LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 280, 23 August 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tenders ar e called by advertisement for stumping 27 a<res, in one or more contracts, at Winiata. In another column the Official Assigne notifies that Samuel Reid Rae, of Tallin pc, lias been adjudged a bankrupt, and a meeting of creditois is summoned, to be held at the 1 a ilia [u Courthouse, for Friday, 27t!r August, at 2 p.ra. Mr. .Toe Cody, of tins town, has just received a teliagram advising him that his son, .T. F. Cody, has been wounded in the abdomen in the fighting on Gallipoli Peninsula. The injured man was very popular here, and the sympathy of the entire' population will be extended to his parents, with wishes for their son’s speedy recovery. Just as we go to press a cable comes to Mrs, Cody from the Dardanelles notifying her that her son is slightly wounded and that he is progressing favourably.

Fish and supper rooms, near the Taihape raiSvvay station, are advertised for sale as a going concern.

A notification in connection with a lost Insurance Policy appears in another column from the A.M.P. Society.

Residents are reminded that this evening a monster meeting, social and dance, will be held in the Taihape Town Hall for the purpose of farewclliing our brave volunteers who go into camp for training to-morrow. The whole thing is absolutely free to the public; it is therefore expected a record meeting will result. It may be the last opportunity that will be given to our lads before they leave for the front.

•In another column, Mr J. H. Page, insurance and commission agent, notifies that ho is agent for the New Zealand Brushwarc Company, and is prepred to do business with buyers on the best terms. Mr. Page is also agent for the Norwich and London Accident Assocation, and is prepared to undertake the following risks: Workers’ Compensation, Public Risk, Motor-cars and Cycles, Plate Glass, and Fidelity Guarantees.. Readers are asked to note Mr Page's announcement.

A peculiar accident occurred on a Wellington beach recently. A woman was sitting on the seashore watching her little boy, aged about six, throwing stones into the water. The boy came close to his mother, and in bringing his hand sharply back in the action of throwing, broke one of the glasses of his mother’s spectacles. Some of the glass entered the mother’s eye, cutting the pupil severely, and, in spite of the fact that she was given expert attention immediately, it is feared that she may lose the sight of the eye.

Since Germany has lost ten warships and armed merchantmen, - much valuable cargo, and is paying for all her merchant ships sheltered in foreign ports, a moderate estimate will show that the war has cost Germany at sec close on £25,000,000 in hard cash, as against the £10,000,000 of damage done to British warships and merchantmen. A striking fact in connection with the German raids on commece is that we have never resorted to the system o J convoy. British merchantmen use tin sea to-day as freely as in peace. Oir trade has not deviated a cable’s length from its normal course.

A very pleasant musical evening took place at the residence of Mrs. McCullough, Mataroa, on Saturday night, when Mr. Bert Managh, who is leaving for the front, was presented with a wristlet watch and a pair of military hair brushes from some of his old comrades and fell-workmen. Mr Managh replied suitably. Most of the men present spoke very highly of him and wished him every success and r safe return During the evening songs were rendered by Misses FrankKn, Brooky, Mesdames Kennedy, Kilcolly, Harris, Cleaver, and Messrs. Donald, Terry, Wilson, McCullough, and Dockery. The evening concluded with the singing of the National Anthem and a hearty vote of thanks to Mrs. McCullough.

A New Zealand medico writing with regard to the Dardanelles fighting comments on the fact that within a very small area they have had samples of every kind of fighting under the sun. He says: “We have had greater naval bombardments than the world has ever seen; we have seen a big battleship sunk before our eyes, we have seen an enemy submarine sunk; we have seen aeroplanes (both enemy and our own) drop bombs and fight in the air, a German one being brought down smash. We have fought with shell, shrapuel of all sizes, rifles, machine-guns howitzers, hand grenades, saps, and mines. We have sprung mines under the Turks, and have had their mines sprung under us—and all in an area of a few square miles.