The Taihape Daily Times MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 20 September 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

and waimaeino advocate

(With which ia Incorporated The Taihape Poet ‘ina Waixnarino News.)

A smart girl for general office work is advertised for.

In the Wellington market on Eriday certain standard brands of butter rose in price by Id pofr pound.

Lee Gee, a Chinese who was apprehended at Otaki on a charge of having landed in, New Zealand from .the steamer Knight of the Garter without, having fulfilled the regulations of the Immigration Restriction Act, 1908, was fined £125 and sent to prison for six months, br for such loss period of time until arrangements could be made to deport him.

“Why do you do this?" asked Mr. Cooper, S.M., of three boys in the Wellington Magistrate's Court, who appeared to answer charges of obstructing parades of the senior cadets. “Some of you boys act the part of louts and larrikins; you are old enough to have more sense, and hope I shall hea no more of this conduct," were His Honour’s parting words as the boys filed out of court. An accident whereby a boy named Raymond ■ Hocking Moore, nine years old, whose parents reside in Leith St., Dunedin, occurred on Saturday. The boy was in the habit of “playing soldiers," using little sharp pointed sticks, and it is supposed he ran one of these into his right eye. No one saw the accident, but another boy heard him crying and took him home. Moore was taken to the hospital, where he died in the afternon, meningitis having apparently set in.

It was mentioned in the report presented to the annual meeting of the Wellington Central Chamber of Commerce, that attempts had been made to foster the spirit of trading within the Empire. “The public,” stated the report, “is in need of education in that respect that it may discriminate between tire value of British goods and those of foreign make. In the past the cheaper article J;sa appealed to the people, and it is trusted that the exhibition that it is proposed to hold i.ri February next, vv'il bring heme to the pc re auser.' the recejsitv of trading

Dr. Cleary, Homan Catholic BlshCp of Auckland, is making good progress towards recovery at Sydney. '

On Sunday, the wife of Mr. 'A. E. Munro, senr., passed away, after an attack of paralysis, at Tirirar.fcawa. The late Mrs. Munro was 60 years of age.

Eighteen Chinese (including one female) arrived in New Zealand last month, and sixteen (all males) took their departure from the Dominion.

The estates of 71 deceased persons wen’- placed under the charge of the ruiidic Trustee doing the month of August. Mr. James Matier, of the head office staff of the Bank of New Zealand, has keen appointed manager of the Dunedin 'branch. . For a number of years Mr. Matier was manager of branches at Levin, and also at Hawke’s Bar.

The official estimate of the area in South Australia under wheat is 3,192,3SO acres, an increase over last year of 353,361 acres; oats, 313,010 acres, an increase of 46,410 compared with the previous year.

The Defence Department has decided to form a Tunnelling Company for the Expeditionary Force. This Company will be comprised of skilled and un- ) skilled fa ce-workcrs, other than coalminers. The ages of applicants for enlistment must be between 21 and 40 years. Men of the newly forming Tunnelling Company are advertised for by the Defence Department in another colmun. Applicants must enlist in the ordinary way. Sergeant-Major Tnekey, of Taihapc, will furnish all information.

The regulations governing trout ami perch fishing in the Wellington acclimatisation district have been amended to provide that no lures or baits other than artificial ones shall be used. Previously it mas provided that no lures or baits oter than artificial fly or artificial minnow should be used.

In the course of the hearing of an application relating to a farmer’s will, by the Chief Justice at the Supreme Court,- Wellington, Mr. A. A. Mentoath mentioned that during the past 20 years land in the Wairarapa had increased sixfold in value. His Honour: ‘'Yes, I .know that it has risen in value very considerably within the past three or four years. ”

Speaking in the House, Mr. Witty said the Minister for Defence had recently referred to the necessity for keeping all military matters secret to prevent the enemy securing information, and yet in the Defence report was a statement that we were short of machine-guns. The Minister subsequently admitted that Mr. Witty "had got him” on this point.

An official cable received yesterday states that Yilna, the great centre of the Russiana railway system, nas been captured by the Germans. The peo. r .o of the Yilna district are very mixed, being composed of Lithuanian, Slavs, Jews, and Tartars. It is likely to prove of value to the Germans from its trategie importance as the an important railway centre. Since the estimate of the wool available for export was made at the end of last month, the War Trade Department lias learned that stocks in the west, riding of Yorkshire arc considerable. The Department has now, therefore, decided that 125,000 bales of crossbred and similar wool, of which 50,000 are English, can be spared, and is prepared to consider applications for licenses to export to .approved destinations.