LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 132, 6 February 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The other day a line of 500 fat sheep was received at the Wanganui freezingworks, being a donation to tin 1 London Patriotic Fund from Messrs. .Pernio Bros., Mangawhero.

People are wondering (says the Dunedin Times) what has become of a certain Dunedin solicitor wlio lias not been heard of during the last three or four weeks,

Diinedin Central is the limit for election muddles. During the transmission of the returns on Wednesday night, •Belle'uiowes result was telephoned as Monro 147, Statham 97, and Oaversham as Muiiro 102, Btatliam 151—bur tiie reverse was really the polling. ■'■ .

A clever imitation of an ohl Australian half-sovereign, obtained by gilding and'otherwise manipulating a sixpence, found its way to a Wellington bank. The. coin had been prepared in such a way as to prove \ovy deceptive, the lettering on the centre" of the reverse side having been obliterated and the surface given the appearance which might be attributed to wear. That fish ought:"to be in every Lousehold at half the price of. meat is the opinion of the Mayor of Auckland, wiry advocates trawling if the fishermen arc unable to provide sufficient supplies for the community. "

Holiday * excursion tickets in connection with the Mavton A. and P. Shew, Taihape and intermediate stations tc Marton by morning- trains on Wednesday next, aavilable for return till Friday. These tickets are not available by express trains on Wed' nesflay

During the last three weeks the waters of Lake Rotomnhana have changed their hue. taking- a darker yellow tint than hitherto. This is stated to be a rather ur.usr. ■' occurrence. The level of the lake ha-; fa: ?n considerably, as i iso has the level < I. the Tarawera and Rot'jnn Lukes.

The question of Sunday pictures lias arisen at Taumarunui. The members of the Borough Council are sharply divided on the matter. One exhibition was given on a Sunday, but by a majority of votes of the Council an application for permission to continue the exhibition was declined.

An impudent theft is reported from the Takapuna (Auckland) district. The Chinamen who till the vegetable gardens in the Noftlicote-Lake Road had dug a iield of potatoes, and these, it h alleged, were removed by means oP n horse arid trap during the night by some unknown outsider.

A conference of '''senior" school inspectors is re- be hold in Wellington at the end of February to discuss the working of the new )v.lu<'f>t!•->•> Act. As rho lisv of senior inspectors, as classified, is far from being representative of the ran;* of 'inspe•:»/.>ra generally, the result of the meeting will be inters! ing, if not illumhuttio/.

Miss Ella Young, who was Bunty in "Bunty Pulls the Strings" in New Zealand, has married Mr. Geoffrey Elkiugton. a New Zealand runhokler. Mis? Young is the daughter of an Edinburgh lawyer, and Bunty was her first professional engagement. Prior to that sh. had been in an amateur musical comedy production.

The Postal 'Department' sends the following: The delivery of mail matter t( the officers and men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force is" gojng tc be a very difficult matter, and involve a lot of disappointment unless senders address articles with the greatest exaetitude. With the View of assisting the public the Department is issuing" n printed list of specimen addresses, -t copy of which is to be publicly exhibit ed at every post-office in the Dominion.

; School teachers in Germany have received instructions of a drastic character to •'impress upon the children economy in the use of food. They are to point out that as a rule the children bring far too much bread to school in the shape of luncheon, arc! that the wastage thus involved is a very serious affair. During the lesson on arithmetic the teacher is invited to set sums with the object of showing how much a slice of bread per diem saved would amount to in a vear.

"What! a man in an impecunious position like this fellow, incurring ;; debt of £ll for a funeral," exclaimed Mr. H. W. Bishop, S.M., at Christchurch when a solicitor applied foi judgment in an undefended claim. The solicitor for plaintiff remarked that he believed that it was for the funeral of his mother-in-law that the man run up such a bill. "Mother-in-law!" his Worship exclaimed again, "all the more reason why he should have got i 1 done cheaply.';

It is reported that a narrow- seam of eual has been found i-u papa rock within two mill's of Taumarunui. The coal is hard and bright and it burns readily. The cycle thief is again in evidence in PaJmerston North, and during the past fortnight fully six bicycles have mysteriously disappeared. A peculiar feature is that bicycles of cue particular make are taken. About 18 months ago when this practice was rampant in Palmerston North it was the same class of bicycle which was stolen.

A party of some 300 prfsoners serving intermediate sentences is camped on the Warmarino Plains about five miles from the Waimarino railway station. They are forming the road to Tokaanu. The work is laid out by engineers of the Public Works Department and supervised by warders. There being scarcely any settlement on the road, it is supposed, says the Taumarunui correspondent of the New Zealand Herald, that the object of the Government is to provide a motor road for tourists or, what is moro probable, make a military road for future military encampment. The country is an ideal one for manueuvres..

A number of cases were dealt with by Mr. W. R. Hasehlen, R.M., at the Police Court this morning. The most serious were those -against Peter Gallagher, who pleaded guilty to a gecoml offence of drunkennes, to procuring liquor while a prohibited person and to exposing his person in a public place. On the first two charges he was convicted and idscharged, but on the third was convicted, and sentenced to one month 's imprisonment with hard labour. .A second-offendjng inebriate, Harold Walker, was convicted and fined 10/-, in default 88 hours' imprisonment. Two first-offenders were also convicted, the one being discharged, the other forfeiting the amount of his bail,' 75/-; •• - ' " ' . .: „ .'.""