LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13896, 23 October 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Letting well alone never raised 'i salary or dcelared a dividend. A cable message from London states that Consols are at 60. Entries for the Waikato A. and P. Show will close with the secretary, Mr J. M. Baxter, to-morow (Thursday) at If) p.m Additional classes have been added for woik by returned soldiers. Nelson's column was decked for Trafalgar Day, including wreaths from Japan, Australia, and other overseas countries, also tributes from the parents of lads who perished in the Jutland battle. In the House of Commons, Mr J. F. Hope said that the British prisoners in Germany are 362 officers and 112,987 men. There are 28 officers and 242 men in, Austria, and 430 officers and 117 Indian officers and 2371 British men and 6589 Indian men in Turkey.

''This Government is raising all the money for the war by means of loans, whereas it should be from current revenue. The Labour Party," said Mr Holland M.P., last evening, "will lay hands on the moneyed people of this country to obtain all that is wanted."

At the Police Court, Hamilton, this morning. Patrick Howling, charged nn remand with drunkenness, was convicted and ordered to pay £i 0s (Vd medical and police costs. Charles Lovett, remanded from Monday on a similar charge, was convicted and lined ss, a prohibition order also being issued against him.

To check the spread of influenza among the employees of the Defence Department in Wellington, the medical staff of tho department has instituted a system similar to the inhalation chamber in use at the camps. All workers, civilians, and military, are taken in turn and given a thorough germ-killing spray. The results have proved eminently satisfactory. Field-marshal Sir Douglas Haig has l>een awarded the Cross of Honour hestowed annually by the American Society of Honour for conspicuous and notable service to humanity. The medal last year was given C .al Joffre. This year the British Government was requested to name an admiral or a general for the honour, and it replied: "In the opinion of the British Government the services which Fieldmarshal Sir Douglas Haig has rendered and is rendering to the common cause of the two countries would seem to indicate that he is a suitable recipient for th e society's decoration." "New Zealand Illustrated," the Christmas Number of The Weekly Press, a copy of which lies before us, makes an excellent Christmas card for our boys at the front, and in the pages of scenery reveal beautiful views almost undreamt of, the large centre opening lieing one of the finest and most comprehensive pictures yet seen of the Lees Valley. Then there are scenes from Canterbury, Otago, Central Otago, Mail!x)rou2:h, Nelson, Bay of Plenty, ltuapehu ,Wanganui River, Taranaki, Poverty Hay and Stewart Island? many of which will remind readers of the plea.sant holidays past, and cause them to visit others in future holidays. This beautiful annual forms a most satisfying advertisement of New Zealand. A settler in one of the way-back blocks in Kawhia has brought the peculiar position he is in under the notice of .Mr W. T. Jennings, M.P. The settler is a member of a county council and a J.P. He had a young man in his employ over two years ago, who went •away with the 21st Expeditionary Force. There is not the slightest doubt nliout the soldier leaving the Dominion after training at Trentham and other camps, and a letter from France, with the Y.M.O.A. triangle, dated Jury 12, 1918, has been received <i>y the settlor from the young man, yet the soldier has been posted as a deserter and the settler has had the local police inquiring the alleged deserter's whereabout >. The matter has been placed in the member's hands for unravelling. Tiie spread of the influenza epidemic in Auckland is viewed seriously by , medical men, among whom the opinion ■ is widely held that it should at once bo made a notifiable disease. That it | is assuming a worse form pc !t g: ins

ground is definitely asserted, and some doctors so Car as to say that several deaths which have occurred here have lieon directiy attributable to it. Some advice as to precautionary measures which should he taken against the prevailing epidemic was given l\v an Auckland medical practitioner. Ho said that places whore large numbers of people congregated indoors should he avoided, and that everybody should remain out in the fresh air as much as possible. Some sort of antiseptic should lve used in the form of a spray or inhalation for the nose and throat. The daily bath was more essential than ever. All draughts should be avoided, as should Ihe close proximity of oatients suffering from the disease who were cough, iin.": and sneezing. The only way to uet hotter when influenza made its anpo«rnnm was to at once give in to it, and folli-w out appronriate treatment. Above it ]l, relapses should he avoided, •>s they were always worse than the initial stage of the disease.

The resolutions passed at the recent I special meeting of the Cambridge Bor- | ough Council urging that the Govern-' ment should take over the Hora flora power plant, were forwarded to the Minister of Public "Works, Hon. W. Fraser. The Mayor is in receipt of a letter from the Minister as follows: "t am in receipt of your clerk's letter of the 10th inst. forwarding the resolutions passed at a meeting of your Council regarding the Hora Hora works. I tag to inform you that the whole question of the supply of power for the North Island is under consideration, and amongst others the question of utilising the Hora Hora works will also be considered.—(Signed) William Eraser, Minister of Public Works.'' It is pleasing to record that the volume of business transacted by the Waikato Shipping Company continues to -row rapidly. The Freetrader on her last trip to Hamilton brought a record cargo, comprising some 1500 cases of benzine, and 60 tons of general cargo, including a large shipment of paper for the Waikato Times. Owing to the unsafe state of the wharf at the Waikato Heads the cargo was transhipped from the Arapawa to the Freetrader whilst lying in the stream. This, in view of the unpropituous weather, was a somewhat hazardous operation, but it was carried out witnout mishap. A further evidence of t.ie growth of trade is the fact that it has been found necessary for the Freetrader to make three trips this month in place of the usual fortnightly service.