LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 13 September 1915, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

A load of wool, probabSy the first of the season, reached Masterton on Thursday. To the list of absolute contraband gazetted in June last have been added raw cotton, cotton, cotton iinters, cotton waste, and cotton yams. The Public Trustee notitfics that all those having claims ngainst the estate of the late Frederick Sehorf must render them on proper forms ('obtainable from Mr. .T. l\ Aid ridge, Taiuapo',: rut >iter than 2-jth November. 19b". A sheep-fanner residing in the Fair-1 lie district (South Canterbury, while out mustering, discovered 21 of his sheep dead. They had been hilled by lceas, which, it seems, are fairly plenti- , ful in the district. In their advertisement on page 7 of this issue the proprietors of the Great Mail Order House draw attention of people in this district to an exceptionally cheap offer of the very latest styles in dress. All lady readers should turn to this advertisement. Some amusing answers are given at times by school children. In a Napier school the other day the pupils wer* asked what a "buffer" was. One little girl said that it was an old cow ant» another was of the opinion that it wac a big fat man. But the definition of a ''gossip" capped all. The answer was, "A poisonous insect."

A New Zealand officer, writing from th firing line at Gallipoli, says: General Godley. in passing through a sap recently, accidentally bumped into one of the Australianas who was working vigorously with a pick. "All right! That's the seventh blankety blank blighter what's bumped me this morning! " said the Australian. The general simply smiled, and remarked: "I don't seem to be very popular here." Government Budget proposals were | discussed at Thursday night's meeting Of the Wellington Trades and Labour Council. There appeared to be general agreement among members that considering the composition of the House and the Government, the proposals folI lowed on lines that might have beoexpected. The following resolution was unanimously adopted: "That the council congratulates the wealthy landowners, merchants, r.ad manufacturers o" 'this country on having a Government that, when formulating taxation p-«-posais, so carefully considers their :«- terests and desires." I The Queen cf Teas is "Desert Gold" Too. Ceylon's choicest leaves—New Zcafand'is finest M6a£. In scaled j packets, 1/10 a»-J 2/-.

Department during the financial year ended March. 31st totalled £1,430,080. For last July the revenue received was £108,877; and for the first four months of th e present financial Jyear the department received an aggregate revenue of £413,786.

During the Jun e quarter of the present year tbie number of depositors in the Post Office Sav.ingfs Bank was 498,786, a s compared witjh 473,452 for the June quarter of 1914; the total amount of the deposits was £3,475.690. as against £3,264.283; the total amount of withdrawals £2,683,259, as against £2,869.301; and the excess of deposits over withdrawals, £792,431, instead of £394,982. According to a Press Association message the Auckland 'lndustria Association last night decided to inform the Industrial Corporation that it Viewed with alarm the move wihich had been made to reduce the number of apprentices in award s of th e Arbitration Court. It was also decided to suggest to tn 3 corporation that a deputation wait upon the Government in connection with the matter. "My bread bill alone is 5/ per week," explained a debtor at the Wellington Magistrate's Court, when asked to show cause why an order should not be made against him. He also mentioned that his rent cost £4O a year, his earnings were £2 15/ a week, and lie had a wife and four children to maintain. The man also stated he was ill for four months with pneumonia, and owed £l2 to a hospital, and about the same sum to a medical man.

"I can hit the bull's eye at GOO yards," said Mr. \Y. T. Jennings i« the House of Representatives. "I have three sons at the front, .... and I am willing to so and serve myself.'' He did not believe Ave had ben told trie whole truth about the war. and we would yet have to make big sacrifice*,

and if his services were required they were ar the disposal of the authorities, as they had been in the Maori War in 1864). (Hear, hear.)

For the first four months of the financial 'year, 1915-16, receipts from sales and leases of Crown and endowment lands totalled £415,398. The purchase money for ordinary Crown lands amounted to £64,675; and for laud for settlements ands, £48,148. Instalments from deferred payments for ordinary Crown 'lands yielded £9619; and land for settlements lands, £11,560. Rentals from permanent leases and licenses and pastoral runs aggregated £203,057; and receipts' from miscellaneous leases, licenses, etc., realised £43,835; primary and secondary educational! [endowments, £3l, 775; and other endowments (Harbour Board, etc.), £2727.