LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. M. Dillon, an old Taranaki Crimean veteran, having lost his medals. Lord Jelljcoe has promised to obtain new ones to replace them.

Speaking of a defaulting ex’-patient at the Patea Hospital Board meeting the. chairman remarked: “He should pay his .account. He put on enough side while in the hospital, and talked of his ancestors eleven centuries back.”

Discussing the question of sea erosion a speaker at a meeting of the East End Reserve Committee last night remarked that this trouble had been continually cropping up in New Plymouth for the past forty-five years, but no active steps were taken to construct any protective works. He believed that if a decision had been come to for the erection of a concrete wall, and if only a few chains had been completed each year, the problem would have been overcome by this time.

The proposed increases in the Customs duties has affected the price of many lines of dry goods, says the Christchurch Sun. All American cornflours are up Id a lb. On imported lines of rennet the new prices will be dearer by at least 2s 6d a dozen. Crosse and Blackwell’s essences are dearer by approximately 2s a dozen. Essences manufactured in the Dominion are expected to harden, as spirits, which form the basis of manufacture, are subject to increases in duty. An increase will be made on cocoa produced by foreign concerns. Van Houten’s has hardened in consequence, by 2d a lb. While dealing with finance last Friday night, the Prime "Minister said he had authorised the High Commissioner ‘before leaving London to raise a loan of £500,000 when opportunity offered. A few days ago he had received word from the High Commissioner that the loan had been raised at £99. That was pos'sibly the best price that an overseas Dominion had obtained for a long time past. The money would be used for development purposes. They would want it during the winter months. He dare not go on the London market during the present financial year, but if money was required next year they would be able ’to eo on the London market and assure them that the money we had received had been well and properly used. A sitting of the Magistrate’s Court was held at Hawera yesterday Before Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M. Robert Mortlock was convicted and fined 10s for leaving a car in the road without a light after sunset. For similar offences B. A. Peterson was fined 15s and costs, and R. J. Nicholson 10s and costs 7s. R. F. Page, for driving a car at night without a light, was fined 10s and costa. J. C. Amos pleaded guilty to a charge of riding a bicycle along the footpath, and was fined 10s and costs. W. Hayward, charged with having wrongfully removed shingle from the foreshore at Waingorogoro, was fined £lO, the magistrate stating that he had already been fined £>lo.

A meeting of the East End Committee was held last night, Mr. A. R. navis presiding. It was decided to intimate to the Borough Council that the committee approved of the proposal to grant a lease of an acre of the reserve (near the bridge) to the New’ Plymouth Croquet Club for the purpose of laying down lawns. The meeting discussed arrangements in connection with the plain and fancy-dress ball, which is to take place on the 30th inst. Matters in reference to the annual picnic on New Year’s Day, 1922, were also considered, and a sub-committee comprising the chairman. Messrs- R. Hill (secretary), R. Bennock, and L. Lovegrove was set up to deal with the programme. About noon on November 19, 1858, the 58th Regiment left Auckland in the barque Mary Ann en route for England. As the vessel sailed the band played “Fare Thee Well My Mary Ann.” The colors of thes famous regiment were presented to the inhabitants of Aucklond by Lieutenant-Col-onel Bridge. For a long period they hung in the Supreme Court, but in 1900 w’ere deposited in the Free Public Library, and are preserved in a handsome glass case. These were the first colors of the British Army to be unfurled in New Zealand, in the year 1845. The late Mr. M. Free, of New Plymouth, is stated to have been the last of the old ,58th Regiment who lived in New Zealand. When the regiment left for the Old Country a number of the soldiers were allowed to take their discharge in Auckland. The descendant of one color-sergeant, now a man three score years and ten, attends ed at the Art Gallery on the anniversary, and with uncovered head saluted the flag which his father served under in 1845.

