LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 141, 17 February 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Auckland Oddfellows are arranging a brass band contest to raise money for the Provincial Patriotic Fund. A boy with a saw under his arm riding a bicycle in Auckland on. tSatmeay came to grief and was taken to the hospital with a severe cut in his hn.er.

This year’s honey crop in New Zee land is not up to the average in quantity and a rise in price is certain, more especially as sugar prices have gone up.

The outbreak of typhoid at the Maori camp at Auckland is becoming serious. Two civilian pakohas have been taken to the hospital with the disease.

The wife'of a Sydney resident, Mrs, George’ Angus HiII, has presented her husband with triplets—all healthy bows. The lady previously had three triplet daughters.

The Wellington Central Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution protesting against the action of the Government in ordering railway engines■from the United (States. a

•It is reported that Mr. P. Bartholomew’s sawmill site at Weraroa lias been purchased by the Government for closer settlement purposes. The price given is stated to be £45 per acre.

Mr. H. Mercer, who has acted as re Having stationmaster for the Auckland district for some time, has assumed charge of the local station. Mr. 15 Clark has been appointed relieving ofii cer and has gone to To Kuiti.

Tho Auckland Farmers ■ 00-operafive Milk Supply Company have been advised by cable from London that their butter shipment per lonic realised .140/ on ordinary, and 144/ for unsalted in tho London market.

Two libel actions will be brought under the forthcoming sittings of the Supremo Court at Christchurch. Samuel Kraetzer, the well-known racecourse detective, is suing the j.,yttelton Times for £IOOO, and C. J. .Ten mugs, the Mayor Itangiora, is suing the Christchurch Sun for £IOOO.

During the recent twenty-four hours of - intercession in connection with the " ar held in St. Paul’s Cathedral, some 60,000 worsliippors attended. Many stayed in the building for ten or twelve hours, and an even greater number remained throughout the whole service.

The Taihape Technical School organiser, Mr. Macßae, in our advertising Columns, publishes a list of tho subjects for which classes may be formed. If a • sufficient number of students express a desire, classes in other subjects than those enumerated will be instituted. It is proposed to commence the classes early in March, and to faellitato enrolment the organiser will interview intending students, and answer all inquiries at the Technical School between i and 8 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings

The Raetihi A. and P. Show .takes place to-morrow -(Thursday).

Captain Charles Batt, one of the oldest residents of Taihape, died at his residence, Taihape, this afternoon at ;» o’clock. The captain was out on Saturday last, but was taken ill on Monday evening and never regained consciousness since that time.

A meeting of the ladies interested in the luncheon and tea for the Belgian Distress Fund will be held tomorrow (Thursday), at 3.30 p.m. in the A. and P. Association’s office.

At the 'meeting of the Freezing Works shareholders this morning Mr H. D. Bennett stated that the opinions expressed to the directors were lb at the works would be too small. At til present time train loads of cattle Came down from Waikato and the North to be treated at freezing works in the South. If the Taihape works were in operation to-day there would be no difficulty in obtaining stock to keep the works going at full pressure. The Te Kapua school picnic will be held at Mr Mickleson’s. property tomorrow. The committee has completed arrangements for a successful day’s outing, and there should be a large attendance.

Our boys arc stopping bullets and our choose is soling at S 7- (writes the Stratford correspondent of the Tara naki Herald). These are the outstanding facts off tiie war for the moment, and they are appreciated according to collateral circumstances. There is much speculation as to whether the extraordinary prices for dairy produce, together with the abundance of money coming into the country for this and other produce, will rush the price of land up still higher. For the present a rise is cheeked by the unwillingness of capitalists to finance speculative operations. The outlook is so obscure that prudent men are preferring to put their money where they can reach it should the need arise. But capital Is beginning to accumulate and will have to find openings. Later on possibly there may be local borrowing by the Government and by local bodies at rates of interest much higher than in late years. This would relieve the money market and decrease the funds available for land speculation. To which a good patriot may respond with a loud Amen.