LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A start with the public convenience in Brougham Street was made yesterday by the contractors. The doll competition in connection with tlio High School Gala Day was won by Mrs. R. D. Colson, No. 61. “The tone of your two High -Schools is very high,” said Mr. E. C. Cutten in his address at the Victoria League, New Plymouth, last night on the Young Citizens’ League. “And the knowledge of that fact is not confined to New Plymouth alone, for their fame has spread right throughout New Zealand,” he added. “The New Zealand death rate from cancer is one of the highest in the world," said Dr. Morgan when speaking at Palmerston North on the peacetime activities of the Red Cross-. In thin connection he pointed out how much could be done in the matter of the prevention of disease ’by the dissemination of proper medical knowledge, an achievement which formed one of the primary objects of the Red Cross.
A Waikato resident has received rather a significant indication of the hard times in Scotland in the shape of a one-penny ticket sold, on the tramcars at Glasgow. The ticket is issued by the Corporation tramways as a means of obtaining money to help those who are “down and out.” The back of the ticket bears the inscription. “Unemployment. —If every person who has a job purchases a rent ticket daily, every necessitous unemployed person will be assured of a roof over his or her head during the hard winter months.” The tickets are supplied to the conductors, who do their best, to sell them to the passengers. In Taranaki they were very anxious to have Stratford and the North Island Main Trunk connected up, said Mr. O. Hawken, M.P., at Normanby on Wednesday evening. A great deal of work was being done at the other end, but a start had not yet been made witli the big tunnel. The north of Auckland line would be completed in a few months, and the Otira tunnel would also be finished shortly, and when these lines were completed he had an assurance from Mr. Coates that he would concentrate on the Stratford line, which would be completed just as quickly under the policy pursued as would be the case if the old system was adopted. A certain amount of work had been done on the Te 'Roti-Opunake line in order that relief might be given to the unemployed. He believed that about 130 men were employed on the line, which he hoped would be completed to Opunake in IS months. This line would be a credit to the Government, and was going to be of great advantage to the people at the other end of the district.
Mr. E. J. Price, a prohibition orator from Sydney, was addressing a meeting at the foot of Queen’s Wharf Wellington, at the luncheon hour, recently, when his speech was interrupted by some unseemly interjections by a 14 -’stone worker who, apparently, was in entire disagreement with Mr. Price’s views. Mr. Price, who is a lightweight in comparison with the interjec.tor, protested against the objectionable character of the heckling. After an interchange the big man cried: “I suppose if there was a policeman about you would give me in charge?” Mr. Price unhesitatingly said be would, whereupon the interrupter hurled some remarks of a grossly personal character. Mr. Price jumped to the ground, saying that as the police were not about he would take the law into his own hands. Jumping into his man in the most approval style, it was a case of “One. two, three—Out!" The big man went down like a log, and the crowd cheered the little man, who had shown that he was not a man of words only. There were no further interruptions.—Dominion.
Impure milk, the bane of scrupulous factory managers, can be wholly avoided by the use of’ “Sinus,” the scientific compound specially manufactured for cleansing milking machines and separators. A small quantity of “Sinus,” dissolved in hot water and passed through the machines, ensures absolute cleanliness.
Efforts made recently by the Napier Chamber of Commerce to have Napier made a direct port of call for vessels bringing cargo from Britain, instead of the goods being landed a.t one of the main ports and transhipped to Napier, are apparently bearing fruit, states the Telegraph. The Commonwealth and Dominion Line have advised the Cham* I ber that they propose to institute a more or less regular direct service to Napier. This service is to be maintained so k -ig as 600 tons of cargo is available for each vessel.
