LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume LII, Issue 169, 20 July 1918, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

The cost of the military, occupation of Samoa to March 31st of this year was £357,982 12a KM.

The minimum temperature lecorded during tho night by tho thermometer on the grass was 19. There was thus 13 degrees of frost. Tho Thirty-seventh Reinforcements have reached their destination. The Thirty-eighths have been reported all well, and the Thirty-ninths have reached a port of call all safe. [ An organ recital will be given in Wesley Church to-morrow, as tho last item in the evening service, by tho organist, Miss Dayies. Mr Gordon Litchneld will be the soloist. Instead, of conventional mourning American women will wear a black band on the left arm, with a gilt star on it for each member of the family ■who has fallen in the war. Warm Arctic felt slippers, thick felt and leather soles, all sizes for women, 4s lid, at Hannah's. Why pay morer* —Advti. Prominent among the articles on the inside pages of to-day's issue are Sporting, "Channel Fight," Correspondence, Council of Agriculture, Havelock Notes, "Industrial Conscription," "Big Deal in Wheat," "The Turnbull Library," "World's News," and "Scow Kapua." Winter is here. Keep the homo fires burning. Gosling's wood-cutting plant. Orders left with N. W. Gosling, South Street, or Gosling and Son.—Advt.

The local office of tho Union Company has received instructions to despatch the Pateena for Wellington at 1.30 p.m. in future. The Wel-lington-Lyttelton ferry boats are to leave henceforth at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

Blenheim ladies! Your enthusiasm for the famous "No Rubbing" Laundry Help doe 6 you credit. Strongly recommended for washing all cloithes clean without tho rubbing slavery.—Lovin and Co., Ltd., wholesale agents.—Advt.

Tho net promts of the Public Trust Office for the financial year ended March 31st, 1918, ": after retaining 20,000, were £46,602. , It has, therefore, been directed by Order-in-Council that from the surplus profits a sum equal to one-tenth of the total amount of interest' received during that year shall be credited as a bonus to each estate or account, provided that the- amount of all said bonouses shall not execeed £30,000. .. .

While British newspapers are reducing their size owing to the great shortage of paper, the Government has been using paper lavishly. At the end of April it was getting rid of over 1000 tons a week for printing and stationery. A London paper tolls of one military depot which ordered a three months' supply of a certain kind of stationery. It received enough to last the whole- British Army for three years! The surplus was turned out on to the. docks and left there. .

The leading analysts of the world unanimously agree that the quality of Watson's No. 10 Whisky cannot be excelled.—Advt.

The first task to which Major Stenson Cooke devoted liimself. after his appointment -ts Stationery Office Inspector in Englani w,as to take a census of the Government's typewriters. "It is a rather remarkable, fact," says ona London paper, "that until now typewriters have been ordered and distributed annng Government offices all over the country and our official establishments abroad without anybody keeping a record of their number or bothering to ascertain what has happened to them. All that is kmw.i is that there are tens of thousands of them—somewhere."

Smart patent court shoes for ladies, pump poles, Louis heels, the "Dorothy" brand, 32s 6d. at Hannah's. Why pay more?—Advt.

The experimental length of concrete road in llangitikei line that has been laid by Mr G. Craw, a member of the Kairanga County Council, has now been completed (Says the Manawatu Standard). The piece of road, which is 18 feet wide, presents a splendid, even surface, and Mr Craw's idea is to demonstrate that if' roads are formed in this manner, the cost of apkeep will bo a negligiblo quantity, and the saving effected thereby will more tl an compensate for tho increased initial cost.

Don't worry about the tea tax. At 2s 2d and 2s 4'd per lb your grocer can supply you with the .famous Desert Gold Family Blend Tea. It is a fullflavoved Ceylon tea —delicious, wholevsomo. and economical.—Advt.

"Sardonyx" in the New Statesman (May 25) says:—"There ' are sonic strange Prime Ministers in tho. world. A few weeks agj a by-election in Wellington North, New Zealand, was fought with fury—mainly upon the question of tho treatment of eooscientious objectors. The candidate who had stood up for tho rights of conscientious objectors only lost by 420 votes on a 5000 poll. The declaration of tho poll gave rise to an anti-Government manifestation, and the manifastation resulted in the Joss of temper to a certain gentleman, who signified his contempt for opposing opiniou by publicly putting his fingers to his nose in tho traditional manner. Tin's gentleman was the Conservative, Prime Minister of New Zealand. He probably created a pro- | eedont for Prime Ministers. And yet I don't know: exceedingly strange things ha,v ro boon knowa to occur at the Palais Bourbon In the. piping times.''

