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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16547, 23 September 1919, Page 2

Several business premises in Devon Street near Liardet Street have changed hands during Dio last few days. The soldiers’ welcome homo ball which was to have been held at Waitara on September 25, has been postponed until October 2. “IE science would invent a drink without alcohol which made one feel as cheerful us a glass of good champagne it would earn the thanks of the uni- i verso,” said Lord Farrer at the annual meeting of the Surrey Public House | Trust at Guildford. “Nothing succeds like success.” This trite saying may be now' applied to the | success of prohibition in America. The Rev. John Dawson was in America attending a world conference in Washington from June 5 to 8 last. In connection with that, great gathering lie, and others, visited many of the socalled dry cities to 'see how far the re-1 form is successful. Most people say it is all right for imral areas and small towns hut cannot he carried out in large cities. To settle this point will be one great object in Mr. Dawson’s address in the Good Templar Hall to-mor-row night. Your secret for that dazzling shine on yonv shoes, Miss Pretty Maid ? “ ‘Keep Smiling’ Boot Polish, sir,” she said.* For Chronic Chest vmmplaints Great Peppermint Cure,

. The New Plymouth Borough Council decided on Monday night to accede to tho request of the Library and Museum Committee and made a grant of £SO for tho purpose of purchasing from time to time suitable exhibits for tho museum. ) A “joy rider” got away with a motor- ! car from Wanganui on a recent evening, j His liberty was short-lived. The car left j tho road a short distance from Wauga- I nui, and was found lying against a wire j fence with the young adventurer lying! unconscious and very badly battered. He is now in a hospital, j Bccontly it was reported in England! that an exporter who desired perinis- i siou to send a pedigree colt to South : Africa was asked by the War Trade ; Department whether tho pedigree colt. was a Shorthorn steer. In tho House of; Commons Sir A. Geddcs admitted the i tale was true. The War Trade Depart- J ment, he added gravely, secured the j expert advice of the Board 1 of Agricul- J ture on the matter. (Laughter.) | In a letter to the New Zealand Times | on the subject of the war gratuities ox- | Captain Seivewright states that “each i i Canadian soldier gets a house and stock j I and a farm of 320 acres free.” Assum- j ing that there were half a million Cana- j dian soldiers and that tho gift cost ‘ 1 iffi average of no more than £IOOO per j j man the total cost to the Dominion j would be £500,000.000 and 160,000,000 | I acres of land would bo required. Try j again, Captain! | Those about to travel who find they 1 need an extra trunk, suit case, hat box, or bag of any description, will find a. good selection at the Now Zealand Clothing Factory. Remember, if it’s I H.B. it’s good; and ensure having good dependable quality by getting this. brand.* | Our doorway is the road to real foot-1 wear economy. Inspect tho bargain lines : shown in our doorway. Ladies’ strong oue-bar house shoes, 10s 6d; ladies’ stout chrome lace shoes, sown soles, 16s 9d (guaranteed all leather); girls’ chromo one-bar slices, sizes 7-9 9s 6d, 10-13 10s 6d. Note the • address: Regal Shoe, Store, next Everybody’s Picture Palace.* i

“Oh, this is Mr. —, the_ news-| agent,” said the Acton magistrate, j ivlien a hoy of eleven appeared before him as defendant. The lad was summoned for employing a boy of 9. _ “No j doubt ho has the commercial instinct, said the magistrate, “but he cannot be | allowed to make a fortune out of another little boy.” Ho was ordered to pay costs. We have to acknowledge receipt of the schedule of the 34th annual stock show and industrial exhibition of tho Manawatu and West Coast Agricultural aud Pastoral Association. The classification has been considerably extended and numerous valuable trophies and specials are offered for competition. The show dates have been fixed for November 5, 6 and 7, and entries for the live stock sections close oh Saturday, October 18, other classes on Saturday, October 11. Copies of the schedule can be obtained I on application to Mr. W. T._ Penny, secretary, Box So, Palmerston North. j The death from drowning of Mr. i Ephraim Greenwood, in connection with the destruction by fire of the little coastal steamer Tainni, recalls tho fact j that bo was engineer of the Moa ivhen ) she left Wellington for Wanganui with case oil on February 3, 1914, and took firo following an explosion, when she was five miles from tho entrance to tho latter port. A fireman named Kennedy, who was sitting on a hatch at the stern I of tho vessel, was killed by the cxplo- j sion. The officers and crew, being im- I able to launch the boats, which were | almost instantly wrapped in flames, I jumped into tho sea after they had thrown overboard lifebuoys and pieces of timber. The steamer Arapawa, laden with 4000 cases of benzine and kerosene, was about a mile away from the Moa when that vessel became ablaze, and, rushing to her assistance, picked np the men floating in tho water. The Moa burned fiercely for some hours, and then sank.

