LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 240, 30 June 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

According to Sir Henry Lucy, barley water has taken the place of wine at London dinner parties. . The fifth New Zealand reinforceI inenta have arrived at the first port of call, all well. i A message from London states that Lieutenant Frank Chilton, of the ArBtylls, attached to the Hampsh ires, a New Zealander, was killed in action.' A conservative estimate is that.this season fully £120,000 was paid out to suppliers in the Wanganui district for butter-fat by the various factories. . ■-"-' wheat.yield',;o'f 79,097,-; 270 bushels -is expected , this .year .tor the whole of Atittralia, as again Bt" 71,03047 boßhelfi in 101M2, an 4 95,111,* £S3 in IPIG-.11. r •'■-•"' '■■' ''"■ ' ''

A meeting of the Winter Show Committee of the Rangitikei A. and P. As-

sociation is to be held to-morrow evening, July Ist. Readers are reminded that the public meeting in connection with ths proposed Taihape Carnival takes place in the Town Hall to-night.

A first offender charged at the Taihape S.M. Court this morning with being drunk in a railway carriage, on the Main Trunk express, was convicted and fined five shillings. Messrs Johnson and Co., of Wellington, are in receipt of cabled advice from their London agents forecasting a rise of 5 per cent, in the wool market.

A cable received - yesterday stated that the Indrani, GOOO tons, bound from Glasgow to Montreal, was torpedoed and sunk in the Irish Sea. The crew were saved.

It was stated at the National Dairy Show at Palmerston last week that the Allied armies were using 700 tons of New Zealand cheese per week—twothirds of the whole of New Zealand's output. Marton Borough. Council has decided, on the motion of the Mayor, Mr. H. Wilson, that an increace of wages be paid to all Borough employees of one penny per hour per day, and the gas employees 4/- per week duration of the war, the new scale to start from Saturday, 26th June.

At the last meeting of the Taihape Carnival Committee, Mr A. W. G. Knight, Ern's Hotel, offered to conduct a Tango Tea, and also train children for giving a National Fete in connection with the proposed Carnival. On the Mayor's proposal it was decided that Mr Knight's kind offer be accepted. -'-." : :" ; -'

At the Hunterville Court yesterday, ~before Messrs. Bull and Howie, J.s.P., a hawker named J. Karouz was charged with alleged indecent assault on the wife of a well-known settler in that district. The accused, who was

represented by Mr. C. E. Mackay, reserved his defence and was committed for trial. Bail was allowed.

Mr A Duncan, Taihape, has received advice that his nephew, Private Robert John Jenkins, who was wounded at the landing on GallipoU Peninsula, was shot in tjhrea places, the arm, shoulder and in the'* back. He contracted pneumonia on top of that; but the advice states that he is now convalescent and will shortly join the ranks again. *m<;. ; s ••■•- :

"We hear of ardent'young land not-so-youhg partiots," failing to get away with, the New ' Zealand' contingents, pelting off post haste overseas, enlisting in Australia or England. But the limit is to be touched by a young Palmerstonian, who has just been rejected at Trentham. He i.s off to Italy to offer his services! It happens that h 3 learned his trade in Italy, and is fluent in the language.

New Z extenders v/ill be interested in the following extract from a war article which appeared in the London Sunday Times of May 8: ". . . All thes*. things coincide with the most brilliant feat, of arms that the worldhas ever seen —the general naval and military operations at the Dardanelles, so successful as far as they have gone, and so clearly destined to achieve the end for which they are undertaken."

A Dunedinn lady who sent cigarettes and tobacco to the "Tommies" in France last week received the following postcard, dated April 9th, from one signed "Gilmour," of the Black Watch:—"Dear Madam,—Thanks for the 'cigs' and tobacco received this morning. We are having good weather, and, I think, the better of the argument up to now. The boys are all well, and are keeping in good health. Thank you on'ce again for your kindness."

The Mangaweka "Settler" says that white feathers ar e being freely distributed throughout that district amongst shirkers. We are informed that several young fellows have been trying their utmost to find young women to marry them in order to escape going to the war. In on e case parents offered a young girl £SOO if she would marry one of their sons, thus making it ah excuse to keep him from assisting to defend his country. If really unable to attec-I in person Collinson and Cunninghamo's great, winter sale, beginning on the first of July, you can share in the bargains by mail. Some of the firm's sale parcels are detailed on page 8 of this issue. This particular sale is the ere at of the winter in Palmerston w'th a very Lirge section of the community, and with commendable thoughtfulnes.-) Collinson and Cunninghame have made provision for their friends and customers at a distance.

In another column Mrs B. T. Missen notifies that she has vacancies for a limited number of pupils for singing, pianofor,t9 and organ. Mrs Missen has excellent musical credentials; she studied under that successful teacher, Mr Martin Swallow, and has annexed at various times raany musical prizes,and wihat is more importantin a ' teacfier".is the . fact that turned, out -a: verj' aaraber of proficient pupils. Mrs 'sXis£m. U aa prize-tak-er, ' aai && ifesg i» compaar "wita Eucfe artistes as Amy - 1: