LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 15 June 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Some days ago (says the Christchurch Sun) a man \va_ arrested for a minor offence. At the cells the authorities discovered he was suffering from a poisoned finger, which had been neglected entirely. His whole arm was in danger. Tne police saw that he received medical attention. Two fingers were amputated, and to-day the man can rejoice in . the knowledge that his original fault saved his arm, if not his life. A Giisborne business man had' the misfortune to lost. £6 the other morning, under peculiar circufnstances. The Tuatea was moving off from the wharf to take the outward passengers to the Auckland steamer, when the gentleman in question came hurrying down. Rolling up a sovereign in a £5 note, he essayed to throw it to a friend who was proceeding to Auckland. Unfortunately, the aim fell short, the money landing in the river! A stir has been caused in Australian Methodist circles by some remarks made. by the Rev. Henry Howard of Adelaide, who. speaking at Ballarat, called attention to the "kill'oy" element in religion. Some peoole" he said, could not even have a picnic without wu X: *?" Prayer meeting on to it. When religion stopped a man from smiling the sooner it was knocked on the head and laid out for burial the better. , God's house should be the happiest place on' earth.

Within the next six months or so it is probable that New Zealand will have an opportunity of observing the powers ot the gift aeroplane Britannia, which is at present locked up in a shed at the Defence Stores. Wellington. In answer to an enquiry made on this subJ"^*."™ Wellington, the Commandant ot the Forces, General Godley, stated that two officers were being trained at Home, and when one of them, Lieutenant AY. G. Burn, returned to the Dominion jfcowards the end of the year, he would probably take the machine out and use it.

The preservation of existing forest reserves and the setting apart of further' areas as forest reserves, more particularly on the banks of rivers, are two of the most important objects of the proposed New South Wales branch of the Australian Forest League, the inaugural meeting of which has' just taken place. The league will also seek to. promote the reafforestation of denuded areas, tree-planting of waste spaces and sand dunes, protection of forests against fire, and fostering of tree-planting generally. It is proposed further_ to educate the public "to a realisation of the value of forests and of the evils resulting from their destruction, so that eventually a forest consciousness shall be created in the public mind."

A lad ten years of age called at one of the continuous picture shows in Christchurch on a recent evening and , said that he had lost his six-year-old brother. He had searched for the missing *one all the afternoon without siiccess, and there was a chance that he was m the hall -enjoying' the entertainment. The searcher suggested that' his brother's name should be shouted out, in order to ascertain if there was a response. The manager said that he I would not do that, but he kindly turned on the lights to enable a search to |be made. The little fellow was found in a seat in the body of the hall, watching, the pictures that had fascinlated hinri He*'h:ad- sat" there &__ft.';iL !ip.mi.vt<p!.-.'7c'3oeip.mi,. andnhad -seen' the • programme four or five time's: He* left with evident reluctance.

The bird of paradise plumes which are sometimes seen decorating women's headgear in New Zealand, mostly in Auckland, come to this country by a curious route (saj^s an exchange). The London Missionary Society periodically dispatches parties of native missionary teachers from Rarotonga and other islands in the Cook Group to assist in the work of evangelising the Papuans, and when these brown apostles return to their homes they bring with them boxes full' of bird of naradise skins, carefully preserved. Whether they pay their dark disciples to kill the bird's or whether" the trophies form oart of the Sunday collections is not* quite clear, but at any rate they come home loaded with rare plumage, and the church parade of* the Cook Islands ladies' 'consequently is quite a brilliant spectacle/ Many of the skins are purchased by traders in Rarotonga and other outlying islands and so they find their way to the heads of those who know nothing of this development of missionary enterprise.

