LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 3 August 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

On Wednesday, Declartion Day, a specail intercessionary service will b e held in St. Mary's Catholic Church, at 3 o ’clock n the afternoon.

Deeply though it grieves us Germans, we shall/ have to resign ourselves to th' fact that “Bulldog” Winston Churchill has ceased to lear the fortunes of the British Admiralty. — Deutsche Tageszeitung.

We Germans are too strongly entrenched in om- national dignity to trouble ourselves over the detail that a few hundred thousand Italian montebanks should have deemed it a profitable venture to follow as the rats did the Pied Piper of Hamelin the strains of England's bagpipe blowers.—Hamburger Fromdcnblatt.

Italy has justified her prehistoric name, Vilnius —a calf subsequently changed' by the Greeks to Italus), and she has followed the custom of that most stupid of beasts in allowing herself to bo lassooed by the English butchers. —-Munch oner Noneste Nach-rir-hleit.

In consequence of the great difficulty being experienced by shipping comp a ills in securing sufficient steamers to cope with th large amount of cargo waiting to be slipped to various Home and American ports, it Is announced that 12 sailing ships have ben secured to load at Xew York for Australian ports. The vcsels'have been chartered by the American and Australian Lino, os from last April to, ooxt January.

V'NAZOL ’ V deals with a-e-old or. oongh in the only sensible way. It goes to.tlic root of tbo trouble in the Vangs, throat, of head. M'bis ecioat-iSc preparation ia a certain. ,f§ matiy for the worst cold. ■ , '

Men for excavating' wcVk are adver tised for in another column.

Mr R. W. Smith, M.P., has informed the Rangatana Town Board that he has placed their recommendation to establish a camp at Karori, before the Minister for Defence.

"A wise monarch may not keep his word the moment it turns against his ° w n hiterests. ’ T Thus wrote Macchiavelh. In this sense the Italian Kino has shown himself to be a wise monarch indeed, Deutsche Tageszeitung.

Regarding cerebro-spinal meningitis, Dunedin experts are now able to say that while a lot of the ililness of the men are suffering from is due to the germ of meningitis, it is actually causing meningitis in only a few cases, developments in by far the larger number of cases leading to attacks of a complaint similar to influenza. Observations in 25 cases examined resulted in the doctors finding that no fewer than 20 have evolved a kind of influenza instead of meningitis.

[ Among the motions introduced at the Farmers’ Union Conference was one from Taranaki: “That this conference urge the Government to make statutory preference to unionists illegal, and to take the power from the Arbitration Court to grant compuisdry preference.” The fear was expressed that this would make the conference appear ridiculous, and an amendment was finally caitried ‘that this conference is opposed to statutory preference.”

A Gozette Extraordinary has been issued embodying an Order-in-Council made on Thursday, July 29th r prohibits the export of sheep and cattle from the Dominion, to any destination, save with the consent of .the Sinister of Customs, such consent to be grant? ' only on the making by the exporter, or by a responsible agent, servant, or representative of the exporter, of a statutory declaration as to the ultimate destination of the sheep or cattle to be exported.

During the voyage of the Tainui. which arrived at Wellington on Saturday from London, a dfficult 'Surgica* operation was performed in mid-ocean by the ship’s doctor, with complete success. On July 21st the third cook was taken suddenly ill with an acute internal- trouble. Dr. L. H. Mcßride, M.D.. F.R.C.S., assisted by the chief* officer. Mr. Kershaw, and the purser, Mr. Wahlers, accomplished'the operation. Ten days have elapsed, and the paiient is doing splendidly.

At the various CathoMc churches in Wellington on Sunday, a message signed His Grace Archbishop Redwood was read to the effect that the Catholic archdiocese would, in conjunction with the other churches,, observe’ Sunday next as a day of intercesion for the welfare of the Empire and for the success of their endeavours- in the awful struggle that is now preceding. At each church Mass -would be offered up for that intention, and in the evening there would be recited or sung the Litany of the Blessed Virgin and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

Mr. J. H. Yerex, who notified by advertisorriCjV.t that he would give half the proceeds of all photos taken by him during- July to the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund, ha s just handed to the scero’f'ii y of the Iccad fund the.sum of 11/6. Mr. Yerex fully anticipated that the Queen Carnival would have been held and that the larges number of photographs taken in connection with it would have resulted in an appreciable amount being added to the funds’ as the result of his offers However, the only photo taken was th e gkoup taken at the patriotic match between Pirates and Mataroa and the sale of nine copiejs amounted to £1 2/6. Half of this amount he has now handed in to the funds.

When the Taumarunui hotels were crowdedo ut last week a practical joke was brought off by a waggi*sh visitor, who evidently found time hanging wearly on his hands. When the boarders of one of the leading hotel's were awakened for the early express for Wellington they found that all the boots had been removed from the bedroom doors, and were Tying in one mix-ed-up heap. In the hurry to catch the train, says the local paper, one lady went south in an old shoe, having selected one that looked very much like her own. A permament boarder went j about in slippers all day, lamenting the fact that his boots were entirely missing; but the pedal ornaments were at last dscovered in the bathroom, where tbyhad been well filled with water. The wag by this time was well on his way to Wellington,

Let our infant array safely grow Five fleeting years and then One hundred thousand soldier boys Will be stalwart soldier men. Those five brief years, if peace- prevail Should Austral’s sw-ay assure; Meanwhile when coughs and colds assail $ We’ve. Woods’ Great Peppermint 1 , .Cure. ', ■