LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

In another column Mr McCormick makes tempting offers in high calss boots. Our readers needing new footwear should freiad Mr ’MpCcirmiqkl's advertisement. ;»,

A total of 4SO plum'puddings, weighing in bulk about a ton and a half, were received by the Palmerston Patriotic Society and forwarded to the Rangiotu Camp.

While a party of soldiers wore motoring from Wanganui to the Rangiotu camp on Sunday evening the car went over the bank and cpsizaed . One of the men was injured and was taken into an adjoining house, while a doctor was summoned from Palmerston.

R,9?omn:©ry.ahipnisi j (of, tile M,ed|icaJ Committee appointed to visit th e Trentham Camp were placed before the Royal Commission yesterday by Dr Elliott. Doctors reported, they were not satisfied with accommodation at Tuentha.m for infectious cases; they considered there was need for change

in methods of the medical admiulstraticti and supervision.

In his report on the healtli of the gp'Qjoa'a garrison at the week-end, the, Adnfinu't rator > ‘Colonel Logan, state? that r ’eneral health is good. Wireless Operator R-| Crouchcr is suffering from enteric cv P r > and the following from' minor '•£(*,- '*^J>) es C. ;5Li KeSy,, Martin, W. Alexander, C; -J.'Johnsti?. E. Codd, M- f„ Burin, H. Bennott.\ All are wcU- ‘ That \^ rlness the Eyes, Nanai discharge, aud Sore Throat, simply " want a g(X^ d treatment with * ‘ NAZOL, n ;Avhlch ’is and certain in giving relief. Tr # r ' 3 t- -V® buys GO doses.' “\

It is stated that there are 50 slips on the road between Ractihi and Pipir iki, a distance of 15 miles, and that it will be fully three months before they are cleared.

In the public interest the Executive Council has absolutely prohibited the export of schcelite from New Zealand to any destination. Schcelite is a hard, whitish, brittle metal used to toughen steel 1 and for other purposes.

It is computed that the strength of the National Reserve in New Zealand is now between 18,000 and 20,000. Of this number, the Wellington military district provides about 7,000 men. including 3,000 in the city and suburbs.

1 On Thursday (to-morrow) a private I sale of household ’ furniture, pictures, copper, fowls, wire-netting, and other articles will be held at the home of Mrs. Holme, in Moa Stret. Everything is to be sold, as Mrs. Hulmo is giving up house-keeping. The birds and other articles given at the Winter Show of the Rangitikoi Agricultural and Pastoral Association, to be sold in aid of the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund, realised between £4O and £SO. The fund will benefit to that extent.

At Woodville on Saturday Detective Sergeant Ward arrested Edwin James Gothard, solicitor,, on a charge of forging a document in connection with a transfer of land. Subsequently, Gothard appeared at the court, and was admitted to bail', self in £2OO and two securities each of £IOO.

The genral anticipation amongst members on both sidsc of the House now is that the prospects of a National Cabinet being formed are brighter than thej r have hitherto been. There Ik a strong and growing feeling that the times call not for party government, but for a National Government of the best availabJe talent from both sides.

The Consul for Italy in Australasia wishes it to bo known that whilst Italians in Australasia eligible for military servee are not for the present required to join the colours, they must inform the nearest Italian Consular Office of /their present address and fur-

nish full personal particulars without delay. ;■

It is probable that the retail price of mutton will increase ' shortly in the butchers’ shops of Wellington. The master butchers have been notified an increase in the wholesale price of three farthings a pound, but at a meeting of the Master Butchers’ Association no immediate ’ increase " Tn retail rates was decided up-on. '

Mr. M. B. Hander, of Gisborne, an enthusiastic -Imperialist, has offered to donate to the New Zealand Government the price, of a machine-gun for the use of the New Zealand Forces. The Minister for Defence has replied that he will) be .very-pleased tb accept the offer. This is said to represent the first "machine-gun presented in New Zealand.

We understnd that Taoroa is to lose a, very usefu? institution, as, Mosrs. Horten Brothers'; are reported to have sold their sawrailling plqnt to Mr. G. Perrin, and, that the purchaser is going to remove it to'?, good piece of, bush he has acquired about one a .a-half miles from Taumarunui, which is largely composed, of totara. Horton Brothers’ mill "’.asabecn great convenience, to settlors in the Taoroa district and its removal 1 will be a loss to them.

The name of the man who was shot through the shoulder in the vicinity of Fort, Dorset on Sunday morning about 3 o’clock is entered in the, hospitalbooks as Bener. He is believed to be one Willim Beaver, residing at Lyall Bay. It is stated that ho was conducting a friend to his home at Seatoun. This was accomplished successfully, but on bis return Beaver lost bis way, and got into the Defence reserve, with unfortunate results to himself. Almost at the same time as New Zealand decided to prohibit the export of sheep and cattle, except under certain restrictions, comes news from Australia that the Federal Government has made a regulation requiring that before cattle may be imported into Australia from New r Zealand they must undergo a tuberculin test here. This test must be certified by a qualified- surgeon. The New Zealand Government is communicating with the Commonwealth Government concerning the matter. The correspondent of the London TiLcs at Athens tells his paper that official circles in Greece do not comment on the Turko-Bnlgarian convention, of which the details are unknown. The Venizelist press is of opinion that the convention is inspired by Germany, and assumes, therefore, that important compensation is to be made to Bulgaria in the event of the victory of the Dual Allies. Greece, in order to avoid isola tion, must now throw in her lot with j the Entente to obtain an extension of territory to counter-balance that promised to nlghrift, which means, really, that once Greecj; and Roumanin come into the , war on the. side of John Bull and Co. Germany’s convention with the Bulgars becomes a mere scrap of paper.

If * you suffer from Bronehitte or Asthma. ‘'NA ! ZOL !y prove a boon and a blessing. Take it on sugar or through a ' ‘ NAZOL ’ * lahalor, a«d you will hove great i rali&E, 'Sold cv&rp ir, bottles] iot*'‘