LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 226, 17 June 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Town Hall picture patrons a /e advised * that there will be no pi stares tonight owing to the hall bei jjg engaged for a patriotic social and dance.

In a Supreme Court cr ise at Napier, the Crown Prosecutor, ir t asking for an exhibit, said: “I want -to see ‘ L. 1 ” "You probably will, ’> slyly remarked Mr. B. J. Dolan.

The Taieri Advc cate has ceased publishing. On aeco - jnt of the war advertising patronage p as been withdrawn, to such an exto that the present proprietors find it. impossible to carry on.

General B /aimvell Booth has given orders that in every Salvation Army Hall thro aghout the world, to-day (Thursday * 9 June 17th), shall be a day set apart for prayer on account of the terrible war now raging. The South Canterbury Savage Club has d .eeided' to discontinue its usual fortn jghtly koreros, and to donate the who l ,c of its surplus to patriotic funds. It ’ .a also intended to hold a series of cor icerts in the country 'districts “bo si jt the local funds.

One other thing we may take for granted will happen when the war is over. The economic poition of all the commercial nations will be such as to compel them to enter into trade rivalry with more energy and determination than they have ever shown before.—Mr Philip Snowden, M.P,

Mr. A. Duncan, of Taihape, has received cable advice from the AdjutantGeneral that his mephew,"Private Robert John Jenkins, who was wounded nt the landing ‘an the Gallipoli Peninsula, ■is now in the convalescent camp at Hdlotran, Cairo. Several speakers 'at last’night’s patriotic meeting, including Mr. R. W. Smith, M.P., expressed a 'hope that theer would be a bumper house 'to-night at -the ball, which is generously being given by Mrs. Whenuaroa in aid of Taihapehs contributions to the Sick and Wounded Soldiers’ "Fund.

Mr. 'Theo. Boase is in town to-day, in advance of the well-known‘ ‘ ‘ Within the Law” - ' Company, making arrangements for the production of "Camille,” the great French emotional play, to he staged ht the Town ’Hall on Tuesday week, June 29th.

Now that it has been definitely decided to organise a Carnival, it is desirable that no time should be lost in making preliminary -arrangemertts, The Carnival Committee"fully recognise this fact and'are calling a meeting of the Committee for Friday night, ISfh inst. The meeting will be held in the supper room at the’Town Hall and as it is the initial meeting it is imperative that every of the'Committee should be present-if possible.

The treatment wh‘/ch the New Zealand soldiers at the front are receiving in the matter of food is referred to in a’letter dated April 15th just received by the parents of a Wellingtonian who is with the forces. After referring to the excellent fare, the writer adds; — **■ We have had butter and ■ Cheese now for some time, and, by jove, we are getting well done for. For dinner tonight we had ripping soup, roasts Of line beef, and then potatoes-and beans, and rice with sultanas. T don’t'think a man can grumble about that — :and plenty of it. M

The establishment -of an up-to-date factory for the manufacture of superphosphate and sulphuric acid is being considered by the executive of the Auckland Farmers’ Union, At a meeting last week a conference took place with an engineer who has enquired very 'fully into the proposal. The latter pointed oat that in Australia, -where the facilities were not so good, a similar factory had been paying dividends of MO per cent., and still is selling at lower rates than those which the farmers are paying in New Zealand. Options have been obtained over sites and sources of supply of phosphate roe’k.

An adventure of a well-known Albury farmer suggests that people -who go to hunt meets in motor-cars may, if they will, be in'at the kill (says the Timaru Herald). ’ He was motoring along a road, and in dodging another vehicle swerved sharply to the side of the road, and before he could pull up, or even utter his favourite expletive. "Jack‘Robinson," he was clean over a. gorse - hedge and making fair to take a second. 'He, however, pulled up in time to avoid this. He found to his aston- ■ ishment-that his ear was uninjured. Af-t-ster a half-mile drive along a jolty paddock, he regained the road, perhaps a wiser and -more cautious driver in fu•fuse.

I The statement that 25 per cent, of I the- •eommerehifi cablegrams leaving ’j Auckland are sett by Geruuwi and Aus--1 trian firms was made to a reporter by a business man who is connected with a trading concern 'ha Auckland. He thought the Government was too liberal in the it allowed such firms. The cablegrams referred o were connected with an Auckland industry, and they mostly went to America/ It was undoubtedly possible for important code messages to bo interwoven in such cables if ganders so desired, and th censors would leave difficulty in detecting them. The that, the Government, Should insist; onalbsueb business being dd>u;J,thro\igh ; ei£_ houses in (?rq»t TKit a(\’9 n could be taken without\injurijifi thoKe gaged In the hi&vff