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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16303, 2 December 1918, Page 2

The monthly meeting of the Taranaki County Council, which should have been held to-day, has been postponed until Tuesday, December 10, on account of the influenza epidemic. The Taranaki Acclimatisation Society has secured a consignment of pheasants from the Whangaroi Society and these have boon liberated in different parts of the district. Our Wellington correspondent telegraphed on Saturday: It is understood tbat tbc Licensing Bill, as finally printed, is being destroyed and. completely reprinted on Sunday on account of Cabinet amendments tin's morning. English papers announce the sale recently ol a little British sailing vessel, the Good Intent, carrying 68 tons of cargo, and built 128 years ago, for throe times its original cost. It was built of oak timbers taken from British mcn-of-war, and is still in excellent condition.

Our correspondent in Wellington wires to-day: “Although no vital statistics have been given out officially for November it is almost certain that the deaths from the epidemic will total 5000 for the Dominion. Vital statistics aro being held up for three or four days yet to .avoid any scare until the epidemic has subsided.”

The Ecilding Star boasts that the town is “saturated’ with disinfectants” ; that it is “the only town along the whole coast that has the right kind of smell” : that it “smells clean and looks like that.” Delirium is a marked symptom of the present epidemic.— Manawatu Times. The customs duties collected at the port of New Plymouth for the month of November juet ended totalled £2541 13s, compared with i£4574 13s for the corresponding month last year. This year the beer duty amounted to £129 4s Hd, the figures for November last year being £lsl 13s. The large decrease in the enstofs duties (£2033) is accounted for by the disorganisation of shipping, mainly owing to the influenza epidemje.

The Public Health Committee has 'received from the Hon. W. H.* Heines, Minister of Railways, the following reply to its telegram with reference to the cleaning and disinfecting of railway carriages;—“The Railway Department from the outset recognised ■ the necessity for prompt and effective action in the matter of cleaning and disinfecting railway carriages, and arrangements wore made and instruction given that all carriages were to_ bo 'cleaned and thoroughly disinfected daily. Our inquiries leave no reason to doubt that these precautions are being fully carried out.” The report that horses in Hawke's Bay are contracting influenza is not surprising, says the Chronicle, to thoso who remember the first epidemic in 1890, In tire Taranaki district especially horses suffered severely from tho trouble, and many young animals died through it. The poor' beasts wore a most pathetic appearance and staggered about in a hopeless fashion, as if trying to get away from the torment of tho attack. It seemed to affect their eyes very badly, and some of those which finally recovered never seemed to get thoroughly over the eye trouble, which could always bb noticed when they were working hal'd or got fatigued. A correspondent writes to the Christ- • church “Press”; —There are many ways of killing a. dog. Last week at a Canterbury post office a stranger presented a telegram addressed to a Wellington hotel, and reading somewhat ns follows: “Left my carpet-bag in room 19, please forward to Coffee Palace, Dunedin.” The girl behind the counter explained that at present only telegrams dealing with sickness, death, trains, etc., could be accepted, and refused to transmit the telegram, despite the traveller’s assertion of the lack of a clean shirt, and other details of distress. He retired to the writing-desk, pondered deeply for a while, then wrote desperately and returned with a smile of'triumph. One glance and the official passed tho message. Throe words had been prefixed to it to make it read: “Grandmother verv ill, left my carpet-bag, etc. etc.” Now the postmaster is expecting to find others using the talisman. Wo may anticipate the following: “Grandmother very ill, send 50 singlets and 40 pair, underpants as per sample,” or, “Grandmother very ill, put £5 on Joker in Welter Handicap.” or again, “Grandmother very ill, a fine, baby boy inst arrived, both doing wcl3! ,, Hr- 1. N. 1\ hifccnmbe’s dental rooms will re-open on Wednesday next.

Miss G. Young resumes tuition tomorrow.

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Wo are now showing an exclusive range of ladies’ summer footwear in the very latest shapes, made by the leading houses from the best materials. Nowhere wall be found a better selection of smart, 'dressy footwear.—Regal Shoe Store.* For rapid recovery take “Amco.”*