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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144670, 3 May 1915, Page 2

At the court 'this morning a firstoffcndinc, inebriate was convicted and discharged. There has been a slight fall of snow on Mount Tlgmont. Tho annual mooting of the ratepayers of tha Moa Road District was held in the board’s office at Inglewood on Saturday. Mr. H. Trimble, 1 chairman of the board, presided over an attendance of eleven ratepayers. Tho chairman read the annual balance-sheet and statement of' accounts, and the meeting then adjourned until such time as the bal-ance-sheet is audited. Mr. Massey states that the Kew Zealand oat crop is likely to bo short this season. Southland had a good crop and Canterbury and Otago just about enough for requirements, but in tho North Island there was a,serious shortage. He had been asked to remove tho duty so that imports could be made from tho United States and Chili, but he did not think it either necessary or desirable to comply with that request.— Press Association. The prime cost of all woollen goods is much dearer to-day than it was six months ago, and the price is still soaring. Buyers of blankets, mgs, woollen underwear, knitted and cashmere socks, jerseys, mufflers, etc., should, make their purchasestat the Melbourne, Ltd., at once if they wish, to avoid paying advanced prices in, tho. near future,’*

The Prisons Board is meeting at New Plymouth to-day.

A sharp frost was experienced in New Plymouth this morning. Australian mails cx Maheno, and, English and American via Vancouver, will arrive here to-night. Messrs. Greenshields and Co. commenced their contract for the construction of the tramways track this morning.

The shooting season opened*on Saturday. and a large number of local sportsmen wore out with the gun. Birds were not very plentiful, although in a few cases good hags wore secured. Beautiful weather was experienced at Mount Egmont on .Sunday, and there was a very fair number of visitors, including Air. Jns. APKonzie, T’nclcr..Secretary for Lands, and Air. Skcet. Commissioner of Crown Land*., Auckland.

I'ifty-niue Territorials of A Company, Al. Heg;ment. left by the mail train this morning to attend the casual camp at Palmerston North. The men, who went down in charge of Company Serge..viajor C.larko, were also accompanied by Ala,|or Bellringer and Staff Sergl.-Alajor iicsp. A car containing seven men irom the coast was delayed owing to a breakdown, and it reached New Plymouth too late to catch the train. Those men will leave by the mail train tomorrow for the camp.

“It never rains but it pours. ,} On Saturday, in addition 10 ihc .uni fatality near Oknto, two other mclor-cycle accident* occurred which were fortunately not at tended With serious consequences. In one of them. Air. itowc, of Sentry Hdl. was riding a motor-cycle wiih a

: "ideoar attached, for rho first time, and ’ , was proceeding homo from New Piy- ' • mouth with his mother in the sidecar. ? ■ when the machine evidently got our of ; control at the foot of the .Mangaone r : hill and dashed into the swampy land i| at the >:de of the road. Tho motor was . : somewhat damaged, hut tho rider and 5 : his mother escaped with n severe simk- . ; ing. The vicinity of Scrivener s store t , in Devon Street wav the scene of the • (fiber accident. A motor-cycle ridden ■ ‘ by Mr. Aldridge, with whom was Miss Cathro, collided with a vehicle driven ( i by Mr. MTi'doe. but both escaped un--1 ’ hint. although tho.machine fared worse. | "When Count Bcrnstorff failed to bluff j America abnu Germany's responsibility j for the war whhdi Austria-Hungary j nominally began, the aid of learned • m<*n, distinguished in science, art eduI cation, and literature, was invoked. ■ Some ninety-three professors attached i their names to a circular. “An Appeal , to the Civilised "World. ' which’was disllribuled throughout the United States, jihis was an ;ut<*inpt to persuade tho, i nations that Germany was more injured ; than injuring, mid (lie blame for tho : breach of pence must be put upon Geri many's enemies. One of the signatories ; was Dr. Fritz Sch.iper. a personal

; friend of Mr. Samuel Harden Church, ; President of the Carnegie Institute. I Pitt sburg, who sent an open hatter in | reply (published by. the London Times 'Company in a penny pamphlet). Mr. I Church has given a masterful analysis j of the “Appeal,” which ho has courteously out into worthless scraps of | paper. One of the most interesting I passages for Mew Zealanders in that

I answer is this:—“And so, at last, my dear Dr. Schaper, wo find ourselves . .'.checked, ashamed, and outraged that a Christian nation should bp guiltv of this criminal war. When I say that wo hate this conthcl and that we execrate the Ge.-m.m militarists who made it,. I I am uttering the opi;;>on of the great | majority of the American people, ini eluding hundreds of thousands of our Conn: n-Amencan citizens. There was Ino hut ideal ion for it. Armed and riej tended as ton were, the whole world j could Slot _ have broken into your i borders. Your groat nation floated its 1 shins In every ocean, sold its wares in I he uttermost parts of the earth, and enjoyed the good favour of humanity, because tt was trusted as a humane .‘'late. lint now all this achievement has vanished, ail this good opinion has been destroyed. You cannot, in half a cen.urv, regain tlm spiritual-and materia! benefits which van have lost.’'

I p-te-dme footwear of every description lot men, women, and children is ruw op-ned up at .he Xeiv Zealand Clothing Factory. This firm has been most foil untie ;n getting the whole of tlp-.r hist season's delivery of ftr-gbsl: bools and shoes to hand.’ Those who appreciate the newest and nicest strips w ill do well to make, an early call of inspection. ’