LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There is a prospect of one or two flaxmills being established in the Masterlon district at an early dale. Mr. Frank Armstrong, of Akitio, recently purchased the champion dog "Mos'giel Perfection," for £852. He intends auctioning it in the Wairarapa in aid of the patriotic funds. The Timaru Post thinks there will be no shortage of shearers in South Canterbury, owing to the fact that shearing classes have been conducted in°varioUS centres, and at least forty pupils are now able to take on work. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., presiding, judgment was given for plaintiff, in default of defendant in the case IT. T. .Toll (Mr. A. Bowlev) v. Benjamin W. Gillbanks. a claim for £1 0s 3d. Writing to his sister in Poverty Bay, Lieut. Ferris, of the Maori Contingent, says: —"It seems to me that the eve of battle is like the day before a football match. At least that is about all it worries us. We have implicit trust in God for our safety, arid unbounded confidence in ourselves. Kvery time. I look at my men I admire more and more the race I belong to.'' The following is a quotation from a letter which the High Commissioner for Xew Zealand received jit reply to one of condolence lie sent to a gentleman on the death of a son, a member of the Wellington Rille Regiment:—"Certainly I regret losing my son, who seemed to have a prospect of a very useful life before ihim, but. 1 do not mourn deeply for a man who dies doing his duty manfully while there are others in millions ready In ■. arry the work'on to the only think-' able end." This is the typical spirit with which the war is viewed by so many in the Old Country. Writing from Gallipoli to a friend in Wellington, dinner C. Lc Grys, an engineer in the Union Company's service, in describing his trip from New Zealand to Egypt, says:—"We passed within a mile of Cocos Island and had a splendid view of the German cruiser Eniden. She was in an upright position, well up on the beach. But, by Jove! she was a sight. Her foremast was shot away—a few feet of it sticking up from the deck; of her bridge there was no sign, her funnels were simply a sera]) heap, and she had holes everywhere. ' In fact, she looked more like the end of a condenser as far as holes are concerned." "Desert Gold" tea-drinkers get pleasure from the tea and profit from the packets. Save the "camels" for the l)ig competition 3

Forty-five men left Eltliam for Trentham on Monday night, and were farewelled at the railway station by two thousand people, amid great enthusiasm. (Prom Wanganui 120 men left for Trentham yesterday morning, and 63 men left from Palmerston North. At both places they received an inspiriting farewell. The Otago and Southland men for the eighth reinforcements left Dunedin by special train yesterday. They were accorded a hearty send-off prior to their departure. Dunedin district sent 193 men, Tnvercargill UO, Milton 55, and OiMYaru Of).—Press Association. Mr. Triggs, Conciliation Commissioner, sat at Dunedin yesterday morning to hear an application by performing musicians for a new award. It was stated that a conference of representatives from all over New Zealand was to be hold, with a view of going for a Dominion award, and the dispute was therefore adjourned sine die.—Press Association.

In connection with the selection of a successor to the late Bishop Grimes, of Christehureh, it is stated that an election lias already taken place, and the names of certain candidates for the high office have been forwarded to Rome for the final selection. It is not anticipated that Rome's decision will bo received before the end of September or the beginning of October. At a meeting of the East End Committee the question of further improving the entrance to the reserve from Puller .Street was referred to Mr. Hardwick, with power to act. The proposal is to go in for a scheme of further ornamentation at the main entrance. It was decided, on the motion of the chairman, seconded by Mr. Hardwick, that the Boy Scouts be granted the use of the Pavilion on Tuesday evenings for the sum of Is to defray lighting expenses.' The Dunedin correspondent of the Lyttelton Times states that an English lady writes of a surprise she recently experienced. She offered to take in a Belgian refugee and one was sent, a nun. "The woman,' 1 the lady writes, "wan stated to have been so shamefully knocked about by the Germans that she needed to lie about and take rest. 'One day the hostess had to leave home for an hour. She saw the man safely in bed before leaving and put her medicine handy, also some fruit. When she got out she found she had forgotten her purse and ran back for it, and there was t||c 'nun' in the I kitchen having a shave. .The guest was a German spy." The town clerk of New .Plymouth has received the following letter written from London by Mr. W. R. Davidge, the town-planning expert: "There have, as you know, been many unexpected delays which have prevented the preparation of the promised report on the improvement of New Plymouth. The plan, however, is now approaching completion, and I hope to be able to forward it, together with the suggestive report, during tiie course of the next few weeks." The letter is dated July 16. Mr. .T. Connett, president of the. Taranaki A. aid P. Association, visited Oaonui yesterday and addressed the annual meeting of shareholders of the, Oaonui Dairy Company in connection with the proposal to reorganise the Society. He received a very attentive hearing, and at the conclusion of his address several of those present spoke in favor of supporting the Society. The following new members were secured! IVfessrs G. J. Clcgg, F. Hoskin, .Tames Young, C. Jeffries, G. Muir, J. C, O'Rorke, J. "Fleming, P. Cook, fi, Coombes, C. H. Pepperell, R. P. M»l-j colm. Mr. J. C. O'Rorke was appointed the company's representative on the committee. Private Douglas Smith, well known in the Wairarapa; ant* who enlisted in the main expeditionary force when manager f>f the Kabul dairy factory, writes to a Wellington friend saying that after being wounded lie was invalided to England, and siiuc his recovery has been having a good time in London on extended leave. Then he went to report himself for duty, and lie iiad to explain that lie had been wounded in the head. They examined him with the X-rays, , and to his great surprise found that a Imllet, or the part of one, was still in hi) head, and on that account he could not go back to the firing line as soon as ho would have liked.

