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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 145084, 8 September 1916, Page 2

Mails which left New Zealand on July 20 arrived in London on the njght of tho 3rd insl*.

The New Plymouth Boys’ High School will ro-opeu on Monday, September 18, and not the 12th, as previously intended .

Mr. G. V. Shannon, of Waituun, sold a vacant section at the corner of Balianco Street uud Customhouse Quay, Wellington, to tho Commonwealth and Dominion Line, Limited, at a figure in tho vicinity of £19.000. The Stratford Patriotic Committee acknowledge receipt of £7O from Captain J. 15. llinc. M.P., as a donation to tho funds for the benefit of, the boys who have gone to tho front from the Stratford district.—Post. Tho Bust End Committee cuclirc party and dance passed off successfully -on Thursday night. In tho ouebro competition Mrs. Autcridgc secured tho first prize. Miss Gunson tho second, and Mrs. Maskcl tho booby; .men, Mr. Hooker first, Mr. Sherick second, and Mr. Adams the booby. A splendid supper was provided, and dancing was carried on to the excellent music supplied by Airs. George.

Thrilling .stories of the historic landing at Gallipoli have boon told to Inglewood people during tho last day or two. by a “returned soldier,”in a very dilapidated uniform, who proudly - exhibited to all and sundry a number of tears caused by bayonet and bullet wounds. Those who listened to his tales of “dorriug do " wore duly sympathetic, and money was even given him by a well-known New Plymouth man, whom he spoke to on tho Inglewood railway station. Constable Longbottom was, however, on the alert, and he arrested tho man. last evening on a charge of vagrancy, having ascertained that the man had never been out of New Zealand. It Ls thought that ho joined the £Hh Reinforcement,s, but was dischargee! before the draft sailed from these shores. Tho “hero,” John Daniel Keenan, alias Sweeney, alias Delaney, was sentenced at Inglewood this morning bv Messrs. Homy Brown and Geo. Young, J’s.P., to three months’ hard labour in the. New Plymouth gaol.

Three weeks ago the committee of the Rod Cross market were appealing to the public to help to raise the total takings at the market for Jear ending September 11 to £IOOO. Tim country districts took the matter up with such good results that by lust Saturday, Hillsborough day, the total already exceeded the desired £IOOO. To-morrow, -which will bo the last Saturday in the year, the‘'market will bo conducted by Tarurutangi, and this district is going to make a big effort to eclipse tho record of £l2O which was pul up last week. If this is to bo done there must bo no “slacking” among the givers or buyers. Tho Tarurutangi people may be trusted to see that there is a plentiful simply of all tho good things which have come to bo associated with the Red Cross market, so now it only remains for tho buyers to do their share in an equally thorough manner.

It has been decided, says a note in Foathcrston Camp Orders, to specially enlist men in the _ R.N.Z.A. “ Field Artillery Section,” in order to permit of the members, now serving in that force to proceed on active service. Troops will bo drawn from those doing duty in Expeditionary Force training camps, who are unfit for service, but fit for homo service, together with men in tho respective districts who have enlisted, but have been turned down as unfit for active service, but fit for home service, and from returned soldiers who are no longer lit for active service. In all cases L preference will be'given to men:who have had preyios training in artillery. Applications of men for this branch must be submitted, with tho-qualifications, and the report of their officer commanding unit. Term of service will fie Tor tho period . their services are required, or for duration of the war. Pay will be at Expeditionary Force ;■ rates _ from date of enlistment, together with free rations and issue of equipment and clothing. An added attraction at the W.hitoloy show to-night will bo the exhibition of the ' chaanpion daffodil bloom of the Hawera show, also the winners of the class for the twelve befit bloom® at Hawed.

To-morrow evening, at the People’s, Lionel Barrymore in “The Yellow Streak ” Metro. Reserve early at Hoffmann’s.

Captains Sydney Holm and Arthur Irvine, both of Wanganui, whero the latter was lately harbourmaster, have been appointed assessors for the Stormbird wreck inquiry. The Dominion products entered for export last week were valued at £417,720, including dairy produce £34,387, frozen moat £161,503, gold £25,000, hides £27,665, hemp £17,871, lalknv £30,472, wool £103,873. A press message from Wellington states that the Golden Bay Cement Works, Ltd., shows a profit of £9344 for the year endid June 30, including £3334 brought forward. A dividend of six per cent, has been recommended, absenting £6OO, the balance being carried forward.

Mesdames Hugh Bally and Morrison acknowledge with thanks contributions to their fund for parcels for the boys at the front as follows:—Mr. A. S. Brooker, wicker baskets and Chinese lanterns; Miss Hamortoo, soap and perfume; White and Son, towels; Mrs. Boulton, tobacco, pipes and cigarettes. Wo take the following from tho Otago Daily Times:—“A scene is reported to have occurred at tho meeting of the Now Plymouth Hospital Board meeting the other day, when the secretary (Mr. H. M. Porter) resigned. Tho suggestion was made that lie was ‘hounded down.’ Some strong words were used by members. It was decided that the house steward receive three months’ notice, in order to combine tho latter’s position with that of secretary.” Tho extract has been bungled, somehow, as nothing of the sort has happened horo.

