LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 April 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

They will be no issue of the Taranaki Daily Mews to-morrow (Good,. Friday). The paper will be published as usual on Saturday and Monday (Easter Monday ). The Dannevirke gas works are to be taken over by the municipality on May 1. The .Palmerston drapers are so satisfied with the trial given to Saturday six o'clock closing that they propose to make it permanentThe Shaw, Savill liner Mamari left Wellington for New Plymouth yesterday afternoon, and is expected here about noon. Tt is stated that at the present time 400 dwelling houses are under construction 111 and near the city of Wellington. Several instances of honey poisoning arc reported in the Morrinsville district due to eating wild honey before it is ripe. One case necessitated medical attention. A South Taranaki. farm changed hands recently at £45 an acre. In the afternoon it was sold again at a substantial advance, and a week or two later it was resold for £76 per acre! A further step in the Ponsonby murder trial was taken yesterday, when Denis Gumi was charged at the Auckland Police Court with the murder of A. .T. Braithwaite, postmaster at Ponsonby. He was remanded for another week. One wonders where the demand for houses will pull up. A remarkable sale was effected in Palmerston North last week, in which a five-roomed house was sold at £I4OO. Five hundred poUnds was paid for it two years ago, says the liues. The following vital statistics for the New Plymouth district have heen supplied by Mr. J. S. S. Medley (Registrar), the figures ill parenthesis being for the corresponding period last year:—For month of March —Births 4ft (30); deaths 10 (5); marriages IS (S). For quarter to Inarch 31—Births 140 (101); deaths 29 (21); marriages 50 (23). In connection with the proposed dinner early in April to celebrate the inauguration of the new Inglewood county, the chairman stated at yesterday's meeting of the Moa "Road Board that he had forwarded an invitation to the Premier to attend. The Premier bad replied that he would not be able to accept the invitation for that date, but if" the function could possibly be held later ho would make an effort to attend. The chairman stated that he had considered that it was vitally important to the district that the Premier should attend, and as soon as he ascertained what date would suit the Premier he would call a meeting and arrange details. A REMEDY FOR RHEUMATISM. Well-known Tesident of Nelson (name given 011 request) writes: "It gives me great pleasure to be able to say that by using Rlieumo T have been completely cured of gout and rheumatism, from which I have been a. sufferer for the past twenty years. I have not had the slightest symptoms for the past two years, and -feel confident it is' a permanent cure." Rheumo seldom fails to relieve Rheumatism, gout, sciatica, lumbago and kindred complaints. 2s Cd and 4s fid (large size contains full weeK's treatment). Nervine stops Toothache. Progandra quickly cures Corns—ls. 80 '

During the hearing of a charge 01 stealing moat against two employers of the Wellington ifeat, Export Company at the Wellington ,S..M. Court on Tuesday, it was stated that the company lo.st on an average two sheep earcases a (lay from petty thieving. Some of the butchers were receiving from .ClO to £'l2 a week. Both accused were fined a week's wages, or £lO. A Xew Zealand metropolitan newspaper recently landed a shipment of paper costing £97 per ton. licfore the war the cost was £lO. Even at £<)7 paper cannot now be purchased for this year. .Many .of the Xew Zealnd journals, large and small, are threatened with extinction.

Addrcssiiv a public meeting held at Wangamii to protest against' the libdi cost of living, the iiev. 11. !.. Jilamires said when lie looked round at the well fed, well clothed and *leek gathering lie wondered whether , the question was not the cost of hiuh living. (Laughter). What had impressed returning soldiers to Xew Zealand was the waste of good food. People preferred to eat new bread instead of old bread, and a hand fill of tea was often used for afternoon tea. If it cost 7s per lb."it Would be used just the same. Men were the greater •sinners.

The requirements of business (irms in Hawera, when suitable buiine.v premises are very dillicult to obtain, are being- met in some cases by the acquisition of private dwellings and boarding houses, and the purchase of two houses foimeily used by boarding - houses by different firms, who intend to convert them to uses very different to those they are now serving, will mean that about 30 people will have to find homes m some other part of the town. A Hawera house agent was asked if (he position in regard to housing was netting any easier, and the replv was that, the demand for houses was 'as keen as ever.—Exchange. As an indication of the acnteness of the paper shortage in America, a Wangamu bookseller and stationer on I hursday showed a Chronicle reporter a circular letter received from a big firm of newsagents, announcing that quite a number of American monthlies were publishing only once every two months, whilst several, including the LadiesHome Journal and the Saturday Evening Post, had been entirely cut off from Australian circulation.

