LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 48, 22 June 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Military authorities contradict tho rumour that suicides among the troops in camp at Featherston are frequent. “Suicides are, in fact, of rare occurrence,” says a camp officer. For Children’s Hacking Cough at night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6 2/6. The secretary of the local Patriotic Committee acknowledges receipt of 6s from Miss Handley, and 5s 7id from Forrest Marriott (proceeds from magic lantern) for the Y.M.C.A. Fund.

The wealth of tho United States in 1862 was estimated at 16,000,000,000 dollars. To-day tho wealth of the nation is sot down at 230,000,000,000 dollars. Tho population now is three times what it was in 1862. News was received at Motueka on Saturday that Private B. R. Taylor had been killed in action. He left with Reinforcements, and was a son of Mr W. Taylor, of Whakarewa, Motueka, in which district he was well known in football and cricket circles.

An appeal was recently made in Australia by the War. Chest Fund for 100,000 pairs of socks. Already, though only a few weeks have gone, 70,000 pairs have been sent in. The ages of the knitters, says a Sydney paper, range from seven to ninety-one. At the Anglican Synod in Dunedin it was stated that a meeting of religious bodies had been arranged with a view to providing a more rigid censorship of picture films. All sects will be represented, including the Roman Catholic and Anglican. Let NAZOL protect your family against coughs and colds. One dose a day keeps colds away. Good for old and young. Sixty doses Is 6d. At a recent sitting of the Wellington Military Service Board, Captain Walker stated that he did not press for the enlistment of men who were continuously engaged in shearing or farming operations, but those who only took up shearing casually. The auxilary scow Eunice, well known in Havelock waters arrived at Onehunga the other day from Picton in a damaged condition. She experienced the heavy gale off Cape Maria, losing her lifeboat and one of her yards. She also had her bulworks damaged.

The Government has decided that men discharged from camp because of physical defects are to be given four weeks leave on pay. The separation allowance will also be paid for four weeks after discharge. This payment will bo retrospective to include all those who have been discharged since January, 1917. Mr Burton, senior member of the Hoathcoto County Council, Christchurch, and Mr Barnes, electrical engineer for that district, were in town this, week, and motored through, via Kaikoura, from The Cathedral City. Mr Barnes is submitting a report to the Town Board on the proposed electric lighting scheme for Havelock.

Information of the death of Private Ralph Adams (a Havelock boy and second son of Mr Albert Adams, of Blenheim), who was killed in action during the late advances of the British on the Western front, was received in Havelock on Wednesday morning. The death of this promising young man will be deeply regretted by all who knew him.

For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails. 1/6,2/6 Mr Clement Wragge says: A big solar upheaval is now nearly central on the sun’s disc, and, with positive magnetic energy, is pelting the earth, by wireless waves, like a battering ram. This means more bad weather over Now Zealand and Australia, also in South Africa and South America. Further flooding may occur, and every possible provision should be made.

A lady in England, writing to her brother in Christchurch, tells how the people are flocking into Plymouth from the East Coast, because of its safety from air raids. “It is very difficult to get accommodation there,” she writes, “the place is thronged. After every raid there is another exodus from London into Plymouuth, where the natural position as well as the many forts would render an air attack an act of suicide on the part of the enemy.” Few people realise the dangerous nature of tho work undertaken by minetrawlers. They work in pairs. Each carries one end of a steel cable, several hundred yards long, which they draw through the sea between them. When the cable encounters a mine it rips it free from its anchoring gear. The mine floats to tho surface; picked men then fire at it, puncturing the air-chamber and letting the water in, and it sinks harmless to the bottom of tho sea.

Mr Charles M. Schwab, two days before Congress declared a state of war, received an offer of £20,000,000 from Germany to cease making ammunition for the Allies at the great plant of the Bethlehem Steel Company, of which he is the head. This announcement, says the “Daily Chronicle,” was made at a patriotic mass meeting by Major Curley, of Boston, who said he had it from Mr Schwab himself. The Bethlehem plant, .which is in Pennsylvania, is larger than the Krupp works. The Lady Liverpool Committee are sending sometime shortly 31 cases containing 500 separate parcels of trench comforts for men in the actual firing line. Each parcel contains Havelock tobacco, milk, jam, chocolate, handkerchiefs and shirt. The many grateful letters received by the committee from men at the front have encouraged them greatly in this work. Dr. Bedford, on his recent visit to Nelson, stated that no other patriotic organisation did the same work as the Lady Liverpool Committee. Banish coughs and colds and save money by using NAZOL. Eighteenpence buys 60 doses —enough to cure the whole bad-cold family. Get genuine NAZOL.

