LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 185, 16 April 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Town Cleric notifies that 10 per cent will be added to all rates unpaid on the 22nd April. The price of food in Austria is rising daily, and the 21b loaf of white bread now costs a shilling. . Potatoe picking at eightpence per bag has. enabled some Hunterville" pick-jers.-.to. earn 30/- per day. The suppliers of the New Zealand Farmers' Dairy Union factory (Palmer ston) milk no fewer than 5,350 cows. The duty paid on the estate of the late Mrs. Annie Quale Townend, of Canterbury, totalled £190,225 3/3. At the Tui Street Mart, to-morrow (Saturday) Mr W. McLennan, Auctioneer, will sell potatoes, vegetables, fruit and furniture, also three good hades. Official information has been received by the Defence authorities of the safe arrival of the Third New Zealand Eeinforcements at their destination. The New Zealand Government's excellent display of apples was awarded silver medal at the Ryyar Horticultural Show at Westminster, London. . A big deal -in potatoes took place ; the other day. A Paraekaretu grower sold the .whole of. his crop —400 tons—at £4 10/-. a ton. The payability of potato growing may be appreciated when it, is stated that the crop returned over £6O an acre. • -News has reached Gisborne that Trooper Thomas Henry Mossman, a member of-the Legion of Frontiersmen 'who. Went from- that district with the .expeditionary force, was killed at the •front:-: He ( was, well known as a sheep farmer.

Mi\\ Peter' Dawson is touring' New Zealand under the direction of J. ai'd NY Tait He is supporurl by an English Concert Company, iiicluding Miss Annetta George, the woll-kuow.i soprano, of the London and provincial concerts; Miss jrraiso Newinarij violinist; and Mi-S's Oiv'he\i .furs p : aHist. He gives a recital 'iere dr. Monday rnght. To-day..some 35,0 delegates to 'the third annual congress of the Salvation Army -will assembly in Wellington; 0;\ Saturday a publiy reception at Thorn - don station v»;ill be followed by a procession through the street-; of the city. Wellington .'City, Wellington South, Sydenham, Feilding, and Wangamri Bands will take part iji (his, and' «t night in the Town Hall '1 musical festival will lie conducted 1 . premises in Jlr-'rA ><; rrv.x'V,' Wcliiugto;i. on M«;>nd:tv bught, four .Chine?? i vrevo charged wl'h. brer- r.os or the j common gam?-'- h-:so?''aud'were fLd | £3 each. j

Aa iaipwtaat s&4« af * haM^es*" - stack «*d Uqlb will te h*Sl by "Mr. |W." ii v al 9Tm Street Mart, te--s»m>w.'"@Skrta*d»3r). - Ewytlwng far stacking a*d tar <&« a* aprta-daia haiwrreasiag and taba«ca«' Ist" V hasiaesß' will a*"' •ff&ret. e»tir«*r w4tbo*t rewjrm

SpeaMng aa ffce-aa&ject *f tba kijrV cost of living, tbe Prim* Minister informed a Pest reporter that ka kad written to the C2ia*fctta* of the Feed Commissi©* (Jfo. Jasfiee Stringer) suggesting that thtt B»oa.m*s*io» shoald be called togtstk«r t» hear any evidence that might be feTtheemiag as l» charges of undue inflation ef prices in certain directions.

Demand ef exporters far earg* apa«* long ago exceeded the supply of bot-steam-driven bette*aa, it is said, aa« now it is the windjammer 'a tura (reports the New Tark Evening Post). pearance of f ere-and-aft sails e-n the transatlantic routes, with the prospects that steady increase will be noted in this respect, at least as fcm«g ss the European war continues.

The death of a small boy at Auckland hospital last week hag resulted in a strange development, the exhumation of the body having been ordered in order that the facts of the case may be investigated, Tke boy's name was Cecil Rhodes, aad Inst Thursday he fell into a tab of boilktg water and was considerably scalded, dying in the hospital on Satuvday. The body was buried without an inquest, but the Minister has ordered the body to be exhumed.

By means of a G-a&ette supplement, his Excellency the Governor a-nnounces the shooting seasons for imported and native game in the various acclimatisation districts. In the Wellington area, imported game (coek pheasants, hares, Californian qnail* may be killed between May Ist and July 31st on payment of a license fee .of £l. Native game (grey duck, black "swan and teal) may be killed within the same period, with a restriction to not more than 25 head per day by any one person, 'ihe prohibited areas are set out fully in the Gazette,

With his briefs, the barrister changes like a chameleon (says the Wellington Times). Mr. C. P. Skerr.ett, K.C., caused some amusement In the Full Court by relating that he was now engaged in arguing the exact opposite to what he did some years ago, in the ease in which the question of the conclusiveness of electoral rolls first cropped up in this country. On that occasion, he explained, he was covering the ground taken by Sir John Findlay, K.C., while Mr. Bell was launching againat him contentions which he himself now had to adopt.

