The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 14 October 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

("With which is incorporated The Taihape Post snil Waimarino News.)

Tlie first -green peas of the season, sold at Napier the other day, realised 5Jd per lb, -which equals 3't) per p-\;k. . Out cf a population of 250 at Stewart Island 35 have either gone to the front or are waiting- to go.

Two more cases are reported of parents receiving the kits of their frons without any previous intimation of death: Mrs Melvine, of Auckland, and Mrs J. Garvin, of Nelson

The opportunity is awaiting you to procure one of the latest style pique skirts with high waist and back, and finished with buttons for 8/11 at Collinson and Gifford, Ltd., Clean Sweep Sale, *

Who would bother about sowing seeds when splendid tomato plants and beautiful flowering plants can be bought for sixpence a dozen, carriage paid to Taihape? Mr B. H. Just, of tfae Botanical (Nurseries, Palmerston North, advertises catalogues free, and plants at sixpence a dozen, carriage paid.

The Mayor (Mr. A. L. Arrowsmith), at last week's Borough Council meeting, made reference to the fact that small boys were in the habit of congregating at what isknwn as Jones' Corner. These boys had developed the practice of hacking pieces out of the electric light poles and something would have to be done to prevent a continuation of this.

The Postal department lias decided not to erect the proposed telephone line between Eaetihi and Wanganui via the Parapara road at the present time on the grounds of the expense involved, and that under present circumstances the line is unwarranted. The Department, suggests that the I'ocal circuit should be joined up, considering that by this means an efficient service «oul<l be obtained.

At the meeting of the Taihape Borough Council last week the Mayor said it had been advertised that there was to be a "free and easy" at the Town Hall' on Saturday evenings and that smoking would be allowed. This was contrary to the conditions under which the hall was let and if the matter was ventilated through the columns of the Press perhaps it would strengthen the hand of the Town Clerk.

n is notified that, on Sunday evening next, a special "Recruiting Sermon" w'l be preached in St. Margaret's Church, Taihape, by the Rev. W. F. Stent, vicar. Members 'of various military bodies are asked to attend the service in uniform. The text will be taken from Numbers, Chapter 23, verse 10. A special recruiting sermon shoaild be sufficiently attractive just now to ensure a fairly large congregation. More men are very urgently needed to (go into camp, and it will be particularly interesting to know !how the church "will deal with the subject.

Some little consternation was caused in the ladies' portion of the Te Aro baths at Wellington on Monday afternoon by the intrusion of an octopus of considerable size. One of the ladies present noticed the creature feeling its way a!ong the side of the bath, and she informed the caretaker, who immediately set about its capture. After very considerable difficulty he was able to d

rag the intruder on to the platform, where it was found that it measured from tip to tip of its longest feelers some 9ft. It is practically certain that the octupus gained entrance to the bath through one of the holes in the wall.

Cakes to make-r-seones to bakehow easy, pleasant, and sure is the work when you use SHABLAItfD'S Baking Powder.

Since the declaration of war all classes of crime in London have, shown a remarkable decline except pocketpicking. This increase is said to coincide with the prohibition of racing.

"I do not think there is any reason to suppose that the National Government will come to an end before the termination of the war, and I don"t •suppose It will come to an end before the close of this Parliament," said Sir Francis Bell in the Legislative Council,.

The men at the front, include a Pongaroa settler and his son, the" father being among the wounded. The farm is being managed by a 16-year-old son. The mother .is at present in a nursing home, having recently given birth to her thirteenth child.

In the Supplementary Estimates submitted to Parliament was an amount of £3OOO, judgment and costs, Broad v. the King. This case comprised a claim for compensation by the widow of the late Mr Broad, of Marton, who was killed at the Marton railway crossing by a passing train.

Trooper Charles Thompson, of the mounted section of the Third Reinforcements, died at Weliington Hospital to-day. He was invalided back from Egypt by the Wimmera and lias since been an inmate of the Dunedin Hospital. On his way to Auckland in search of health he was taken suddenly ill at Weliington.

Flashes of humour occasionally enliven the proceedings of cases at the Courts, and the unconscious effort of a leading legal luminary avill take a lot of beating. He was cross-examining a Maori Witness upon his means of living. "What do you do?" asked counsel. "Work on my wife's farm,'' replied witness. "What do you milk, cows or sheep?" queried the solicitor, and the laugh raised was beyond the. control of the court crier to suppress.

Tohungaism is still widely practised, says the Auckland District Health Officer in his annual report, and often greatly hampers the work of the department. Two cases were dealt with, both offenders being Europeans. One for years practised exclusively among Maoris, and as a result certain cases of typhoid had not received proper attention. She was prosecuted under the Tohunga Suppression Act. and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. The other case was that of a man who practised among the Natives in the Rotornn district and gave much trouble during the typhoid epidemic. He wp.s prosecuted for representing himself to be • medical practitioner, and was fined £25, in default three months' imprison- j ment.

In London the no-treating law was enforced on Monday in 7,000 hotels and 3,000 off-licensed houses. Innumerable ruses are being adopted by the public to defeat, the order, offenders being liable to a penalty of £IOO or six months' imprisonment. Hotelkeepers adhered to the strict reading of tinregulations. Most people were disced to treat the matter as a joke. Customers evaded the intention of the order by exchanging money when entering and leaving the bars. Treating is allowed with moals, and there was hopeless disagreement at lunch bins a? to whether sandwiches, bread, and cheese constituted, a meal. It is believed that the' regulation wiU bo effective inasmuch as it will minimise the treating of soldiers.

War increases in retail prices are set out in a Jengthly table in the .September monthly Abstract of Statistics. For the four chief centres the percentages of increase in prices ruling on August 14th, 1915, as compared with those for July 31st, 1914, are as follows:—Groceries: Auckland, 17.8 S per cent, increase; Wellington, 21.30 per cent.; Christchurch, 12.30 per £ent.; Duftedin, 19.13 per.cent. Dairy produce: Auckland, 13.10 per cent, increase; Wellington, 8.25 per cent; Christchurch, 11.33 per cent.; Dunedin, 10.23 per cent. Meat: Auckland, 4.09 per cent, increase; Wellington, .7.43 per cent.; Christchurch, 15.42 per cent.; Dunedin, 8.90 per cent. ' Groceries, dairy produce, and meat combined: Auckland. 11.65 per cent, increase; Wellington, 13.20 per cent.; Christchurch, 33.44 per cent.; and Dunedin, 13.53 per cent, increase. ; ' '• • ■

When German racing.cars made a clean sweep in the French Grand Prix a year ftgo, says "The Motor" (Eng.), it vas u ported that the Kaiser telegraphed Jhis congratulations to the winner, and that the Gorman Government contribute* a substantial money prize; yet at the time nobody suggested an interconnection between the Mercedes victory and the German military organisation. But it existed nevertheless. Not many English motorists have had ah opportunity of examining at close quarters the engines used in recent successful German racing ears and : fewer still have been brought in touch with the motors fitted in German war aeroplanes. Tjhis fact is established, that the Mercedes motor ■which won the Grand Prix at Lyons in July, 1914, is identical with the motors employed on 90 per cent, of Germany's war aeroplanes. Vernon Reed's 'put and "Tiki's in. Go.'.ng strong.*