Local and General

Waikato Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1740, 15 April 1916, Page 4

Local and General

The New Zealand Railways advertise the Easter holiday arrangements.

The Postal authorities advise that the mails which left New Zealand on March 2nd arrived in London on April 10th.

New Hot-Water Bottle are now in stocK at E, B. Hill’s, chemist, Victoria Street.

Another line picture will be shown at the Town Hall this evening, entitled ‘ ‘ Leap from a Linei; ’ ’ This is the 9th instalment of the “Million Dollar Mystery.”

A man named Reynolds was lined 5/ for being drunk, and consented to a Prohibition Order on Friday morning at the Cambridge Police Court. Messis •J. London and E. ,T. Wilkinson were the presiding justices.

Mrs T. F. Jenkins has uow an Easter display of millinery showing, and ladies will find the latest in trimmed and ready-to-wear hats marked at moderate prices.

Mr. Frederick Villiers, the war correspondent, who has returned to England to lecture after fifteen months at the front, followed the retreating Germans from the Marne to the Aisne disguised as a tramp. He has twenty campaigns to his credit.

At Mosmuan, Sydney (N.S.W.), a number of houses occupied by Germans have been raided, and arms and .ammunition found. The discovery of these was brought about quite by an accident. A child was playing soldiers with some other children, and remarked the children ’s guns were not half go good as the guns that his daddy had in the cellar. This led to a search being made, and <>oo rifles were found, together with a quantity of ammunition.

A record head, said to be the finest ever obtained in the Dominion, has been secured in the Otago Central deer forest by Mr. Theo. Russell, of Oamaru. It is a twenty-two pointer, with a massive trunk and a beautiful spread. It was secured in maiden country toward Mount Aspiring, about 7000 feet above sea level. The stag was of enormous height and in magnificient condition.

The United States used to be looked upon as the laud from whence emanated “tall stories,” but evidently England is waking up, judging by a paragraph that appeared in “The People,” Sunday, January 16th, which read as follows:—-“Complaining of the refuse at Guston, near Dover, a district councillor says that rats there grow nearly as large, as rabbits. One lady found, to her horror, she had been stroking a large rat in the twilight in mistake for a cat.”

At amceting of friendly society delegates, held at Wellington on Wednesday the following resolution was passed:— ‘ ‘ This meeting of friendly society dele gates desires to place on record its sincere appreciation of the splendid services rendered to friendly societies by the Hon_ W. Beehan, M.L.C.”

Tt has been found impossible to appoint dental recruiting officers to some of the smaller places in the Dominion. Consequently the medical officer who examines the recruits in any place where there is no dental recruiting officer will also examine recruit's teeth. If he finds that they require treatment the medical officer will sign the dental history sheet as “requiring treatment in camp.”

For Bronchial Coughs, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure

Two bicycles (one lady’s and one gent.’s) are advertised for sale. Cambridge Hunt Club members are reminded of the annual meeting, to be held on Monday night at 7.30.

The Bruntwood Dairy Company have received a cable from London that th< ir butter brought 103/ and 104/ for wh’.e and colour respectively.

Some very interesting papers, “The Balkan News,” printed at Salonika, have been received from Private Stan ley Wallis, of Cambridge, who is attached to the N.Z. Medical Corps.

The Methodist Sunday School Anniversary will be held in St. Paul's Methodist Church to-morrow (Sunday). The Lev. G. S. Cook, the newly-appointed Minister will preach both morning and evening. Special singing by the children at the morning service.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Cambridge National Deserve will bo held in Mr G. H. Ollard’s office, on Tuesday evening next, at 7-.30 p.m. Members of the llecruiting sub-commit-tee ate requested to be present i

A meeting was held ou Thursday :i(’ ternoon to arrange for a farewell social in the Town Hall, to members of the •Blth reinforcement, who will be present in Cambridge on the evening of the 2(ith inst. Ladies are requested to bring a basket, while gentlemen will be charged 12/(3 admission.

A lecture on Japan will be given ia the Town Hall, Cambridge, on Tuesday evening next, by Commissioner Hodde;, of the Salvation Army. Tie Commissioner resided for some time in Jam prior to his appointment to New Z-.v land.

The following pictures will be screened at the Town Hall this evening:— “Highlander Milk Industry” (interest)/'Hearts to Hit” (comedy-drama), “Pathe Gazette” (topical), “Those Fatal Finger Prints” (comedy), “Big Gun Manufacture” (interest), “Million Dollar Mystery” (drama), and “Billie’s Debut” (comedy).

The revised District Valuation Poll for that portion of the West Taujio County, now included in the Matamata County, iVill be open for inspection fr m April I" to. May Ist, between the hours Of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., at the Matamata County Council’s ffice, Cambridge.

The New Zealand clothing Factory have an advertisement in this issue, calling attention to their stock of rain coats for men and boys. They state that the label on their coats is like „a signature on a cheque, ft represents their word that they are selling a thoroughly reliable article.

It is stated in ‘‘GeneralOrders” thar soldiers who return to New Zealand and are discharged from the Expeditionary Force, but who remain liable for service in the Territorial Force, 6.T.5., or Reserve, and are medically fit, will not be called upon to perform any military training for the period of the war, except at their own request.

Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, the British Press war correspondent at the Dardanelles, who is at present on a lecture tour of the southern Dominions, was the guest of honour at a pleasant gathering of Wellington journalists at the Rose Tea-rooms, on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. F. J. Earle, president of the Journalists’ Institute, was in the chair. There were about forty present, including ladies, and Mr # Bartlett vastly entertained his hosts with a lively description of his first adventures in search of “copy” immediately after the outbreak of war.

