LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 30, Issue 23, 22 March 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Our lady readers will be interested in the announcement made in this issue by Veitch and Allen, the popular Wellington drapers.

"In this world crisis it does not urgently concern us if individuals squander their fortunes; but every ounce of food saved will help to prevent starvation."

The fortnightly consignment of cheese, shipped for AVcllington per steamer Blenheim on AVednesday, amounted to 326 crates, comprising 210 from Rai Valley, 60 from Canvastown, and 56 from Havelock. A splendid line of 40 pigs was also shipped.

The chairman of the Pelorus Road Board gives notice of the passing of a resolution making by-laws for the regulating and control of heavy traffic, and that the resolution will come up for confirmation as a special order at a meeting of the Board to be held on Tuesday, 30th April next. Amongst the applications for land, open for election on the optional system (considered at the recent meeting of the Marlborough Land Board) was John R. Buncombe, of Havelock, who was granted Section 7, Block IV., Horinga Survey District, 1450 acres, tenure o.r.p. "If half the 40,000 car owners in New Zealand each travel but five miles a day for pleasure, we thus burn a quarter of a million cases of benzine annually."

The recent gale caused heavy seas in Picton harbour, though one of the best protected in the Dominion. About half a dozen launches are reported to have broken from their moorings and driven ashore. One launch was lifted bodily on the crest of a wave and deposited undamaged fully 10ft. above high water mark. >The old launch wharf was awash by the stormy seas for some time.

A new form of wireless telegraphy, which instead of passing messages through space, transmits them through thousands of feet of solid earth, is now in use at the front, and is proving of the utmost value in establishing effective communication between units in the firing line and divisional headquarters, from which operations were directed. Reference to this new means of communication was made by Major AA r . J. M. Locke, M.C., last week, in the course of a war lecture delivered in Melbourne. He mentioned how during the attack on the Hindenburg line, cast of Bullecourt, a party of Australians, who were astride a piece of the captured line, .were suddenly overwhelmed by an enemy onslaught. Their flank was turned, and for a time it seemed that certain disaster awaited them. But, seated in an enemy dugout, which earlier had been captured -from the Germans, was a solitary Australian soldier,' at the transmitting end of one of these underground wireless installations. When the unit to which he was attached was flung back by the enemy counter-attack, he was left alone at his post completely encircled by the German forces. AVith the utmost unconcern, however, he proceeded to send along to headquarters a detailed account by earth wireless of all that was going on. The eventual result was that the Australian artillery managed to get the range of the Germans, whose counter-attack was dispersed; the lonely signaller at his post was relieved, and some little time afterwards he was decorated for his bravery with the Distinguished Conduct Medal.

Remember, if you want to get rid ot that heavy dull feeling in the head, which accompanies Nasal Catarrh, just take a good inhalation of “NAZOL” through a Nazol Inhaler, and get immediate relief.

A shipmaster who has been in the North Sea when it was on very bad behaviour, said that he had never experienced there anything like the seas and weather his vessel went through in Tasman Bay during Tuesday's storm.

A swordfish with a broken sword, which was captured at Russell on Friday, has (telegraphs the "Post’s” Auckland correspondent) proved to be the one which rammed the launch Virginia on 19th February. During the height of the rain storm on Tuesday a slip occurred on the Havc-loek-Mahakipawa road, near the summit on the Havelock side. Mr AV. xiekering, who passed over with the mail in the morning found the road clear, but was held up by the obstruction on his return early in the evening and had to get assistance from Havelock. The road is now open for traffic. For polishing linoleums, floorcloths, leather goods and furniture, TAN-OL is most efaciout and easy to usa. • There is perhaps some consolation in the knowledge that Havelock has not been specially singled out for attack by the hordes of mosquitoes, which for the past week or so have made sleep very intermittent. In Blenheim, Picton, and the Sounds, the attacks from these "spiteful little Huns”—as the Picton paper aptly names the invaders —have apparently been equally insistent. Police-Sergeant Kelly, of Blenheim, has been advised that the trawler Nora Viven, which was engaged in minesweeping in the vicinity of Cape Farcwell, has been missing since the recent storm. Vessels travelling in that direction arc asked to keep a sharp look-out for the missing trawler. It was reported on AVednesday that wreckage had come ashore at D’Urville Island and the head of Pelorus Sound, giving rise to some anxiety regarding the safety of the Nora Niven.

"Boys and girls are invited to bring striking paragraphs on the subject of National Economy for this educative publicity scheme."

Mr Harold Beauchamp (chairman of the Bank of New Zealand and chairman of the AA'ellington Red Triangle Day Committee) in referring to the marked success of the Red Triangle appeal in the Dominion said that considering that this large amount has been raised during a brief canvass extending over about ten days, and in face of large payments that had to bo made in respect to land and income tax and reservations for a further AVar Loan now in sight, the result is most creditable to all concerned, and gives unmistakeable evidence of the undirainished patriotism of our people and their unflinching determinaton to prosecute the war to a victorious end. The success of the Red Triangle Day would prove a happy augury of the success of the new loan of £9,500,000 announced by Sir Joseph AA'ard. "TAN-OL" does much and costs little. Renovates leather, shines tan shoes, polishes furniture, brightens floorcloth. Quick, easy and economical. A Manawatu "Daily Times" reporter who motored from Palmerston to Taihapc reports that the country between Mangaweka and Taihape w r as a mass of flames over thousands of acres, but the settlers gathered in most of the stock, and the damage is not likely to be great. Indeed the country bene-fited-to a large extent. He was present when the refugees from Raetihi arrived at Taihape. Most of them were suffering severely from injury to the eyes. Many were quite blind. They tell a moving story of their experiences The fire swooped down on the town with extraordinary suddenness, propelled by a gale so fierce that motor cars were blown off the road and burning branches of trees were flung in all directions for unbelievable distances, spreading conflagration. The people were terror-stricken. They put up a good fight, but house after house was destroyed, including the Catholic and English churches and residences. The police station and some ten isolated houses only were left standing. Many women hid their children in culverts. Some lay in the ground for hours in blankets breathing through wet handkerchiefs, and several sjtood knee-deep in creeks to escape the flames. Several wmre badly scorched, and the majority have lost their all and are in a pitiable condition, and urgently need relief.

A AVestland correspondent writes: ‘ ‘ There is increasing evidence that this portion of the Dominon is coming into its own. There has been during the last few days a considerable movement in mining matters, and especially coal. The representative of an Australian party has visited AVestport and has paid down £3OO on a coal mining area of 2000 acres. The local expert, Mr Sidney Fry, is reported to have stated that it is some of the best of the bituminous coal country on the coast, and the capital behind Mr Munro is sufficient to warrant the belief that an extensive series of operations are about to be commenced. During the week a representative of the Christchurch party has been in Reef ton, and has bought a local mine with extensive prospecting rights over the adjacent flats, which are affirmed to be the areas containing the main coal measures of the Inangahua Valley. The wonder is that with a shortage of coal all over the Dominion these areas should have had to wait so long for the influx of the necessary capital for their development. The railway runs, at Reefton, through the heart of one of the largest if not the largest of coal areas of New Zealand. Reefton coal needs no recommendation as a household coal and also as a steam coal of the highest quality and it is gratifying to know that a movement is about to be made to open it up."

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