LOCAL AND GENERAL.
For lighting purposes at the New Plymouth station the Railway Department has decided to substitute the present gas installation with electricity. The change will, be made within the next week or two.
A youth named A. H. Bloxham, who absconded in July from an employer to whom he was licensed out from the Weraroa Industrial School, was arrested in New Plymouth yesterday by Constable Cantlon. He will be taken in custody to Weraroa to-day.
Seventy tons of sugar for Taranaki were brought'to New Plymouth by the Rarawa yesterday, and the cargo was unloaded in spite of the rain. Stocks of sugar were becoming \ery low in Taranaki, and this shipment will be a very welcome relief.
The s.s. Tahiti sailed from Vancouver on the 21st instant for Auckland. She has on board 900 bags of mail for New Zealand and 1504 bags for Australia. The s.s. Suikai Maru sailed from Newcastle on the 23rd instant for Wellington. She* carries nine bags of Australian mail for New Zealand.
The executive of the Taranaki Provincial War Relief Association has decided that it would not be advisable to attempt to raise any further funds either by all art union or appealing for donations, and that the Association should endeavor to meet all the claims of permanently disabled men out of its prasent funds.
A total eclipse of the moon occurred early this morning, but was not visible in New Plymouth owing to the atmospheric conditions. The moon entered the penumbra at 10.54 last night, entered the shadow just on midnight, and In- total eclipse began at 1k!.50 a.m., ending at 2.24 a.m. The sky was overcast hero throughout this period this morning. "Xo definite amount has been allocated for the promotion o£ boys' agricultural clubs, hut the necessary expenditure will be authorised l)R circumstances require," the Minister of Agriculture has stated in reply to an inquiry made by Mr. W. H. Field (Otaki). "Clubs are already in existence in Qtago, and others are being started immediately in Taranaki. Arrangements are being made for the appointment, of a supervisor of boys' and girls' agricultural clubs for the Dominion, and the steady progress of the movement may now be confidently anticipated." At yesterday's meeting of the 'executive of the Taranaki War Relief Association, correspondence was received from the Advisory Board of the War Funds Council., asking if the Association would contribute its quota towards a fund of £IO,OOO for blinded New Zealand soldiers. The amount of the contribution would be based on" ]p funds in the hands of the various societies in the Dominion at the present time, and in regard to Taranaki would be about £2OO. It was decided not to contribute to the fund until the Association's own permanently disabled men had been fully provided for. Albert Harold Arden, a married man, who had secured his steamer ticket and purposed going to Australia, had his journey delayed by the Wellington police. Arden came down from Ha-w-era as did information to the police stating that, he was leaving the Dominion without having made provision for the maintenance of a child. DetectiveSergeant Andrews got on his track, with the result that he was arrested. He was brought before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., and on the suggestion of the detective Arden was remanded to appear at Hawera to-morrow.
The first meeting of the new council of the New Plymouth, branch of the Victoria League was held in the clubrooms yesterday. It was decided that the club will be open to members daily from 10.30 a.m. till 5 p.m., excepting on Thursdays; that smoking be not allowed in the club-room, but that the roof garden will be free for this purpose; that the fortnightly meetings on Mondays be continued for the present; and that in future all receipts for membership fees will be placed in the letterrack in the club-room. The council decided to buy a piano for the club-room, and to ask members to devise ways and means to meet the expense. "In the matter of providing for permanently disabled soldiers the scheme of our association is the most comprehensive in the Dominion in so much that we make a grant to permanently disabled soldiers without considering the matter from an economic standpoint," said the chairman at yesterday's meeting of the Taranaki War Relief Association. "Most of the other associations are working on an economic basis, which means, as an example, that two men suffering the same physical disability may be treated entirely differently: one may get a grant and the other nothing. In the matter of cost of administration I claim that the Taranaki War Relief Association has been administered on the lowest scale of any association in the Dominion, employing only one paid official. The general policy of our association has been not to hoard the funds, but to pay out as quickly as possible once a ease had been carefully investigated." We have received a copy of the first! number of "The Dairy Farmer," ed' 1 by Mr. C. E. Cumming (late editor N.Z. Farmer). The journal is the official organ of the N.Z. Co-operative Dairy. Co., Ltd., Hamilton, but it claims a bigger scope. The ''note" of the paper is set out as being "to bring the latest scientific thought and discovery to farm and factory, and to improve the conditions of country life, so that dairying may become profitable and congenial to all associated with it." This is a high ideal, and the way to achieve it, says "The Dairy Farmer," is by co-operation, education and applied science. Taranaki will certainly endorse such an opinion. Commercial co-operation at all events needs no discussion amongst dairy farmers in this province, but there is room for co-operation to extend particularly in regard to by-products and other elimination of waste from the industry. "The Dairy Farmer" is excellently printed, arid its heading features are well set out. If the journal maintains the standard of its first number its success would seem assured, and will be well deserved. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., wish to draw clients' attention to their 'Supplementary Bull Fair which they arc holding at their Stratford yardu on Saturday, 30th inst., at 1 p.m. Full particulars of entries will be found on page 8 of this issue. Owing to the inclement weather, the fact that there is a, congestion of shipping at the wharf, and also that the majority of workers who are concerned with the holding of the Labor Day sports are at work during the next week, it has been decided to hold the sports in Pukekura Park on Saturday, November 0. The raffle for the doll in aid of the children's prizes will take place tlie same evening.
These are the kinds of bargains that have created more records at the J [elbourne's great Reduction Sale: Men's dark pennine working shirts lis tid, all wool 'colonial flannels !)s fid, navy Doctor flannels 12s (id Ten per cent off all boys' and men's suits. Ladies' striped tobraien blouses 9s lid and lis (Id, white damask 6a lid yard, ladies' all wool cashmere hose 4s lid pair, Horrockses' .3Gin Al calico 2s :3d yard, Crewdson's vei>y heavy No. 2 calico 2s (id yard.
The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., advertise on page 1 a going concern of 120 acres freehold, situated at Ngaere.
Newton King, Ltd., wisli to intimate to clients in the tlrenui and liruti districts that the clearing sale on account of Mrs. Mcßae has been postponed to Monday, Ist November, and the Uruti sale to Thursday, 4th November.
Dairymen in searclt of cows should note the date of Mrs. McKae's clearing sale, Monday, Ist November.
"Fairy Wonder'' loosens the dirt in soiled.clothes like magic, and thereby obviates the necessity of rubbing on a washboard. This in itself is a big saving in time and labor without counting the saving in the life of the fabrics. "Fairy Wonder" bleaches harmless to the finest fabric. Qt Vie at all stores.
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