The Tongariro wreck has now been abandoned to tho underwriters. The captain and the remainder of tho crew arrived at Napier by the Tangaroa at 6.30 on Thursday night, with Captains Bowen and Plunkett. The after part of the vessel has disappeared, only the top of tho funnel and mast being visible. The fore part is still on tho rocks, and is badly knocked about. All cargo possible has been saved-—about 350 tons. Tho preliminary inquiry will bq held before tho Collector of Customs in Napier next week. ■Tho Inspector of Awards proceeded in Wellington on Thursday against Edward Kennedy, secretary of the Woollen Mills Employees’ Union, to recover £2OO penalty for instigating a strike at tho Petdno mills, tho workers at which were bound by the Arbitration Court award. Tito case was commenced on July 27, but was adjourned pending consideration of a nonsuit point, which was over-ruled. After defendant had given'evidence, during which ho was rebuked by the Magistrate for his unsatisfactory answers, judgment was reserved.

Unpleasant interviews with the police are iu store for men who neglect to accept tho advice given in regard to enrolment or reporting a change of address under tho Military Service Act. For their own protection, reservists should apply promptly to the Government Statistician for certificates of enrolment, for which forms aro obtainable at anv post office. These certificates will only bo issued on application. Employers will have an infcorost in such certificates, because the employment of non-enrolled men or deserters is prohibited. Tho production of a certificate is a guarantee to an employer that tho reservist has a right to work. A buxom Scotchwoman, giving evidence in Wellington against tnreo men charged with stealing her handbag and some £l6 in money, constantly referred to the accused as ’’gentlemen. ’ Mr. L. G. Hold, SAL, said it was doubtful whether they could be. called gentlemen, and tbougnt it would suffice if they were referred to as “men.” This, too, was doubtful, for the evidence allowed that “tho little Scotswoman,” as Inspector Hendry callod’her, with the assistance of two servants, kept the three “men” at bay. and prevented tlicni escaping from the restaurant until tho representative of tho law arrived and took the thief into custody. The throe ladies certainly presented a healthy, athletic appearance, which contrasted greatly with the sallowfaced weedy inou whom they hud Deaton in a rough-and-tumble.

Mr. A. Marshall (director of the Dunedin Technical College) has - received a letter from the Secretary of the Marino and Inspection of Machinery Department with reference to the question of attendance at engineering classes in Technical Schools being recognised as qualifying service for certificates of exemption from examination as third-class'engineer. The. anicist atos that as tho chief examiner of engineers, who visited and examined the schools, has reported that he considers that two-tnirds of the day students’ time should count ns qualifying attendance up to a maximum of two years, and for night students four months’ time for every year they attend tho evening classes, with a maximum time of one year for such students, tho Minister of Marine has approved of such attendance at the classes counting as qualifying for tho coemption certificates mentioned.

An unsought tribute to tho efficient visiting arrangements made by the New Zealand War Contingent Association is to be found in a letter written by a nurse in a. London Military Hospital to a London journal. She says that among her patients are two Australians and one Now’ Zealander. The latter is visited weekly by an official visitor, who brings him his home papers, changes his French money, docs any business ho requires at headquarters—in short docs everything that is needed. But, although the two Australians have been here about five weeks, they have never had a paper of any kind from Australia, and no one from any association has shown any interest in them. Neither has a friend or relative in England, and I feel very sorry for- thorn, as they naturally expected at first that -they would receive the same treatment as the New Zealand men, but evidently they were mistaken.”

Saturday bargains at the Regal Shoe Store: —Children’s kip boots, 7’sto 10|s, (ss; girls’ 2-bar chrome shoes, 7's to 13’s, 6s; women's glace kid button boots, 12s fid; women’s black velvet bar shoes, 9a 6d; farmers’ bighdeg leather stockyard boots, 20s; men’s strong nailed boots, 13s lid; large ■ assortment women’s evening shoes from 4s lid.*

The Melbourne’s famous stock of ladies’ hose and men’s halWiose continues to bo augmented by regular shipments from England. Although Home prices and freights show continual advances, prices for all hosiery remain as follows during the sale: Women’s 1 plain cashmere hose, Is 9d; ribbed, Is lid; fine cashmere, 2s 6d, 2s lid, 3s 3d; men’s cashmere socks, cotton and 1 wool, Is, all wool. Is 6d and Is 9d.* Mothers should early instruct their daughters how to wash clothes clean with “No Rubbing Laundry Help”; Is-carton does coven weekly washings.*

At tho Rod Cross market to-morrow largo quantities of violets sent by Mrs. Henry'Weston will be on sale. - The Sydney Morning Herald has been formed into a limited company, with a capital of £750,000. The Mayoress’ .Committee wishes to thank. Mrs. Newton King for a gift of SOlbs of home-made jam. to bo packed for our soldiers, also Messrs. Smart Bros., for sending help to the depot to solder all the tins.

