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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16038, 24 January 1918, Page 2

In the Alngistrate’s Court this morning Air. A. Crooko, S.A!., granted an application from Mr. Newton King for a laud agent’s license. A Carrington farmer was fined £2 and costs as the Magistrate's Court at Carterton, for failing to take reasonable steps to destroy the rabbits on his properly.

The Post reports that tho first lot of fat .sheep this season from tho King Country for tho Taranaki Farmers’ Meat Company, passed through Stratford on Wednesday morning in the shape of fifteen trucks. Ton trucks of the .same purchase were loft behind and will come through to-day.

Instructions forbidding the issue to aliens of.licenses for digging gum on the gumficlds have, issued by the Government, The old licenses expired /on December 31, and in consequence little work is at present being done on the fields. This measure has been adopted in order to facilitate tho registration by the Government of the Jugoslavs in the Dominion. • ,

The "old returns from Auckland district for 1017 totalled £741,534, compared with the 1916 total of £714,148, an increase of £27,336. The output in 1915 was £782,032. Last year Ohinemuri contributed £730,899. The total for the last year 18 years is £17,717,088, of which Ohincmuri has yielded £16.334,075. Tho yield for tho last monthly period was £57,201, compared with" £02,157 last year, a decrease of £4956.

■Runs a letter recently received by the Mayoress, president of the- New Plymouth Women’s Patriotic Committee: "Sapper h. Iv. Richards,_ of the New - Zealand Engineers, received a parcel from you with a card attached from Miss E. Evans. 1 wish to thank you for your kindness. Good old Now iPlymoutii! I know it well. I have enjoyed myself often at your races. The war is rotten: I wish it were all over.”

A telegraphic error appeared on Wednesday in a message from AYnitara with regard to unions and benefits. The paragraph van: “Air. Jennings, M.P., introduced the deputation, and has received a reply: 'The Secretary of Labour thinks it desirable that the 'Arbitration Act be amended at an early date to enable unions to make provisions in the rules for benefits, as a number of unions hasp already had provisions in force for years under the impression they were voted.’ ” The last word should have read “valid.” “It all helps. The Ladies’ Patriotic Committee of Xew Plymouth are. still helping things along. This is their latest stunt. Carry on the good work, ladies!” These words are set out in conspicuous red letters on a piece of calico which has been forwarded to this town by the national secretary of the Xew Zealand Y.M.C.A. with a covering letter saying: “Another sign just to hand voicing appreciation of your efforts in Xew Plymouth.” Presumably the sign graced . a Y.M.C.A. hut at one of the fronts while a “homo hour tea’ or .something else, from Xow Plymouth was on the hoard. A good deal of conjecture will exist in regard to this year’s potato prices, in view of the experience of last season, when the market failed to realise the high values that were anticipated in certain quarters, states the “Alanawatu Standard.” A few days ago a Palmerston business man who has Dcen in close touch with the potato market for years, made an offer'of £5 10s per ton to a district grower, to fill a. lai-op order. The offer was refused, tKo grower stating that if he could not get at least £7 ■per ton lie would leave the, tubers in the ground. “Those’“in tliffi know” do not anticipate high prices at any part of the coming season.

’AIr.*E. J. Baker lias a notice in this issue re alterations ilh tho running of the Waitara. bus.,

Alen’s working shirts are still moderately priced at The Alelhouriic, Lid., despite the war. Read those prices: Alen’s flax shirts, 3s 6d ; men’s Harvard shirts, 4s 6d; men’s Oxford shirts, 4s lid ; blue grandrill shirts, 3s lid, 4s lid, 5s lid; black satteen shirts, 4s lid; navy “Advance” drill shirts, 5s 6d; famous “S.S.S.” drill shirts, 5s lid.* Don’t he dressed shabbily, as we can renovate your old and soiled suits, costumes, dresses, gloves, etc., to look equal to new. Now, after reading this reminder, just look over your wardrobe and send those soiled goods to J. K. Hawkins and Co., Dry Cleaners, Devon Street, New Plymouth.* “No Rubbing” Laundry Help—the delight of thrifty wives—ls per packet. New Plymouth Grocers. An exclusive selection of men’s foot--wear is now showing at the Regal Shoe Store. The very latest shapes are shown and each pair of boots are made for long service. Tho material used throughout is warranted of The best quality and is thoroughly reliable. An early inspection is invited.*

Great Kews for Thrifty Buyers.—The Clothing Factory’s Sale is now on and provides just the opportunity to stock up in clothing and footwear before tho full force of the big advance in prices reaches us. Advice ■from the Home markets is that all classes of goods are getting dearer and scarcer, so don’t fail to take full-advantage of this Real Sale.*-

Tim Minister of Defence has decided to have tho order revoked excluding Young and Howell, of the Seamen’s Union, from the ships and wharves, in the interests of the union.

