LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 209, 15 May 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The amount of the Waimarino County's levy to -the Wanganui Hospital and Charitable Aid Board is £796 1/-. At the Three Stars to-morrow night (Sunday) -a suitable programme* will he screened, headed by "Robinson Crti**)«" (3,000 feet). The Plimmer-Hall dramatic Company have completed -their tour of the North Island in aid of the. Belgian Fund, .a»<3 they have despatched a cheque for £1,500 tosxe Prime Minister as a result. The Eaagitikei County Council notifies that She pound on the Road Reserve, hear the junction of the Mangam*hoe; -Huia, and Okaka Roads, Kpeke., ■'ir'efreeh made'\a pubjie pound, Yfr. Robertson has: been ap-' f r%'Titc3^PUndkee T Ser. i'.'{vi<??nj!B&Fßfti frtien referring to

j r The Waipehi-Levin Land Co., Ltd., advertises for tenders for clearing 2000 acres of light bush.

Mr. Norman Boyne, of Wellington, son of ;Mr. J. Boyne, at one time postmaster at Taihape, has volunteered for active service.

Mr. J. McCormick announces a reduction in the price of boots and that he is agent for the Dally M. patent football boot.

' A German employed at the flaxmill at Tetcko has caused so much trouble that he was dismissed and thereupon he threatened to destroy the mill. He has been arrested a 6 a prisoner of war. A Japanese inventor has an iron kettle which bursts into song the moment the kettle begins to boil. The sounds are produced by steam bubbles striking against metallic bars just above the water.

Mr. E. Goodbehere, secretary of the Feilding Jockey Club, stated, when giving evidence in the Supreme Court, that for their Easter meeting the Club had a special ink prepared with which to stamp totalisator tickets. This was done owing to the number of attempted frauds on the totalisaor.

Who invented that saying about ill news travelling fast? asks the Sydney Bulletin. Australian poet Adam Lindsay .Gordon shot himself at Brighton Beach (Vic.) away back in 1870. Last week a' Yankee' paper was delivered' at the Bulletin office addressed to 'the poor fellow whose funeral took place 45 years ago! "Charley's Aunt," r; play which made Brandon Thomas? fortune as well as the fortune of others, is said to have brought for author as much as £30,000 a week in royalties, the piece being played practically all over the world. A city man who put £IOOO into the first venture received a return of £37,000. The, royalties to this day are £3O a week.

. A man named George Cooper, between 50 and 60 years of age, strangled himself in the lockup at the Bluff. Deceased had been drinking, and at home .beca,me troublesome and threatened suicide. He was locked up, and at 7 o'clock appeared.to have settled down. When-a constable went to visit.him, however, it was found he had strangled himself with, a long strip of blanket. Deceased was married.

The Hon. W. F. Massey has received a cablegram , from London, notifying him that in accordance with his request the British Board" of'Trade will send out the Delphic in'ballast to load frozen meat in New Zealand. The vessel leaves London between the loth and 20th May. The cost, of her trip to this Dominion- in ballast will be £ls, OO'O, and the whole of this expense will be borne by the Board of Trade.

"I have always been ejivious of the financial position of the Wnngariui Hospital Board," said Sir James Wilson at a meeting of the Palmerston Board. '' They have had two bequests of £IOOO each left them, besides getting £IOOO a year from.: reserves. Yet I notice that the Eangitikei County Council's levy is £2,600, and the local bodies are complaining bitterly." Mr. W. 6. Pearee pointed out that Eangitikei 's county valuation totalled over £5,000,000. ...,

When the ease for disturbing an audience at the Marton Town Hall was decided at the Marton Court, Mr. J. H. Miles stated that this action was taken when he was Mayor of the town with a view to stopping unseemly conduct and interruptions when performances were being given. The Council did not press for a conviction, but this step was thought advisable in order to stop interruptions of a similar nature when performances were being given in the hall.

In "No Deluding Peace" (reprinted from the Investors' Eeview), Mr. A. J. Wfilson estimates that the Allies will present a bill for £3,000,000,000 to Germany, if peace is made near the end of this year. The writer estimates that a poll tax of £1 per head over Germany and Austrian-Hungary .(estimated to yield £1,000,000,000 to 000, and nearly £150,000,000 a year interest and sinking fund on the sum claimed by the Allies as- indemnity. Mr. Wilson argues forcefully that no peace can be satisfactory unless the terms put an unbreakable restraint upon Germany.

The Hunterville Chamber of Commerce has resolved to write to the Minister for Railways asking what steps "had been taken in regard to the various matters brought before him on the occasion of his recent visit to Hunterville —namely, the filling in of the depressions at the High Street railway crossing, the extension of the stockloadisig facilities and the improvement of the loading bank. The meeting also discussed the question of the settlement of the, Otamakapua block, and it was resolved: "That this Chamber requests the Government to proceed with the cutting up and settling of the Otamakapua block, near Ohingaiti. This block is held on temporary lease, and, in the opinion of local farmers, is capable of being cut up into-sectioiis averaging froaa 150 to 500 acres, and in view of th<? urgent; . demand for land in this district \t is toped, that, its. settlement7&iU 'not \f6 flayed until a contiguous block is svail&bTe ? T but that <he matter "bo TpTeceeded with at. qncc_ in order*to allow the settlors' to- }ia ii"

Mr. Tau Hennre, M.P., is visiting Wellington. His movements are of great interest to politicians at the present time. The Railway Department advises that holiday excursion tickets will be issued in connection with the Wanganui Races. Tenders are also invited for the lease of railway land near Taihape. "The Power of the Cross" will be the principal film to be shown at the Town Hall on Sunday evening, Monday commences a Military Week.. No Britisher should miss one night next week. -- The films to be screened are I exclusive to the Town Hall.

Mr. W. Patterson, of the locomotive department at Taihape, has enlisted in the New Zealand Engineers, and leaves for Trentham Camp to-day. It is expected that the will leave for Egypt in three weeks. Mr. Patterson carries with him the best wishes of his friends, who do not doubt that he will uphold the honour of New Zealand in time to come, and who trust that he will be vouchsafed a safe return.