LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lenin recently told the All-Russia Trade Union Congress that the production of Soviet bank-notes exceeded £500,000,000 a month. Cabinet has decided immediately to release all interned Jugo-Slavs and permit the publication of the paper Novi Svijet (.New World).—Press Association. The Railway Department notifies that the embargo on goods traffic will be lifted as from Monday next. The Wellington Citizens' Committee will, however, remain in office for a week longer. —'Press Association, Mr. W. J. Lopdell, Manukau County engineer, has supplied his council with the following particulars of the cost per mile to the various Taranaki local bodies for tar-scaling a 12ft road:—New Plymouth Borough Council, £260; Eltham County Council, £310; Waimate West County Council, £320; Stratford County Council, £315. All for two coats of tar. Mrs. Walker has received a. letter from the secretary of the New Plymouth branch of the R.S.A. conveying the appreciation of the members of the splendid assistance given in connection with the annual ball, the success of which was in largo measure due to the Ladies' Committee. The Association, therefore, cesires every member of that committee to accept its hearty thanks. ft had ever seemed to him, Bishop Julius said in the course of a sermon at Christchurch, that the training and discipline of the British Navy was the very finest thing on earth of its kind. It came nearer to an ideal state than anything else he knew. It had produced a typo which was loved from one end of the world to the other. He could almost wish that no man might enter Parliament until he had qualified in the Navy as an able seaman. They would then have a better Parliament. "Australia," said Mr. Sydney Kidman, the cattle king, to an interviewer, "is heavily over-supplied with horses. We have tens of thousands more than are required, and everyone has been breeding them for war purposes. A friend of mine has just shot about 2500 wild horses, and as soon as the weather gets warmer wo shall have to shoot or trap about 3000 on my property on Lake Eyre and Stewarts' Creek. Their tails and manes are all that wo shall got out of them. Horses eat so heavily that you cannot let them remain."

With the opening of the sanatorium at Waipuknrau the town lias quite a military aspect, says the DanncVlrke News. The nursing staff and orderlies have been living at the sanatorium for the last two or three weeks. On Friday the first batch of patients arrived in two special carriages attached to "the midday train. The party numbered about 30, and on the arrival'of the train were met by a number of private citizens, who kindly lent their cars for the occasion, and were quickly conveyed to the new institution. At the Hawera Magistrate's Court yesterday, Frank Farrell, taxi proprietor, Eltham, for whom Mr. O'Dea appeared, was charged that he did on September 5, near Normanby, drive a motor ear on a public highway (Austin Road), negligently. Defendant pleaded not guilty. After evidc.'iiT hai been taken, the Magistrate, reviewed the ease at some length, and held that defendant had driven his ear negligently: It was not a bad case, as defendant was not driving at a highly excessive rate of speed, but defendant should have driven with more caution than he did. Defendant would be fined 20s, with costsWrites "Newcomer"—l would be much obliged if you could find a small corner in your paper to insert this letter, because as far as I can gather what I am about to stale is fairly prevalent in this town, and requires a little attention. My wife was out for a walk, it being nearly the first time out since our arrival in New Plymouth, as she has indifferent health. However, she was not out very long when she was molested by u pair of insipid looking individuals, anil they followed her for a considerable distance, and only the appearance of a constable deterred these detestable parasites of the human race from their intentions. I am in ,'i' than sorry that I did not see them, but it is very bard indeed if a lady cannot go for a walk among some of the beauty spots of this town without interference of this sort. At a complimentary dinner to journalists who had returned from the war, at Wellington on Saturday, the chairman (Mr. Chas. Earle, editor of the Dominion) remarked that while he was in Glasgow as a member of the Overseas Press delegation, which visited the seat of war at. the British Government's invitation, he bad conversed with an officer who, without knowing where Mr. Earle had come from, had paid a notaole tribute to the New Zealand soldiers. If he had wanted an army corps to conquer the world, and had the choice of all the troops on the western front, he would, the officer said, choose the New Zealanders. It was not that they were brdver, or more daring, or more successful in attack, or more tenacious or enduring than others; but they possessed all the qualities of the beat troops; and they learnt quicker than any other troops, on the front. The officer was General Caylay, a distinguished Canadian, who bad served throughout the war; and the guests of the evening, said Mr. Earle, Were some of the New Zealanders to whom that compliment had been paid. At another gathering in London, Mr. F. A. Mackenzie, the Canadian official war correspondent, had paid a similarly high compliment to the New Zealanders. The Canadians, be said, wanted first to have New Zealand troops alongside them. Later, Mr. Earle said, he had an opportunity to remark that if Mr. Mackenzie "took off his hat to the New Zealanders." the whole world took off its hat to the gallaiit Canadian-Scottish regiment which had stood, without flinching, against the Germans' first attack on the Ypres front, till the whole force was blotted out. (Hear, hear.) To that Mr. Mackenzie had replied: "That is true. I think a lot of the Canadians; but t still take off my hat to the New Zealanders." Of those New Zealanders, the speaker concluded, the guests of the evening were typical. Attention is drawn to Messrs. Tj. A.Nolan and Co.'s mart sale to-day as advertised in another column. The articles are such as should attract the attendance of both farmers and householders. The Rev. J. Dawson, of the New Zealand Alliance, will address a public meeting in the Inglewood Town Hall on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. His address will,deal with his experience of Prohibition in America and Canada. The Melbourne Limited have opened out another small shipment of women's all wool fine ribbed black cashmere hose at 4/11 pair. The dye in theße goods is guaranteed and as wool ho9e is very scarco buyers are asked to make their jjurchaees ewdjy, > ,

