LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“Haw&ra is a pretty busy place, isn’t it?” asked counsel of a witness at the Hawera Magistrate’s Court yesterday. “It’s not very busy just now,” replied witness, who was a land agent. The execution of Te Kahu, the Maori who was recently convicted at Hamilton of the murder of a settler, has been fixed for next Monday (says a telegram from Auckland).

A report is current in Dunedin that the R.M.S. Niagara is to be taken over by the P. and O. Company after the October-November voyage in the Vancouver service and transferred to the Atlantic trade. A new master and crew are coming out to take her Home. A brass tablet to the memory of four nurses who died during the 1918 epidemic has been erected in the main corridor at the New Plymouth public hospital. This simple, but effective mem,orial, is inscribed as follows:—1918 — November-December: Sister Agnes Taylor, Nurse Florence Austin, Nurse Phoebe Waite, V.A.D., Beatrice Mead. Underneath the roll the tablet bears the inscription: “And selfless, offered free His gift of Life.” Some interesting facts regarding the town of Hawera were stated by Mr. F. C. Spratt in conducting a case in the Hawera Magistrate’s Court yesterday. He .stated that the area of the borough was 750 acres (of which 250 acres were reserves, etc.), the number of streets was 34, and they totalled a length of 15& miles. A portion of Grey and Furlong Streets and the whole of Little ’ Regent Street were half chain streets and the rest one chain streets. The population of the borough was 4100.

* The desirability of women Justices of the Peace was urged by Miss N. E. Coad in the course of an address to the W.C.T.U. Convention at Wellington last week. “It is .a stran-ge thing,” she said, “that J.P’s have never been appointed, for the work is unpaid, and there is plenty of it for a woman to do. In the children’s courts they would be very useful —and in all cases where women and children are involved.” The speaker pointed out that there were 400 women Justices of the Peace in England, 30 in South Australia, and 61 in New South Wales.

Ruapehu, which, was stated to be active on Friday, was not emitting steam early on Monday morning. Passengers on the south-bound Main Trunk express state that the mountain is etill covered to a great extent by enow. Unusual activity, however, was observed on Ngauruhoe, which was perfectly visible from the railway lines on the Waimarino plains. There was no sign of the dense black ash and vapour reported on Friday to be pouring from the crater.. On Monday an abnormally large steam or light vapour was observed to be rising from the left of the present cone, just below the crater summit. Correspondence from the Taranaki hydro-electric committee was read at the monthly meeting of the Inglewood County Council yesterday giving a resume of the agreement arrived at recently at a conference, when it was decided that certain counties (including Inglewood) be defined as outer areas of the power district. These outer areas were invited to make application for inclusion in the district, and it was necessary that they should present a petition containing the signatures of at least twenty-five per cent, of the ratepayers of their district. The Inglewood council approved of the proposal and decided that the necessary steps be taken to secure the signatures. The increase of freight charges by the Union Steam S'liip Company on the East Coast does not apply to the West Coast trade, that is, the trade between Taranaki and southern ports. It is announced that, owing to the unpayable character of the coastal trade under present conditions, freights from southern ports and Wellington to Napier, Gisborne and Auckland and vice versa, have been increased by 2/6 per ton on. general cargo and 3/6 per ton on produce. The increase will take effect as from October 1. Apparently the trade on the West Coast is maintaining a better average than on the East Coast, and the different class of steamers employed facilitate the transport of cargo at a cheaper rste. The sixth korero held by the New Plymouth Savage Club took placa on Monday evening and was a special ladies’ night. The function took place at the Workers’ Social Hall, and the interior of the building was attractively decorated. Savage R.W.D. Robertaon was installed as rangatira and gave an address of welcome. Savage L. (Et'herington replied on behalf of the wahines, for whom he expressed thanks for the privilege of once more being admitted for a brief space into the secrecies of te hapu. The evening was given over to music and story, the orchestra contributing several items, and .Savages W. Okey, C. B. Webster, A. B. Macdonald, A. O. Sturrock, and W. B. Holder giving songs, recitations being given by Savages A. L. B. Ross, and B. Hartman. Savage Thompson, a visitor from the Wellington hapu, played “flute solos, the braves finally chanting a soft “Good Night Ladies.” Supper was served about 9.30 and thereafter the floor was cleared for dancing.

