France says there was a genera] feeling over there that the Armistice came prematurely. Everything was readv to break the Germanic host 9 on the battlefields—and the stroke was not made. This left the people of internal Germany with the impression that their armies had not been beaten. This view is borne out in a note published in a London paper just to hand, in which the writer says:—"A Dutch friend of mine who was in Berlin a few days before the Armistice was signed tells me that the Germans then were prepared to sign anything, but all those who talked to him about it said that another war was inevitable in about ten or fifteen years, 'as this one wasn't fought out.'" Mr. Francis T. Symes, who has for the past eighteen years been connected'with leading dairy factories of Taranaki.has now retired from the dairy industry (says an exchange). In future Mr. Symes will be interested in apple-grow-ing and vineyard culture, In a chatty letter to the "Dairyman" Mr. Symes says: "I find outdoor life an agreeable change after so many years of factory work, but, unlike a fast vat, I do not lose so much energy at my wo'k." Mr. Symes is now residing at Te Kauwhata, Waikato. and his many friends in Taranaki will wish him every success in his new venture. A Masterton soldier writes: When we marched through Cologne, the people could not make out Who we were. When we told them we were New Zealanders they were awfully disgusted, as they had been told that we were all wiped out long ago. There is no doubt they are a wealthy people. I have not seen a "shanty" anywhere since I have been here. Some of the houses are magnificent. There is a marked scarcity of men's tweed suits in the Dominion but the Melbourne is lucky in having a fair supply of boxed suits in best Colonial all-wool tweed at the present unheard-of prices of s!)a fid and 69s fid. Buyers should "get in early" if they wish" to secure a bargain as similar goods will be quite unobtainable within a few weeks' time. The Commissioner of Taxes draws attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day's issue that returns of land must be furnished not later than April 8. Forms of return may be obtained at any postal money-order office; they will not be sent to taxpayers from the office of the Commissioner of Taxes unless written application is made for them. Lessees in occupation of land owned by Natives are now required to furnish a return of land so occupied. Quite a Dominion-wide interest is evinced in Father Cronin, whom the public are eagerly anx'ious to hear for themselves. His address is said to be quite unconventional, humorous, and interesting. The Rev, Father treats Prohibition in many respects from new angles. Also he has a happy knack of originality, particularly in dealing with the Moderate League. The chief interest in his speech centres on his statements of the views of leading Catholic dignataries, of whom he quoted a number. Also as to the independence of the individual Catholic in voting on Prohibition. A prominent Catholic layman, Mr. Chas. Todd, follows Father Cronin with an interesting address from the layman's point of view. The public are asking to use the opportunity of the doors being open at 7.30 to enable the crowd to fill the building without crush or bustle to-morrow night in the Opunake Town Hall \
A cave on a property in the Lower Vi'Mey is said to contain a remarkable iv jition of moa bones, the skeleton of a Maori dog, tuatara lizards, and skeletons of an extinct bird of a different species to the moa (says our Mastcrton correspondent). The foot of a moa, measuring over twelve inches in length, has been secured, together with a complete leg. A distressing case in regard to the widow of a discharged soldier has been revealed in Masterton (says an exchange). A young woman of English birth became engaged to a New Zealand soldier in the Old Country. The soldier suffered from an attack of tuberculosis when on active service. He was returned to the Dominion, and admitted to a sanatorium, where he made a wonderful recovery. The young lady to whom he was betrothed came out from England, and the two were married. The soldier by this time had been granted his discharge, and secured a position in the north. He was smitten down by influenza and died. The widow is now in the unhappy position of being a charge upon neither the country nor anybody else, as she married the soldier after he had obtained his discharge. The Government can do nothing for her. The patriotic associations can do nothing; she is frail in health and unable to cam her own living, and was compelled to sell the whole of her husband's belongings to pay funeral expenses.—lt is a case where the law might very well be stretched. The drought that has been experienced in the Masterton district during the last few weeks is causing serious apprehension to settlers (says a Wairarapa paper). One settler stated on Saturday that the ground on the East Coast is parched to a greater extent than it was in 1914, when stock had to be shifted to the Forty Mile Bush. The streams and springs, however, are holding out better than they did in the last drought. Settlers, in the Lower Valley state that the position is every day becoming more serious, particularly as the farms and stations are heavily stocked. Twenty-four hours' rain would do an immense amount of good. Says the Melbourne Advocate:—"The Governor-General (of Australia) costs £23,000 per annum, while the upkeep of the six State Governors amounts to £40,714 a year. And this for a community of 5,000,000! Australia thus pays for its system of Governors £60,714, while the President of the French Republic, which has a population of 40,000,000, costs but ,C45,()00. Surely a more striking illustration of the absurdity of our system could not be found." Few motorists nave any conception of the enormous power developed by the big powered aeroplane engine. An experimental test with one of the 450 h.p. "Liberty" aero engines, mounted on a heavy solid rubber tyred truck, conveys nn idea of the driving power behind an aeroplane propeller. The truck was propelled at speeds of over 40 miles per hour through the snow by means of this form of drive. On one occasion the brakes were set to lock the wheels, and yet the truck was moved bodily forward, with its wheels sliding along the ground, by the powerful thrust of the propellor. The Wanganui Chronicle reports that a painful and. distressing accident, which it is feared will end fatally, occurred on Friday last on the Town Belt Road, Springvale. A man named Stevens, who was walking home after work was accosted by the driver of a horse and spring dray and asked if he would have a "lift." Mr. Stevens accepted the offer, and while getting into the vehicle he fell heavily, sustaining a fracture of the spine. He was afterwards conveyed to the hospital, where he now lies in a precarious state. The accident is all the more deplorable in that Mr. Stevens is the father of a very large family, seven of whom are under twelve years of age. Mr F. J. Easther will give a recitation at the New Plymouth High School Old Girls' Association's recital this evenin fr
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