LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 110, 12 January 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mohammedanism is the religion of the Turkish race, and the Sultan, as Caliph, is the supreme head. Over 2000 mosques are provided for worship. ".We wont to a-big shop,'J said an old countryman on his return home from London, "a;i' we got one of 'em 'ere things wot vliizy.es ye clean np' to the top. Wot is their name?" "Choplifters!" his wife replied. Mr William Lindsay, chief officer C the Kauri, has received Word tii.it his brother, Sergeant Edwin Morton Lindsay, of the Black Watch, was killed i;. action in the battle of the Aisne on September loth. The world's record cows, up to the present, are large for'their breed, reports the Holstein-Fresian Register. Eminent'a Boss, with a record of 00:: pounds of butter fat, weighed IOOOIbs, which is 1001bs above the average weight of the breed. It is interesting to note that the steel darts used by the aviators wit!' the Allies, referred to several times in our cables, are an ounce in weight, and are discharge,! by dropping 1000 at a time'. Dropped from a height of 500 feet these darts will penetrate through a man and horse.

Ail Vvn'iean who lias returned from Beill. s; • s anxiety on the faces of people ;■ '.'i marked contrast to the con.'ifleiH shown at the beginning of the w:,. The impression is growing Jth '3l is not well; that reported pietor.'es ■ not victories; and that actual' vicies -ire secured at immense cost', fto■ilists fro doing their utmost to|fester unrest. Criticism of the Kp.isUr'3 advisers is far more open than previously. >

Bakeries n On-many hav? b°.;u prohibited from -\<> king at mjjht in order to prevß.it Cr.;>li birad being in the morning, '(his in expected to reolu-'.e tile con ;:inipti'i,.—Times and SvdiiO/ Sun Spo.'l''l Cables.

Although Mr )<! F. Dutliie, of Dunedin, secured a majority of votes at the meeting of the Employers' Federation held on Thursday, it is understood that Mr 8. I. Clarke, of Auckland, will be nominated for >,ie position of Employers' represent,live on the Arbitration Court.

One of the election cries used against the present Government during the last election was that they had strangled the State Fire Insurance Department. The profits for the last year of the Massey Administration amount to no less than £17,500, which is £2OOO more than the previous year and a record for the Department.

The following are additions to the Tailiape Telephone Exchange. Add to list:—lso (s), J. A. Oliver, farmsr,Ma"area; 150 (w), Thos. Bradley, farmer, Matarca; 150 (r), John A. Sommerville farmer, Mataroa; 150 (w), G. S. Mortley, farmer,'Mataroa; 150 (d) Isaac Keats, fanner, Mataroa. Alter:—B (m) Z. J. Davies to 8 (k), Z. J.Davies.

. The following volunteers .left Tailiape yesterday to join -the reinforcements of tile Expeditionary Force in camp at Trentham: —Thomas Kearney and Richard Geighran .(.Taihape), Dcnglas Stewart (Mataroa),,. and Miimsby (Matieri). Mr. M. O. Meadows left this morning. to, join, the garrison force being formed to relieve 'he force at present in Samloa.

Advice has been received by the Defence Department of the death of George Burlinson, attached to the Wellington Regiment, of Mounted Rifles, Main Expeditionary Force, at Cairo. Death was due to septic poisoning, the result of a fall from his horse. His father is Major Burlinson, officer in charge of the Weraroa Training School at Levin.

Ah explosion occurred in the engineroom at the Longburn freezing works on Thursday afternoon, as a result o which .windows were smashed, portions of the machiner damaged, and a large hole made in the brick Avail of the engine-room. The cause was the bursting of an "air bottle" used for starting the big gas engine. Fortunately no one was in the vicinity at the time, otherwise a serious accident would certainty have been recorded.

At Palmerston on Saturday an outbreak of fire was in a small building adjacent to the Burrobrewery for storing packing straw. At the time straw to the value of about £5 was in the building, and it is thought the fire was due to spontaneous combustion. The building was valued at £lO and .there was no insurance on it or the contents. The fire brigade experienced some difficulty in subduing the outbreak owing to the extraordinary length of hose that had to be run out to reach the building #

The Department of Agriculture lias received a cable from Mr Of. L. Taeon of Buenos Aires, wdio is visiting South America on behalf of the New Zealand Government to inquire into the prospects of the sale of New Zealand fruil states Association). He a<' vises that there is a profitable demand for large coloured apples, and that shipments should be made from Marcn onwards. The greatest care should be exorcised in grading and packing, there being complaints of this in respect to ! last year's shipments. Mr D. J. Hughes, the Liberal candidate for the Taranaki seat at the last election, lias given his views on a certain aspect of the contest to the Manaia Witness, fie says the experience was not quite without its educative value, u:.d will be useful in the campaigns that are yet to follow. The methods and weapons ompoyed for striking an adversary, Mr Hughes says, are the most treacherous conceivable Nothing is considered to be too infamous as long as it damages a man'.) candidature. Generally speaking, he appears to think that politics just now are in many respects a perfectly dirty business and. badly need a course of a ntiseptic treatment. At the present time the ourer harbour of Lyttelton is infested with sharks, some of which' ar° at least {'ft in length. A party of six men left Lyttelton a few nights ago and went to the head of Charteris Bay. Equipped with line and hooks, red meat being used for bait, they were soon engaged in catching sharks. The night's spoW resulted in a haul, of no fewer Ihannine sharks, the largest of which measured 0 feet from nose to tail and was equal in girth to a man. Tt seems, howon the Lyttelton side of the harbour,'the reason being probably that thi foreshore is rocky and sandy, while :-n the opposite side it is shallow and muddy providing plenty of feed.