Noticing a certain happening on his station platform recently, sln<es the New Zealand Bail way Officers' Advocate, a stationmaster not one hundred miles from Auckland wrote to the member of his staff concerned as folows: — "Porter A. B.— Rule 16,.—1t is alleged that you accepted a tip of one shilling from a passenger by No. train today. Your early report, please.—CD., Stationmaster." The porter's report was duly supplied, and read -..« under: —"Sir, —ln answer to above, I beg to state that allegation is untrue, but I have no doubt that a shilling wan intended for me, but I having such a strong determination for duty and to obey the rule, I lost it, through 'another member of the staff not having such a strong sense of duty, who crime along and the temptation was too much for him. I will take note this do not happen again. If it should come under your notice that it do happen and I miss shillings in this way I trust you will deal with me very harshly."

The following story from the front was told by Captain Hill, l£.t\, at a large gathering of the wives of sailors and soldiers at Walworth, and is reported in The Times. Our men were being heavily shelled by the enemy, whose position could not be located, when a Tommy weat up to the oflicef and said: "I'll find it for you, sir. 1 don't mind telling you that I used to be a poacher.'' Taking a signalling lamp, lie disappeared. Presently the signal came: —"Fire away here; the enemy just behind." Tnc captain did not like to give the order to fire, fearing that the man might be killed. Bti* one of the men said —"That's nil right, sir. I know Alf; he's like a blooming rabbit." So they cleared the enemy from that point. An hour or two later came another- signal. It was Alf again. For three days nothing more was seen of the man, and the officer was very uneasy, when on the third night the signal came again from another direction — "Fire away: I'vgot the blighters very handy." The next morning Alf turned up; he haC been., away for three days and three rvlft-his with only emergency rations, j The ronuaa.ndiug officer sent for him, but all Aii: said to him was—" Don't! " ■ '■' '' A '- : I ' ~ „ ' " • ~ ''"' " ; '-re? rel.ef. ♦,

Mra. HanßaQj of the White Mvaar,. Tufesfa/died rather aaftxpectedty today ffitcraing. :•'. -. T*a Na4&»a3 Ifckfcy Shew & f* ha fold *t Paimershoa BFerth' •' from . fh-o SSfed t© the' 25th JsCafe, ittefeuava. (*&r readers are refused to £bc «dv©rth»ttaat i& &aatk«r eolm»«, Xk» tender ef M*. A. Tfeowsom $B€&) fcaa bean accepted by Mr. K. ,T. Boharty, architect, for the erection ef siiatple roams f-or Messrs. WakeaitiH Bras. Tke etker tenders were:—Saxt*a aad Xndreirs, £378; ©. Wrightse*, mUi ~K. Heslcethy £382. It is a»d«rstaod tha eeatraetar will commence 'the wark at *ncs.

A* Cke Tfw» Hall Pieturas last night the great star dzawa, "Men f.ad "Women, w wae weil received and applauded. It is really a Hgh-elnits production that is interesting owing t» it» «xtre»e naturalness. Other films mak« up a really fiae programme, which wiR l>« screened a-gaia this evemng.

Owing to threatening weather yesterday, the Gordon Party, in aid of a fund to provide infante' elothiag for the wives of soldiers and Bailors engaged in the war, wa« held in St. Margaret's Parish Hall. The function was a great success.

A beautiful film from an entirely new source was shown for the first time at the Station Street Pictures last night. It came with a splendid r«putation, which it well d*sk<rves, and it can be well recommended to all pieturolovers. There is also a Lubin comic very much out of the ordinary.

The Bargain King of Wellington offering £3OOO worth of drapery, clothing ,and boots, bought at 10/6 in the £, in the large shop . next to Finoh f a Bazaar, Taihape. If the goods fetch anything like the price they coat they, are to be sold, so that some bargains may be expected.

The Hopwood . Hardware firm, Palmerston North, have a very important notifi«ation in this issue in Connection with the finest class of carr.ridgesj for sporting purposes, that it is possible. to make. Our shooting readers are recommended to the Hopwood Hardware, firm for the cartridge* thai makes shooting both pleasant and profitable.

Mt. W. J. Dinnison returning ojfficer for the contributing districts to the Wanganui Hospital and Charitable Aid Board notifies that one representativethe Board will be elected in the Town Districts of Bulls, Hunterville, : j '&nd Mangaweka, and the Boroughs of Marton and Taihape, on the 2Sht April, and that nominations will close on Thursday, 22nd April. All nominations must be addressed to the Ton-it Hall, Taihape,