LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 146, 23 February 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

It has been stated that a Whilon district farmer has been offered £2OOO for his wheat crop as it stands. The area is something over 100 acres. Our readers at a distance are' reminded that special trains at excursion fares will run to the Taihape Agricultural and Pastoral Show tomorrow (Wednesday), In our columns of recent date comment was made on the inattention of railway officers in not answering the telephone installed at the parcels' office. The Department, with a view of avoiding a continuance of the complaints, has removed the telephone to the stationmaster's office, and now enquiries will doubtless receive that consideration and courtesy which thev

For the convenience of country patrons tlie local shopkeepers will keep their business premises open tomorrow till 12.30 p.m.

The Feilding Star says: We know tlio incredulous will doubt the statement, but it is a fact that a farmer in this disriet sent 700 wethers Home last October, and netted 23/7 each for them.

"We have very little to complain about," remarked a dairy farmer to an "Express" reporter at Eketahuna, "for, with cheese, at 80/ per esv*- wo are getting equivalent to lOd per gallon fcr our milk, and by all appearances it will be up to 1/ in a very short time."

The local police report that the town is indulging in an unusual state of quietude and peaeefulness, despite the influx of a conglomerate mass of humanity of all social grades. Even the almost übiquitous "drunk" is abse it.

At the Masterton Ram Fair a stud Lincoln ram,, sold on account of Mr Bland Raynor, Wairarapa, 10 I'eicy Bros., Masterton, for 160 guineas, the highest price of the sale, This figure is the highest Price paid for a Lincoln for some years.—Press Association.

A Dunedin buyer has been in the Dipton district, and paid 3s 3d o.t. for A. Garton oats for forward deliver}'. The same buyer purchased wheat at 6s 4d o.t. Unfortunately for many farmers they sold at 6s some weeks The grain goes to Dunedin. - -W'nton Record.

Dr. Snow, lecturing before the Royal Statistical Society, London, said that no males under the age of 45 in Great rßitain would be available for emigration, but half the women under 45 could be spared. Their immigrati n would be highly desirable for the development of the Dominions.

Significant extract from a letter received from a Bluff man with the Expeditionary Force in Egypt: "Lord Kitchener has sent word that we are to leave for the front at the end of March, and we are to fight with the French. We will be in the fightingline in April. Over 110,000 troops leave Egypt for the front in March.

The Defence authorities at Wellington report that althougi ihe new card system of recruiting way only lauue'i ed on Monday, there has been Mich, a rush on the oar is that Wellington Post Office and the O'hn- offices have already run out of then. The Defence Department is getting some thousands more cards printed.

The potato crop's throughout the Otaki district are a record. There has been practically no blight, and excellent crops have been harvested all along the coast. Not only so, but fairly satisfactory priest* havte ruled, and consequently those who grew potatoes in any quantity have done wen this season.

A young lady teacher in ihii district made a sad mistake th* other day, when she sent a lcve-let f e? to the secretary of the Education Board and an official letter to her sweetheart. The sheck the secretary got was nithing compared to 'the teafhelf's toolings when the transposition was discovered. —Feilding Star.

The Elthain "Argus," as showing the effect of feed upon milking-, gives the following: A Ngaere farmer's custom towards the fall of the year was to put his cows, 50 of them, in a paddock of kale. One night something prevented him from following his usual custom. Next morning's factory returns showed a decrease of lOOlbs in his supply.

From advices received from Australia there is now a big demand for light draught horses for artillery purposes, and it is anticipated that the heavy horse market will recover itself. Already one or two buyers are quietly at work in Otago, and it is anticipated that there will be some fairly heavy shipments made from Southland also, during the coming season.

At the inquest on Mr. Royd Garlick, who died suddenly on the train from Christchurch to the West Coast Dr. Sandstein stated in evidence that he thought the deceased must have been failing in health for some time: his profession was tf> much for him; he had no special jnu&eular development. The verdict returned was that death was due to cardiac failure.

• Writing from the military camp at Cairo a New Zealand trooper says: "Shaving is the limit. We have two or three native barbers in camp. You go in and sit down: Barber gets razor, and starts. He gives you a scrape down each side and across, and wipes the lather off with his Ringers and ransfers it to the tent-pole. All the . nversation is at the beginning and ad —"Razor all right?"

The fire at the railway pumping station put the engine temporarily hors dc combat. A large number of engines replenish, their water supply here and thousands of gallons are used daily. Since the fire, the Department has run special water trains from Utiku. There, a large tank, mounted on a truck, is filled and brought here to be emptied into the tanks from which the engines draw their sun-.