LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 208, 13 May 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr James Trevor, contractor, aged 68, member of several local bodies, died at Wellington to-day Mr. Jack Mackay, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mackay, cables that he is safe in London and that he arrived a' week in advance of the Lusitania, on which his father and mother were passengers. At the Christchurch Supreme Court yesterday, William G-eorge Maslin, an erstwhile Methodist clergyman at Foxton, wa s acquitted on a charge of indecent exposure in the Christchurch gardens. » Tb,e hearing of a charge against Bertram Bunn, Parliamntary candidate for Riccarton at the recent elections, for supplying noxious drugs to a young woman, was commenced at the Christchurch Supreme Court yesterday. Dannevirke came well to the fore again last night when an amateur concert in aid of the Belgians realised just on £300; the sale of a flag being responsible for over £2OO. In the last fortnight, in three efforts, Dannevirke has raised over £BOO for war purposes

The Masonic Grand Lodge election of officers resulted as follows: Wellington District, Grand Chaplain, Bro. Rev. W Shirer; Junior Grand Deacon, W. Bro. James Rod; Grand Director of Ceremonies, W. Bro. D. J, McFarlane; Grand Swordbearer, W. Bro. J. Mclntyre; Grand Stewards, W Bros. H. J. T. Jaggard and R. Jenkins; Memberg of Board of G.RW., Bros., C. W. NieJsen and T. W. Kirk; Members of Board of Benevolence, W. Bros. A, W, Chapman and S J, Booth.

Those German fumes (says Ariel in the Dunedin Star) will roll right round the world and will suffcate a great deal of German trade. England, generous, easy-going, and forgetful of injuries, may quickly fall back into her old ruts; but, you mark my word, Canada won’t forget those fumes. The German commercial traveller will, after the war, meet them in the doorway of every office he enters. The nation that murdeerd their gallant boys will be outside the pale for many a year to come.

At the Marton Borough Council meeting on Monday night a demand was received from the Wanganui Hospital and Charitable Aid Board for the levy made upon the borough, namely, £139 9/10. On the motion of the Mayor (Mr. F. C. Wilon) it was decided that the Town Clerk write to the Board asking (1) for a return of the number of people sent to the hospital from the borough during the past five years; (2) the nature of the diseases; (3) by whose order the patients were sent, and the cost in each case,

The annual report of the Taupir; Coal Mines, Ltd., for the year ended March 31 shows a profit of £I,OBO foi the year. To this is added £2,419 16/1, balance brought forward, making £3,499 16/1, which the directors recommend be carried forward. In referring to the idaaster by which 43 men were killed, the directors say that alrearh compensation claims amounting to £2,763 17/- have been settled, reducing the company’s accident insurance fund to £2,048 0/5. Other claims are to be heard by the Supreme Court. The bal-ance-sheet shows that the assets (£148,425) exceed the liabilities, not including compensation claims, by £3,499.

The physical qualifications which volunteers for active service are required to satisfy have caused the rejection of a number of men who are regarded as entirely suitable for inclusion in the forces (says the Auckland Star.) Some of these men who are anxiou s to pro«eed to th e front have dischssed the possibility of a “bantam” regiment being formed,and the suggestion has received some consideration in official quarters, although no decision has yet been reached. Should the authorities decide to form a force of “bantam” New Zealanders there would be a ready response in Auckland

Mr. A. E. Browne, the well-nown Petone Beach breeder of White Leghorns and Black Orpingtons has just received word by mail that at the big laying competition just concluded at Missouri, U.S.A., hia pen of White Leghorns had the splendid total of 1,814 eggs in the 12 months, gaining third place in the competition and winning the foreign test, whieih included what might be called the cream of the world’s poultry, all nations being represented at the competition. Considering that very short notice of the competition was received in New Zealand, and that the birds were only three months old chicks when they left the Dominion,- and had a long sea journey and change of climate to contend with, this latest feat of the Petone Beach breeder stamps hia strain of White Leghorn as in the foremost rank of layers of the present day.

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