The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 203, 8 May 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

(With which is incorporated The Taihape Post 'j.na Waimarino Newi.)

The Oroua Meat Freezing Company have decided to at once invite tenders for the machinery, for the works and for the erection of the buildings. A cable message, purporting to come from Major Hart, who was wounded at Sedd-el-Bahr and iu now in hospital at Alexandria, has reached Mrs. Hart, Car : terton, as fololws: "Double puncture. Being vulcanised. Others you know were well up to Wednesday." By a Ga-zette-Extra ordinary recently issued Parliament ha« been prorogued to the 26th May, but there is no reason (says the Wellington correspondfjat Qf the Hawke 's Bay Herald) to .sujv po|& that naeiubefls v. 11"'- b\> required to assembl« in WeUiTfeimt before "'ifie usual tiwo, •<"" , ds th(? end of Jnnf

A widow with a boy requires situation as housekeeper. Her adevrtisement appears in this issue. The Wanganui Hospital oßard has notified the Borough Council of the appointment of a second health inspector, but no mention was made of his probable headquarters. Our readers will notice that Mrs. Ormond is taking maternity cases at the Taihape Maternity Hospital. Full particulars will be supplied on applicaI tion.

The charge of £8 for the Town. Hall for the purposes of holding a ball was characterised by seme councillors at last night's meeting as ridiculous. A revision of that and similar charges has been decided upon.

At-the Three Stars Picture Theatre to-morrow evening (Sunday) there will be shown the great 4000 ft picture, entitled "Tigress." This film recalls Robert Louis Stevenson's famous novel of a dual personality.

At last night's meeting of the Borough Council the Mayor expressed pleasure at the unusual state of the Borough Interest Account, which now stood in credit to the extent of £l3o* 10/2. At last meeting it showed a debit of £l2O 17/11. • ' The Borough Council at its meeting last night expressed its alarm at the rapid increase of the demand made on the Borough by the Wanganui Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, which has risen from £56 5/- in 1914, to £74 in 1915, and to £l3O 1(3/9 for 1916. Mr. J. A.-Gardner, his wife and two children, are supposed to be on board the ill-fated Lusitania, torpedoed off the north of Ireland. Mr. Gardner is a brother to Mr. A. W. Gardner, who has just taken oyer Mr. Arch. Crawford's drapery business in this town.

Some amusement was caused at the Borough Council meeting last night, when Cr. Healey asked whether councillors had permision to smoke. Cr. Bennett opposed, the idea, but on a show of hands the Mayor announced that smoking was permissible at the Council table.

At the local Police Court this week, Mr. Timbs, butcher, was brought before the Bench for working his employees more than the hours allowed by the award. As a result, the butchers of Taihape advertise in this issue the time of opening and closing of their respective shops.

The estimated population of the Dominion at March 31st, excluding Maoris and Cook and other Islands, was 569,578 males and 531,'JOS.females, a total of 1,100,586. Including Maoris and Islanders, the figures are:—Males, 602,502; females, 560,526; total, 1.166,028..

At Dunedin yesterday tjhia Hon Mr Fraser informed a reporter that public works had been carried on during this financial year very satisfactonily, and to a greater extent than it was supposed could have been done, within a period of financial strain,' in consequence of the war. Regarding railway construction, roads and bridges, throughout the Dominion, he said every effort would be made during the coming winter to provide employment for those needing it.

To-night at the Town Hall the London Revue Company will present the laugh tier-making novelty, "A Lord for a Night." The company is a very large one, and the piece to be produced this evening is one that immediately appeals to an audience. It i 3 some little time since such a comr pany appeared in Taihape, and; there will no doubt be a good house at the Town Hall to witness the play, this evening. The Minister for Defence states that as from lat May British currency displaced German currency at Samoa. The change is a step towards Anglicising the island. German notes and coin no longer hold good. They are replaced by British notes and gold and silver and copper and postal notes. Anybody who desires to send money to a friend' in Samoa can do so through the New Zealand post-office. A branch of the

Bank of New Zealand has also been established at Samoa.

The steamer Invertag forty-seven days from New York, which reached Auckland early on Friday morning, ran short of coal when 11 days' steaming from the New Zealand coast. They burned a quantity of timber, carried on deck, mixed with coal, until off Cape Colville, when the coal gave out entirely and the lumber would not burn alone. The captain wired for coal which was sent, enabling the Invertag to complete her voyage. Tjhe shortage was caused by a heavy tropical storm in the Low Archipelago. "This," said Mr. Carey in the Arbitration Court in Wellington the other day, "ia the 'classy' boarding-house cf Wellington (referring to a certain boarding-house). Cabinet Ministers stay there, Judges of the Supreme Court stay there." "You need not tell me about the place,'' said Mr. Justice Stringer, "I happen to be staying there myself at present.' ' "Well, your Honour is staying at a place which is not governed by an .award," Baid Mr. Carey. -."All'J know is that it is very, well .governodV'.' replied; hia Honour with x smile. 1 '~pk:' '.' 's ha-Liking J«..iyili *' /'hi 'GrWat Pepperiafrit Cur*