LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 226, 15 June 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Every resident of Taihapc will be pleased to learm of two cablegrams which arrived here from the Dardanelles yesterday. Giu* was from Mr J. P, Aldridges son, and the other from Mr Frank McLaughlards brother. The wording of each was “‘Safe a.vd well.*’, , ; td partiesand f tide isym* to he &u?g of Some indication of bow she voting ip tending wUI prcbnbly received ktO to-night. —< 1 j

IVi our advertising columns the Don Tailoring Co. notify that they have secured the services of Air. J. M biting as cutter. Suits are cut on the "Check” System, which ensures a perfect lit and is a system which has built up one of the most flourishing businesos in the Dominion.

Naval-Lieutenant James B. Church, formerly of the Fijian Contingent, and Lieutenant-Commander Herbert Clyde Evans, r. New .Zealander, have been killed at the Dardanelles. Sub-Lieuten-ant F, S. Kelly (the oarsman) was v cumhvl.

A Sydney cable says that another firm has pleaded jguilty to a charge of selling a drug net accurately described, namely Vitadatilo, and was fined £.lO. The prosecutor on behalf of the Crown alleged that '%> bottle and its contents cost I/-. Tits defendants purchased it for 4/- and-neld it at 5/6.

A well-known local character in Wuihi; John Lynch, otherwise known as ‘ ‘ Shang, ' 5 was found in his hut in a dying condition by a man named George Smith, who reported the matter to the police , When Dr. Hyde arrived, Lynch nr as dead. Deceased was a native d-f Ireland, single, and was 74 yeare-tf age. As a sequel to repeated complaints of people on the wharf being deluged wit.li water, James Rucet, fireman on the Wahine, was charged at the Lyttel. ton Court yesterday with assault. A detective said that he had seen the accused, porthole. The Bench inflicted a fine of 130/ and costs, and severely warned the accused. Mr. W. H. Blytli, the Australasian lecturer of the White Cross League, will deliver interesting lectures to women at the Methodist Church on Wednesday evening at 7 o’clock sharp, and to men at the. Fire Brigade Hall at S o’clock tho same evening. His address is entitled "National Purity," and as the subject is an important one, there should be good attendancee.

A man who has for some time resided off and on in Dunedin disappeared on Sunday morning, and it is said that he had. good reasons for his departure, the outstanding influence at work being the fear of an angry father who, in the first place, took personal satisfacton for an affront to his daughter, and then, in the interests of the public, practically chased thp offender out of the town.

John Robert Hawkins,: aged 21, a tailor by occupation, living with his parents at Port Chalmers, was found dead in his room at 9 p.ra. on Saturday under conditions pointing te , suicide. The top of his head was blown off and a .Cdo rifle was found beside-him on the flpon Deceased went to Trentiiam Camp last February, and while there met with an accident and. was invalided home. He afterwards tried to rejoin the Expeditionary Forces, bv\t, it is understood that ho' was unsuccessful.-and his rejection a'ppcars to have preyed upon his mind; at any rate, he had boon despondent. An Australian was wounded in a peculiar manner during tho . lighting . at the Dardanelles. Ho explained it as follows in a letter from the front:,—.-“1 had just shot a Turk down ,about 2d feet in front of our firing line, and was getting back into our trench when I struck a rifle with a bayonet-fixed, belonging to a chap who had just been shot dead. The bayonet was sticking up, and my leg - came right down on it. It seemed a mighty funny way to get wounded after the miraculous escapes I had had up till then. I had very hard luck in being wounded so soon, as I had just been provisionally appointed sergeant, in charge of a section on tli,e field about eight hours before,”