"The literature of the hour is crowding out the literature of the ages'." declared the Rev. C. H. Laws on Sunday ."evening, in the course of a special sermon to young people at the Pitt street Metlodist church, Auckland. Tlie preacher was dealing with "Tlie Care of the Mind." He was very much afraid, he said, that the average young person of to-day was very, negligent in regard to mind culture. There was a tendency to fritter away the mental energies upon the small and trivial things, the frivolties of life, the "scrappy" magazine, the ephemeral novel. In urging his hearers to cultivate a taste for solid reading Mr Laws said he knew of nothing better to keep young people off the streets, to cure the silly, restless desire to be out night after night, and to keep a young person's mind clean and healthy, than a love of wholesome and ennobling literature.

How the driver and the fireman of the Main Trunk,express, which dashed into a goods train at Whangamarino in the early hours of the morning of May 27, with the loss of three lives, remained at their. posts was recorded at the time of the accident. It was not, however, known until the resumption of the inquest regarding the death of the victims on Wednesday that, after miraculously escaping injury, they set to work to extinguish the wrecked engine's fires, in order to prevent an explosion. As the engine ploughed its way through the trucks, as if they had been so much matchwood, the •_^er^ J VH* Ston&) and his fireman C* -G. Fardmgton) stayed at their posts The engine left the rails and rolled down the embankment into a swam*-> carrying with it its human freight. JNeitner the fireman nor the driver left his post until the engine came to rest. Then, practically uninjured, they crawled our, through the window of the engine cab. They immediately thought of the possibility of an explosion of the engine boiler, with its attendant dangers. Setting to work in practically pitch darkness, they turned on tlie water from the overturned tender, transferring it by buckets to the fire in the engine. Finding-the water insufficient to put the fire out and thus, prevent any chance of an explosion, they procured more water in buckets from the swamp, and were thus enabled to achieve their object.

Overcoats.—-Wo have now opened up another shipment of motor and walking overcoats for men and boys. As they are something high class," clients can rest assured that H.B. is the place for overcoats. Oil coafcs for men and boys. We have the oiled canvas, the only water resistor made. In overcoats, oilskin, legs sou-westers, motor cycle v 1- «P°?* os-^ther overcoats, try N.Z. Clothing Factory, Hawera

The southward bound express train tor YVellington this morning was unusually heavy, many farmers going to the Palmerston Winter Show. About 130 passengers booked to Palmerston between Stratford and Hawera. About 30 went from Hawera, and additional carriages had to be put on here to accommodate them.

In connection with the mission services heing held in the Presbyterian Church, Rev. A. Porter will conduct the final meeting this evening. It is considered that the meetings have been of so successful and inspiring a nature, that a thanksgiving service will be a most appropriate conclusion to thfMn The promoters hope that all those who havce been present at the earlier meetings will be present at this, the final one.

•'Albert Cashier," an-inmate of tho Soldiers' Home at Quincy, Illinois, L.b.A., who had been masquerading as a man for 60 years, and who served as a soldier in General Grant's army during the civil war, has just been found to be a woman. Her sex was discovered only while she was under the care of the surgeon. She was born in Ireland 72 years ago, and came to America as a stowaway clad in boy's clothes. When the civil war broke out sho enlisted in the 95th Illinois Infantry, and participated in some of the bloodiest battles, always behaving with great gallantry. When the war closed she resumed civil life as a workman, imtil age and the results of exposure during the war made her unable to support herself. She then entered the soldiers' home. She has refused to disclose her name or to tell her family history.

THE. REtfJOT EPIDEMICS OF SMALLPOX AND DIPHTHERIA Would certainly not have attained such proportions if the following were more generally known: By putting 3 drops of SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, in a piece of loaf-sugar, and.allowing it to "dissolve in the mouth thatL'fcavity isf :thoroughly*:'disinfected.-' The volatile nature "of SANDER'S EXTRACT makes it penetrate every crevice. SANDER'S EXTRACT is not nauseous nor. depressing like the comtiseptic power. By using SANDER'S EXTRACT, you avoid the uncertain composition of the lozenge; you have the benefit of the strongest antiseptic that can be-used with safety, and the result is protection from all infection, fnsist unon th«» epnuine