LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The matron, of the Rangiatea Home (Mrs. A. Bayly) reported to the Taranaki Hospital Board yesterday that on July 30 last Mrs. Burgess had entertained the inmates at the home, and the High School girls had provided music. Mrs. Burgess had also supplied a liberal amount of confectionery.

Live stock statistics show an increase in. Germany during 1920 of 3 per cent, in the number of cattle, 15 per cent, in I sheep, and 34 per cent, in pigs, while there are also additions to 16 per cent* to the number of cattle in Belgium and 27 per cent, to that of pigs. A house-to-house canvass on behalf of the New Plymouth Citizens’ Band contest fund will be made on Saturday, and the committee hope to record a generous response to this appeal. A number of young ladies have volunteered for the collection, work. Arrangements are also being made to hold a recital at the Breakwater on Sunday afternoon. The following promises of donations to the Y.W.C.A. New Plymouth branch have been fulfilled: Mrs. T. C. List £25. Mr. J. H. Quilliam £25, Mr. J. C. Nicholson £25, Well-wisher £l2 10s, Messrs. J. Avery and Son £lO, Mr. C. H. Wynyard £8 Bs, Mrs. Douglas £5. Further donations are: Mr. H. Bates £lO 10s, Mrs. Gilbert £l, Mrs. Hardy

A juror who had been, fined £2 for non-attendance in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth on Tuesday appeared later in the morning. Yesterday His Honor heard the excuse put forward, the juryman explaining that he had not been' able to attend on account of sickness. The fine was remitted and leave granted from further attendance.

“It is a favorite trick of certain sporting gentlemen to employ out-of-work girls, ex-soldires and cripples. Perhaps the sporting gentleman in this case will pay the fines— £5, and £2 2s costs, in the case of the mother, and £2O, and £3 3s costs, in the case of the daughter. These were the remarks of a Thame! Magistrate when a woman and the girl, aged 21, were summoned for keeping q house in Wellington Street. Poplar, for for the purposes of betting. It was stated that the daughter was the chief culprit. She was employed by a well-known bookmaker. The Mercantile Gazette is one of the few journals that are sympathetic towards the banks. In its last issue it says:—“The banks have been very generous to farmers and traders, for they have advanced to their clients to the very limits of their resources. Banks are not charitable institutions. They are in business to make a profit for their shareholders, just as farmers and traders look to make a profit out of their respective businesses. . . It is safe to say that, but for the bold policy adopted by the banks during the past few months, there would have been a very serious financial crisis in New Zealand.” Companies whieh deal with insurance against sickness are paying much more attention than .fornlerly to the teeth of their clients. The manager of one company told a Daily Mail reporter that many diseases are traced to bad teeth, and that pyorrhea appears to be steadily increasing. Pyorrhea begins with poison collecting round the glims and later spreads through the system. •‘Pyorrhea starts in such a mild way and often has such far-reaching consequences that from the point of view of insurance the greatest care has to be taken in accepting people at the ordinary insurance rates who show any traces of it,” said the manager. Two years’ imprisonment with hard labor was the sentence imposed on Milton 1!V. Barlow in the Supreme Court, New Plymouth, yesterday by Mr. Justice Salmond. Prisoner, who had a previous record, and had served a period of reformative detention, had pleaded guilty to five charges of breaking and entering at Stratford. His counsel had suggested another term of reformative treatment, but His Honor demurred and held over the passing of sentence on Tuesday in order to consider the case. In addressing the prisoner yesterday, His Honor remarked that he had evidently conducted himself well for a while, following his release after three years’ detention. He had then broken out into committing crime again, abusing the liberty granted him. It was therefore necessary to give him a lesson by imposing a term of imprisonment, and His Honor expressed the hope that on release once more Barlow would lead a different life, otherwise he wohld spend most of his time in gaol. A proposal is on foot for the amalgamation of the East End and Fitzroy in seaside affairs. The East End Reserve Committee recently appointed a deputation to meet residents of Fitzroy and discuss the proposal. This conference took place in the Fitzroy School on Tuesday evening and it was agreed that a public meeting of residents of East End and Fitzroy should be called for Saturday of next week. Then the views of the present East 'End Committee and of Fitzroy people can be fully given and the matter discussed and decided.

In exemplification of the interdependence of pure and applied science. Professor T. H. Easterfield, in an address to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, amongst other examples, referred to his own researches in respect of Taranaki petroleum (states the Christchurch Press). He found that the kerosene content would not burn in ordinary kerosene lamps, and conveyed this fact to those on whose behalf he had made the investigation. When placed on the market, the kerosene was rejected, because it would not burn in ordinary kerosene lamps. He was asked to investigate the cause, ,and did so. and also indicated how the matter could be remedied; the remedy, however, was not commercially practicable. He discovered, however, that Taranaki kerosene, unlike Pennsylvania kerosene, contained a very large quantity of those substances which are peculiarly characteristic of coal tar. From this he deduced that Taranaki petroleum was tho result of thermo-decomposition. He knew, however, that there was controversy regarding the origin of petroleum, and he did not anticipate that geologists would agree with his deduction.

Webster Bros, notify they have about 50 lots unsold from the carpet sale yesterday, and these will be open for private sale during to-day and to-morrow.

At Urenui sale on Monday next wilt he sold a line of very choice grade yearlong Jersey heifers on account of Mr. W. J. Freeth. All are his own rearing, and possess outstanding quality.

It costs three-eighths of a penny to one penny per dozen to preserve eggs in Sharland’s Moa Brand Egg Preservative —sold in small tins to preserve 14 dozen eggs; half-gallon tins, 90 dozen; 1-gallon tins, 180 dozen; and 4-gallon tins. 720 dozen. It is wonderfully cheap and re- , liable.