In a lecture at tVellington on social hygiene, the Hon. Dr. Collins, C.M.G., in a reference to bubonic plague, explained that the disease in men is entirely dependent on disease in the rat; the infection is conveyed from rat to rat and from rat to man solely by the rat flea- A case of bubonic plague is not in itself infectious. Plague is usually conveyed from place to place by imported rat' fleas, which are earned by people on their persons or in their baggage, but the human agetit may himself escape infection. Insanitary conditions have no relation to the occurrence of plague except in so far as they favor infestation by rats. A person who had been inoculated by means of the rat flea with the bacillus soon became ill. Plague was a very terrible disease, and it was not surprising that every precaution was being taken by the authorities to prevent its introduction.

For ladies’ and children’s night-dress-es, underwear, and night attire, there s nothing to equal the splendid line of fine crepe now offering at the Melbourne, Limited, at 3/11 per yard. Without exaggeration this cloth is the finest that has ever entered the Dominion. In white, helio, pink, saxe, pale blue and vieux rose.

That milk quickly becomes contaminated even when the greatest care is taken is well known to everybody. What chance has milk of remaining pure for lono- after it has passed through dirty machines or utensils? Every dairy farmer in the country should use plenty of "Sinus,” the champion cleanser, which ensures pure, sweet milk at all times. Ask for “Sinus.” Don’t take substitutes. Mr. Clement Wragge, the noted astronomer, of Auckland, arrived in New Plymouth last night. To-night, at the Workers’ Social Hall, Mr. Wragge will give a lecture on “The Grandeur of the Heavens, the Marvels of the Universe, and the History of the Maori.” Tomorrow night a lecture will be given on “The Music of the Weather.”

Kurit (cure-it), the only sure cure for in-growing toe nails. Post free, 3/6. Madam Wall, Box 246, Hawera. “PRESTO” FIRE EXTINGUISHER puts out little fires before they become big ones. No motor-car or launch should he° without one. Manning Co., 5 Bedford Row,

Mails which left Auckland on October 18 by the Niagara, via Vancouver, arrived in London on. November 20.

The bakehouse occupied by Mr. J. Somerton, which was damaged by fire early yesterday morning, is owned by the estate of the late Mr. D. A. Lealand, and was insured for £2OO in the South British Office. On the machinery, plant, trade utensils, stock, confectionery and general sundries there were policies amounting to £555 in the United Insurance Company’s Office, and a policy of £335 in the Australian Alliance Office on general stock in trade. At the recent meeting of the committee of the Carnegie Institute a vote of thanks was accorded the following recent donors of gifts: Mrs. Therklestone, an ostrich egg; Estate of late Thos. Kelly, an ancient powder flash and nine Taranaki almanacs of the ’seventies; the Bishop Honolulu, a selection of 60 publications from their famous and valuable series dealing with the ethnological and natural history survey of the South Sea Islands.

The New Zealand Aero Transport, of Timaru, intend to establish a permanent air service in Wellington, so that possibly within the next few months there may be a more or less regular traffic across Cook Strait, probably to Blenheim. From that point holiday jaunters could proceed by motor-car services either to Christchurch or Nelson, or possibly a second aeroplane will be based on Blenheim to convey through passengers to Christchurch in one day.

Speaking to a Dominion reporter about his flight across Cook Strait on Saturday afternoon, Mr. Cuthbert Mercer said that when about two to three miles off the entrance to Tory Channel, flying at a height of 5000 feet, he could clearly see the bottom of the Strait. The winter was very calm, and the light apparently just right, for he could see the floor of the ocean, strewn with great boulders and rocks.

A Syrian tailor who was giving evidence in the Auckland Supreme Court on Friday caused amusement when he was asked some questions regarding "profits. He said the profits were fixed by the Tailors’ Union, and he could not possibly divulge them. Besides, he added, there might be some of his customers in court.

The home missioner (Mr. H. G. Sell) will hold services next Sunday, the 27th instant, at Piko at 11 a.m., and at Okoke at 2.30 pan.