LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 238, 29 June 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Sculling for £250 aside, at Sydney, Charlie Towns .""beat Helton T?y- four lengths.

The German press has begun a campaign belittling the- British War 'Loan, asserting it to be a, mere conversion.

A Johannesburg wire states that 13,645 Africander women have petitioned for clemency for De "Wet and his fellow prisoners.

On July Ist the people of Eaetihi are to vote on a proposal involving a large loan, running into some £30,000, for sanitary services and "town improvement.

It has been decided by the committee of the Auckland A. and P. Association to abandon for this year the provincial conference that has customarily been held -annually.

A recently formed Lodge of (Mdfdllows in Baetihi is preparing to give ' a social and dance as one of the first jubilations of the institution. • May success attend them.

The Defence Minister states that he expects that the Hospital Ship -will be in Wellington at the end "of this week and that she will sail at the end of next week for the Mediterranean.

The annual conference of the United Federation of Labour will be held in Wellington on July (3. A.great number of Wellington Unions will not be represented this year. -i K

The Lord Mayor of London's special appeal, at a Mansion Hoiise meeting, on behalf of the Red Cross Fund, resulted in £57,455, including a second £20,000 from Waldorf Astor. The aggregate is £5,400,000. .

The estate of the late Bishop Grimes, acording to the Christchurth Press, is valued at about £5,000. The legacies amount to £I,OOO, the principal ones being: Mount Magadala £4OO, Nazareth Home £4OO, Nursing Sisters, Lewisham Hospital £4OO, Sisters of the Mission £l5O, Sisters of St. oseph £IOO. . Dr. D. L. Sinclair, M. 8., Ch.B., has commenced the practice of his profession iii Taihape, and is lo3ated in the rooms lately vacated by Dr. Whitton, where he may fee consulted at all reasonable hours. It may be mentioned that Dr. Sinclair comes amongst us with an excellent reputation for professional honour and ability.

The Horopito branch of the Rangataua Sawmilling Company's employee? have gust contributed the sum of £l6 8/- towards the Hospital Ship Fund. Th& donation is acknowledged by the Under-Secretary for Internal Affairs. The -sterner sex of Horopito intend giving a-Mturn social to that given by the latlies-about a fortnight ago. That is to be fallowed a little later by a "Hard-up''' social in aid of the war fu-nS&

A very .influential committee of ladies of 'the Mctaroa district, of which Mrs. Arthur May is secretary, is holding a danee on Friday night next, in the Matar-oa Hatl the proceeds of which will be devoted to the purchase of material to make .comforts for "Our Boys'' at the front. As the music and refreshments are being .gratuitously provided, there Should jjp.od -results, and the '"committee- promises a- good j ' '-"! i,\v->V -,'-.- ■'■:■'- • w - . ■§*'''» "' \ ' TXa -.room, for colds in i&e man or''. This; Beiut • fiP. and reticle il ad relieves "xnfluinza/'Bronchitia, sjftjs Sore "Throat. ~ a -hoitte tetfay«-*|s Gd for 60 doses. \ '.-'«

In v,t\ acknowledgment by Mrs: Arro

smith in cur issue yesterday of parcels of clothing, a typographical error occurred. Where Miss Gilbert's name appeared, it should have read Mrs. Gilbert.

There is a great lack of Australian and New Zealand newspapers for the wounded men in hospitals in Britain and Malta. The High Commissioners' offices will be glad to receive and distribute papers.

As a result of certain persons not having put a penny stamp on receipts for over £2 (says the Napier Herald) the police are taking action. Certain members of the Education 3oarG ana a minister of religion are amongst tkose who are to answer a charge of defrauding the Government to the extent of one penny.

A correspondent wants to know whether anything has come of the Borough Council's discussion about getting road metal from Ohingaiti. He says the streets, to put it mildly, are no recommendation to councillors. The north ehd of the town he refers to as "Whale's Back" and the southern cno as "Mud Flat."

Speaking upon the question of State capitation versus private capitation at. Wellington the other -night, Mr. Wehb (M.F\ for Grey) 'corittastei. railways and the privately owned steamships of the country. During the war, the freights and fares on the railways had remained the same as before the war, Wt shipping freights and fares had been unduly inflated.

