TOWH EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14192, 9 January 1917, Page 6

TOWH EDITION.

Diphtheria appears to bo again prevalent, and two cases were admitted to the Napier Hospital on Saturday. The Opoutiima Patriotic Sports realised the J]andsom,e sum of £60 for Red Cross work. One dairy factory in the Ekelahuna district has a lady engaged as second ass.stant, and it is reported that she is an expert worker. I A monument erected to the memory oi' the late ehieftainess, i'ountanga le ■llau, was recently unveiled near uargajvilie. Natives from all pails of North ! Auckland were present. , "If your husband or brother does rot x'eturn, send out two to take his place. ITie job must be finished properly." — Lieutenant-Colonel Mou- at the kit-giv-liig ceremony at Napier. Notiife is given that the> Gisborne Borougn pounu-keeper and ranger and his aUiff are empowered to impound all stock found straying in the Mangapapa Town Board -District. Too much rain in New South Wades has produced tho worst season for rust in wheat for iU years, and in addition hail and storms have knocked crops down wholesale. Subject to the approval of the ratepayers, the Christchurch City Council lias agreed to purchase the Canterbury Hall for a sum of £20,000 for the purposes of a Town HallThe imposition of the additional 10 per <jent has accounted for the payment •of a fairly large sum in the way of. rates to the Borough authorities, between £6000 and £7000 having been received during- the last two days. Members of the Druids' Lodge aae reminded, of the harmony evening to be held in the Masonic hall this evening, when brethren will have an opportunity of saying good-bye tp Bro. L.. T. Moore, D.l*., who is leaving the district. Where the milling Avheait was on 30th November last is made clear by the Government (Statistician's researches? There were 1,732,183 bushels in the country, of which 1,069,429 were held by millers, 443,184 by merchants, and 229,570 by farmers. It was generally 1 thought that farmers were hanging on to the wheat. \ Bush fires on both sijdes of tho Rimui taka. ranges hay© caused settlers much anxiety. Considerable areas of land have been burnt over on the Wairarapa side and around Kaitoke. At one place on Tuesday last the fires swept so close to a homestead that aid had to be summoned, and a score of men, women, and children turned out .to beat down the i flames, their combined efforts eventually proving effective i Lieutenant-Colonel John Findlay, who has been awarded the D.5.0., was a very keen volunteer in Canterbury for I many years. He did good service in th« South African war, from which he returned with the rank of major. A farmer by occupation, he is a marriet man, about, 45 years of age. When thf war broke out he immediately volunteered, left with the Main Body, and has been in the firing line tever since. His name has been mentioned more than once in dispatches. There appears little doubt that England's supremacy of the air on the Western front is chiefly attributable to the efforts and motors of several well- ' known English motor manufacturers. Some of these firms are now turning out magnificent aeroplane engines developing 350 h.p., and the machines equipped with them can remain in the air for at least tweive hours, and can carry heavy ! loads of explosive besides, their equipI ment of machine guns and men. Speeds of 150, 170, andt even 190 miles per hour are now not only talked about but are actually done. ■ An American exchange states that the ashes of Joseph Hillstronv, organiser of the, Industrial Workers of the World, who was convicted and shot for murder by the State of TTtah a year ago, have been distributed in 600 parchment packets to the delegates jof the I.W.W. at the tenth annual convention, recently held in Chicago. William D. Haywood | general organiser of the 1.W.W. , had" 1 the urn containing. Hillstiom's ashes brought- from Graceland Cemetery to the headquarters of j the organisation. "These packets will go to all parts of the world, -where memorial meetings will be held to honor Hillstrom," Haywood said. A Berlin newspaper excitedly demands the suppression of the "machinations of Cardinal Mercier, of Belgium, who has issued a new pastoral letter in which he speaks of the 'butchery' in Armenia, and prays to the guardian angels of the Allies." Th 0 Cardinal says that, cwing to the intermediation of these angels with God, the independence of Belgium is no longer doubtful. The Boche sheet is also particularly vexed over the passage in the pastoral which says: "We include in our prayer above all unhappy I Poland, which by a German order can' no longer be fed from America." One result of the war is very noticeable throughout the agricultural lands m Hawke's Bay. The farms round Argyle, Tikokino, Onga'Onga, and Takapau before the war at this season of the year were always showing abundance of crops. To-day less than 500 acres is under orop, wliere previously easily four to five thousand acres were producing oats, barley, or wheat. One regettable feature is that the farmers agree that a better season has never been experienced in Hawke's Bay for many years, but the uncertainty of the labor market is the. chief cause of the farmers not taking the ad vantago offered by nature. ; A year ago the German public was earnestly exhorted to keep pigs. The German^ public obediently followed its instructions, and proceeded wherever possible to fatten pigs. But towndwellers, particularly in a country where everybody who can live in flats- cannot' very conveniently fatten pigs on their own premises, so that the habit grew [ up of boarding out tho animals among ! obliging farmers. Batocki's latest edict i has been to prohibit the alauxrhler for food of any pig which has not Deen fattened by its owners. This order has caused the German press to be flooded with bad language at the expense of the, food dictator. Mr A. Ogden, secretary of labor freezing industry in Queensland, is, at the request of the New Zealand Freezing and Allied Trades Federation, being sent to New (Zealand to make a tour right through, for organising purposes. The unions in Auckland affiliated to the New Zealand Freezing Works and Allied Trades Federation ara the Westfield Chemical Manures Workers' Union and' the Auckland >Fellmong<ers and Soap Workers' Union. It is hoped 'that the result of Mr Ogden's visit will be to bring the freezing workers and allied trades into the Federation. Mr Ogden reaches Auckland from Gisbornei by the Arahura on the 19th inst., after holdin* a series of meetings in the Poverty Bay\ district. } The regulations governing the cabling of money, through the Defence Department, to men at the front or in England have been altered. In future, it will bo necessary to pay the sum to be sent to the credit of the Public Account at the Bank of New Zealand. In the case of wounded soldiers, it will be cabled free of charge, on production of the original telegram, from the Defence Department, notifying that tho soldier had been wounded. In cases where tho soldier has not been wounded, the sum of £1 must be paid to cover the cost of cabling, and any balance remaining will afterwards,' be remitted to the sendex*. The bank receipts must be handed to the local Defence Office, with full particulars a« to the man's number and name, l etc., in order that .the Publio Account reoeipt may be forwarded to Wellington. Money for soldiers in Egypt plus £1, may be handed to the paymaster at the local Defence Office, by "whom all necessary steps will be taken. ' Dining-room clocks, in oak and' marbleised wood, strike hour and half-hour and go for eight days with one winding- ; guaranteed five years ; will last 50 years. Grieve, jeweller, is giving a special 20 per cent, discount off clocks till January oOth. Prices from 35s to 80s.*