Boys’ and men’s pyjamas arc favourably priced at The Melbourne. For instance: Children’s striped flannelette combination sleeping suits, os lid ; boys’ and youths’ striped flannelette two-piece pyjamas, 5s lid; men’s striped flannelette pyjama suits, Os lid; finest value in fhe trade.*

A salmon caught in the Waiau River, Southland, in October, 1916, has been pronounced by the highest authorities in England to be a true Atlantic salmon, which is a greatly superior fish to the quinnat, which is well established in tho Canterbury rivers. The fish in question was seven pounds in weight and had kept frozen at Matanra until Juno last, awaiting a suitable opportunity for dispatch to England. “And what is your husband working at?” asked Mr. J. E. Wilson, S.M., in the Auckland Police Court of a woman who sued her husband for failing to maintain her, “Oh, he’s been working for the Government for six months,” tho woman replied. “But I haven’t been doing anything,” protested the husband, from the box. “That’s just what I told you, sir,” continued tho wife; “he’s been working for tho Government, walking round the streets, doing the gentleman.” "So that is what you call working for the Government,” rejoined the Magistrate, amid loud laughter. “I’m afraid that wo cannot all agree with you.” •Messrs. Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd,, Christchurch, forward us the fourth volume of his Excellency Lord Liverpool’s account of the doings of the two New Zealand hospital ships, the Mamma and the Maheno. In a preface his Excellency states that it is not intended to give a detailed account of them last voyages, since they differed scarcely at all from those which had preceded 1 them. The intention is rather to place before those who have toiled so hard at the voluntary equipment a general outline of 5the work accomplished during the last two commissions of tho vessels, 'at the same time showing how the surplus money of the Hospital Ship Fund and goods in kind have been disposed of. There is also included a table setting forth the amount of money subscribed for Red Cross purposes and the allocation of Red Cross goods in kind contributed by the Dominion since the outbreak of war. The whole forms a valuable record which Red Cross workers will no doubt be glad to possess. Tho book is published at half-a*crown. For Coughs and Colds, never fails. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure,

The mails dispatched' on August 11 arrived in London on September 21. A cable message to- the Australian papers states that Harrow, Eton, and other public schools are reverting to compulsory starched collars and black coats, on the ground that the wartime relaxations to soft collars and tweed suits tend to untidiness in dress. Said to be tho youngest member of tho British Army, Drummer Gordon Usher, aged 14, or the Cheshire Regiment, was dealt with by the Willesdeu magistrates for being an absentee. He paid he came to London to see his mother. A charge of 13s 4d for an interview with a solicitor was oujected to on the ground that it was excessive, iu the course of an action heard in the Magistrate’s Court this morning. Counsel for the plajntiifs said that ■ “six-and-eight” would have been agreed to. Ho conceded, however, that this was rather a fine point. The total amount involved in the action was considerably larger. The police were informed o.^ - Monday night that a sum of about £IOO bad disappeared from a safe in business premises in Stratford. The owner found that tho bank was closed when he went to deposit- the cash, and he accordingly replaced it in the safe and later found that it was missing. Information was received to-day to the effect that the money had been recovered. All Cuba was recently shocked by the murder of a little boy shepnord of the Agramonte district, whose heart was removed, in the opinion of the authorities, by ‘‘witch doctors.” Cuban mothers are guarding their children with extreme vigilance. The whole countryside is alarmed and residents of cities shocked by the outrage. Evidence of a cult of ‘‘witch doctors” who believe the human heart possesses power to heal all ills of the body has been reported in Cuba for a long time, hut was discredited by many. Tho “witch doctors” thrive on the ignorant and superstitious labourers. The two prime mysteries of the sea, according to a writer in the New York Evening Post, are those of the disappearance of the naval . collier Cyclops last year and of the brig Marie Celeste in 1872. Not a trace of the great collier or of the 290 people she carried has ever been found. Tho Marie Celeste was found in mid-ocean, with everything in perfect order, and even the dinner ready to serve, but abandoned and with no trace of the crew’s whereabouts. Tho theory is advanced that the Marie Celeste’s crew feared an explosion from her cargo, and hastily; took to the boats, and then perished in a squall. The story of a man who built a house round himself and could find no way out was recalled in Uxbridge County Court recently. An application was made to Judge Scully tor the possession of a cottage in order to provide an entry to a large building behind, which has been converted into a hall. The cottage and others have been built since the original building, long unoccupied, was erected, and tho owner found himself with no legal right of entry from a highway. Judge Scully refused to givo possession of the cottage, but approved an arrangement whereby the owner can demolish tho lower part on undertaking to allow the tenant to use two rooms on the first floor and the attic rent free. Two juvenile desperadoes, who hound and robbed another schoolboy recently, left the Tottenham Court in tears when they were ordered four strokes .with the birch. Three boys, the eldest 12, were charged with stealing a purse containing 9s 4d from a 10-year-old boy who was going an errand. Ho said that in Hertford Road three boys rushed at him from behind a fence. They had handkerchiefs tied round their mouths. They knocked him down, dragged him behind a fence, and bound him with a piece of string. They then went through his pockets, and took the money. Passers-by heard hi§ cries, and the lads were caught. The eldest boy, Charles Butcher, told the Court that after they had taken the money he tried to persuade his mates to give it back. He was discharged. The others, Thomas Butcher, nine, and William Prior, tenj said they wanted money to go to the pictures. Mr. J. Hoskin wishes to notify his pupils that the usual weekly class dance will be held to-morrow evening in the Kawaroa Park bungalow. To-morrow, at 1,30, in the Good Templar Hall, the whole of Dr. Leatham’s new and modern house furniture and effects will be sold by auction by Messrs. Webster Bros, entirely without reserve. This furniture is now on view at the hall, and offers one of the finest opportunities of securing some really first-class articles. Included in the list are two very superior Axminster carpets.