A college to cost about £lOO,OOO lias been presented to the Masonic. Lodges of New South Wales by Mr. Charles Rolling. The object of the college is to provide free of all cost to the Masonic order a high school education for the sons of deceased Masons who otherwise would be deprived of this great advantage. The boys will be given a practical knowledge of all that pertains bo mixed farming, and at the close of their collegiate course they will be offered inducements to go on the land. Freemasonry in India is in a highly prosperous condition, according to the Indian Masonic Year Book, which has just been issued. All three constitutions of the United Kingdom are represented, England by five district grand lodges. Ireland by a number of detached lodges not under a separate jurisdiction. At Bombay, 57 units meet in the Freemasons’ Hall, 32 being English. There are 23 English lodges in Calcutta, in addition to eight Royal Arch chapters- in India divided among five subordinate jurisdictions, which English Mark Mas. onry is represented by 76 lodges. An Oklahoma (U.S.A.) clergyman has just been suspended for having brought discredit upon his denomination by putting on a bathing suit and marrying a couple in a swimming pool. The scene was exhibited in moving picture theatres all over the country. Sensational marriages of this type have been fairly numerous. There have been weddings in balloons, in aeroplanes, and in motor cars, and one is said to have taken place on a tight rope. As the contracting parties evidently lacked a proper sense of responsibility, it is not surprising that some of" these marriages eventually ended in the divorce court. A remarkable story of self- sacrifice, in which a 14-year-old girl gave her life to save three companions, has been received at Beirut by the American committee on relief in the Near Eas-t. While 500 children were bathing in the Mediterranean, near an orphanage, near Ain Tyleas, three small boys were carried beyond the safety ropes into a dangerous whirlpool. Ruth Manogia, the only other person within helping distance, swam to the edge of the maelstrom and succeeded by almost superhuman effort in rescuring all the lads and carrying them to a rock. Then she collapsed from over-exertion and died before a lifeboat could reach the rock.
A Berlin correspondent of the New York Times says: “The great dying among the German press” is an almost daily headline now. The Breslau Morning Gazette, one of Silesia’s oldest democratic papers, having existed 75 years, has just been forced to suspend, as also has the Hanau Gazette, one of the oldest German newspapers. No fewer than 144 newspapers died in Germany during July. The mortality returns for August are not in yet. The principal cause of the “black and white death" is that, whereas print paper cost around 2000 marks per car load before the war, the cost had gone up to around half a million marks last month, and is around 7-50,000 marks this month. The Uki (Murwillumbah, N.S.W.) “ghost” has been laid at last, and it it not likely that the mysterious sounds at the empty house will be continued. The trouble was caused by a youth who entered the house each evening through the back door, flashed an electric torch through various windows and decamped, throwing -stones on the roof when running away. Gne night residents kept a close watch for the “ghost,” one of the watchers being armed with a shot gun loaded with coarse saltpetre. A light appeared in a window, and the watchers rushed inside the house. The “ghost” became flurried, dropped the torch he was carrying and ran away. A shot was discharged in his direction, but it is not known if it struck the runaway, who bolted towards the bank of the creek and made towards the town.
Yet another instance of the financial vicissitudes of the theatrical profession is evidenced in the tragic death of Marie Lloyd, which formed a sad ending to a vivacious career (says an exchange). Debt, illness and misery shadowed her later years, though she had earned very large amounts —from £5OO as a salary to £5OO a week when on sharing terms with a management. Many public favourites have similarly ended in debt, and almost without exception they have been those who appeared bright and reckless while on the stage. Miss Marie Lloyd was noted for her kindness of heart, and never turned a deaf ear to distress.
“Come to church in your tennis, golf, cyclihg, etc., attire,” is in effect the appeal issued by the Rector of Beck. ,mham (Kent), the Rev. J. T. PlowdenWardlaw, and his church wardens. A newly-posted church notice states: “Worshippers in sporting attire welcomed” at Sunday night services. The lector, who approves of Sunday games in the rectory fields and local sports grounds, realises, he says, that many are unable to change from sports clothes into usual church attire. He does not mind what they wear so long as they are ‘fairly tidy.’ “My own boysand girls,” he says, “will be among the congregation, and will attend the church in sporting attire so as to make a start.”
The new tricoline bloomers at 9/11, at the ‘Melbourne’s great Turn of the Tide Sale, are in great demand. Nothing so nice at a moderate price has been offerd in years. The material is quite new, and is highly mercerised with the appearance of best quality Fuji silk. They will give splendid wear.
| There are so many queries in life that •at times one’s life may almost be said ito be one great note of interrogation. I Yet our lives are lived in accordance with natural law, and one. of the great laws of the universe—re-incarnation—-will be explained by Miss Selene Oppenheimer, Theosophical National lecturer, this evening. Those who consider life’s i problems should not fail to hear this i lecture.
I In this issue McGruers, the progressive drapers, New Plymouth, advertise special bargain days, having just landed their new season’s goods direct from London. This is an opportunity that should not be missed of securing your summer wants on Friday, Saturday and Monday at bargain prices.
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