A, Brisbane message states that the floods arc extending. Rockhampton is isolated- and traffic 1 ' is suspended. Anxiety is felt as to the fate of many settlers. Boats have been dispatched. At one station-huff alone, somewhere in France., during tho month of August,, the Y.M.C.A. gave away to troops wild were travelling 110,660 cups of hot tea and coffee.

Sergeant-Major E. Bezar, of Wellington, has pointed out to The Post what he. terms a remarkable coincidence. Fifty-seven years ago on Monday last, he says, the o'th Regiment arrived in New on tho fifty-seventh day out from Bombay.

The, British Government’s scheme of standardised suitings has begun. A million yards of cloth, providing 200,000 suits at 57s 6d apiece, is available from tho clothier, eliminating the middleman. Three million yards of standardised flannel will shortly be issued at 2s a yard. \ Sir James Allen stated on Tuesday that the Defence Expenditure Commission will begin ts labours immediately on tho arrival of Brigadier-General Anderson in Wellington. Whether tho commission will remain in Wellington altogether or visit other centres the Minister could not say. Tho final screening of Fannie Ward in ‘•For the Defence,” and Louise Huff ami House Peters in ’‘The Lonesome Chap” is announced for to-night at tho People’s, To-morrow night Sessuo Hayakawn, the gifted Japanese actor, appears along with Vivian Martin in the great drama. “Forbidden Paths,” claimed to be tho most enthralling screen success of tho year. The Government has received n cablegram stating f4iat tho imperial Government is now prepared to increase tho price of schoelite delivered ex warehouse in London or Liverpool, as from January 1, 1918, to (iOs per unit for ore on the basis of 65 per cent, tungstic acid, less 1 per cent, brokerage, in order to compensate. New Zealand producers for the increased freight, war risk insurance and charges, estimated at 3s lOd per unit. The warm welcome that New Zealanders in France invariably receive in the homos of tho French peasants is referred to in a letter from an Auckland soldier. He. writes:—-‘‘Our boys are ever welcome in the peasants’ homes. We gather in front of the stove and the kiddies flock around us with books and' slates. We talk with tho old folk in our crude French about the war and other things. . . I have visited French people who, perhaps, I have not ■soon for over a yent, hut they always romembdr mo and give me a great welcome.”

‘Tlabbits! You don’t know what rabbits are until you lipvo been to Southland.” said u recent arrival in Wellington from that part of New Zealand to a Post reporter. The place is overrun with them, tho reason being, firstly, that bo many young men have gono' in for soldiering instead of trapping, and, secondly, ’those men left behind find no inducement to trap because they can get no refrigerated space on the steamers for their output. ‘’You could trap between eight and ten million rabbits there if it was made worth your while.” he said, ‘-and as for shooting, it was liot necessary to look for them—they were under your feet everywhere.”

The dairy companies are raising their voices once more in regard to th§ butter tax. This time it seems as if the department in charge of this matter has blundered grievously. In paying out the amounts due to the different companies on account of that proportion of their output used for home consumption, they evidently paid, out too much, and now of course tho department is asking the companies to pay it back. This is one of those mistakes which irritate uselessly. Tho amounts paid out were evidently paid, subject to a final readjustment, but it seems strange the department should not have taken care to paj - out rather under the amounts than over, so that in the final wash-up the hearts of the fanners iffould have been made glad by the. receipt of a cheque, instead of being desolated by having to disburse one.—Manawatu Times.