“Do you think the institution o 4 ;' compulsory military training would be a manifestation of the Prussian spirit‘l’ was a question put to the Hon. G. Fowlds last night. “Yes, it would,” replied the lecturer; “but remember this: abnormal times require abnormal remedies. (Applause.) When a madman runs amok in a community it is necessary for the rest of the people ( to resort to desperate measures to overcome him. If men are not forthcoming then some system must be adopted in order to provide the requrements. ’ ’ (Applause.)

“In no country in the w- rid was religious instruction more rigidly or universally enforced by the btate than it was in Germany. I don't suggest that the atrocities perpetrated by the German Army are the direct outcome of religious instruction, but I do ciu-.ni that wherever the State intervenes with compulsory instruction in schools, the religious instruction imposed will be tainted by the dominant ideals of that State for the time being. The whole of history is full of evidence that any State interference with religion is fraught with grave danger both to the State and to religion.” Hon. G. Fowlds at the Scottish Hall, Gisborne, on Wednesday night. THE BEST COUGH REMEDY. When you have a cough that will not yield to other treatment get a bottle of Chamberlain's Ccugh Remedy. It has been pronounced “the best made, "and has given permanent relief after other remedies had failed. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is pleasant to take and has an established reputation woi? by its good work.—Sold Everywhere.

Mr H. Alan Bell, Leputy-Mayor, will i preside at the Lecture on Japan, tc be * given by Commissioner Hodder, of the Salvation Army, in fhe Town Hall, on Tuesday evening next.

Kev. G. S. Cook arrived yesterday 5, from Thorndon, and will preach at the Methodist Church, Cambridge, to-mor-

row morning and evening

At the last meeting of the Cambridge Women's Hospital and War Relief Fund it was decided to continue to give parcels to local boys on final leave before leaving for the front.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Go., Ltd., draw attention to their monthly stock sale at Cambridge on Monday next, when they will offer upwards of 1100 head cattle. The entry includes fat steers and cows, large-framed cows in fresh condition, fat and forward bullocks, store Cows, 18-months Shorthorn steers, wellgrown Shorthorn calves, 2-yr heifers in 4 calf, springing heifers, fat sheep, and a number of store and weaner pigs. The sale will commence at 11.00 a.m. sharp with pigs and sheep. Full particula-| appear in their advertising column. The (irm will sell on account of Mr. Russell, who has sold his farm, his young cattle and ewes in lamb. Fat and forward lambs will also be sold at this sale in small lots.

Some strange stories have been told in connection with the war, and one of the latest is worth recording in print, it .is vouched for by a gentleman in touch with military affairs, and happened only in December last, when the British War Office aeronautic Experts were testing the stability and craftucility of the latest aeroplane fitted with the very latest conception of aircraft gunnery. A trial was ordered at a specified time at the famous Hendon Aerodrome, and for this purpose special mechanics were deputed to fly the machine. Some two hours before the time set for the trial, two allegedly Imperial officers arrived at the aerodrome, and ordered a preliminary test. They boarded |he machine with the mechanics, soared into the clouds, and landmi on German soil. Further explanations are unnecessary, but the story is founded on fact.

Speaking to a “Post” reporter on Wednesday, a passengei by the E.M.S. jlaitai, from Sydney, said the War had had a remarkable effect on shipbuilding in America, and the Yankee shipbuilder was now an* implicit believer in die saying that “it is an ill-wind that blows nobody any good.” Obscured yards that were practically unheard of a few years ago had come to the fore with lightning-like rapidity, and their advertisements now appeared in ngarly every well-known English maritime journal. In this connection it is interesting to quote a paragraph which appeared in a recent number of the ‘ * Sydney Shipping List” to hand. During 1915, it says, 1216 vessels of 215,602 tons gross register were launched in tlie United States of which number 90 were built of steel. All the shipyards were working at high pressure to fill orders.

“I cannot speak to highly of the patrotism of Messrs. K. S. and A. B. Williams in purchasing laud for the purpose of settling soldiers belonging to Waiapu on the land on their return from the war,” declared the Minister of Native Affairs, the Hon. W. H. Herrins, ui Gisborne recently. “I only wish that other large land-owners would follow their example. ,1 shall have pleasure in representing to the Prme __ Minister the desirability of seeing whether there are any other large European estates that can be purchased for returned soldiers, 'for, indeed, there are many estates, or portions of ev v fates,' which would be most suitable for such purposes. 1 understand, further, that there is very little Crown land available for the purpose in this district In Hawke’s Bay large blocks have been purchased by the Natives/and these are already set aside for returned soldiers/ Efforts should be made to do the stsrie in this district.”

(Speaking at tko recruiting meeting at Kaiwarra on Tuesday night, Mr A. I\. Atkinson said that he regretted being disqualified by age from serving his country at the present time, but he was proud to know that in the Solicitors* Roll of Honour for the Wellington District, lately issued by the Law Society, the first and second places were occupied by younger men of hia name and blood. The priority on the list was, of course, an alphabetical matter, but he was sure that these men would show themselves worthy of the honour and would “play the game” as their fathers had done, and his own father had done, in the old days against the Maoris. The conditions of the fighting of fifty or sixty years ago were different indeed from those of to-day. The Maori in the field was a perfect gentleman, but the conduct of the Germans had been such as to justify Eudyard Kipling’s division of mankind into (11 human beings and (2) Germans. As Dr. Martin had said, the only argument that the Germans could appreciate was dead Germans, and New Zealand most assist in piling these arguments up until the survivors were convinced.

For Children’s Hacking Cough Woods* Great Peppermint Cure.