LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The Inglewood Record announces that in future it will publish bi-weekly instead of tri-weekly. Another Hawera milkman has been convicted of selling milk with deficient solids. The milkman (James Champion) was fined £3 and costs. Speaking at Kapuni yesterday, Mr. J. B. Murdoch, chairman of the Joll Company (the second biggest dairy company in Taranaki) said that suppliers could expect 2s 9d, or even' more, per lb for their butter-fat this coming season. Cricketers in North Taranaki will be pleased to hear that the pinus insignus which have for some years spoilt the light on the sports ground at Pukekura Park have at last been removed). Apart from cricket, their removal has improved the Liardet Street entrance. Our Parliamentary reporter telegraphs that representatives of the .Taranaki Hospital Board (Messrs. M. Fraser and F. J. Hill) were in Wellington yesterday interviewing the health authorities regarding, some local matters. They have ho information for publication at the present stage. On Monday evening a meat grader named Albert Welsh went into the shop of Michael Whiteford, Wanganuli, an elderly man, accused him of being a German, struck him, knocked him down and brutally kicked him. In sentencing him to two months' imprisonment," the Magistrate said it was intolerable that such conduct could be permitted, that a man could fill himself with liquor, shelter himself behind a half-drunken condition, and go and commit a brutal, cowardly assault on an old man. The matron of the New Plymouth Public Hospital desires to thank Mrs. Baaham, Mrs. Humphreys, Miss Millar, •Miss Hurley, and Mr. Webster for a delightful concert given to the patients of itae hojDital on Monday afternoon.
After a long spell of fine weather heavy rain fell in New Plymouth yesterday afternoon, with boisterous conditions, and continued last night. Last night's weather report says: Present indications are for northerly winds, increasing strong to gale, and backing to southerlies shortly. Cloudy and unsettled weather is expected, with rain generally, and colder conditions following. . The barometer is falling, but will rise after about twenty-four hours. Dame Nellie Melba sang to the world by wireless telephone on June 15th, at the invitation of the Daily Mail. The I concert was given at Chelmsford, and the audience included all "listeners-in" within a radius of 1000 miles. The singer's glorious voice was clearly heard in Paris and Berlin and at the Hague, and messages from all listepers-in in all parts of England record the success of this unique and wonderful concert. Tables and chairs for children in schools, instead of desks, was a reform strongly advocated by Mr H. E. Long-, worth, chief physical instructor of the Education Department, in a lecture to teachers at Wellington. Chairs and tables meant freedom of movement, a most, desirable thing, he said. A feather' remarked that they had school furniture in Wellington which was 35 years old, and they could not get rid of it.
A railway smash at Hurstville, outside Sydney (says the Bulletin), brought to light a youngster who ought to make a model husband when he marries. Although pinned under some wreckage, he was not badly hurt, and when the rescuers came along he suggested that they had better look for worse eases before they troubled to release him. While waiting he, saw in the crowd, a youngster he knew. "Hey, Billy said. "Nick home and tell mother I'm all right, but I'll be late for tea." Here aTe a few of the uses made of sawdust and forest waste in America:— "Silk socks which look like silk, and feel like, silk,"but are cheaper than the real thing; sawdust sausage casings in which wood, converted by chemical processes into viscoe, is used instead of the old type of sausage casings, produced from the by-product of the slaughter-house; wood-flour, phonograph records, compressed under enormous power, to help make music from sawdust; tanbark shingles, made from the waste hemlock bark after it had been through the tannery; and paper cork bottles to help fight the high cost of living.
A divorce lias been obtained by Eli Higham, of Lancashire, a. decree of nullity being granted on the ground that the marriage came within the prohibited degree of affinity—he married his aunt. The parties went to Australia in I fill for the purpose of marrying. Higham was then 20, and his widowed aunt was 42. The pair were married in Melbourne in 1912, but later they disagreed. Higham joined the A.1.F., and returned to England. Counsel mentioned that the aunt's income was £ISOO a year, and he suggested that the money possibly attracted Higham.
An effort is to be made to start a chess and draught club in New Plymouth, and a meeting with that object in view is called for next Wednesday evening.
The average person may not know it, but a small quantity of ''Fairy Wonder" Dry Soap added to the bath imparts a delightful smoothness to the skin, in addition to being highly cleansing. It is also delicately perfumed. Don't forget next time and try a little "Fairy" in your bath. All grocers stock it. ' .
The latest fashions in ladies' and children's spring and summer millinery are just opened at Mr. R. L. Lewers'. Stratford.
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