LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I'Ord Jcllieoe sailed from Sydney on Saturday on board H.M.S. New Zealand en route to Wellington.

A Sydney cablegram reports tliat a sharp earthquake was reported in several suburbs, but no damage was done.

This i 9 a Bpoeimen of American journalistic "scoops": Yesterday we were the first newspaper to publish the death of Mr. William li. Jones. To-day we are the first to deny the report. .The Morning Star is always in the lead.

Mr. Wilford told a deputation of waterside™ that the Cabinet had authorised the appointment of seven inspectors of (rear, two in Auckland, Wellington, and Dunedin, and one in Lyttelton. Information has been received from Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., that the Tnratiftki Land Board will offer a number of sections in the Te Kiiiti district. An area of land is to be opened up along the route of the Stratford railway betwecn Okahukura and Matiere. Of this land a number of sections will be offered to returned men and a number of men engaged on the railway construction works.

The Rev. M. Palgrave Davy, of Auckland, superintendent of the New Zealand Children's Mission,. is paying another visit to New Plymouth in the interests of the young people. The meetings this coming week wjll be held at St., Andrew's Presbyterian Hall, from Tuesday till Friday, at 7 o'clock each evening. Adults are invited. On Monday a preliminary gathering for Sunday school teachers and parents will be held at ,St. Andrew's at 7.30. All who are interested in this special effort to influence for good the young people of Now Plymouth aro invited to this meeting.

The waste in shipments or oranges from the Islands is now a marked feature of the consignments ooming forward (says the Auckland Star), and the attributable, cause of the high prices askod in the shops for this Island fruit. Re-packing operations in connection with the 1'2,000 cases which arrived last week by two Island steamers show that 50 per cent, of the fruit is over-matured, and has to be relegated to the waßte heap. The cliief cause is accounted for by auctioneers to the long trips now taken by the Island steamers. . The oranges wrapped in paper have come through tho inspection better than those unwrapped. At the annual meeting of Veterans on Saturday Mr. W. 11. Skinner brought before the meeting the matter of the proposed memorial to the late Archdeaoon Walsh. He reminded those present that it was largely due to bis efforts that the memorials to the various regiments had been preserved in St. Mary's Church, and it was felt that there should be Borne memorial to Archdeacon Walsh. The proposal was that a, memorial window should he erected an. the new flovett memorial chapel. Ho hoped the Veterans would be represented in the memorial, and any donations towards that object would be gratefully received. The ohairman warmly commended the proposal to the members, and between £3 and £4 was subscribed in the room.

In regard to the report from Christchurch that .Australian interests were likely to secure control of the ironsand industry in New Zealand; the chairman of the New Zealand Iron Ore Smelting Company, which has been operating at Moturoß, states that this company has not entered into any negotiations with Australian or other capitalists, nor have any overtures been made to the company in that direction. The operations of the company are hindered by the impossibility of obtaining coke or coal, otherwise it is believed the company would be working successfully and supplying the New Zealand market wjth pig-iron. The basic phosphate now being landed at Auckland by the War Soldier (says the N.Z. Herald) is the first shipment to reach that, port for some time past. The phosphate in question is Egyptian, being mined about twenty miles from Salaga Bay, on tho Red Sea, about 224 miles' from Suez. Its presence, which was discovered some years ago, is attributed to volcanic action in ages past. Eruptions caused part of the sea bed to rise, and thus become dry land. The marine matter on the exposed sea bed formed a thick crust, which is now being mined. The phosphate in its raw state is of a rocky formation and contains a large amount of fish matter, numerous large teeth being found among it. The nhnsnhare is mined by Arabs supervised by five white men. There is no water lit for drinking for miles, and all water for domestic purposes is condensed at; Safaga Bay in large vaporators, and sent to the settlement in tanks. Owing to the scarcity of shipping during the war only a few shiploads of the phosphates have been sent away by the Scottish Company that owns the field.

The Loan and Mercantile draw clients' attention to their usual fortnightly sale at Stratford on Tuesday. Full particulars of entries on page 8. Speaking to representatives of the meat industry at Wellington on Friday, Sir Joseph Ward stated that, whereas in 1914 there were 90 refrigerated ships, with space for 8,800,000. carcases, available to transport meat from this country, the fleet available at a recent date consisted of, only 52 steamers, with a load capacity of 4,500,000 carcases. He mentioned also that the cost of shipbuilding in Britain is at present almost prohibitive, and instanced the case of a ship which before the war was estimated to cost £IIO,OOO, and has lately been completed at a cost of £450,000. An extraordinary run on ladies' blouses marked the opening stages of the Melbourne's great Er-d-of-thc-Scnson Sale. In this connection it is the intention of the management to keep up the supply of blouses at reduced prices right throughout the three weeks of sale.

In these times of scarce and expensive fuel housewives will welcome the new scientific washing powder; "Fairv Wonder" dry soap, which docs the family washing at less than half the cost of old methods. Try a packet. Instructions —printed on each carton—arc simple. Sold by all grocers and wholesalers.

For Children's Hacking Cough Woods' Great Peppermint Curb,

Members of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth (Second Group) are notified that subscriptions will be duo nntl payable to-day (Monday, August IS), at the Secretary's Office, Currie Street, from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.—Advt There is only one SANDER EXTRACT, and that is why the people reject the many inferior and harmful substitutes and just as goods. SANDER'S EXTRACT is free from the objectionable qualities of the common eucalyptus. sprains, eczema, etc. Insist on th« -antler's Kitract cures all infectious dis.i)»es, ill' winter ailments, ulcers, burns. .dffittJtttlS SANMUI'S IiXTSULCS.