On page 8 of this issue will be found an advertisement re Te Wera sale, to be held on the 7th inst., at 1 p.m. Entry includes 20 good springing cows and heifers, and these with other stock will be offered by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. A good entry of bulls has been made for Stony River bull fair on Monday, including 30 well-bred pedigree Jerseys. See advt.

A rapid cure for Sore Throats and Fresh Colds on the Chest is to use Nazo! externally. Mix 15 to 20 drops of Nazol with a small teaspoonful of Pure Olive Oil, and rub it freely and gently all over the chest and. between the shoulders, and round the throat and neck, and then cover with flannel or silk handkerchief. Do this night and morning for 2 or 3 days. It is comforting and soothing. For very young children use only 10 to 12 drops of Nazol. 5

A shipment of New. Zealand cement is to be taken across to Australia by the Union Company’s Kaitangata, .which has gone up to Whangarei to load. “I write to let you know that, like Johnny Walker whisky, I am. still going strong for Ohrist.” Thus wrote a soldier’ to the Rev. Guy Thornton when at the front.

“I think some people are afraid that it is the thin edge of the wedge for putting local government out of existence altogether,” said the chairman of the Inglewood County Council (Mr. A. Corkill), in the course of a discussion bn the Main Highways Bill ’which took place at yesterday’s meeting.

Sixteen applications have been received by the Inglewood County Council for the position of engineer. At the monthly meeting of the council yesterday consideration of the appointment was one of the items of the agenda paper, but it was decided to defer selection.

The final figures for the American census show th.’ population of the U i‘te*l States to be 105,710,620, and the total population of the outlying possessions to be 12,148,738. There are thus no fewer than 117,859,350 people living under the Stars and Stripes.

A very painful accident befell the three-year-old son of Mr. Anderson, of Glen Road, New Plymouth, on Sunday. The child fell down a slope and came to rest on the remains of a rubbish fire which had been covered with weeds on the previous afternoon. Apparently on feeling the heat on his feet, the little boy sat down and broke through to the underlying embers, receiving serious burns. Upon inquiry at the hospital yesterday, it was learned that the child was making good progress. The liner Port Lyttelton, which is due to arrive at New Plymouth from Nelson this morning, will load a total of 30,000 freight carcases of meat, besides cheese, butter and other produce. The shipment of 15,000 carcases originally alotted to the Patea works and later cancelled, has been reinstated. This consignment will be brought to New Plymouth partly by rail and partly by the steamer Waverlev.

A request to New Zealand banks to unify their note issue is to be considered as a remit from Auckland at the Chamber of Commerce Conference to be hqld in Christchurch in November. “The bank notes in circulation at present are most confusing,” states the remit, which was considered by. the council of the chamber last week. —Sonic are too bulky, others issued by various banks are of the same size, but of different denominations, and after being handled for a while, show the same color, while all of them are usually extremely dirty and disreputable. Only one issue, circulated by the Bank of England, is current in England, and if a similar system could be established in New Zealand, the banks would earn the grateful thanks of the community.” “I could tell you of district in the Auckland Province where no gospel service has been heard for the past seven years,” saJd the Rev. L. B. Busfield, at a meeting held in Ponsonby in connection with the Young Citizens’ League. “I could also tell you of a very respectable family in Auckland who have never yet seen a Bible.” Mr. Busfield referred to the thousands of children in Auckland who never went near a Sunday-school, and said it was to these children that the Young Citizens’ League must direct its attention.

School children are notified that the matinee screening of “Through Jungle Wilds” will be at Everybody’s Theatre this fcfternon. The night session will be at the Empire. The high-grade leathers are again on the rise, and the manufacturers of footwear will at once increase the prices of boots and shoes to cover the extra cost of production. Dockrill’s, however, will continue to sell their stock of high-class goods at reasonable prices. It is now definitely announced that the Melbourne, gigantic salvage sale will commence on Tuesday next, 11th inst., at all the firm’s branch stores. The salvage from the fire has dried out better than anticipated, and as full insurance has been paid, many sensational bargains will be offered.