A pariy nf motorists recently made the trip between Wellington and Auckland in a Ltdls-Kovcc t.hree-seater ccr in excellent time, although not attemptln" to P" 1 U P " record. The distance between Auckland and Wellington v : a Xapier, is over 530 miles, and "this'was' covered m 2 hours. The ber.t portion of tlm road was over the Tokeroa Plains where a speed, of on miles an hour was easily attained. The worst section of the route was the Kangihri Hi IN- where in some places the pace had to b,- dropped to between five and six miles an hour. Attention is drawn again to the art union 01 water color sketches, painted bv Mr. John Uuillie. and donated to the ■Now Hvmouth library mart day. Tickets are on sal,, at all local booksellers and at the library. The pictures arc un view at the J.lodern Tailors Ltd art union will be drawn on April It. is said that the Waircka sports meeting on Easte.r Saturday is goin« to bo a.Jjig success at Pnkekura Park. J .ie mam feature will be the noveltv cycle races. There will also be good pw.es j, n . ladies' races. Weather permitting the .sports should be most enjoyable.

On t'Jood Friday evening at 7.30 the choir of the Whiteley Memorial C'lmrcli Will sing Stainor's passiontido service "The Crucifixion." The solos will be' taken by Messrs P. (tenor) ami A. B. Macdonald (bass) The choir will be agisted by a few friends and the work will be given under the direction of Mr- R. Laurie Cooper, there will he a collection for the choir's fund. Two cheap dairy farms for sale on easy terms are advertised by W. H. and A. MeOarry, on page 1. Messrs. Treweek and Joll, land, stock and financial agents, Ilawern, advertise two good propositions in dairy lands foi sale in iaranaki. These properties show good opportunity in turnover; only requiring good men to improve them they will rapidly rise in value. Men! Your Easter hat is at the Melbourne. Just opened, an excellent i of best quality Kugliah made pure fur felt hats in popular shades at 2i!s ml. Shades are black, king drown, nutria, and nickel. These goods are much better value, than Italian or American makes. Be patriotic and buy our own people's goods." Old-fashioned washer-women thought that a lot of froth and bubble was necessary in the wash tub if the clothes were to come out sweet and clean. Users of "Fairy Wonder" Dry Soap know to he a fallacy. ''Fairy" works without such fuss in a way that is nothing short ot marvellous. At all stores.* Great preparations are being made for the Tent Treasure Hunt to be held on Easier Monday at Kawaroa Park. A line lot of useful prizes have been secured. Don't forget to look up the tent when you are at the pienie on Easter Monday.* STRIKES YOU ANY TIME. Never know when or where backache pains will strike you. The kidneys will go wrong, and when they do, the first warning is generally through the bask. -Neglect moans many serious ills, it's only a short step from common backache to rheumatic pains, urinary disorders, dropsy, Bright's disease. l)oan's Backache Kidney Pills cure every ill of the kidneys and bladder. Read this testimonj, it toils of a cure that lasted. Mrs J. H. Jones. Page Street, Stratford, says: "My Kidneys were seriously disordered for a good while, and of course I suffered terribly in consequence. The backache was awful, and I was often completely crippled with it, as I dared not move on account of the cutting pain that used to strike me across the kidneys. My ankles and legs swelled considerably and were very sore to the touch, and this symptom alarmed me somewhat, as I knew it was a sign of dropsy. I had 110 energy and always felt tired and languid. ' , About six months ago Bonn's Backache Kidney Pills were brought under mv notice as a good kidney medicine, so j" sent lor a bottle to try them. They proved to he the very thing I wanted, four bottles driving the pain out of my back am! restoring my kidneys to a health v state." Two years later, Mrs Jone ft «ays: "I ha\e had no return of my old complaint, since Doan's Backache' Kidney Pills cured me over two years ago." Do an s Backache Kiduev Pills are sold by all chemists and storekeencrs at 3/per Uottle (six bottles IG/ti), or will be po/.ed 011 receipt of price bv Fcster-Mc-pfelian Co., 70 Pitt Street," Sydney. But be sure you set DQAN'S " I .