Tbo Mayoress wishes to thank Mrs. Baily for cheque for £3, being half of tho proceeds of sale of tho Anzac flag postcards, also a donation of 10s from Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Knight, Puniho, for the Nurses’ Fund, through Mr. Bally. To-morrow at tho People’s, the management will screen a special matinee programme, which includes “Tho Yellow .Streak ” Metro wouder-play, Charlie Chaplin in a 2000 feet comedy, and Mary .Pickford in “My Baby.” An order has just been issued by tihe District Headquarters at Sydney to the effect that tho terras of courtesy with which letters are often concluded are to be dropped. In future letters are not to conclude, “I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient sen-ant,” bnt simply to end “Tours faithfully.” At the Magistrate’s Court on Thursday morning, before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., tho county inspector (Mr. C. D. Grant) proceeded against H. Julian and A. Bausoiu for allowing horses to be at largo on county roads. A line of ss, with costs 17s 6d, was imposed in each case. For driving without lights, A. Coutts ■ was fined 10s and costs 36s 4d.

Mr. Harris Spence, of Carrington Road, lias just received the final figures of his pedigree Jersey cow, Sultan’s Lass (Mermaid’s Sultam—Yankee’s Lass), which has been under semi-offi-cial test. Her total milk production for the period was 10,073.21 b., which produced 580.401 b. of fat—a. real good cow. The yield of fat necessary for Sultans’ Lass to qualify was 314.51 b.

Tho Chief Postmaster informs us that tho Postal Department has now received tho necessary authority to take charge of war certificates and hold thorn in safe custody for tho purchasers. This will 'relievo holders of all tho anxiety which would necessarily have accompanied holding tho certificates themselves. An interim receipt will be issued by the local postmaster and a final acknowledgment by the chief accountant, Postal Department, Wellington, where tho certificates will behold.'

The proceeds of “Flower Day” tomorrow will be in aid of, blind soldiers and sailors, and the Mayoress (Mrs. C. H. Burgess) is setting out in the hope of raising £SO on behalf of this very worthy cause. Tho public will have a ra.ro opportunity to-morrow - to obtain beautiful spring blooms, feu - not only have the owners of gardens promised freelv of tboir blooms, but the Whiteloy Show Committee have generously given the wholo of the gorgeous collection of flowers, now on view at Whiteley Hall, for the purpose. This in itself should ensure the emphatic success of to-morrow’s sale. The Dominion records a curiously interesting and entirely accidental meeting of four “old hoys” of Cheltenham College, .England, ia the Wellington Town Hall Recruiting Office the other day. The four gentlemen were:, Captain tV. M. de It. Barclay, Dr. H. A. Do Laiitour, and Messrs. H. B. Bridge (of Wellington) and F. Fulton (of Dunedin), whose aggregate age reached tho respectable total of 278 years. Messrs. Bridge, De Latour and Fulton were at Cheltenham in'the very early ’sixties, but Captain Barclay was there years before that, in - Dr, Dobson’s time. He left the College for Sandhurst in 1857, and obtained his commission in the army at that institution as long ago as 1859.

In opening the Whiteley Spring Flower Show on Thursday afternoon his Worship the Mayor (Mr. C. H. Burgess) took the opportunity of thanking tho flower growers of New Plymouth and district for the flowers they had given the Mayorc-.s lately, and more particularly, for tho magnificent donation of the flowers comprising theshow for the talc on Saturday. Already £l5O had been collected as tho result of the sale of flowers and had been sent to the Belgians. On Saturday .next the collection would be in aid'or Pearson’s Institute for Blind Soldieis. This was not only for New Zealanders. We must, he said, help the soldiers who had done so much for us, and he appealed to all to do their utmost on Saturday.

\b the annual meeting of the Hongotca Dairy Company on Tuesday an interestiug letter was road from Mr. A\. Davis, a former director of the company (savs the Feilding Star.) Mr Davis enclosed an account of sales or six kegs of butter consigned by him to the Old Country thirty-one years ago. The butter was sent Home in a sailing vessel, and cost os per keg for freight. The price realised was 112 s to lips, although "at that time butter in New Zealand was worth only 7d to 8d per lb. In spite of this fact, Mr. Davis was unable to ship more than six kegs, as the space set apart in a cool part of the sailing vessels was not sufficiently patronised to justify the shipping companies regarding this as a profitable branch of their export trade. Says Die Sydney Morning Herald;— Mackay recently has been facing famine because the wharf lumpers in that port refused to handle cargo unless they were given hot lunches and a special train to carry them to the meal, .with payment for tho time taken to go and come. The companies concerned offered to provide the lunches free on the spot so that the time should not bo broken by travelling, hut it was useless to offer anything of the sort. It did not matter that the people of Mackay were starving, or that awards by the Industrial Court were being ignored. There was tho demand ; and the whole of Australia could perish if that were tho alternative to being reasonable. Passengers from Northern Queensland by interstate steamers report that the labour position in the North seems to he going fast from bad to worse. Small cases of tomatoes, lor instance, which a woman would carry one under each arm without undue strain, were being shipped recently .>j lupipers staggering slowly under a single ease to each man. The onlooking women wore- so indignant, that they could,hardly he restrained from helping in the work to shapio the men, and this is the actual report of an. eyewitness.