LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 211, 19 May 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Town. Clerk notifies electric light, consumers that to-morrow is the lasr~~day for discount off accounts.

Granville Hunt, charged with the theft of money received as a servant, was, at Auckland yesterday, sentenced to two years' hard labour.

By a supplement to the Gazette, formal notification is made "that a .vacancy exists in the seat of the member of the House of Representatives for the electoral district of Taumarunui.''

, Private advices received in New Zealand yesterday state that Lieut. Geo. Martin Chapman, son of Mr Justice Chapman, was killed in action in France.

There will be no shortage of petrol in New Zealand for a whi1e—167,796 cases of kerosene, benzine, motor spirits, power oil, and petrolite arrived at Auckland on the Cape Finistine last week.

Tradesmen in -Pahiatua are "turning down" travellers for American firms, atid have decided that no more American goods will be handled, owing to the action of the United States over the sinking of the Lusitania.

The funeral of the late Mr. Abel Foss, of Ngawaka, took place yesterday, when a large number followed the remains of the deaceased to his last resting place. Mass was celebrated at St. Mary's by Father Connolly, who also officiated at the grave side. The pall bearers were Messrs G. Donovan, W. Collins, F. Tomlinson and A. Odlam. Great sympathy is felt for the bereaved relatives id their sad loss.

: At Wellington, Customs officer Jacksbn searched a foreign member of the crew of the steamer Invertay as he was i coming ashore, at the King's wharf, and discovered ten tins of opium in his possession. The man will be charged at the.-Magistrate's Court with haying attempted to smuggle opium. At At Auckland andm r tr/eSbgoT mbmra Auckland £IOOO • worth of opium! wrus discovered -in the -vessels bunkers.

Siiffejrers froai Hay Fever Mil enjoy npeedy relief, by breathing in. : NAZ r OL." A unique, never-failing remedy. Use the Nazol TnTmler.

An advertiser wants to lease 50 to 100 acres of land for a term of years. Soldiers' week-end telegrams addressed to "Ckeat Britain aro to be charged at the rate of eightpenee per word, the same as ordinary week-end messags. There is no minimum charge for these messages. ... At Saginaw, Mich., U.S.A., on April 2, Bobert Smith, of Cleveland, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Mrs. Grace Steinhauser, to whom he was to have been married. Smith began serving his sentence in less than 24 hours after committing the i murder.

When the news of the sinking of the Lusitania reached a certain bachelor establishment at Stratford, it is said, the whole of the inmates, eight in number, in a body went and registered their names for service in the Expeditionary Force. , , Four Belgians started work in Ealph's mine at.Huntly last week. Two were at Antwerp when the Germans entered the city, and, with the other two, were despatched as refugees to Great Britain, whence they wgre sent to New Zealand.

At Brighton City, Utah, U.S.A., John Chesman committed suicide by hanging himself with a piece of wire in a shed behind his home. His father committed suicide the same way in the same place about two years ago. The son was to have been married next month. "I ask for time to pay," requested a man in the Magistrate 'a Court on Saturday who had just been fined ten shillings for drunkenness. "Time to pay," exclaimed the clerk of the court '{■why- he. had. £2B on him when arrested." Needless to say, the request was not granted. The wage-earner is badly enough off in New Zealand, but his Australian cousin is ust as bad. A lady states that butter ia being retailed at Is lOd per lb, and the following week it was to be 2s. Eggs were 2s 6d, bread 9d, milk 6d. The threepenny packet of matches is now 9d. "Yes," she adds, "living over here is much costlier than it is in New Zealand." Not much?

Just at this time, when the cost of living is so high and the cost of everything else is relatively .increased, the advertisemet of Mr. T. Elliott Wilson's property bargains will be read with interest by intending buyers., Mr. Wilson has a great number of houses and properties on hia books.and in. his advertisement on page 8 readers will find a list of eight properties, for sale. Many of these can be secured for a reasonable cash deposit, and terms. The bargains mentioned in Mr. Wilson's, advertisement are well worth inspection.. A Nelson paper reports a gold rush at the Howard Biver, where there are now about 80, men engaged on different claims. The locality of the rush is a tributary of the Howard, known asLouie's Creek, about three miles up the river. Men have been working the vicinity for about the last 15 months with varying success,-and" within the past month or two a gradual rush 'is.s set in. It is reported, that se /eral of the men have obtained good gold, including a three-ounce nugget, which had been found there by a lucky gold seeker. ,

Before the Niagara left Auckland for Vancouver yesterday, the local manager of the Union Steamship Company was presented by eighteen second-class passengers with a letter, protesting against a foreigner in their quarters being permitted to continue his voyage. It was alleged that the man objected to was German, and that he had given utterance to highly objectionable opinions of the Lusitania. Three poilice officials searched his cabin and baggage, but as far as could be ascertained, found nothing of importance. The passenger came ashore with the po lice and remained under observation, while the defence authorities were being communfcated with. He did not however continue his voyage, though booked from Sydney to Vancouver. His wife also remained behind.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, in a letter to Mr. Asquith, deprecated senseless Tiots or the desire for retaliation by gas. He hoped that Britain would never lower herself -to the ene:uy r s level. He believeJ la the nation's righteous, indignation taking a worthier form in the resolve to all throw «ery o»?r;ce of strength against the enemy. Mr. Asuith, in reply, emphasised the German general staff's deliberate adoption of the weapon was a cruel and wanton outrage, which had aroused righteous and consuming indignation unparalleled in our history. He welcomed the suggestion that the Church enforce on members that their primary duty was to contribute national service in every form to the worthiest cause in which the Empire's fortunes and conscience had ever been engaged.

COKrarOISEITES, when referring to the merits of "Tiki" Stout, say, 'fit* as good as Enelisb Stout. ,; Try it*

What fate is in the word "i&rawell?" It tells of parting, pain and sad re* ■ " : ■ , S rct It. sometimes sobs the sound of friendJ?^^^^^ - fF*ra well/if spelt t&ia, wa£ sae&pa : otherwise. ■ _:' . Fare well with health, make atreagth secure, Lo3C cheeks, .efl iips and dancins eves ..-■". ■"-.- - >in.*v^ 7 ';-""T7?

Raetihi is moving ahead. It is said that arrangements have been made with the Public Trustee for a loan of £3,000 for town improvements. Mr. & Wilkinson, who contested the Bay of Islands seat in 1911 and 19.14, states that he will not be a candidate at the forthcoming by-eleetion.

A euchre tournament will be held at the Railway Hall on Friday evening next. This is the first of a series to be held during the winter, and if they are as successful as those instituted last year, it will be very gratitfying to the promoters. The evenings are held under the auspices of the Eailway Social Club and the tickets for Friday evenin are being quickly disposed of.

The owners of the meat rescued from the North British Freezing Works, which was recently destroyed by fire, are shpping the carcases to Wellington and Auckland for sale in those places. It is understood that 3000 carcases are to go to Wellington and 5000 to Auckland. Since the fire the mutton has been kept in Messrs. Niven and Co.'s stoTe at Port Ahuriri.