LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The leaq-to at the rear of the Oddfelows' Hall, Manaja, was practically destroyed by fire pn Monday evening. Smart work by the fire brigade saved the main buildings. The collections taken up at the Anzac commemoration services yesterday afternoon amounted to nearly £l4, and will be handed over to the Soldiers' Club committee.
_ In connection with the municipal elections, any candidate who has been nominated, but desires to withdraw from the poll, must give three clear days' notice to the returning officer before the date of the election. To-day is, therefore, the last day. sucli notice can be given for the New Plymouth election. Two lads—Eric Howell and Ernest Brazier—were committed for trial at Otaki on Thursday for placing an obstruction, in the form of a gate, on the railway line at Paraparaumu on the 10th inst. Evidence showed that the train crashed into the obstruction, but little damage was -done. Both lads pleaded guilty, and were allowed out on bail of £IOO each.
Mr. Newton King, chairman of the New Plymouth Harbor Board, addressed a well attended meeting in the Ngaere Hall last night on the proposed harbor improvement scheme, a poll to raise a loan for which is to be held on Wednesday. Mr. Morrison presided, and, at the conclusion of the address, a resolution was carried, with but one dissentient, pledging those present to support the board in its proposals. The"Taranaki executive of the Farmers' Union resolved on Thursday: "That this executive has protested against the embargo on hides, and fails to see how the price of leather can be controlled without interfering with the free market of hides, which this executive considers is essential to the welfare of the Dominion. Whilst the farming community were quite agreeable to special war restrictions they are now absolutely opposed to the perpetuation of any such interference with the free market of their produce.
Over si\'ty soldiers were on, the Wanganui-New Plymouth express train last night, and right up the line the soldiers, some of whom were accompanied by their wives, had a royal reception, the various stations being densely lined with eager and curious spectators. At Hawera the reception was very cordial, while speeches of welcome were delivered at Eltham and Stratford. There were no cot cases amongst the Taranaki soldiers, who were all looking particularly well. • Speaking at the Farmers' Union executive meeting on Thursday, Mr. Maxwell said that a proper soil survey was required. It would be very expensive to provide this in regard to each holding New Zealand, but the cost would be justified in the great saving that would be effected in the use of manures, large quantities of which were usually wasted, and worse than wasted in that their iujudicious use was often actually injurious to the pastures. In a general discussion, the opinion was expressed that farmers were expecting too much spoon feeding; that they were not sufficiently alive to their own interests to help themselves; and that most of their pasture difficulties could be overcome by proper experimenting in a small way. Many of them were too indifferent to use fertilisers at all, and others used inadequate quantities and then blamed the fertilisers because they did not get the results they apparently expected.—Star.
The Chautauqua people (said the Mayor of Stratford, Mr. McMillan, in an address on Wednesday evening) had spoken of the Dry Bones retarding progress in a community. In Stratford, there were Dry Bones, old and young, the worst type being men of means who took no interest in tho affairs of the town in which they had amassed their wealth, but actually to them the town was less than a secondary consideration. Such people were no good to a town—they would be much better dead, so that somebody else might do something useful with their money. It was not sufficient to have a progressive mayor and council—every citizen must be imbued with the spirit of progress, and must do liia bit, great or small, to build up a solid town.
At Wanganui the other day Mr. G. F, Moore's Rangitatau property was sold by auction. The land totalled 8238 acres, subdivided into five lots; and the price realised was a little over £BO,OOO, Details:—Lot No. 1, comprising 1715 acres, fll 17s 6d per acre, Mr. Geoffrey Potts, Palmerston North; hilly and undulating country, which, with the exception of a few clumps of bush, is all in fjrass. No. 2, comprising 1565 acres, £l7 10s per acre, Mr. Joseph F. Knight, Newbury, Palmerston North; undulating country, practically all in grass, No. 3, comprising 1400 acres, £9 5s per acre, Mr. A. Walker, Wanganui; hilly land, with some flat and some bush. No. 4, comprising 1070 acres, £lO per acre, Mr. Robert Ross, Brunswick; hilly country, all in grass. No. 5, comprising 2488 acres, £3 10s per acre, Mr. Frederick Allcock, Wanganui; mixed bush, with about 700 acres in grass.