It would appear as if the Germans in Belgium were 'inking lessons from the Carnival Courts here. Because a mr,n standing on a platform of a tramwaycar simply said to an officer, ' ' There's no room/' he was arrested and sentenced to eight days' imprisonment or a fine of £5. Another time a lady at the passport bureau, on being refused a passport for Antwerp, asked "Why?" and was fined £2 10/- for her question.

"That in view of the larger areas to be sown this season with cereals, the probability of increased production, and the shortage of labour that is anticipated, the Government be requested to close down all public works during the harvest season, in order that labour utilised there may be available for the harvest." This is a Marlborough remit which is to be dealt with by tho Union Dominion Conference.

A neutral banker from Vienna states that Austria has issued three hundred millions sterling in paper money during the war. The gold covering has diminished from 70 millions. to 30 milions, but purchases abroad have been reduced to a minimum. If peace were signed now, Austria-Hungary would be bankrupt, and would possibly pay 11 •per cent, and might pay 1G per cent. Austro-German financiers rely on a war indemnity to recoup them. . ,-,

Whatever may be the authority for the premonition that the Government's financial proposals will include increased duty on spirits, that premonition it being asMUliously acted upon by those ■joneemed in the trade, says a Duncdir Mire. It is credibly stated in commercial circles that within the. last day or two the clearances through the Customs have been abnormally heavy. Some estimate the amount of business at a figure approaching £IO,OOO, but in the absence of official confirmation this can be only a guess-. If it were so, it would represent five times the ordinary clearances.

An agreement in the dairy workers' dispute, which will form the subject of a recommendation to the Arbitration Court, has been come to by tho Conciliation Council under the presidency of Mr. P. Hally, the* Commissioner. The hours to be worked are .52 per week, with a weekly half-holiday (on any day), and a short day on Sundays and Wednesdays, when only one delivery of milk will be made. Wages are fixed at £2 15/- a week, or £2 12/6 ad a quart of milk daily. Provision is made for overtime rates, the wages of learners-' and assistants, the proportion of assistants, and preference to unionists. Petone and Lower Hutt milk vendors are exempt from the award which will be for three years, as long as they do I not compete with Wellington dairymen. By April 29 the Germans on the strength of Turkish reports of our landing at the Dardanelles on April 25, were celebrating a groat victory. ViceAdmiral Kirehoff wrote in the Berliner Tageblatt: • "The whole -attack, exhaustively prepared for months past, has come to grief at) the very beginning. Such a miserable collection of troops, got together anyhow and partly untrained —coloured Englishmen anr 1 Frenchmen and colonial rowdies of all sorts, Cairo Australians, Canadians, and so on —may frighten old women, and may be able to rob and plunder, but they can do nothing against serious national forces like those «f the Turks ; The land attack was Just as miserable as by sea. There had.been much talkkig and writing about great prepara-, tibns, but in Teality; . they atfempted

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-Mr. IT. \Y. Collier, r,f Huamii ?},» enlisted for aclivs sen ice at the iVovAlso Kataroa Paora, of Rn<dilii^

The two members of Pari;;: nicnt who have enlisted, Messrs. T. F y , y. S- >( '- don and Downic Stewart, ,vovo tendered a complimentary lune a eon a t the New Zealand Club ye gterday afternoon. The monthly meetir x g 0 f the Kaitieke County Council will be held on Saturday, 3rd July at F.aurimu. The chairman has given m jtice of motion, that h e will move at t 1 j a t meeting to rescind ,the motion of st'h June, 1915, by which permission wa enabled to be given to use bullocl-- .s for traction from May to September- inclusive; and also to rescind the cwo motions of same date giving perr mission to use bullockg. On the question of taxation for war purposes, several remits will come before the /Dominion Conference of the | Fanners' Union next month. Three or I four od: them urge that the tax should .be in .ade to press equitably on all raem- | bers. of the community, and there are • protests against any proposal to place Itljie tax on land only, or on the imports And exports. Marlborough desires the l conference to favour a universal tax I on incomes on the lines suggested by \Mr. Vavasour, viz.: "A universal in- • come tax of one per cent, on incomes. from rateable proporty (assuming the ' income to be o per cent, of the value); on all other incomes and on all wages. ■ Each employer to deduct the amount of the tax when paying his employee; the employer to be responsible for the amount as shown by his labour-sheet. Payment to be made half-yearly or yearly.''