LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 286, 6 May 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

English mails, via Vancouver, ex Makura at Auckland, will arrive here tonight.

A pupil of the High School, Raymond Cocker, son of Mr. H. Cocker, broke his leg at ithe school gymnasium a few days ago, and is getting on satisfactorily. The only judgment by default in tho Magistrate's Court yesterday was in the case of Burgess, Fraser and Co. v. John D. Proffitt, claim £l3l 3s 9d. coats £7 3s 6d.

A Madrid newspaper savs that an amateur musician in Lag Palmas, who sent a violin to London to be repaired received an offer of £2OOO for the instrument, which it was diseovered was a genuine Stradivarius.

Tho voting at the Moa Road Board election on Saturday was as follows: <i. Capper 108, H. Trimble 97, A E. Lawrence 82, A. Smith 80, R. Beauchamp 78, W. Bishop 58, . Bchrader 32. The first four were ele«ted.

Tho biograph is creating a new type of heroine. The gentle, clinging creature is fast becoming extinct, and popular taste demands strong, virile, agile girls of the. dare-devil athletic type, possessing no nerves and able to drive motor cms and pilot aeroplanes. The rapid and continuous increase in the number of medical students at the Austrian Universities .is occasioning serious concern among practitioners, many of whom arc already scarcely able to make a living (says a Reuter telegram from Vienna). There are 600 medical "freshmen-'' at Vienna University this term, constituting a "record" figure. The Vienna Medical Association is collecting statistics of the number of practising doctors in Austria, with the object of inducing the Ministry of Education tw adopt radical measures to restrict entries into medical departments of the universities. In an interesting address on the subject of marriage before the Congregational Union in Sydney, the Rev. Dr. Roseby dealt with the economic aspect. "Marriage," he said, "is largely an economic question. So surely as social and economic conditions impose an undue and unwholesome check on marriage tending to its undue delay, or eren forbidding tt, except under conditions of squalor and misery, so surely shall we find an intensifying of our social evil und a deepening moral dsgradation. Lit it be that marriage shall be reasonably possible for the early manhood of our country. The statistics that record the moral conditions wf a country are as insistent as tho voice of nature and as the testimony of the Book, It is not ifood (morally good) tkat urns should be alone.'"

The usual weekly meeting of the Egmont Lodge, 1.0. G.T., No. 112, was held on Monday evening. Bro. V. Peppcrell, as Chief Templar, started the new quarter well by initating ten new members into the Order. After -Hie usual business and initiation had been conducted, liro. G. W. liartnell, D.D., gave a very interesting address on his trip through most of the "dry" towns in the South Island, all of which appeared particularly prosperous, and while admitting "sly gro£" shops did exist, particularly in Invercaigill, pointed out that this unfortunately only demonstrated that law-breakers exist and in no way affected the question, "Is prohibition beneficial ?" Next week installation of officers and the initiation of five new members will take pkiec.

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The popularity of the dances at the East End pavilion suggests that there will again be a large attendance there to-morrow night, when the series will be resumed, with the Empire orchestra in attendance.

The Agricultural Department has decided to keep its show exhibit intact, retaining space only in the principal shows of the Dominion. Space has been talcen for it in the Taranaki Agricultural Society's winter show.

Summonses to jurors for the Supreme Court sessions on May 19th are now being served. By some means the names of thoso selected to serve have leaked out, and the constable -who is ..<">'ving the notices hap to be a bit of a detective to catch his mien. R. Somple, the lied Fed. leader, j s a poor prophet. Speaking at Wellington on the eve of the Mayoral contest, he said: ''We are going to register a vote to-morrow that will surprise New Zealand." Results showed a reduction in the Labour vote by 200. Mr. Victor Lindaueri, formerly of the Woodville school stall', who has just returned from a trtp to Europe, compared the New Zealand teachers very favorably with those of the Continent. In his opinion, the former are in earnest in their work, the latter are simply working for their pay. General Sir lan Hamilton made an amusing remark at the official reception given him in Invercargill. Hi 3 tour of Canada and Australasia, he said, had made him realise that colonials were more British than Britishers themselves, j although their surroundings were different. The Bluff, as he landed, reminded him of the country where fihe Mayor and he were brought up—Argyle. What had surprised him most after the parade was the excellence of the Invercargill whisky. (Laughter.) He could hardly believe his eyes when he saw the decanter on the table.

The energetic East Enders who are snagging the Henui river in ordei to make it navigable- for oil launches from its mouth to Courtenay street must use a little more discretion in the use of exxplosives. Yesterday u piece of stone that must have weighed several pounds was hurled from the river-bed high in the air, and landed in Courtenay street near Mr. T. G. Sole's, narrowly missing Mr. M. Julian, who happened to be in the street at the time. There is little need to speculate as to the result of such a missile choosing a human head for a landing place. President Wibon has a fund of stories. One that he tells is of a little boy whom he encountered at Staunton, Va., the President's birthplace. Mr. Wilson was speaking to a good-auted crowd from the steps of the Baldwin Seminary for Girls, when he discovered a little seven-year-old lad pushing and shoving his way through the crowd. The boy finally landed in front of Mr. Wilson and shouted excitedly: "Where i 3 it? Where is it?" Mr. Wilson stopped his speech, and, with a broad smile, sadd goodnaturedly: <r Well, my boy, I guess I'm it." "Oh pshaw!" responded the youngster, with a look of disgust, 'Why, I thought it was a dog light." "The general tone of the monov market is exhibiting a moderate but steady improvement. As anticipated, the hunk returns for the March quarter show a decided improvement on the previous quarter's figures (says the N.Z. Trade ' Review, of April 3). As compared with the December quarter there is an increase of £1,191,029 in deposits, and a decrease of £174,685 in advances making a total improvement of f 1,305,614. The excess of deposits is much lighter than that shown a year ago, but this is probably due to the lateness of the export season. The current quarter may lie expected to show further improvement resulting from the realisation of the season's produce."