LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 260, 19 October 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The s.s. AVimmera, from Melbourne. arrived at Wellington today. She brought mails from Australia and from the United Kingdom via Suez. The H.B. Motor Coy. have now started a motor ’bus service between Napier and Petane, in the form of a “Royal Mail” which has proved to be of very great value both to owners and passengers.

A general meeting of the Napier Chamber of Commerce will be held on Tuesday next to meet His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner (Mr. R AV. Dalton), who is expected to arrive in Napier on Saturday. Despite the number of visitors in Napier, things generally have been very quiet, and the usual inebriated holiday-maker was not at the Court this morning. “There’s nothing doing,” said the sergeant when approached by a reporter. As a result of police inspection two small hotel-keepers at Pahiatna, Edward John Krafmann and Frederick Paget Jones, were each fined £2O, the minimum penalty for having certain labels on whisky bottles not containg that particular brand. Defendants pleaded guilty and were allowed a month to pay the fine.—Press Association. The Germans have issued a circular and distributed it to their agents throughout the world, instructing them to ascertain the feeling of the people of the country in which they are living in regard to trade after the war. If they find people inclined to ask for German goods the agents are to communicate at once with headquarters. The circular also calls upon, agents to endeavour to sway public opinion against the trade war. Mr. AV. J. Abbott, sales manager for the New Zealand Farmers’ Cooperative Fertilizer Manufacturing Jo., reports that the farmers of Hawke’s Bay are showing -considerable interest in the flotation of the company. Sixty thousand shares at £5 each are now being offered and the majority of these have already been taken up. The company’s autorhatic plant will be the largest m the Southern Hemisphere and will enable the company to manufacture the best superphosphate considerably below £3 per ton. The Threshing Machine Owneru’ Association at Christchurch yesterday unanimously agreed, “That this meeting recommend committees oi" the different districts to make an advance on present rates of threshing of jd per bush or 5/- per hour, and that a war bonus be paid to the men of 2- per thousand or 2d pe: hour when threshing by the hour, this resolution to remain in operation dating the continuance of the war and for six months afterwards.” Last season Id per hour above the award rate (13) was paid, or 1/1 per hour, so that the war bonus means the men will receive 1/6 per hour. —Press Association.

Reports have been circulated to the effect that “Big Tree” Benzine and other products have been blacklisted. AVe are requested by the New Zealand importers and proprietors of this brand, Messrs A. S. Paterson and Co., Ltd., to give this statement an unqualified denial. We are informed that, the agents at the port of shipment were put on the prohibited list, but such agents are not the producers or refiners of the goods. The New Zealand Government authorities have been satisfied and have willingly consented to Big Tree products being imported, provided the ; shipping agents were altered. This Messrs A. S. Paterson and. Co., Ltd., gladly arranged. AA r e are assured that there is no question of enemy trading in regard to Big Tree products and that ample supplies of these excellent oils are coming forward so that users need fear no shortage.

“Most satisfactory service” is cue of our business policy planks, and it wiil be as familiar as another plank, viz., “Quality first.” We hitch these two phrases together, and by a strict interpretation of the “square deal” use them as the propelling force of our business. You are assured prompt and courteous treatment. Our Hastings business is situated in Heretaunga street, in premises lately occupied by S. Armstrong, and nearly opposite the Grand Hotel. We are direct importers of all motor accessories and stockists of all the best makes of tyres. It will pay you to make yourself acquainted with the Motor Accessory Co., Ltd.*

Public opinion is running strongly in favour of “No Rubbling Laundry Help,” chiefly because it lightens women’s work; 1/- carton does seven weekly washings. Contains nothing injurious to hands or fabrics.—Roach’s, Ltd., Hastings.* Any man who is wearing wrong glasses, or needs glasses and fails to use them, is handicapped in getting his living. We prescribe and prepare those glasses which are correct for your individual sight. H. M. Bennett, Con■mltinix Optieiim. Napier and Hastings

Oculists’ prescriptions accurately executed in any style of spectacles or eyeglasses at moderate prices. H. M. Bennett, F. 1.0., F.S.M.C., Ophthalmic Optician, Napier.*

A kind of paralysis amongst lambs, which develops after docking is causing sheep farmers of the Wairarapa some anxiety at the present time.

Nominations for all events at the Taratahi-Carterton Racing Club’s annual meeting which is to be held on November 2nd, close on Friday October 20th, at 9 p.m. The Carterton telegraph office closes at 8 p.m.

The fourth National Convention of the Y.M.C.A. has opened at Sydney. The Convention discussed the memorandum expressing the New Zealand Association’s desire for separation from Australian control, without reaching finality.—Press Association.

Last, evening, at the Taradale Town Board meeting, the Town Clerk (Mr. B. Larson) was granted his annual holiday. The chairman mentioned that Mr. Larson was far from well, and the doctor had said that he must go away at once. Mrs. Larson would attend to the work during the clerk’s absence, and the work would not fall behind. For some time past a rumour has been in circulation in Christchurch that the remaining members of the Main Expeditionary Force are to be granted sufficient furlough to enable them to return to New Zealand for a short while. Mr. Allen to-dav said that there was no truth in it. The only furlough being granted was a week or ten days in England, which was being given to every member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at the front in rotation.

The H.B. Highland Society held its usual. “Show night”, gathering last evening, numerous visitors from the country being present. Among those who assisted in the programme were Mesdames Sutherland and Brady, Misses Alexander (2), Rev. J. A. Asher, Messrs Louis Hay, Peterkin, T. Parker, O’Shannessey, Mackie, McGee., AV. McDonald, Donald Gordon. Smith, Norman McKay. Chieftain Duncan Gillies presided, and accompaniments were played by Miss Rogers.

The “New Zealand Farmer” for September, of which, we have received a copy, contains a series, of instructive and interesting articles on the Clydesdale. This splendid breed of horse is traced from its earliest history in Scotland and England, to the position it holds at the present day. Some very fine photographs of champion Clydesdales illustrate these articles and should Drove very useful to breeders. Other "branches of agricultural and pastoral work are dealt with under the various columns of the journal. “A most important piece of information was given me by a French official who had iust returned from Petrograd,” (said" Mr. J. B. Clarkson on landing at Auckland last week). It was that Russia has. eighteen million men called up for service, who only lack arms and ammunition to enable them sent to the front Great Britain ant the United States are both furnishing these requirements as quickly as possible. It was also stated to me by this official that Russia can call out twenty three million men for active service, so that there is no danger of any shortage of soldiers on the Eastern front. As yet. he said, Russia had only about five million men armed of this vast reserve.”