LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 93, 19 December 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The accounts of the Manawatu A. and P. Association show a profit of £477 17/5. The donations and trophies received totalled £768 2/-.

Farming in South Westland is in a flourishing condition. The very fine homes being built are proof of the prosperity.

During the latter end of October beef

bullocks to the value of over £iu,ooo were disposed of by graziers in the i’e Puke, Paengaroa and Pongakawa distriets } Auckland province.

A visitor to the Sandon district states that he was informed that the Sandon farmers are commencing' to go ont of the seed growing industry, as the increased price of stock is rendering grazing more attractive.

“Arc you a steady or a periodical drinker V asked the’.medical examiner. “Periodical, I guess,” replied the applicant for a policy. “How long between periods?” asked the examiner. “Oil, maybe twenty minutes or half an hour/’ replied the,applicant.

Christmas hampers; to suit all requirements, from ten shillings upwards, are specially advertised by Mr P. E. Wakeman, Em’s Hotel, Taihape. As purchasing these special hampers is the most economical way of obtaining the usual Christmas cheer, our readers ghould take note.

Mr. Lethbridge, of Turakina, reports tin t the wheat crops which he has so 11 for the Belgians are doing wonderfully well. The Turakina crops are mining on well, the showers of the past week proving most beneficial. He also reriorta that a food harvest now seems

A meeting of the creditors of C. R. Currie, bankrupt, is called for Monday next ia the Taihape Courthouse, to commence at 2.30 p.m.

The local School Committee express their pleasure land thanks fov the spontaneous Assistance rendered at the late school concert by the members of the Taihape Band.

The following bowling teams journey to Wanganui to-day to meet Paten in connection with the Wanganui Centre Competition: —-Hesketh, Stent, Yarnam s),' and Drayton,‘Train, Jarrett, Neagle (s).

The attention of the public is drawn to the fact that the usual 5.50 p.m. train, north, is now timed to leave Taihape at 5.40 p.m.; also that the usual 0.5 a.rn. train, south, now loaves at 5.50

The ease, Cyril lan Mackay against the Taihape Times Publishing Company claiming salary in lieu of three months’ notice of dismissal, was concluded in the Taihape Court yesterday. Mr. W. E, Haseldon, S.M., reserved his decision.

The People announces that Sir Hiram Maxim lias invented an incendiary bul-

let for use against Zeppelin airships. It can be fired from an ordinary rifle, and immediately the bullet strikes the balloon it sets the gas a Are. The invention, the noted inventor says, cun bo applied tc Maxim and other

mac nine-guns.

Replying to a manifesto of a party of German professors the president of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburg,

says the efforts of the German people to win the good esteem of America can excite only pity. The reply goes on to say that only execration can be felt for the action of the Emperor in driving men to slaughter and to be slaughtered.

When' Austria declared war and the Slavs were mobilised the colonel of one of the regiments was found murdered. A court of inquiry endeavoured to discover the culprits, but not one man or the regiment would give evidence. Finally the regiment was lined up in groups of ten. One man in each group was told to fall oaf’and was shot. The rest of the regiment was sent to do garrison work in Austria.

A Napier paper states that the chairman at a political meeting at Tomoana so far forgot the sacred duty attached to high office as to leave the chair to administer personal chastisement to an active dissenter from the speaker’s political views. After the meeting had concluded the chairman was handled gently but firmly by some member of the audience, and frog-marched to the lake, into which he was heaved, ‘'dressed in his best suit of clothes.”

When the question of costs arose in a civil case in the Supreme Court yesterday, His Honour the Chief Justice expressed his astonishment at the lengths to which litigants will go. The case in question revolved round a small piece or land valued at about £lO. Three brothers were concerned, and it cost them hundreds of pounds to get a legal interpretation of the points in dispute. “I really think,” remarked His Honour, with a smile, “that the Law Society should present these people with medals.”

Shortly after 10 o’clock on Thursday night the report of a revolver startled these in the vicinity of Walter Street, off Vivian Street. On investigating, the police found a man named Robert .Curtis lying outside a house with a bullet wound in his head and a six-chambered revolver in his possession, five chambers of which were loaded. He was removed to the hospital, where it was found that the wound was only a slight one, being little mere than an abrasion of the forehead. Curtis is a labourer, about thirty years cf aga.

The total births in the four chief cities and ■ their suburban boroughs during iNovember amounted to 600 against GTS in October —a decrease of 78. The deaths in November were 228—a decrease of 40 as compare ! with the previous month. Of the total ('paths, males contributed 122:, females 106. Forty-four of the

deaths were of children under five years of age, be ng 19.30 per cent, of tlio whole number; 31 of these were under one year of age. There were SO deaths of persons of 65 years and upwards in the four chief cities and tbeijr 'suburban boroughs-, as against 116 in October.

The resolution passed by the Council at a special meeting held on November 19th, 191-1, making by way of special order a by-law relating to waterworks and water-supply, was duly confirmed at last night’s meeting of the Council, with an amendment to danse 8 in respect to charge for extraordinary supply. The clause now roads as follows: “The charge for water under the head ‘Extraordinary Supply” shall be at such rate or rates per 1000 gal. as the Council may from time to time decide by ordinary resolution, provided that 1000 gals, shall be allowed for every complete 2/-, or such other sum as the Council shall from time to time decide by ordinary resolution, paid aa water-rate in respect of any premises- ’’