A new touch was given to the Anzac Day commemorations yesterday, in which the members of the junior branch of the .Women's National Reserve (theboarders at the New Plymouth Girls' High School) laid flowers on the graves of the soldiers buried at Te Henui, and also on those of the old soldiers. About 8 o'clock in the morning the Mayoress met Miss Barr (principal of the school) and about forty girls, who carried large bunches of flowers, and they marched from the entrance into the cemetery and spread the flowers on the grave of every soldier buried there. In addition, the girls, who had brought laurel leaves with them, twined them into wreaths and laid one on each grave, there being about forty altogether. The girls have undertaken to do this service each Saturday, and the Mayoress will be pleased to receive flowers from anyone for the purpose. They also intend to care for any of the graves in cases where there are no relatives or frijsnds to tend them.
The New Plymouth Harbor Board notifies that a meeting is to be held at the Stony River Saleyards on Tuesday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, for the purpose of considering the board's proposals for raising a special loan for harbor improvements.
On Wednesday next Messrs Webster Bros, will submit to auction the household furniture and effects of Mr. A. V. Sturteyant. The sale will be held at the residence (corner of Vivian and Morley Streets), and will commence at 1 o'clock. The furniture, etc., is all in the best of order.
The Trentham Dominion Scholarships Art Union is now being energetically supported throughout New Zealand. Every shilling ticket gives a chance of winning substantial prizes, while every shilling spent on tickets goes to the splendid cause of providing scholarships for the children of New Zealand's killed and disabled soldiers and sailors. Tickets are on sale everywhere at Is.
The anniversary of the Whitelev Memorial Sunday School will be celebrated by special services to-morrow. At 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. the Rev. J. Napier Milne will be the preacher, and in the afternoon, at 2.45, an address will be given by Mr. H. T. H. Grave. There will be special singing by the children, who will bo assisted by the choir of the church and a small orchestra.
A Christehurcli gunner, who returned to New Zealand by the Hororata, claims to distinction of having fired the last shell into the German lines from the New Zealand 1' ield Artillery, before the armistice came into force. He was in the Ist Battery at the time, and he states that on Sunday, November 10, they had been following up the Germans all day and wont into action in some boggy ground, alongside a hedge. They were all "dog tired," and soon after fixing up a rough "bivvy" they went to sleep, with the exception of a few men on duty. Shortly after mi«night, however, an order was sent down for "six rounds gun, fire," in order to quieten an enemy machine-gun which had been making things lively. The detachment got to work and soon fired off the rounds, not knowing that that was to be their last time in action. Later in "the day the orderly officer informed the gunner that they were the last battery to be in action and that as the Australian artillery were out of action the gunner was the last man to fire a shell against the Germans. I GERSTENA for BREAKFAST. Ask distinctly for SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, or else you may receive one of the many substitutes. The GENUINE SANDER EXTRACT cures colds, fevers, indigestion; prevents infectious diseases and heals ulcers poisoned wounds, skin diseases, burns, sprains, etc. It w much more powerfully antiseptic than the common eucalyptus and does not depress or irritate like the latter. GERSTENA for BREAKFAST-.
After the Anzac services yesterday afternoon the Mayoress and members of the Women's Patriotic Committee entertained about 40 returned men to afternoon tea at the Soldiers' Club.
In our report of the annual meeting of the Taranaki Acclimatisation Society yesterday the name of Mr. A. H. Johnstone was omitted from the list of councillors appointed for the year. A rather peculiar domestic arrangement was mentioned in a maintenance ease at Napier on Monday (says the Hawke's Bay Herald). A wife desired maintenance from her husband, who was living at her house as it boarder and paying £1 a week for board and £1 for maintenance. "Then you're not on sncl; bad terms after all," remarked the Magistrate. "If I make the order for £2 a week maintenance, will he continue as your boarder at £1 a week?" "Oh! he can please himself about that," replied complainant, and the case was adjourned to enable the husband to give his version.
Since the war ceased material for automatic telephones has been coming in with a greater degree of reliability, and it is hoped within a brief period to have the whole of the material for the Masterton exchange and the two Wellington branch exchanges—Courtenay- Place and Newtown. This will relieve the telephone situation to a great extent. Some of the material is being manufactured in Great Britain and some in America, and it is hoped that before long the manufacture of certain portions in Antwerp will be recommenced. It is interesting to recall that as soon as war began Belgium hurriedly packed up her telephonic manufacturing machinery and sent it to England. There it was reassembled in part, and the manufacture was partially resumed, only to be again interrupted i the demand for'munitions. Some of the machinery was sent to America, and work was carried on there, but ceased when America joined in the war.
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