LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 114, 16 January 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wo desire to acknowledge receipt of wall calendars from Messrs’/IT. ,T. Doherty and Ellis Robinson. Aj officer at the front writes homo: I h u r a delightful story of a German prisoner, very dejected amidst his guard:“Damn the Kaiser! I wish I was back in Sheffield ’Then,said in good English. G : Kaiser Bill has already handed mnt 4,000 Iron Crosses .to his butchering Huns. In olden; times the custom was to hang the thief,-upon a cross; nowadays it is the German method t > hang a cross upon the thief. it is surpising io hear of the Germans’ proposal to throw a pontoon bridge across thr Channel. Surely a man of the Kaiserinfluential standing could arrange f.-if a repetition -of the Re,| Sea l uVcr-l- ‘'London .Op? Trim ’ ’ Mrs Flora Annie Steel, the famous novelist, declares that woman ’s work in war time is the work that men are doing and ought not to do. “Men'to-day, she declares, “have no business to be in drapers’ shops, no business.to be selling face powders to women. It.would be considered a shame for a man abroad to do these things,’’ and, moreover, ■women can do them much better.

As an instance of the good prices the farmers arc receiving for their produce this season, tho representatives of one big firm informs the Hawera Star chat already surpluses arc arriving on account of cheese shipments. He was distributing £2,400 amongst Taranaki factories, and a further sura will arrive immediately. These amounts are over and above the Cd per lb f.o.b. already advanced. Scotland has done well in the matter of recruiting. Some of her methods are novel. A special recruiting car, tastefully decorated with the flags of the Allies and bearing in f> - ont the words “To Berlin, via Franco,’’ is runningover Hie various tramway routes in Edinburgh On the top of the ear there is a piper, and on the footboard r. recruiting sergeant, and young men wtic wish to join Hie army aue asked to “jump on,” Good progress is being made with the harvesting of the early oats in North Canterbury. Most of the crops cut are very light, the December rains having com too late to be of any benefit to th r-m. The frequent showers during the pest three weeks have, however, worked 11 great change in the appearance of thy later crops of cereals, and the yields will be very much better than anticipated in the early part of December. The root crops have also greatly benefited by the rain, and the peas and beau’s' arc looking well,

Mr R. A. Foote, of the Iluntorville Post Office, has been transferred to thTaihape" Exchange.

Two years ago to-day since Air Asquith ’s Home Rule Bill passed the House of Commons.

A Mastodon small farmer had to sell Ins cows this week because lie had neirjmr grass nor foddor with which to feed them.

Mr. Wilson, stationmaster at Taihape, is retiring on superannuation, rlis position will be filled by Mr. Mender, who is now relieving officer at Auckland.

The one shilling Belgian Christmas Fund lists circulated throughout the town by the Borough Council resulted in tho very satisfactory gum of £2O 13s being collected.

Mr AlcLcnnau notifies that he will, op February 4th, conduct an important auction sale of choice dairy stock on behalf of Mr H. Phillips. He will also sell dairy stock, horses, and furniture on behalf of Air Chas McDonald.

Another step towards the conclusion of the Bowling Club’s 1914 pairs competition will bo taken this afternoon, when Drayton and Evans (s) meet Bow'd! and Wrightson in the semi-final. This year’s competition commences about tbe 28th.

Holiday excursion tickets will be issued from Waiouru, ’Marton, and intermediate stations to Waiouru, Wanganui, Poxton, Dannevirke, Greytown, Thorndon, Te Arc, and intermediate stations from 20th to 22nd January, available for return to 12th February.

There are now two hundred subscribers connected to the Taihape Telephone Exchange, an increase of thirty for the year. Since the inception of the continuous service a number of country residents have been connected up md some twenty are at present a waitingconnection.

Tho vagaries of several youths in Station Street, Alar ton, on Tuesday night, when they removed a number of tree protectors and wrenched a letter box off a post, will form the subject of a police prosecution shortly, as Hie names of the offenders are known to the police.

Some excitement was cause! in the town this morning when a young horse,, belonging to Mr Champion, grocer, bolted. with cart attached, from Station Street, through Alain Street to its stable,narrowly missing a post or so during its mad career. However, it pulled up at the stables without damage being sustained.

Speaking at the Hntt, Premier Massey said that the people of New Zealand ’•oaliscd their narrow escape from liav'rig Parliament dominated by half-a dozen extremists, and many would welcome another election to remedy mistakes made at the poll. If another election came and it were freed of the side issues which complicated the last poll lie would have no fear of the result.

A visitor to Timaru who was in the sea at Caroline Bay during the Christmas holidays had the misfortune to lose his false teeth when diving off the raft The next day when .-troißng a 1 mg rhe .•ands at the north end of the bav he had the good fortu" ? to fee his lost L oth wash up just io (>•;.-.1 of him, when he quickly recovered them nemo the worse frr their 24 hours’ immersion in salt water.

Alany fanners have experienced grea f trouble from birds attacking their turnip crops this season (writes the Wendon correspondent of the Mataura Ensign), Some fields have been so badly attacked that only half a crop is now expected. The County Council is not buying the eggs this year, and no doubt the rapid increase of young birds, together; with lack of warmth to force the turnips ahead, have both assisted to bring about the trouble,