LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 230, 21 June 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Householders are reminded that the meeting is to be held in the Taihapc Sehoolhouse to-night for the election of a School Committee for the ensuing year.

According to the statements of a neutral observer the German public has been brought to believe that the annexation by Germany of Belgium and the Belgian Congo is a natural outcome of the war.

An incomplete cable message received to-day seems to indicate that the great aviator Warneford, and a civilian who was with him, was killed while flying from, or ovet the Paris aerodrome yesterday. He was testing a new machine.

A German officer cut a large slice out of th e back of a Russian sergeantmajor, who refused to divulge information when taken prisoner. This, tortured man was examined by the Russian commission which is inquiring into the German atrocities. A Press Association telegram from Masterton states that a two days’ canvass of the Wairarapa has resulted in over £ 8000 being subscribed for the wounded soldiers' fund. This is apart from the Allies’ <relief fund and other funds, for which over £30,000 has been subscribed. It is expected to raise £50,000 fa the Wairarapa for the wounded soldiers' fund.. . . : What, e-;ieoJd on tk« cliestf • Httle /y NAZ6ri # '^where y«tx .f«cl 'the tightsass, ’ and’ eoref .. with waddiag. •Sfii® a few drops through a NazoV:lnhaler. 'That fcrgatjaeES always soothes ahd eases. _ V; V

The Hon. Secretary of the Women’s; Working Club, Miss Gilbcit, acknowledges with thanks a parcel of box. singlets and underpants froih Mrs Goodrich, of Ngawaka. '

All cotton from overseas suspected? ■'of being destined for Germany will be seized by the warships of the Allies, brought to port, and restored to theowners on terms laid down by file i courts. !

Miss Gilbert, Hon. Secretary, ot thfi Women’s Working Club, has received the following telegram from His Ex*

oellency the Governor: “Thank you and all who assisted yon, (for th© most generous contribution to tile-Hospital Ship—received safely.”

At the Magistrate's Court af TaibapC John Mitchell were charged' with insulting bohuvious in a public bar*, at Em $ Hotel, on Saturday. The Court fined Mitchell 10/ and Button was discharged. A first offender who came before the Magistrate, was convicted and discharged, ;

A flag r resented by Mrs Hugh Morrison, of Mastertoo, was sold at a pa* triotic concert in Grey town, and realised £7036. The highest bidder wa« Mr John MeMaster, who gav e a section of land valued at £MOO. : Sir Walter Buchanan added another £IOOO to his already large contributions. Alto* gether, during the last two days, over £15,000 has been subscribed to the Wodrarapa, Wounded Soldiers’ Fund.

"If something Is not done, and done soon, the farmers of New Zealand will, during this coming season, simply be pouring their milk into the creeks, because there will bo no use for it,” said Mr Eobert Burns, chairman of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, in reference to the shortage of insulated shipping space. "The freezing stores ar e full already, and the position fac* ing the dairy farmer will be that he.' will have no storage accommodation and no shipping facilities.” i

"With the object of raising funds, for the relief of our soldiers, flags have been sold at many social functions and in this way considerable sums have been secured. A flag sold at Marton recently realised £26, and another at Ohakune realised £Si 9/. At Eaurimu on Saturday night,. Mr E. W. Smith sold ft flag by Dutch auction, when the splendid amount of £59 16/ was realised. If this can be accomplished at a function at Eaurimu at which only about 120 were present a town of the size of Taihape should be able to raise a very appreciable sum in this way..

Perhaps New Zealand’s best experi. ment with various timbers in respect to the busy borer is t,he one which occurred by accident at the Dominion. Museum in Wellington. During two or three decades specimens of native timber, cTiginally prepared for exhibition in different centres, were arrayed in a compartment where the borer had free play. In all cases the sapwood was demolished but the insects treated the hard heartwoed with discrimination. Some specimens have been left intact, and others have only a few holes. The collection has been brought under the. notice of Mr Cockayne, biologist to the Agricultural Department, who is making a special report on the subject.

Kurnah, the alleged site of the Garden of Eden, in the Persian Gulf, where a British Expeditionary Force has been operating against the Turks, has not favourably impressed the British soldier. It is described as a most dreary spot, as unlike- a garden as-. possible, all swamp now that rivers hav e overflowed their banks. One irreverent “Tommy” of British fosces, as soon as he tav it. exclaimed to a friend: “Gaid'n of Heden, d’ye call it? I oaVs it a bally swamp. ’Blime, no wonder Adam lock a bite of the apple if that’s all he had to do to get out of it ” Kurnah —the Garden of Eden —has 1 pen changed by the war into a strongly fortified British position. I