LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 241, 2 July 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A local body, which has its offices in Napier, has received the following in a letter: "Tf not for our or your saike, for God's sake put some metal on the Wliareangi cutting."

Returns recently received by the N.Z.L. and M.A. C. from London disclosed the fact that Mr. A. S. Aldrlch secured the handsome return of x/ul per lb, including bellies, for his -.veilknown Kawabata clip.

Burns discussion at the A. and P. Committee meeting last night, the chairman, Mr J. R. Cunninghame, pointed out that the poultry industry of New Zealand had increased by 3J per cent, during the past year. This is rather surprising • when price of poultry food is considered.

At criminal trials held recently by a Judge on Circuit in an Australian State one case was decided by a jury

on which there were no fewer than five Germans, and in one cose the mimbei was seven. How many Britishers arcassisting in the administration of the law in Berlin? —Sydney Bulletin. A beautiful silver Rose bowl has been presented to the Rangitikei Agricultural and Pasotral Association by Messrs A. M. Wjigih'ton and Co. of Palmerston. North. It was to be a prize for the most points gained in a flower section, but as there are no flower

clashes, the secretary has been, instructed to ask thfi donors if they are willing for it to be given for most points in farm and garden produce.

The following officers have all been re-elected by the Romney Marsh Breeders' Association:—President, Mr. A. Matthews; vice-presidents. Messrs E. Short (North Island) and Holmes (South Island); treasurer, Mr. W. F. Jacob; auditors, Messrs. J. Knight and . ..A. H. MeGuire; council, Messrs. G. E. Allen, W. Bell, C. C. Buekland, J. Corpe, and R. Tanner. It was decided that the "Wheeler Memorial Shield bo awarded to the Manawatu A. and P. Association.

Mr. G. K. Chesterton, in his vivid indictment of the Kaiser and Co. in his brochure on "The Barbarism of Berlin, says: "The German and the Englishman arc not in the least alike —except in the sense that neither of them are negroes: They are, in everything good and evil, more unlike than any other two men we can take at random from the great European family. They are I opposite from the roots of their history —nay, of their geography. It is an understatement to call Britain insular: even the Midlands can also smell the salt. Germany is a powerful, beautiful and fertile inland country, which can only find the sea by one or two twisted and narrow paths, as people find a subterranean lake. Thus the British Navy is really national because it is natural. It has cohered out of hundreds of accidental adventures of ships and shipmen before Chaueer's time and after it. But the German navy is an artificial thing?—as artificial as a constructed Alp would be in England. William 11. has copied the British Navy as Frederick 11. copied the French army; and this Japanese or ant- , like assiduity in imitation Is one of the hundred qualities which the Germans have and the English markedly have not. And the Germans have gone on their way to their doom because they are Germans, and we who are British go. on tow, in beeause we do.not understand one little bit what it ieto he an Englishman." NO COLD IS "NAZOL" PBOOFI