LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 214, 26 May 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

J. B„ Young* of; Te Kmiti, has been fined £2O for preaches of e Legislature Act, and £B7' and cost f or practr.fing as a land agent V .thout being licensed. f A Melbourne drunk o xeused his condition to a Richmond * Court the other morning, ‘ beer use of my sym . pathy for the poor B elgians,” ho said. “I made a. soloma promise that for every drink I too> im give a. penny to Mrs. Smithes, re’ .ief-fund. and, gentlemoa, I eap V 3 mean abotjA U>. yt ; ■.As. sure --fas tday fellow a night, cakes baked VT ah- SH AE L AND'B will bo light. Best Asking Powder at- your rrnrr' >

A Press Association message states that Naslcery, winner of the Adelaide Cup, has been sold to Joseph Timms *ot 3000 guineas. _ There are 15,280 buildings 4 Greater Wellington, of which 5,557 are dwellings in the city and 4,-Kil in outlying districts.

The Swiss watch and industry had suffered a loss of £3,000,000 in revenue owing to the war up to the end of Fcbruarv.

Referring to the potato market 1 contemporary says it would seem that the Dominion has a surplus of potatoes, and that the hope of prices improving rests upon the possibility of a demand for supplies coming from Australia. At present there docs not seem to be much, prospect of such a demand arising, for there is a significant absence of thff speculative spirit.

Considerable perplexity has been caused throughout the Taumarunu? electorate by the issue of a roll containing the erasures of the names of persons alleged not to have voted at lasr. election. Over 2,000 names are struck off, yet it has been abundantly proved that hundreds who are struck off voted, and amongst them are many DeputyReturning Officers.

A gentleman who is well up in military matters informed the Timaru Herald, when he saw v the flags in the town were at' half-mast for the death .of New Zealanders at the Dardanelles, that it was quite contrary to military procedure to fly flags at half-mast on the death of a man who died in For a man to die serving his country was an honour, and the proper procedure rvas to hoist the flag at the top of the mast.

A curious result of the war is that several gramaphone companies aro busy making shell cases for the Government. It seems that their machinery is specially suitable for this, and one firm, it is said, is turning out something- like 3000 shells a claj'-. Naturally, there has been a considerable decrease in the making of new terecords ;Y since the war Began, although many thousands of ’ gramaphones and discs have made their way to- the front'. '

j The Hon. E. Heaton Rhodes, in i statement” regarding the shortage oi medical men and nurses, says the de cision to- equip the hospital' ship wil undoubtedly tax the medical and nunr ing resources and put considerable strain on the hospital system. Doubt 1 less it will be necessarj- to relax the regulations regarding the proportion oi trained to- untrained nurses- in public and. private-hospitals. He hoped young women would volunteer for service as probationers or helps in local institu tion s. The-hospital authorities v. ill Be advised tb- take quite young girls fdi this; work ‘provided they are in gooc liea Ith and 7 of sound constitutor

A very striking illustration of t,7i fol'ty of farmers making informal 'ver ba], arrangements about the use of thes prc iperty by their neighbours was g?> ea in tlie ease of Abbott and ‘Andersen wf ioli had - to come before the La? Courts for decision recently. la - tin cf .se. Six’s. W. Abbott, -who owned ■ fs irm at Whangamoana, lent an cere o

kt to a neighbour for growing some pc t'atocs, which kind offer was duly take '•advantage of. Before the crop coul be lifted the ft rm was sold. The p’n chaser refused tn recognise the neigi hour’s rights., and Mrs. Abbott fonn that slit* was liable for the value i the crop frasn win ah’ sire had' receive no benefit, and in whiedr, she had'no b teres* what# -ver.

It will 1> e note i' by an advertiseme: in another column- that tile- Council < the- Chaml rer of Commerce has eonve ed a mee ting dt members, and othe interests a, to be held at Mr. W. M Lenaan 7 s Mart on Friday next, at pan;, fo r the purpose of discussing tl dhsirah .ility of submitting to the Ra way- r apartment a request for amen menty , to the exsting rates of' earriaj an & srtain classes of goods and the 3 mo-T [ U g 0 f anomalies that exist. T pul , lic are enjoined to take advanta] this opportunity of bringing fi V{ " ard instances that have[come unc * heir notice, and to provide the me ; ing with all data in connection the: witht. Thi sa'ction on the part of t Chamber is singularly opportune,-as understand that the revision of t railway tariff is at present engagij the atteaton of the general mana| and his officers. . '■ S’

Money connot buy a more effect remedy for coughs and colds t" “NAZOL. ” Wise mothers give it their children, 1/6 buys GO doses.': You miss a real saving if you dor use SHARLAND'S Baking Powd Costs less than others?—’gives bettor suits. ... , When the systetn becomes ov 1 charged with uric, acid the blood fa to perform its natural functions, ti body loses “tonfj,” and the way is h open for the dread diseases of Rheun tism, - Lumba'go, Sciatica, and Co Sufferers fre.m these distressing co plaints ai'9 often to a V( critical credition of and ma so-called * f remedies' * are tried in va BHEU/MO is the one real , and who! sucre? sful euro for uric acid troubW It if. a scientifically companded me cis o that drives the uric acid from t —and by removing the cause, cures the disease. Of all crusts a ttforre 0/6 i.iui A/n ‘ "v/p-