V.O.s awarded t>ince tho institution _ of the decoration now number over ' 950. 1 A London paper says May 20 will bo , remembered "3 Iho Bank Holiday in which no mouth organ or concertina was heard. Both these instruments tiro of German origin. Comfort .shoos for women, glaco . kid uppers, no cap, plain front, sewn soles, .square heels, 17s (3d, at Hannah's. Why pay more?—Advt. The lambing season has evidently commenced early m tho Greonstreofc district (says tho Ash burton Guardian). At> the present time upwards of a dozen healthy lambs maybe soon skipping about on Mr G. Suttie's property. The uniform quality and superiority of Watson's No. 10 Whisky are guaranteed by tho leading analysts of sh» world. — Advt. Said the Hon. W, D. S. Mac Donald, referring to tho war during his address before tho Council of Agriculture this week: ''I think we havo turned the last dark corner in the war, and we are on the road to victory." Drink KOLA-NIP for its wonderful blood purifying qualiti<«B and its delicious nutty flaror. Every glass meana bettor health for you. A little with aerated water makes a refreshing tonic beverage.—Advt. An appeal to residents of the Awatero district is made by the Soddon Red Cross for practical support towards providing Christmas | parcols for the boys at the front, lc is requested that contributions be sent in not later than the 31st inst., on which date the sale day, etc., will be in aid of tho Christmas Parcels Fund.

Avoid coughs and colds this winter —take NAZOL regularly. Put some dropa on sugar—and inhale. Penetrating and germ-killing. Get NAZOL to-dav.—Advt.

The president of the Seddon Red Cross wishes gratefully to acknowledge tho following gifts for June and July. Seddon school-children, 18 bags 12 face cloths, 9 handkerchiefs. Old linen, etc., for hospital box from Mrs Loe, Mrs Lenehan, Mrs Blick, Mrs Tregoning, and Mrs Pinckney; knitting done by Mrs Robertson and Mrs Pinckney and Miss O'Leary.

Mothers! Save- money by getting NAZOL—the best family remedy for coughs and cold-s. Sixty doses for Is Cd—more thaa throe a penny.—Advt.

A resident of Dunodin, who has made a practice for some time past of sending parcels of flour to a relative in Dundee, received word by the la*st mail that one of these parcels, which arrived in Scotland several weeks ago, was "a perfect Godsend," as tho bakers in Dundee had been on strike for some days, and no bread was procurable from them.

Winter ills and winter chills fade before the magic warmth of a North British Hot Water Bottle. Look for the "Unique" stopper.—Advt.

A violent hailstorm, preceded by a thunderstorm, swept over Wellington from the south at seven o'clock on Tuesday night. The- fall of hail, which lasted for nearly ten minutes, was tho heaviest seen in Wellington for many years. Tho ground was soon covered by it, and in corners and sheltered localities the hail lay about for hours. The streets, however, were soon swept clean by a heavy down-pour of rain.

As soon as you have made up your mind . you are going to Wellington, wire New Commercial for accommodation.—Advt.

"A. erovv, cawing hoarsely, flies up to his nest, and a wild pigeon sits sedately in the high branches of an elm, or flies away to fill his crop on the edge of some late-sown field. The birds are tamer than they were before the war, and now no man shoots at them. Man is too busy shooting man. He has no powder to spare for birds. Partridges, still in pairs, rise with a whirr" and settle fifty or a hundied yards away in the green corn. A startled hare lopes "off, halts, looks round at the troops of men that have invaded his domain, and then makes off for cover." This (says an exchange) is a sample of the ntuff which a long-suffering New Zealand public pays Mr Malcolm Ross (the accredited correspondent with the New Zealf.nd Forces in the Field) something in the vicinity of £1000 a year for. He may well s.iy • "But for a distant gun, and the drone of a passing plane, we seem to have got right- away from the war."

Have a guarantee of purity behind your nobbier by insisting on drinking Watson's No. 10.—Advt.

Th© shortage of benzine and .consequent high price is a serious matter to car users generally, hence .attempts are made to get better carburation and improved results in various ways. Anything that will add to the mileage obtained is a boon, and we are pleased to be able to offer several good aids to this end. If you have not an Auxiliary Air Valve fitted you should ■do po immediately. We can give you the best. Then "Spots" a carbon ball is an English invention tried and proved here in our midst. It will give from 5 to 7 miles per gallon extra mileage. Tire cost is very small. For Ford owners we have imported an improved "Manifold Intake Pipe" that gives wonderful results. The cost of fitting is merely nominal. Inquire at Parker's Garage and we will be pleased to put you wise on how to cut down running costs.—Advt.

Much uneasiness is felt in the rablitskin trade over the decision of the American authorities that rabbitskins are classed as furs, for furs are in the list of luxuries, and their importation is forbidden as a matter of national economy. Tho only exceptions recognised so far are skins from Canada and those that wore shipped from other friendly ports prior to May 13th. Such .skins are accented by ths Washington war authorities. No others are admitted. This excludes JSevv Zealand after May 13th, and tho operation of the restriction is quite sure, sin?o no skins can be exported to the United States -without a license from Washington signed by the Consul in New Zealand. The whole question has, however, been mised, and, as the exporters have a .strong argument in tho fact that rabl«itskin=! :>re wanted in America to keep tho hnfc mills going, there is no reason to hope that the- pre-war conditions as to stripping will be reinstated. Further advices are anxiously awaited iyt Dunedin, the headquarters of the New Zealand trade.