TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14391, 1 September 1917, Page 6

TOWN EDITION.

1 The stewards "of the Wellington Raring Club liave decided to invest £10.000 m til 9 war loii'i | Inspector Johnston, who recently received notice of his promotion to Auckland, proceeds north to take up h's now •duties oh 'I imrsday next. | At Waitara on .Saturday nisj;ht 850 yards of pork sausages wore raffled for i the benefit oi.the Freezing Works' candidate m the baby competition. The home of Mr Alfred Day, engineer at Makaiewa (Southland) Freezing Works, was burgled during his absen.ee on Saturday night. -and £4CO abstracted! from a trunk m a bedroom, which had ■ been prised open, apparently with an axe>. The. bulk of; the stolen money represented the. accumulated savings of the pay of two sons on active service, one of whom had been killed. A youth from Werorou industrial institution, win) had been licensed out to service to a Farmer at Nuli2,ka, has been apprehended by the po.ice at Muriwai. The boy declares that he got tired of cutting scrub and rushes, hence his departure for fresh fields. Unless hew employment is found for the youth he. will have to be returned to Wereroa by tomorrow's, steamer. A statement Avas published m some New Zealand newspapers a few months ago to the effect, that Sir Frederick Treves, the famous surgeon, was dead. An Auckland lady, who \is acquainted with Sir* Frederick and his family, was led to write Home on seeing the paragraph, and received 1 a letter by the last mail stating that Sir Frederick Treves was very much alive at the time of writing. Mrs Trnby King (wife of Dr. Truby King), speaking' at the deputation of the Piunket Society to the Hon. G. W. Russell (.Minister for Public Health), at Wellington, stated that while the scientific feeding of pigs and calves had been laid down years ago, they were only now going into the question of the scientific feeding of babies, though it was just as easy to lay it down-" exactly .for ! them as for pigs and calves. There was no room for doctors differing.

An Otago soldier, referring to the Battle of Messines, says : "By this time the New Zealand Division must bo well hit to leg m the way of casualties', as tho Messines Ridge was a very unhealthy spot, and ona could not expect to -wipe nut the Ypres . -salient' without paying the price. I believe the casualties were much -lighter- tlian had been expected, but at best these over-fhe-top stunts are unholy orgies of murder and sudden death. There is this consolation— what we got was a" joke beside the slaughter that -was served out to the Saxons and Bavarians, and all the rest of the Kamerad people. They strewed the ground and blocked up shell holes after we had passed, mangled bits of deafness."

A resident of Dunedin some fefme ago sent to a friend m Glasgow parcels of sugar and tea. These 'parcels were delivered all right, but were accompanied by a rather surprising notice, which has been forwarded to .the sender m New Zealand. The notice reads : "H.M. Customs and Excise, F. and 0. parcel post, Mount Pleasant Depot, Farringdon road, E..G— Madam,— Post parcel 2vo. 40, 'addressed to you, and containing 61b refined sugar and l^lb tea, sent l Jy j i uis hee-n received here. The post parcel will bo released m this instance, but I am directed to inform you that the importation of sugar without a license is contrary to the regulations, and must not be repeated. The amount of the duty should . ( ba ' paid to the postman on delivery of the parcel."

The Prime Minister was asked by Mr Vigor Brown whether he noticed the firm of Armour and Co.. of Australasia. Ltd., with a capital of -620,000, m 4000 shares of £5 each had been registered on October 3, 1916, Mr -W. J. Cannery being allotted 3998 shares, Mr W JKnigdon one and Mr 0. T. Alpers one! Tlie member pointed out that Armours have four freeing companies [m New ionnoA w l th ?. -"girtered - capital of &£.V,VUV. Is this company with comTiaratiyely such a small capital formed with a view of avoiding New Zealand taxation? it seemed to him, he added, thai the. enormous transactions carried on by this company cannot be done on a eupital of £20,000. Cannot the Oovernment do something to bring m taxation to cover such concerns m some different way than it does at present?

-.Aw member for Nawier has t'sked the Minister of Public Works: "Will the Minister of Public Works state, when ho is likely to start the Waikaremqana c'cctncal nistaJlaWon '! Some" years ago an amount of two millions was placed or. the Estimates. £500,000 of thi s wag to go the first year oh the .Waikaremoana scheme. . The Lako Coleridge scheme was olso agreed to at the same time, but each scheme was supposed t*> haye gone, on at the same time. Lake Coleridge has been finished first. It has given the industries of Canterbury, particularly freezing; com pannes, a great advantage o ver similar companies caiTyuig on business m the North Island. Could not the Government employ some of the interned' Germans' to cairv out some of this work?" asked Mr. Vigor Brown. * "

A Dunedin telegram 'staws : A hoap.tal ship which v recently returned to N^w Zealand, has now undergone &n overhanl, and m about three weeks will be re-commissioned with a. fresh staff, m charge of Colonel Cook. The present staff is m charge of Colonol Collins, and, m compliance with the regulations m the staffing of hospital ships, they now stand by for » spell on shore It ls^said that not a single complaint has been registered against the retired statf , who are described as very efficient. The medical orderlies have Avon high praise, for their caire and attention to tho sick and wounded m their charge Ineir %york is arduous, and, contrary to the opinion sometimes expressed, 'they must bo vigorous men m perfect health e^e they could not stand the strain. Jhese med.cal orderlies look after theapatients on th c trip out to New Zealand without the aid of nurses, who did not come out on the ship this time.

Frequent enquiries have been -made by friends and relatives of the soldier? at the front as to the nature of the most suita-ble gift« that .may be sent to the men on active 'service.' "The very best Ithing.- that can be sent to the boys m the trenches," remarked Gunner R. •Scott, ji Gisbornit© who returned only this week from the Western front, "is" good cigarettes and tobacco." That, he declared, tho boys would appreciate more than anything else. Aa to tho food, wed 1 they had to put up with tilings at time*, but it was decent "smokes" the boys really wanted. The bulk of the cigarette-? [and tobacco that cameover from England, ho assorted, wa.o rubbish, and some of lit even the men threw away. Singularly ■enoujrh that supplied m hospita.l m England was all right and m abundance, hut not «so with tiluit which reached tho boys m the trenches. Tobacco was high priced at Home, and when, m London he' found Throe Oastle cigarettes unprocurable, so he strongly advised parcel^ of the "soothing weed" being sent direct from New Zealand. ■ .

A cleverly-executed ruse by the capta'n of a/ British steamer, m conjunction with two members of 'the gun crew, sent one of the Kaiser's U-boats to the bottom of the sea, according to a thrilling narrative recounted by the captain of a' steamer airriving at a certain American port, the. name of wiiieh is censored. It seems that the submarine opened fire with long-rango guns, out of range of the. steamer's five. The. captilm; noting he had no chance to win m an open fight, resorted to a trap. He ordered all hands into the boats save two members of the gun-crew,, who were left behind with instroctions to hide. The submarine commander fell into the trap!. He ceased firing, and made for the steamer, presumably to obtain supplr'ea ond complete the work of destruction by a cheaper method. The gunners waited untl! certain of a, hit, and trained their weapon before the Germans were able to understand the trap set for them. The fire was accurate, and the U-boat sank within a few minutes. Th© steamer crew returned from the boats and took their vesse) into port.