LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 30, Issue 21, 15 March 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“Spend all your surplus wealth: save all your surplus products, thus you doubly serve your fellows.' * Girling’s are now showing their first shipment of autumn and winter goods. Our lady readers are invited to visit the show room.

At a special meeting of the Domain Board on Wednesday evening the stock fees in connection with Brownlee Park were revised and increased in respect to the paddocking of sheep and calves. The Returning Officer notifies that nominations to fill the vacancy on the Town Board caused by the retirement of Mr E. H. Smith, will be received up to noon on Wednesday, 20th inst. The election is fixed fosr the 27th inst.

The yacht “Waitangi,” owned and sailed by Mr Hadfield Smith, and who was recently in Havelock, is credited with a smart run across Cook Strait to Wellington the other day, having sailed from land to lend in four hours.

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The Public Trustee notifies that all claims against the estate of the late John Gould must be made before the 13th May next, and all moneys payable to the estate may be lodged to the credit of the Public Trustee at any money-order office.

The February Abstract of Statistics shows that at the end of 1916 the total amount to- the credit of depositors in the Post Office Savings Bank was £25,603,209, as compared with £17,131,414 for 1913, the year immediately preceding the war. To correct acidity and flatulency take SHARLAND'S FLUID MAGNESIA. Being freshly prepared and always full strength, SHARLAND’S is the best yon can bey.

“Money spent may serve a more deserving person; food and man power wasted is utterly lost to the world.” A statement has been going the rounds of this district of late that the proceeds from the last Easter sports were nearly all swallowed up in expenses. On enquiry from the treasurer of the local Patriotic Committee (Mr W, H. Buckman) wo find that such is far from being the case. The expenses in connection with that function were kept very low, and t(io net proceeds, amounting to the creditable total of £145, was equally divided between the Red Cross and the Y.M.O.A. funds and duly forwarded to the headquarters of these organisations through the Blenheim Executive.

“Billy” Sunday, the revivalist, of the United States, has become an ardent recruiting agent. He has no time for the Kaiser, as is evidenced by the following extracts from a speech recently delivered at Chicago:—“lt's the Kaiser against the President; Honenzollern against Uncle Sam; Germany against the United States; Kaiser Bill against Woodrow; Hell against Heaven —show your colours! 'jluc hell the Kaiser raised on earth makes the hell below look' like a side-show. As for lying, the Kaiser has Ananias out-dis-tanced so far as you can’t see his dust. As I’ve said before, turn hell upside down, and you’ll find 'Made in Germany’ stamped on the bottom. No man can be true to his God who is not true to his country. Patriotism and religion are twin brothers.”

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With reference to the recent announcement that 10,000 Australian soldiers had been returned to the Commonwealth without seeing the firing line, a correspondent forwards the following sentences extracted from a letter written by a New Zealand medical officer stationed on Salisbury Plain with reference to the New Zealand’ drafts: “A great percentage of unfits among the older members. -Men over 35 years of age are, as a general rule, unable to stand the training and campaigning unless previously engaged in open-air occupations and of athletic tendency. As the age reaches the 40’s the percentage of final passes drops considerably—so much so that the latter are certainly not worth the expense of training, equipping, etc. The great detracting feature is that these men occupy the attention of doctors, hospital space, etc., and, instead of being an asset in the balance of power, are a decided liability.” “Is this,” asks the correspondent, “what some of our men are breaking up their homes for!” “By feeding one useless horse in five we prevent the export of 100,000 bullocks yearly.”

