LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 177, 31 March 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

—- “The Taihape Daily Times” will not be published on Good Friday or Easter Monday. Mr G. D. Yearbuny, an esteemed resident of Rangata.ua, was given an enthusiastic send-off in the local Town Hall on his leaving to go to the front. A telephone bureau is shortly to be opened at OwhanSga. It is understood that the requisite number of subscribers h as beien obtained. Miss Tien Hogue, who plays Aggie Lynch in “Within the Law,” is a daughter of Mr J, A. Hogiie, ex-Miu-ister of Education for New South Wales. The Wellington Hospital Board has received a letter from the Board of Governors of the T. G. McCarthy Trust stating that the latter have decided to contribute up to six thousand pounds by instalments of two thousand yearly for the purpose of acnidrng a house and site, and establishing a Conval.esent Home for children equipped v ith beds for 20 inmates, to be called the “T. G. McCarthy’s Convalescent Home for Children. ” For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. NJevjer fails. l/6„ 2/6.

A. cable from London to-day says that wheat in firmer in price.

A slight shock of earthquake was experienced in Taihapc! at nine minutes past twelve to-day.

A Press Association message states that Malcolm Eoss has been appointed official correspondent to the New Zealand expeditionary forces.

It is stated that some of the Taranaki cheese factories who adopted the oonsgining policy, will pay out from l s 5d to Is Sd for butter-fat.

The firm of A. and G. Price has cmpfeted its 64th large locomotive ■or th e New Zealand Railway Department.

In answer to a question, Mr Leigh Hunt this morning stated that indications were that wool packs would be cheaper next y-ear than for the season just passed.

Stud!eut s are advised that there will be no shorthand and typewriting class held at the Technical School on Thursday, April -Ist, neither will there be any classes held on Monday, April sth.

Miss Kathleen Murray, who is at present touring New Zealand with the •‘Within the Law” Company is a niece of Sir Archibald Murray, chief of General Sir John French’s Staff at the front in France.

A hermit sheep wa s shot last week on Cecil Peak Station,opposite Queenstown. The animal was a three-quarter bred four-year-old ram, its fleece beng fully ISin long, and the tail,which was taken as a trophy of the chase, i yard in extent.

Crown lands to the extent of 630,185 acres were thrown open for sale ui(l selection in February; also 4449 acres of land for settlement land, 145,625 National Endowment land. The total acreage of lands opened wa s 780,269. In January 26,634 acres of Crown lands were opened.

The old swing bridge off the Pukeatua Road, in the Kaitieke district, is soon to be replaced by a steel structure on concrete supports. This will certainly be a convenience to Messrs Hamilton, Morgan and many other settlers who have now to use the shaky jld makeshift.

The annual meeting of the Mangaweka branch cf th e New Zealand Farmers’ Union will be held at the Oddfellows’ Hall oni Thursday next at 3 p.m. Mr Leigh Hunt, manager If the Farmers’ Distributing pany, will giv e an address to farmers on the advantages to be derived from ‘Co-operation.”

Speaking at a meeting at Christchurch, Mr P. C. Webb, M.P., in supporting a motion protesting against the increasing cost of living, said that ■f the Government did not take some definite action there was bound to be a big stonewall next session until something wa s done, truce or no truce. The Government would be forced to recognise its responsibilities.

The construction of the road from Waimarino to Tokaann, connecting the main trunk with Taupo and the hot lakes district, is making satisfactory progress. A sixty feet span bridge is new being built over the Whakapapaiti. Other small gullies have to be bridged, which, when completed, will thoroughly open up miles of country on the Whakapapa Plains,

The Plimmer—Hall Company, which plays ‘‘Lady Windemere’g Fan” at the Town Hall, Taihape, to-morrow night was accorded a public reception on arrival at Palmerston on Monday. The Mayor welcomed the Company and congratulated them on the success which had so far attended their mission to raise funds for the Belgians. Both Pahnierston papers speak exceedingly well of the piece and the performance and the company was accorded a crowded house.

According to the chairman of the Cattle Insurance Fund (say s the Sun) there is a handsome hrtvard waiting anyone who can devise a certain and practicable method of identifying the cattle in respect of which claims are made on the fund. At present ther e is no systematic method of identification of insured cattle, and branding schemes which have so far been proposed have been considered so cumbrous as to be unworkable. No definite case of “ringing in” has been established, but under the present unsatisfactory conditions there is often room for suspicion. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure 1/6 2/C. BEST 7IN2QAB FOB PICKLING. Ore of the most popular Cookery Books in this Dominion recommends Sharland’s Malt Vinegar for pickling Beetroot, Cabbage. Onions ami other vegetables. This preference is endorsed by the many thousands of experienced housewives who use this mellow ami mature vinegar, not only for pickling. but for making Tomal o’ Sauce and Relish, for flavouring Oysters.and Lobsters, and for imparting a zestfi.l tan* to Salads and Greens Sharland’s Vinegar is brewed from malt and sugar and is entirely free from harmful mineral aedg, Wiihmf a doubt it is the m< st palatable and most wholesome vim <ar mml' l ' : . Zealand. All Gr-von- stock it a a.-rl borides.