LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 170, 23 March 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Owing to an unfortunate mishap to our printing press, the publication of vested ay’s issue of the. ‘•Times” was abruptly terminaoed when only a h.. ; died or so more copies had to be print - od. Messrs. Marsh and Miller, or the Taihape Foundry, immediately undertook the neccsarsy repairs, and to I hem is attributable our ability to issue this afternoon, although in a condensed form of four pages instead of eight. Those who were inconvenienced yes* oerday yesterday through non-delivery we are sure will bear with us in the mishap. To-day, the usual town and country delivery has boon made

Mu. Miles. Mayor of Marton, Joe; not intend to see re-election. Oroa satisfaction is expressed with the p -, e

spects of Mr. R. E. Beckett eon-;nr forward.

The late rains have put several feel, of water In the dam at the water supply head works, rendering any shortage for electric generation or other purposes most improbable for some time G come.

Farmers at Ruatiti are said to Intaking an optimistic view of th’ng.a and great improvements arc being made. Mr. O’Neill is falling 000 acres of bush this season and others are doing similarly.

Under the 1 provisions of section 300 of the Comities Act, the Kiwitea Comity Council or. Saturday voted the sn-ii of £2O for the relief of a resident of the comity to enable him To enter the Covernmiit Sanltorinm at "Rotorua for treatment.

riunket Nurse Jones can be consult c-d at Mangavvolta and surrounding dis tricts every alternate Thursday from J till 2 p.m., and t’no next day (Prt'day) the nurse will visit any case in the dis triet it arrangements are made by tin persons needing her for her means of travel.

Wiiat is claimed to bo a ETew Zealand record (says the Southland Times' toolv place at Ocean Beach works lasi v, oek, when,, in one day. 105 cattle were k.llcd and l cozen. The daily rare to; sheep at present works out at nlvi.it 1500. v. hich is pood going- considering -he number of cattle handled.

Vvhat is believed to have been (he record yarding of sheep ia E letih(says the Call) was registered in Fro*. man E. Jackson and Co.'s yards last Friday, the number being 7.200. There were several big yard lags this time •last year, but this month’s have been consistently heavy. The one under notice is credited with being slightly heavier, than the previous best.

An unusual case was heard' at ‘the Wellington Magistrate’s Couit the other day, when the Rata Dairy Company was charged with attempting, on December 19th., to export butter containing more than 16 per cent, of water. The company’s representative admitted a technical breach and said it was very difficult to know how water got in, as every precaution had been taken. A fine of £1 was imposed.

A wireless states that a terrific hurricane is raging at Vavau. A block of l.Sfifi acres of la ml situated in the West Taupo County. Mangarongo- Survey District, is to be thrown open for sale or selection. The embargo on the export of leather from Melbourne to England and her Allies has been removed. Constable Sweeney, of Mart on, has over twenty licensing cases to come before the Court on Thursday. Some are breaches of prohibition orders. Some of the Taranaki cheese factories that adopted the consigning policy will, it is understood, pay out from 1/3 to 1/S per lb for butter-fat. The new schoolmaster at Ruatiti, Mr. Morton, appears to bo giving the highest satisfaction to parents h..-v : ng children under his tuition. A Press message says that Peninsula mail-boats will not call at Plymouth in future. A furious gale is raging in the Mediterranean Sea. During the last two days over one hundred ships have taken refuge at Gibraltar. — (Press Association.) Forty-six applications In all were received for the position of official Government war correspondent. The committee selected to assist tlie Minister meets to-morrow. The entries for the dairy coiuper-l-tlons for the Waikato winter show total 2f>2, a record for the show and c .< the Dominion. These entries are ;. rich confined to factory exhibits and come from all parts of the Dominion. — Pres? Association. It has been decided by the Court or Appeal to hear argument on the 12th April in connection with three (d.jcUnpetitions recently heard at To Kuiii (Taumnrunui), Hawke’s Bay, and Buy of Islands. Mr. J. G. Jarrctt, of Taihnpu, was appointed engineer to the Kiwitea County Council, out of 2S applications. He served his time in the Dominion ns a mechanical engineer, and hns recently resided in the Taihape dist-ict where he carried out a number of brlPrr contracts. The oldest regiment in the British Army is the Royal Scots, whose origin dates back almost three centuries. Possibly they are the oldest retainer.r In the world, la an old Scottish pamphlet 'it is asserted that at one time the regiment was largely armed with bows and arrows. The Telegraph Department notifies that in addition to packed week-end cable messages, the acceptance of which was prohibited in January last, packed defererd rate cable messages arc now 7 prohibited, and must-be rertw ed. Each message must be complete in itself and must not contain messages for two or more persons. This applies to all routes.

Two letters from soldiers in the camp at Egypt, which have been placed at our disposal (says the N.Z. Times' both comment on the behaviour of i ■ Australians, which one writer says urnrotten after their arrival. One v, EE ’ adds that their leave was stopped, ;

this quietened them very consider

“Ever since wo got hero.” he proceeds. “we have been working v - hard from 5.50 in the morning till 5 "' at night, drilling and training. < ’ course, you will understand I am spending of the artillery, and really vo

could not credit the. improvement o - brigade has made. We have in Egypt fully 150.000 English and colonial troops, and we, had a parade the otv.eday. when General Maxwell, an English officer, told our colonel that our artillery was the finest in the world. E came out and saw us at our big-g-.'* practice, and said it was surprising The British Tommies treated ms very well on our arrival. They are a fine lot of chaps, but are very voting. We have, just heard the result of the New Zealand Gap, and worn’t the boys pleased!”