Astonishing disclosures of the recent achievements of wireless telephony wore made by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, in a speech to thft Canadian Club, at St. Catharine's. Ontario. “If the telephone has reached its extreme limits, what noxt?'.t said Dr. Bell. “I. cannot say what next, hut 1 can toll you of something that happened in Washington a few weeks ago: The telephone has been applied to wireless;, and a man in Arlington just across the river from AVashington, talked with a man on the Eiffel Tower in Paris by telephone without wires. But that is not all. A man in Honolulu hoard the conversation 1 From Honolulu to the Eiffel Tower is 6000 miles, one-third of the circumference of the globe. Does this not moan,” lie added, “that*"wo can talk from any part of the world to any other and without wire?” Dr. Bell, in detailing tho development of his telephone, stated that a few days previously ho had whispered a message from Xonp York to Chicago—a distance of about 900 miles —and had received a whispered reply. The success of Air. L. F. Ayson, chief inspector of fisheries in Xew Zealand, in the acclimatisation in tho Dominion of the quinnat salmon from the Pacific Coast of North America is the subject of an appreciative reference in' the Hobart “Mercury.” which suggests that Mr. Ayson slipuld bo asked to report upon tho Tasmanian fisheries. The paper says:—“Air. Ayson is tho only man in the world who has proved that salmon can be successfully introduced into alien waters. Alany years ago the American Fisheries Commission tried to introduce Pacific salmon to the Atlantic. They failed badly, tho only result being that they obtained n limited success in a fresh-water lake. Victoria and New South AVales have also failed in their efforts to introduce any kind of salmon to southern waters. Alore than that, it has been asserted again and again that tho attempts made at enormous cost, and upon a big scale, to restock British rivers, where depleted, with local salmon, have proved of no use. New Zealand rivers now abound with tho Pacific salmon, and presently not only will there be joy for sportsmen, lint fresh salmon will he upon tho breakfast tables.”

The Girls’ Hit'll School re-onens on February ti, and the Boys’ School on the 12th. / A coneeft and dance in aid of the Y.M.C.A. will he held in the Egmont Road Hall to-niglit. A splendid programme has been arranged. Reproductions of the celebrated pictures in all the important galleries of the world in stock. For beautifying the homo one will find the most effective pictures at Rich’s.' First-class framing our speciality. Remember, our prices will stand comparison,—Rich's Art Gallery^

The protect of constructing a port at Rome, at a cost of £1,600,090, has been finally approved by the Italian Government.

At Auckland on Wednesday John C. Griffon, licensee of the Oxford Hotel, was fined £5 Is for exposing liquor for ■sale before 9 a.m. James Shaw and Frederick Morgan were fined £2 for being on the premises By tho kind permission of Mr. Newton King the Citizens’ Hand will probably give a recital at “Brooklands” on Sunday, February 16, and Mr. T. G. gist has kindly offered to throw open his grounds at “MaranuT” on the occasion,.

An application was made; to the Education Board on Wednesday for a child under the age of fourteen to leave school. Tho applicant will he informed that the board has -no power to grant the. permission desired. The appointment of a lady teacher to the charge, of a school in North Taranaki led to a protest being received by the Education Board on Wednesday from the School Committee concerned, on the, ground that past experience made it essential that a male teacher should ho appointed. The board decided to inform the committee that it could see no reason for departing from its previous decision, as tho appointment was considered a very suitable one. A member said that under the abnormal conditions existing it was very difficult to make satisfactory ■ ar»angements 'or teachers, and committees should assist the [toard more than they did.

Concrete will in future be tho material used for paving Auckland city streets. Tire Mayor stated to a Herald reporter that the City Council was satisfied that tho cost of asphalt and wood-blocks was 100 per cent, more than that •of concrete. The two former were, therefore, things of the past so far as Auckland was concerned. Concrete paving would be used wherever it was practicable. This material was giving splendid results, particularly when coated with a. special preparation, as in the case of Little Queen Street, whore the paving had been laid for two years and proved effectual, in spite of very heavy traffic. A vigorous concrete reading policy would be instituted bv tho council immediately after the wat. A large and representative gathering assembled in tho. Hall, Douglas, to bid farewell to Mr. C. A. Copeland and family prior to their departure for Wellington (states a correspondent). Air. Copeland ami family have been residents of Douglas for tho past two years. Air. Copeland was proprietor of tho local store apcl in charge of the Post Office. Tlie family became very’ popular citizens, and all regret their removal owing to family health reasons. Air. E. Walter, on behalf of the residents, presented Mr. and Airs. Copeland with a silver salad bowl, and Aliss Copeland with a silver-mounted hair brush, etc. Air. Walter eulogised the good fellowship which existed between tho people and the Copelands, and remarked, upon the willingness of the recipients to oblige at all times. Alt. Copeland, on behalf of the family, expressed his thanks and appreciation of the presents as evidence as goodwill, and would always remember with pleasure his connection with the residents of Douglas. An enjoyable social evening was spent with song, music and dancing. 'Air. Copeland has disposed of his business to Air. Cain, a returned soldier.—Stratford Post.