LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 27 July 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Eighteen whales this season is now the record of Messrs. Perano and Co.'s party in Queen Charlotte Sound, two additional! captures having been made on Friday.

At a meeting of the Grand Lodge of English Freemasons a resolution was submitted requiring all Freemasons of German, Austrian, Hungarian, or Turkish birth to abstain from attending lodges during the continuance of the war.

Home science is now a compulsory subject in all schools throughout the Dominion, and at Wednesday's meeting of the Wanganui Education Board a text-booh entitled "Home Management," price sixpence, was adopted for use in the schools.

'' The Government does not appear to i be in a hurry to clip the wings of combines, as promised before the last general election," said a speaker at a meeting of the committee of workers, formed! for the object of protecting the community against epcplttitatiou, "They may have -weightier things in hand at the present time, but advantage is being taken by the combine 'a agents to spread its ramifications. The Hutt Valley is now threatened, and it behoves the workers to be up and doing, in order to protect their own interests before it is too late."

An advertiser wants a furnished bedroom that has a fireplace.

It is notified in our advertising columns that the Taihape Public School will re-open to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock.

The arrivals in the Dominion during the month of June numbered 2,452. These do not include members of the Expeditionary Forces.

A lady in Timaru received a letter this week from a relative in Canada, who mentioned that the last Canadian regiment to leave for the front included seven millionaires.

A service organised by members of the Methodist Choir will be held at the Methodist School Hall to-night, when an enjoyabto evening is anticipated.

The funeral of the late Frederick Scherf, who died from heart failure while on Ids farm at Wainui Junction, is to leave the residence of Mr. C. Scherf. Winiata, at two o'clock tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon. In connection with the Shops and Ofces Amendment Bill/ now before the House, Mr. McCoombs, Labour M.P. for Lyttelton, has given notice of an amendment, which, if carried, will have the effect of closing the hotels at 0 p.m.

In reply to a member of Parliament in the House of Representatives, the Minister for Defence said that return tickets were issued to members of the Expeditionary Forces who were on leave and visiting their relatives.

As this journal is going to press this afternoon, the strains of the Dead March in Saul r from the Taihape Brass Band indicate that our late respected townsman, Mr. J. C. Munro, is being taken to his last, resting place amid full military honours.

The second practice of the newly formed Taihape Orchestra was held last night, when the attendance was a still further improvement, creating a very much better balance of parts. The enthusiasm and interest displayed signified that the Taihape Orchestra has come to stay. The people of GaHipoli, says a Turkish correspondent, have seen only four British, prisoners of war. The men "excited great admiration among the people, because it was seen that they were indeed soldiers. They wandered about freefy and drank coffee, creating great excitement by their queer remarks and causing no ill-feeling." An inquest on the body of the late Frederick Scherf, who was found dead on his farm at Wainui Junction, was held yesterday afternon. The only additional facts concerning his decease was given in the evidence of Dr. Sinclair, who performed a post-mortem examination. Death was due to fatty degeneration •of the heart, finally from cardiac failure.

Australian medical men at the front are putting up a record equal to that of the military. News has arrived in Sydney of one of the finest triumphs modern surgery performed dnring the present war. Dr. Roger Cope, of Beilevue Hill and Maequarie Street, Sydney, successfully substituted a sheep's bone in place of the hopelessly shattered forarm of a wounded soldier at a hospital in St. Malo.

An English newspaper received a reality pathetic letter from the trenches. It ran: "We are in a grievous state out here over the matter of haircutting. Our hair is so long that it is positively uncomfortable. As the hot weather is coming on, would you take compassion on us by sending out a pair of clippers and a pair of scissors, so that we can cut each other's hair? P.S. —Failing the clippers, please forward us a packet of hairpins. Yours, with two long plaits."

A story is being told of a youngster in Canterbury who, keen to join the Expeditionary Force, presented himself for medical' examination four times, but was rejected each time, on account of his failure to reach the chest measurement standard. Nothing daunted, he rode some twenty miles into Christchurch each night to attend a physical culture instruction class, and at length the day arrived when he was ablte to pass the doctor.