At the H&wera Court yesterday, Thomas- Lloyd and Michael U. Leydon were convicted of being on the premises of the Commercial Hotel, Normanby, on September 8, after hours. The licensee (Stanley Moore), was fined £3. Sir James Allen has advised the president of the Newspapers Proprietors' Association that arrangements have been made to continue, this year, the practice adopted for some time past of posting copies of the Financial Statement to the newspapers instead of having Minmarieg telegraphed.—Press Association. A meeting of the Taranaki Employers' Association was held yesterday morning to consider the question of a universal Saturday half holiday. The president (Mr J. W. Hayden) read a circular from the Taranaki Bowling Centre inviting the Association to give" an expression af opinion on the matter and to send delegates to a conference of sports and local bodies, to be held at Stratford on the 25th inst., with a view to coming to some conclusion as to a universal half holiday on Saturdays for the province of Taranaki. Mr Hayden said the conference was expected to be a large and representative one, and already a number of bodies had expressed themselves in favor of the Saturday holiday. After some discussion, in which members said they recognised the Saturday holiday would soon come, whether they were in favor of it or not, it was decided to send delegates to the Stratford Conference with instructions to support a universal holiday for Taranaki, preferably on Saturday. Some other matters of interest to the Association were also discussed.

The Rev. J. Napier Milne believes that the church is in sympathy with the workers in their legitimate demands. At the commencement of the present year the following resolution was passed by the Meth»dist Conference held at Christchurch:."Thnt this conference of the Methodist Church of New Zealand affirms its full sympathy with Labor in its efforts to secure its' fair and equitable rights, including improved conditions, increased wages, and shorter hours, and'pledges itself to assist Labor to that end." Mr Milne will touch on some of these points in his lecture on Sunday evening in Whiteley Memorial Church. Tiie subject is announced to be: "The troubled waters of the world: are they for the healing of the nations?" Mr B. Laurie Cooper has charge of the musical arrangements. Mr G. Herbert White presides at the organ while the soloists are Miss Elsie White and Mr Mac Donald.. There will be a large choir and orchestra, and a short musical service at 6.45 will precede the service proper. The Anthems are: "How Lovely are tho Messengers" and "Seek ye the Lord." The New .Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., in conjunction with Newton King, wish to draw clients' attention to the sale of 2-tooth wethers they are holding on account of W. H. Perry, Esq., of Tututawa, in Newton King's Douglas Yards on Monday, 6th October. Particulars on page 8 of this issue. The trials of washing day can be relieved by the use of "FAIRY WONDER" Cleanser, the new scientific washing powder. This compound, put up in handy packets, can now be had of nil grocers and wholesalers throughout the North Island. Housewives are delighted with it. Washerwomen swear by it, while laundries buy it in wholesale quantities. They know which is best. In our auction columns in this issue Webster Bros, draw attention to the sale of new modern house furniture, etc., which they are selling on Wednesday next in the Good Templar Hall, on account of Dr. H. B. Leatham.