LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 175, 29 March 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The life of the present Borough Council only includes two more ordinary meetings, this election of a new council taking place towards’the end of April. Lord Tennyson was the most worshiped poet of the last generation. He made £4OOO a .year out of poetry, where as uo poet to-day makes anything like this. Mr. Lister Gilbert, who produced ‘ 1 The Blue Bird” for the J.O. Williamson management, on tlje Do nr tv m : our, who was also here as treasurer with tho Muriel Starr Company, is acting in the same capacity for the present “Within the Law” Company A provincial-newspaper contains ITio following offer in an advertisement by an enterprising trader: "Any persowho can prove that my tapioca contains anything injurious to health wiR linvojthree boxes of it sent to him free of charge, • ■’ Every person who is over 21 years of age, w.hQ is a British subject, and who has resided in thig borough for the last tiidee months’ past is eligible to have his or her name placed on the residential roll by filling up a form at the council during office hours. Th'e (election for Mayor and 7 councillors takes place on April 2Sth. ' The roll closes at 5 p.m. on April 14th, 1915.

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It is announced that the Railway Department will permit a further draft of employees to enlist for the front in place of the men returned from active service who have resumed work.

In the last Gazette, Mr. F. E. Just

is promoted to the position of Chief District Instructor of Physical Education for the North Island, and Mr. Stanley Moore for the South Island.

Mr. Lionel Walsh, who plays Joe Garson in "Within the Law.” is a native of New Zealand, and was for some years stage manager and producer for the firm of Clarke and Meynell.

The wilful destruction of property in the Taihape Domain has caused the Government to re-issue a reward for information Uiat will lead to the conviction of offenders, and notices are this week being posted in various positions where they cannot fail to be seen by any person visiting that invaluable public asset.

In the competition for the most accurate description and judging of tho Romney Marsh sheep at Hie toovs ’■ camp at Abnadalo last week, the first prize went to young Christie, of Wanganui. the second to Chisholm (HuntervilleL the third to Galvin (Pending'),’and the fourth to Dnrragh (Feilding). In accordance with thje suggestion of the Prime Minister that a committee should b e set up by the Industrial Corporation of New Zealand (6 meet him in Larding legislation necessary to establish a Board of Trade,' the following have hden appointed the- committee: The president of the Industrial Corporation (Mr J. B. . Laurensoh), representing the South Island; Mr S. J. Harbutt, president of th'e Auckland Industrial Association; Mr C. B. Norwood, president of the Wellington Provincial Industrial Association; and Mr A, R. Sennet (Canterbury.)

Those who were expecting .great events to occur soon, when the eastern and western jaws’close on the Teutons, may be interested to know that Gray and Inman have agreed to play 18,000 level on 12th April. They are;-billiard players, and they are risking .£IOO each on the game, which the Chinaman described as “On e pokes a ball with a stick, and the other says, ‘Hard luck!’ and the striker says T> •” A later mjessage supplied news for which Maoriland may have been panting. It said; “Gray scored 15,000 and Stevenson 14,709.”

Lord• Kitchener, like his late chief. Lord Roberts, is notoriously averse from being interviewed. A journalist who pluekily attempted this task recent !y, says the London correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian,” relates that when asked for an interview, Lord Kitchener, briefly replied that he had never given an interview in his life, and had no intention of doing so now. The interviewer, by way of relieving the situation, asked him for Lis aurograph, saying that it would, be worth having. ‘You’d better go away and make your own autograph worth having,” said Lord .Kitchener.

In a letter' to the Wanganui Education Board, Sir James G. Wilson, President of the Board of Agriculture, says: "I am glad to hear that it is the intention of the Board to continue Die work of agricultural education l on the lines laid down by the late ML Braik, and your Board can rest assured that anything that I can do to further this work will be done. I was extremely pleased to see in Mr. Grant’s report a few days ago that no less than forty pupils attended the plots at Marton Junction. I hope that this good work will be extended as much as possible.

In these days of sordid professional ism, it is pleasing to find sport beingfollowed for sports’ sake, remarks an exchange. A striking instance,of this was gven at the recent Tolaga races, when a lady owner whose horse had been running without success at the meeting was so overjoyed at winning tlie last race on the last day of the meet ing that she rapturously embraced the ‘ j secretary and several prominent officials of the club in full view of the crowd on the lawn. The novelty came* so unexpectedly to all the gentlemen eoneernod that they blushed most ;becomingly, and their embarrassment was highly enjoyed by the crowd.

A chase of an uncommon character might have been witnessed in th'e public domain yesterday afternoon. The smoke from a fire lit in a dangerous locality among the trees by two, youthful miscreants caifeht the ever vigilant eye of th'e chairman of th G Board. As the boys were at the bottom and the chairman at th e top of a rather ocnsidlarable precipieja, the latter kindly asked the boys to oblige him by coming up. The boys looked suspiciously at the chairman for a moment then made thiair way along the river towards tho powerhouse as fast as their youthful legs could carry j them, only looking round once to s'ee that they were being followed. They then went at top and palled at top, but the chairman, who certainly put |on a sprint , that younger men might i envy, soon ran out of “petrol,” enabling the cuthful lunged little rascals to escape. As the lads are both known to two lookers on. as well as Mr Bray,; their fathers will in all probability be interviewed some time to-day. I

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A Press Association wire to-day says that Miss Katherine Pritchard, of Melbourne, won Messrs Rodder and Stoughton’s prize of £250 for her Australian novel called “Pioneers.’

The employees at* Sir William Hartley’s jam works, Aintree, Liverpool, have had £-1,750 divided amongst then-., in accordance with the profit-sharing scheme. Since the scheme came into operation thirty years ago £BO.OOO has been distributed.

It is rarely that a professional firm lias the experience of that of the Feilding legal firm, Richmond, Morton and Jacobson. Mr. Jacobson has already gone to the front, and now Mi. 11. T. Morton is in camp at Trentham, and will go to the front with the .next reinforcements. —Star.

One of the flaxmills in the Foxton district has been temporarily closed for the reason that the majority of the workers are down with influenza. A number of the Territorials who have returned to their homes from the Marton camp are stated also to be suffering from the epidemic.

The Plimmer-Hall Company tour New Zealand from end to end, and with one object in view only, that is, to raise every possible penny for the Belgian Relief Fund. This company has been organised by two New Zealanders, born and bred her. They have atready devoted months to the preparations in connection with the tour, and in the selection of the company due regard has been paid to suitability of the casts of “Lady Windemere’s Fan’and “The Mummy and the Humming Bird." The assistance’given to the organisers since their arrival In Wellington is most encouraging. The patronage for the tour has been extended by his Excellency the Governor (Lord Liverpool), the Prime Minister (Mr. W. F. 'Massey), and Bir Joseph Ward. In the plays selected Miss Beatrice Day will bo seen in parts in which she has won the highest praise. The company appear at Taihape on Thursday night, in, “Lady Windemere's Fan.” A special souvenir will be sold during the performance.