The Government Statistician has been instructed to proceed with the work of preparing for the enrolment of a M*aori Expeditionary Force.. Although the New Zealand casualties in the great offensive at Messines on June Bth, were reported light, the list of killed in action and died of wounds just issued by the Base Records is a very lengthy one—containing over 260 names. The five-roomed house, occupied by Mr W. R. Hill, and destroyed by fire at Wakamarina last Sunday evening was owned by Mr W. H. Orsman, and was covered with a policy of £125. The contents were insured for £IOO in the Northern Insurance Company. Mr J. R. Akersten of Havelock, who is at present in Blenheim, received the painfully unexpected news on Tuesday that his son, Private Herbert Akersten had died from wounds received in action on June Bth. The deceased, tvho was born in Nelson, leaves n wife and four young children. NAZOL acts like a charm in tackling coughs and colds. Penetrating and germ-killing. Better than mixtures or syrups. Most economical. Is 6d buys 60 doses. .

The Tory Channel whalers may now bo said to have commenced the season in real earnest, says the Picton “Press.” Word was received in Picton on Saturday that two monsters of the “humpback” species had been captured and safely towed in. The party' is equipped with the most modern appliances, and if the whales are as plentiful as usual in these waters, a record season may be looked for. A deputation from the Canvastown

Farmers’ Union waited upon the local Efficiency Board Committee to discuss the question of representation oh that body. After discussing the original appointment of the committee at length the meeting adopted the suggestion of the deputation that efforts bo made to increase the number forming the committee 'by two, and that the Pelorus end of the district be represented if possible.

As the time is rapidly approaching when all the gardens will require attention so as to ensure early spring delecacies, we recommend our readers to peruse the advertisement inserted by Mr S. F. Bolton, Waimea Street, Nelson, who has for many years been so reliable for his seeds; and we remind all those settlers who are starring orchards that Nelson’s fruit is so well known that they cannot do better than buy trees there. '

The British treat their prisoners of war on very different lines to those adopted by the egregious Hun. Under the existing system selected: Turkish, 'and, in special cases, German, civilian prisoners of war who have good records and are believed to be trustworthy men, may'now be licensed from the camps on parole for employment unconnected with the operations of the war. The employments include food manufacturing, industrial, and distributing trades (excluding munition work). The man will give his parole on leaving camp, and will undertake to observe the Aliens Eestriction Order, and to report himself twice a week to the police. The employer will be required to keep the police fully informed about the man, to pay him the ordinary rate of wages which would be paid to a British employee for the same work, and to undertake,to discontinue his employment as soon as British labor is again available. This “coals of fire” method has mutual advantages, after all. .

News is to hand from Paris of a fatal accident to one of the famous brothers Lumiere, who invented the cinematograph machine bearing their name. He was Sergeant-Aviator Edward Lumiere, and is said to have been killed in an aeroplane accident. Although the cinematograph is so recent an introduction, there are many claimants to its invention. It is generally admitted that the man who actually introduced living photography was Edward Muybridge, of Kingston on Thames, who made his srst animated' picture' in 1872, though the first two ‘ ‘ chronophotograph ’ ’ patents (the name by which cinematography was then known) were not lodged at the British Patent Office till 1889. The machine of the brothers Lumiere is altogether different from this, and cinematography, as a fact, had some years of popularity in other countries before it was taken up seriously in Britain Cinematography, as it is known to-day in the 6000 picture-palaces in Britain, is a combination of many intellects and many talents, with improvements in photography, reeling, filming, and lighting. But unquestionably the Lumiere system gave it a good start. Now there are towns devoted wholly to film production, notably in America. Cinematograph theatres arc built, or building, all over the world, and no industry has so many servants or so much capital invested in it. If ever there were a Tom Tiddler’s ground it is cinematograph. Meet me to-night in dreamland, dear; But beware and be wide awake, For the paths arc dark in its lampless park, And you might slip into the lake. Chills begin when you’re up to the chin In ice-cold water with duck-wed in; And the only means to survive and endure Is a course of Woods’ Peppermint. Cure.

Owing to the paper shortage Cabinet has decided to cut down the number of copies of “Hanaar.d.” Previously 8000 copies were issued, but during the coming session the issue will only be 3500. This is economy in the right direction.

A Now Zealand officer writes from Havre: We were going to embark, and on the wharf a number of prisoners were marching back to their barracks. As they were passing, one of the Boehes said in the best of English “Kitchener couldn’t swim.” Opposite him was a ruddy-faced sergeant from Wellington, who was noted for his pugilistic ability. He gave the Boche a true sample of a Wellington jawcracker, and down went the Hun like a log.

Don’t wait until Influenza grips you —get “NAZOL” now. The best safeguard against coughs, colds, chest and throat soreness. 60 doses Is 6d.