The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 243, 3 July 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

(With which ie incorporated The Tnihape Poet tmfl Waimarlno Nows.)

The Rev. A. Grant of Dannevirke, will preach at the Presbyterian Church to-morrow.

It was indeed a pleasure, last night, to hoar that the Tafhape Brass Band was still in existence.. Intermittent evidences of practice ieo.n'ld 'be heard at a rather late hour, as far away as the Bank of New Zealand corner. The band is to be congratulated on its revivification.

The Treasurer's Rejiwwt, submitted to the Borough Council at last night \s meeing, disclosed the- -following balances: District Fund Account (dr.) £2,876 15/10, as against £2,837 12/- at last meeting; Interest Account (or.) £6,6'lS/10, as against £96 18/10 at last meeting; Loan Account No.. 1 (dr.) £(3(51 'l3/9; Loan Account No. 3 (dr.) £l9l 8/S; Oval Domain Account (cr.) £52 8/7.

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmerston K., repoist-: We held our usual Palmerston North stock sale on Thursday, Ist July, when we offered 2,500 sheep and a good yarding of cattle to a large attendance ol the public. We <ju*rte: Cull lambs 8/i, medium lambs 13/4 to 14/5, woolly 'lambs 14/1, fat lambs 18/3, 2-tooth -wethers (small) 20/2, empty ewes 20/2, mouth ewes in lamb 20/1, store -bajlocks £9 3/6, store cows 30/- to £8 :9/-, springing cows £6 to £6 10/-, springing keif ers £7 17/6 to £BV/6.

Dalgety and Co., Ltd,, have received the following from their London office, under date £9th ultimo*. The fifth series of wool sales have open--*ed. Them was a fair selection and a large attendance of buyers; competition was fairly animated. Cojmtparecl with closing rates of the May sales, gseaay combing merinos were- 5 to 1\ per cent dearer and scoured par to 5 per cent, dearer. Short faulty merinos were unchanged. Crossbreds pi)owed

For the Three Stars Theatre to-mor-row night (Sunday) the management has secured that fine picture, "Enoch Anion," from Tennyson's famous fnoem.

The notice gazetted on July 3rd, 1913, declaring chiekenpox to bo Tin infectious disease within the meaning of the Public Health .Act, is revoked in the Gazette issued on Thursday.

The Rev. Percy Cooke, of Ractihi, arrived in Tail;ape to-day. Mr. Cooke has been appointed by the Methodist Conference of New Zealand to act as; Mission Deputation to Taihape. He will;* conduct both services at the Methodist Church to-morrow, and special meetings during the -week.

"Is there a post-office regulation that all postal packets containing ey should be registered:" asked counsel in the Wellington Magistrate's Court of a witness, a postal official. "Yes," came 'the reply, "and we only wish the public would heed it. It is for the public's protection."

Th e mid-winter sale now being run by Mr A. -S pence affords a good opportunity 'ljo the people of the 'town and district to effect considerable savings on their purchases, a matter Which is well worthy of the consideration of all who are in want of reliable goods in drapery or clothing. See the advertisement.

The railway working account for the four weeks ended May 29, shows: North Island receipts, £171,545; expenditure, £121,492. South Island receipts, £146,137; expenditure, £105,991. Total receipts, £317,652; 'total expenditure £227,483. The figures for the same period last year were: Receipts £324,261; expenditure, £229,958. A Duivcd'in resident suggests that it would be a kindness to mothers and others who have friends at the front if friends would as far as possible refrain from sending unimportant telegrams to such addresses while the present tension is on. Parents are dreading telegrams advising of their loved ones —they mostly mean bad news.

As the outcome of an inspection of the sheep in the sa'leyards at Matawhero (Poverty Bay), no less than 3.1 farmers were arrainged before the court charged with .having sheep infected with lice. A plea of guilty was put in in each case, 13 being fined £3 each and 18 £1 each.

The House of Representatives adjourned on Thursday untill Tuesday afternon. ' The party leaders will meet again during the week-end, and it is possible that they will have something to say to the House early next week. But an announcement regarding the result of the conference may be delayed for a week or more.

The danger of using chemicals by the uninitiated was exemplfiied at Reefton, when a resident was preparing "a substance to poison rats. For thus purpose phosphorus was being dissolved in a bottle, when it exploded, scattering the contents all over the room an well as the one handling it. Flames at once sprang up out of the liberated phosphorus, and an alarm being given, willing hands soon arrived and subdued the outbreak with the aid of water and sacks, with which the five was smothered.

An unusual case of disguise was frustrated recently, after a Mrs Ogle had been working for some days as a man in the naval construction works at Barrow, in Lancashire. Dressed in labourer's'- clothes and overalls, with a wig and false moustache, she passed muster for a time among several thousand employees in the yard, and earned commendation as an excellent worker. At the end of a normal day of nine nad a half hours at carrying timber she volunteered for overtime. After three days, however, one of the workmen, noticing her slight build, became suspicious, and asked her how frequently she shaved. The new hand then confessed to an official that she was a woman, giving her reason for choosing this strange method of earning her living. She has been proved to be a splendid worker, and has been given work as a shell-maker.

A number of residents in Wellington are receiving letters from New Zealand soldiers killed at the Dardanelles. The letters were posted before the landing was made, and in one instance both the censor who endorsed the letter and the soldier who wrote it have been killed in action. Many of the communications are written on French army cards, proving that French transports <were in some cases used to carry the tviiops across the Mediterranean. One postcard shown to a Times reporter was undated, according to the regulations, hx& the matter written on it enabled the receiver to fix the date as April 22nd, when the New Zealanders were on the U-sland of Lemnos practising landing o.perations. The French postcards all ha<y,e the flags of the Allies, Britain, Fra-nce, Russia, Belgium, and Servia, in coders at the top righthand corner.

Let our infant army safely grow Five fleeting years : a-ad then One hundred thousand soldier hoys Will be stalwart soldier jtncn. Those five brief years, if p*sce prevail Should Austral's sway Meanwhile when, coughs and gelds as* sail M \ fVe've Woq&§' Crreat Peppgnn&t Cure. --: ; . .'-'