Settlers In the backblooks who have had the sad experience of seeing their cattle die as the result of eating tutu will no doubt be astonished to learn that the plant has a value, and that attempts have been made for many years to acclimatise it in Europe. Tutu, or, to give the botanical name, (Joriaria usafolia, is stated to grow only in New Granada and New Zealand. Some 350 years ago the Spanish Mission in the former place discovered the value of tutu for the purpose of making an everlasting ink. It is asserted that a captain's log and mission documents which had been written with ink made out of tutu still exists in Spain, and, although over 350 years old, the colour remains as good as ever. What is even more strange, some documents recently recovered from a ship sunk many years ago could clearly be read as they were also written with tutu ink, which is jet black. Recently United States Consular reports contained the formulae for making ink from tutu berries. It is also stated that this ink has been used 6y the Government of Spain for official documents for over 300 years, the ink being supplied from New Granada. This plant, which has been attempted to be destroyed on most farms on account of the danger to cattle, is stated to have a large percentage of potash, and efforts were made by the Germans to acclimatise it in Europe for that reason, but without success. There is every indication that with the first contingent of the great American “Liberty Army" to go to France there will be no fewer that 50,000 motor-cycles. These machines will be manned by soldiers who, for the most part, were motor-cyclists long before the advent of war took them from their civilian occupations. The American War Department was quick to see that the motor-cycle offers the speediest, most economical, and most efficient form of land locomotion yet devised, and they immediately set about to determine every available use that it might have in warfare. Naturally they decided to do all experimenting in-the cantonments, and as a preliminary experiment ordered 40,000 machines, and in less then a week motorcycles by the trainload were beginning to arrive at the various camps. A large number of side-car outfits are also being placed on commission for machine-gun purposes and for speedy transport of officers. SHARLAND’S MALT VINEGAR makes delightful salads. Brewed from malt and sugar. Free from mineral acids. Conforms to requirements of Food and Drugs Act, All grocers.

“Lavish living in times of peace leaves us a surplus from which by economising wo may relieve those stricken by war famine." There was another good attendance at the usual fortnightly ouchro party in the library on Tuesday, the Soldiers’ Parcels Fund benefiting to tno amount of £2 4s. The first prize winners were Mrs Thomas and Mr Lee Twidle, while Mrs Phipps and Mr E. Hutchinson shared the consolation gifts. As usual an excellent supper was served at conclusion of play. A compliance with the injunction of a former Prime Minister of New Zealand to “keep the cradles full" is at times attended with serious disadvantage (says the “Wairarapa Age"). The man with a family of young children finds it almost impossible to secure rooms or the tenancy of a house. Travelling in a tram with children is a “crime." But the latest embargo imposed upon the olive branch is in respect to hotel lodging. A soldier who is at present in’’the Featherston Camp complains that his wife and two young children were practically refused accommodation in Wellington hotels. They went to three different hotels, but in each case they were informed that the children could not be admitted to the dining-room. Their food had to be supplied to them in the bedrooms. In desperation they left for Featherston, and it was only after considerable difficulty that they found accommodation. Tho-Tjoldicr wants to know if it is a crime in New Zealand to be possessed of children, and if he is going to the front to fight for liberties and privileges such as those possessed by family men in this Dominion. There has been a notable decrease in the number of police cases coming before the magistrates in Wellington recently (says the correspondent of the Otago “Daily Times"). On being questioned by a newspaper man, Mr S. E. McCarthy, 5.M.., gave it as his opinion that the reduction in the number of cases of drunkenness and offences arising out of indulgence in liquor would continue to decrease as the months went by. One of the factors in the reduction, to which the magistrate did not refer, was the stern treatment which he had given as magistrate to men and women, particularly women, who are a nuisance to the community. There is no doubt that the town has been cleaned up in a wonderful way, and that early closing has made for quietness and general good conduct in the latter hours of the evening. The law is being broken systematically and regularly by some licensees, but as this has to be done surreptitiously, men who are even partly intoxicated are not encouraged to take liquor. It is a rare thing to sec a drunken man abroad after dark. One hears very little nowadays of the hardships of the new law on the customers of hotels. It used to be said that the soldiers would give no end of trouble if they were not allowed to have their drinks when they came to Wellington on their weekly visits, but they seem to have accustomed them- ' selves to early closing as easily as other people.

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