LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 89, 14 December 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Aurora is ready to depart for Antarctica.

Trainloads of corpses continue to be despatched from Belgium eastwards F or cremation. Some have been taken to German glass furnaces.

The Earl of Aberdeen, Lord • Lieutenant of Ireland, has resigned for private reasons. It is rumoured that Lord Wimborne will succeed him.

The case in which William Killen, a pastoralist, is applying to (he Arbitration Court to cancel the registration A the Australian Workers, Union has been postponed till March.

An official message to the Prime Minister from the High Commissioner, in London, says it is stated officially that in the action off Falkland Islands no British officers were killed or wounded; only seven men Avere killed and four wounded.

Sir G. Reid has had numerous enquiries regarding the possibility of neAV market for England for zinc, ores of

-•.inc concentrates, lead molybdenium and wcolfram. Sir G. Reid has placed English firms in communication Avith Australian.

Two thousand out of twelve thousand CcmmoiiAvealth pound-notes ' disappeared during postal transit from Melbourne to Perth. Thirty of the stolen bank notes have been reeoA’--ered. The Treasury believes that all the notes already have been circulated.

Edgar Richards answered a second charge of drunkenness at the Police Court this morning. He was subsequently convicted and discharged. Two first offenders were also charged, one forfeiting the amount of his bail, ss, the other being convicted and discharged.

The hotelkeepers at Adelaide, S.A., have arranged the prices of drinks under the new tariff: —Whisky, sixpence; whisky and soda, sevenpenco; imported brandiey, ninepence. Beer has nominally advanced by obtaining nine or ten pots from the gallon instead of eight.

The adjourned inquest into the death of Jas. Thomas Neve on Wednesday at Strachans Brewery, was concluded on Friday, the verdict of cause of death being the failure of the heart’s action, due to an electric shock, the result of deceased having accidentally slipped and fallen on an electric lamp, which he was using at the time.

A grand Christmas Tree and sale of work organised by the Ladies of the Guild in aid of the Methodist Church Funds was held in the Town Hall supper rooms on Saturday. The func-

tion was a great success, being well patronised throughout the afternoon and evening. The children were well catered for, each one receiving a toy much (to its evident delight. The financial aspect was also satisfactory, the fund being- snnnlrnfTtM tfl

The Main Trunk express arrived 90 minutes late this morning, delay being clue to hot boxes.

A record mail, consisting of 1,050 bags and necessitating the commission of four mail vans, was despatched from Auckland by the Main Trunk express last night.

The eighteenth anniversary of the Methodist Sunday School was celebrated yesterday. Three special services were conducted by Mr. E. T. Bliss, while special singing was rendered by ■the children, who had been carefully 'trained by Mr. F. Mitchell. A feature of the anniversary was the floral service in the afternoon. Collections in aid of the Sunday School were liberally responded to.

A very commendable scheme lately incepted is a swimming competition for school girls. Any girl ia the school i: eligible to enter. Each girl swims the distance allotted, the length of the baths her time is taken and she is given two opportunities of beating this time. All handicaps will be sealed. The competition will continue until nominations cease, and swims will be held twice weekly. The competition is under the auspices of the Taihupe Swimming- Club, which is donating silver medals. The girls are entering into the spirit of the scheme and already there is a good entry.

The Telegraph Office advises that on and from to-day the following additional telegraph codes will be permissible for use in cable messages between New Zealand and the United Kingdom:—Meyer’s Atlantic cotton code, thirty-ninth edition; Bentley's complete phrase code, not including the separate mining and oil supplements; and Broomhall’s Imperial combination code, not including the special rubber edition. The censoring of both inward and outward messages will be done in the United Kingdom. Senders must insert name of code used. Only one code may be used in any one message, and no refund will be entertained on messages containing improper combinations or inadmissible code words.

There were several painful incidents in the election crowd on Thursday night, in Christchurch, but ‘-be worst occurred when an argument arose between a disappointed Reform candidate and a section of the crowd. It is alleged tha tthe candidate became overheated, and struck the man with whom he was arguing. There Avas a rough and tumble, and three policemen interfered. On finding out Avho the principal actor Avas the matter was alloAved to drop, after due apologies had been tendered. A correspondent writes to say that the trouble was caused by a young man challenging the candidate with baying obi structed the reading of an amendment at one of his meetings. The candidate called him a liar and struck him unaAvares.