LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 94, 21 December 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Taihape Daily Times will not be published on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day.

Some 626 bales of wool have so far been despatched from Taihape this month compared with 197 despatched during the same period of last year. .

Owing to the rise in the price of wheat the local bakers have found it necessary to raise the price of bread to lOd cash and lid booked. The nev change takes effect as from to-day.

A meeting of those interested in matters pertaining to the Otaihape Farmers' Meat and Produce Company is to be held in the Town Hall Supper Room on Wednesday next, commencing at 11 a.m.

The following matches were played on the Taihape Tennis Club's courts on Saturday: Handicap Singles: Barkman-beat Jones, So —70; Thompson beat Absolum, SO—fS. Ladder competition: Miss Carpenter (challenger) beat Miss Kearins, 7 — <i.

The following is an extract from a letter recently received by the New High Commissioner in London from Captain Lion-al Ha'sey:— "We still go strong, and the ship is endeavouring to do all that is expected of her by these gallant people who gave nor to -the Empire."

Harvesting" operations in the Rangitikei district, says the Advocate, ar» o-oing on very satisfactorily and tin-appearanec.-of a stack at Mr. Sehwarz's "Thilholm," Bonny Glen,-with the allies' flag flying, is tlie first .sign of harvest. It is stated that there are plenty-of first-class harvesters offering. Commenting on the price paid in New Zealand for American apples, a gc-Ejleicp.il who ha*s 'returned from America Quite recently says (reports the Wellington Post) that it is hard to believe that as much as 7s per case lias been paid for tlie fruit. WhPe he was in the Western States apples were exceedingly plentiful, and prices were so lo wthat good fruit was almost being given away. A determined suicide at Pongaroa, in the Palnatua baekbloeks, took place last week. A young man named Illingsworth, said to be well-connected, but who was lately offered employment on a farm at Mara was arrested for .vagrancy. He tore his singlet in the lock-up, put. it through the observation hole, and attaching it to the bolt of the door, evidently put his head into itie noose, twisting his body round until lie strangeld himself. At the inquest a verdict of suicide wtilie temporarily insane was returned. '

That there will be a great shortage in the cocksfoot crop is now beyond doubt, writes the Afcarda correspondent of the Lyttelton Times. The recent rains came too late to materially alter the prospect. To begin with, a much smaller area was closed up in the spring, and later on, owing to the shortage of feed, many dairy farmers were compelled to turn their cows into the cocksfoot paddocks, and now the crop is so meagre and stunted that reliable experts predict that where in normal years five to six bags per acre could be assured, this season the yield will fall to'one and a half bags. In some localities, owing, to the land being previously lightly grazed, bet- i ter results may be anticipated. I