'For breaking windows in the shop occupied by John Williams, at Okaiawa, on July 23. Walter Cuirie. Leonard Railey, Leslie Bailey, Arthur Bailey, Kenry Wlmlen. Norman Crocker, Joe Ngatni, Benjamin Carman, and Timothy Harris were fined at the Magistrate's Court, Hawera. on Monday. C.'t each, with costs (equally proportioned) £3 12s and £3 !4s, for damage to the windows. It appeared that already £">o had been paid for damage caused to the Imi'ding. which had been attacked by about <K) persons. Defendants, who nleaded guilty, were represented by Mr. R. Rpeiiec, and elected to be summarily dealt with.

'Tito ('heaviest clothing T have ever seen in my life." Thus an enthusiastic customer at the Melbourne's semi-annual reduction sale on Saturday, commenting on the double frontcr denims at lis lid, grey denims lit 2s ]ld. worsted trousers 7s (id, and men's suits, shirts, etc., at greatly reduced prices. The sale in question is a fine example of wlia4.,this firm is able to accomplish by a strict adherence to the "spot" cash system. Messrs ,!. and ,1. Au'd, nearest the Post Office, notify their customers Hint business will be carried on in their sp.tcious new showrooms at the back of flic shop during the replacing and modernising of their shop front. I'seftil prizes are to he given at the euchre party at Cue Fast Kml Pavilion to-morrow ni»ht. consisting of a quarter of a ton of coal for both ladies' anil men's first prizes, and 2311) of flour for the second prizes. W.C.T.U.-Monthly meeting will be held to-day (Wednesday), at 2..10, in the lodge room.—Advt. THERE IS ONLY ONE ■SANDER EXTRACT, and that is whv the people insist on getting it, and why they reject the many inferior substitutes, and the cheap and frequently harmfulV just, as goods." The GENUINE SANDER EXTRACT is free from the objectionable qualities of the common eucalyptus oils and the so-called "extracts." SANDER'S EXTRACT is the most powerful antiseptic and healing remedy that can be used with safetyit prevents and cures all infectious diseases— in lluenza, colds, fevers, smallpox, dipthcria, flatulence, dyspepsia, diarr-' hoea, dysentery, and kidney troubles SANDER'S EXTRACT, applied to ulcers', burns, sprains, cuts, inflamed and itching skin, gives instant relief and cures permanently. Three drops in a teaspoonfm of cod liver oil is a specific in all chrome lun» .flections. Rheumatism, neuralgia, an. oothache are quickly dispelled by Reliability, effectiveness, and safety are the great attributes of SANDER'S EXTRACT

At the Auckland Supreme Court yesterday, John Henderson Thompson, dliiis Dr." Douglas, on a charge of obtaining credit by means of false pretences, was sentenced to four years' hard labor.—Press Association. A meeting of ratepayers was held at Egmont \ illage la«t night to discuss the proposed Moa County; The meeting wus addressed by Mr. J. Brown (chairman of the Taranalci County Council) and Mr. A. Morton, who spoke against forming a new county in the Moa district and favored merging the distill tin the Taranaki County. The arguments employed were similar to those used by Mr. Brown in his address' at Maketawa last week. The Hon. Dr. McNab has received a cable message from his brother* Pri v. A, McNab—who has been a periodical visitor to Hunterville, and who is nowtraining on Salisbury Plain with the Royal Fusiliers—congratulating him on his inclusion in tho National Cabinet. Private McNab was a Contingent officer against the Boors. After the present outbreak he went Home and enlisted, stating that he had already se«n something of an officers life ,arid wished. to sec how a private fared. PrLv. McNab for nearly two years was a student in a Dresden college, and what ho saw there of the pacific (?) intentions of the Huns had something to do with tlje propaganda in this country for compulsory training, which his brother was primarily' responsible for bringiiigJnto existence, i* Some idea of the rapid development of the Hauraki Plains from a useless swamp into a flourishing dairying district can be gathered from the difference in the payments for butter-fit fiatd to settlors since the Government first opened the reclaimed swamp for selection. The Thames Valley Dairying Company first started operations in that locality four years ngo, and in the first season about £IOOO (a little leas) was paid to the settlers for cream. The second year the sum of £4OOO (about) was paid to the Hauraki settlers. The third year brought the settlers £IO,OOO, and last year the sum of £23,000 was paid by .the Thames Valley. Dairying Company for butter-fat supplied. The coming season promises a far greater increase than any of, the previous, ones, During the last fow months numerous Taranaki and Manawatu farmers have bought farms in the plains, and a large proportion of the newcomers have brought large herds of covys into the district with thorn. In the course of a letter to local friends, Driver J. J. Murray, writes from the Weir Red Cross Hospital, Balham, London: —Things .are not quite so'bad at the Peninsula as at first,- but it is still a bit warm over there. . The hospital I am in is about two miles from the city of London, and only arriving here yesterday I have not had time to look around. When wo arrived at the station in London we got a great. reception. They are real good to us, and could not be better; in fact, we are treated like fighting cocks. I will regret leaving here. We get a week or so holiday after our discharge, and then probably wo.willbe sent back to join our company. In England it is midsummer at the present time, so we will be able to look around. When seeing the boys in New Plymouth kindly remember me to them all and tell them I am having n good (imc, and that they ought to come too. Egypt is worth seciiij,'. T don't think Turkey will be long before it is finished, but I think the Germans will take some beating.