LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 12 August 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A green-keeper is advertised for by the Taihape Bowling Oab. None but experienced men are to apply. A Sydney cable states that, in the Assembly, Mr. B?ack stated that the Government owned 44 hotels and three wine bars. At the Methodist centenary services in the Sydney Hall, the Rev. Dawson, president of the. New Zealand conference, preached. The Bank of England has advanced the rates for Treasury Bills of all dotes to 41 per cent., "producing a. steadying effect on the discount rates,' 7 says a London message.

Reports received from Sydney in reference to Bishop Cleary's condition are somewhat more reassuring. The doctors state that although the nerve shocks are not diminished in frequency or intensity, they have not so far affected the heart.

The Berliner Post says: —"Our enemies will now, we hope, at least understand that the life of a single German soldier is dearer 'in our eyes than the Lusitania, with all her passengers, or Rheims Cathedral. We will unscrupulously destroy everything which might endanger the existence of a single one of our troops."

The Pirates Football Club will play their match against the Mataroa Club on the Taihape Recreation Ground, on Saturday afternoon,, a)t three o'clock. Following is the Pirates' team: Valentine, TMsweli, Ohase, Maher (2), Re.id, Be-llis (2), Payne, Harvey (2), WrT&htson, Floyd, Hay and West. A collection is to be taken up in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund.

A recruiting officer has received this letter from a schoolboy:—"I have seen on a picture German boys learning to fight with rifles and swords. I would be very glad if you would try to do the same with British boys when wo come from school. We could fight the Germans as well as some men. We could make a little army to protect England if we could not go to the front."

When James O'Brien, a corporal in the Army Service Corps, was charged at the North London Police Court with being drunk and disorderly, his ago wa« given as 54; but be confessed to the- magistrate that he- was "nigh on (50." He had been wounded at St. Julian. f> Whe* dhjkyo^ j enlist? *' asked, the" magistrate. T ' Last Beeefflbcr. '' I had been in th<> Army beforo." fact that, you re-enlisted at your age is enough, to shame the young men who a«-e holding back," said the magistrate: and bound him over.

These who are conducting or contemplating conducting raffles or art unions should bear in mind that the y police have been instructed by the Department of Internal Affairs to prosecute in eases where the conductor of an art union or raffle has not obtained the authority of the Department to do so. An inquest was held at the Courthouse this morning, before Mr. J. V. Aldridge. Coroner, into the death of the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chase, which died suddenly yesterday. Dr. Barnett . was called but could not give a certificate of death as he had not been attending the child. A post-mortem examination was made, and the doctor certified that the child died from bronchial pneumonia. A verdict to that effect was returned. !