LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 April 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An Auckland Press message states that a wireless message has been received to the effect that the hospital ship Maheno is a clean ship, and will arrive at Auckland at 7 a.m. on Tuesdy morning.

On Friday next, Anzae Day, commemorative services are to be' held in Everybody's and the People's Picture Theatres, comencing at 2.45 p.m. Returned soldiers and veterans will attend at Everybody's and other units as arranged.

The medal riband which will shortly he the most common in the kingdom is that of the "(ireat War" medal, which will cover the whole of the war for all fighting men. The riband (says the "Mail") has a broad centre of orange, and on each side from the centre outwards are narrow stripes of white, black, and royal blue.

The residents of the Ncwall Road district extend a cordial invitation to the """ n,n "f the surrounding districts to attend the An/ac Day celebrations to be b«M m the local school, commencing at 1 "'" )> m. The occasion will be taken advii ~»,. n f (.„ we i eonie theree returned Koidiors. A social will also be held in ll>r e.ven'ng. The Wangamii-Taranaki Methodist Voting Women's Bible Clnss Union are holding a district camp at New Plymouth during Easter. Sister Nellie, of Hawera, has been appointed camp commandant, and Mrs. Williams, of Wanganui, camp mother. The book chosen for study circle work is "Discipleship," by ,T. T. Lawton, M.A. At the camp social, athletic, intellectual, and religious tastes will be catered for.

Land buyers who wish to secure a farm on easy terms should read W. H. and A. McGarry's advertisement on page one.

Ask distinctly for S4STDEIVP EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, or else you may receive one of the manv substitutes. The GENUINE iSANDEB EXTRACT cures colds, fevers, indigestion; prevents infectious diseases and heals ulcers, poisoned wounds, skin diseases, burns, sprains, etc. Tt is much more powerfully antiseptic than the common eucalyptus and does not depress or irritate like the latter.

On April 5 the New Zealand troops in the United Kingdom numbered 20,461 and in France 593.—Press Association.

A pupil of the local Convent, Miss Ruby Smith, who was a candidate for the Intermediate pianoforte examination, Trinity College, London, held last September, has been successful in gaining the exhibition prize awarded by the college for the highest marks secured in that grade throughout the Dominion.

All pandemics, except that which occurred in 1847 in England, have been followed by recurrent waves, spreading/ over from two to three years ; according to a statement made by Dr. A. B. Pearson during a lecture to the Workers' Educational Association in Christchurch, states the Press. He considered that the virulent epidemic of November last had rendered the community to a certain extent immune, and if there were a recrudescence of the disease in the early winter of this year, it would be in a milder form, though it might be more widespread. There had, during the recent epidemic, been a remarkable absence of the ordinary cold bacteria, the presence of which, causing irritation of the nose and throat, would be m6re likely to spread the disease. "It is fashionable," remarked Dr Pearson, "to call an ordinary cold influenza, but those who have had the actual influenza won't do so any more."

Mr A. D. M'Rae, millionaire lumber-1 man, of Vancouver, who during the war was a major-general, in charge of the quartermaster department of the Canadian Forces, and also a director of organisation for the Ministry of Information in London, during n visit to San Francisco from British C'olifmbia, expressed the opinion that 50 years will elapse before another world conflict is engaged in- Like General Wood, M'Rae says he believes other wars are possible within a half a, century. "Fifty years hence," said Major-General M'Rae, "will see another terrible war of the nations of the world. The present generation ifi tired of wars, but civilisation will not change its opinion of conflicts." The general believed that a League of Nations speaking English would be much better than a league of all nations for the purpose of establishing permanent peace.

Through jumping off a motor bus while it was in motion, a young man named Arnold Ackroyd sustained a fracture of the left arm. It is stated that Ackroyd and fourteen others had been out picnicking and were returning to Petone, via Constable Street, late on Friday afternoon, when the motor-bus in which they were travelling behaved in such a manner that, with the exception of the driver, the whole of the party jumped off the bus, and, while the majority were shaken, Ackroyd and two others received cuts and bruises which required medical attention. Ackroyd, who lives at Cuba Street, Petone, was admitted to the hospital at 5.45 p.m., but the others were allowed to proceed to their homes after having their injuries dressed. The driver brought the bus to a standstill soon after the passengers had deserted it.

"Thirty-one years ago the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce stated in an annual report that it was glad that the Government had decided to proceed forthwith with the construction of the Midland Railway," said Mr. A. ICaye in a valedictory address to members of the chamber. The Government, he added, was still "proceeding" with the work. The chamber had always been "up against" the disabilities which had resulted from the Government monopoly of the railways, and one consequence was that in recent years it had turned its attention to the canal question. Whatever arrangements were eventually come to in respect of shipping facilities, it would never get satisfaction until acceßg by road, whether to Heathcote or Lyttclton, could be obtained direct to the place of tlie unloading of imports.—ChristI church Sun.

According to "Hufvudstadsbladet," Lenin was recently robbed while lie was passing through a street in Moscow in his motor car by some seamen who came from Petrograd. The assault occurred in daylight in the centre of the city. Lenin was stripped of his overcoat and his portfolio, watch, and motor car were stolen. On the same day the seamen were shot, after being arrested while they were trying to rob the office of the railway station at Nikola, where there were ' 28,000,000 roubles (nominally £2,800,000).

"On some remote mountain in the Far East an Englishman, a Frenchman, and a German once found themselves in dire want of food," says Walter Sichel in the "Fortnightly." "At all risks, a sheep must be found before nightfall. What happened? The Frenchman spoke much of his mother, wept, and sighed. The German sat down with a scrap of paper, on which, with a pencil, he evolved from his inner consciousness ft labored map of where a sheep should be found. But meanwhile the Englishman had silently vanished, to return by evening with the sheep required."

The certificate printed for issue to honorary voluntary workers who renderid valuable service during the influenza epidemic is now (available. Applications from those for whom the certificate is intended should be addressed to the Secretary of the Public Health Department, Wellington, and should be supported by a letter of recommendation from a mayor, a county chairman, a clergyman, a public school headmaster or headmistress, a medical practitioner, or some ether person occupying a public position. The certificate is a plain document, signed by the Minister of Public 'Health, and setting forth that the person mentioned therein "rendered valuable service during the epidemic as a voluntary worker, and is hereby awarded the thanks of the Government.

firey jerseys with collars and open fronts arc quite the rage for little boys. The Melbourne, Ltd., have a splendid Colonianl all-wool fine knit line in stock at the following prices: 22-ineli 7s lid, 2-1-inch 8s 9d, and 2fl-inch Ss lid. As (here is a considerable shortage of these goods customers are advised to call earlv.