LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 16 October 1915, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

The Postal and Telegraph Department notify tbiit all traffic for Bulgaria is to be refused. Nearly 70 kits; valued at from £2,5000 to £3,000 men, have been issued to Xapier men since the war started.

The estates of 15 men who have fallen at Gallipoli were placed in the hands of the Public Trustee .for administration during September.

Several cases of diphtheria are reported from Marton. One death has occurred, and two patients have been removed to the Wanganui Hospital.

It is reported that .Mrs. M'cTaggart, of Ngawakn, passed away last night. The deceased had been ill 1 for some considerable time.

The Government Meterologist reports:/—The indications are for westerly winds, moderate to strong and hacking by west to south; weather mild and hazy conditions, clouding over; rain later; barometer unsteady.

The opportunity is awaiting you to procure one of the latest style pique skirts with high waist and back, and finished with buttons for 3/11 at Collinson and, Gilford, Ltd., Clean Sweep Sale. *

Messrs. Ginn and Wilson, the Wanganui furniture manufacture!?, have secured the contract for manufacturing deck chairs for the hospital ship Mamora. The same firm secured the contract for dock chairs for the hospital- 1 ship Mahcuo.

Authority lias been granted by the Wellington City Council' for the purchase of a pair of young camels from the .South Perth Zoo for the sum of approximately £-10, and the offer of the Wellington Zoological Society to contribute £lO towards smell cost has been accepted with thanks.

The Wanganui police yesterday received word, that four Maori soldiers who left the Auckland camp without leave \\<irv in that district. Two have been arrested, and the police are searching for the other two. The men will be handed over to the military authorities at Auckland.

The Wellington City Council has Instructed the engineer to report on the cost of installing a modern automatic bakery on municipal property. The Mayor, said the Finance Committee was of opinion thai, in view of the cost of living, it was desirable that the Council take steps to bake and sell bread to citizens.

A musically rendered vocal item by Miss Broderick, at the concert held on Thursday evening, in the Town Hall, was inadvertently omitted from the report published. Although Miss Brodrick had been given last place on the programme, that lady certainly gave

one of the most pleasing and interest

ing vocal items

The exports of t\ T ew Zealand products during the week ended Tuesday last were valued as follow: Butter, £34.204, cheese, £945, frozen lamb, £81,3,71, fro Ken mutton £32,072, frozen beef, etc., £49,487, gold £54,155. grain and pulse £1,172, hides and skins £6,127, kauri gum £247, flax and tow £5,806, tallow £1,563, timber £1,922, wool £6.127; total, £275,198.

In connection with the New Zealand Government loan of two millions now being issued at i} per cent., the Government is appealing to the public to invest in the loan for the purpose of obviating the necessity of the Dominion going to th* London market. This loan present*, for men with money, an opportunity for patriotism with profit. Full particulars respecting the loan appear in our advertising columns.

IssV Smith, the Jewish soldier who reecntly won the V.C., was well known in Auckland, but under his ring name of Jack Daniels. He was employed working the toboggan at the Exhibition, and, satisfying the Northern Boxing Association as to his bona-fides, was matched to box Jim Hagerty, who wa s killed a fortnight ago, for the light-weight championship of New Zealand. Tibe arrangements .however, fell through, and Smith left for Australia, where he had several fights, with varying success. The last heard of him was that he ihad left Australia for London, so evidently enlisted there.

A circular just issued from the "Taihape Times" Job Printing Department announces that Mr. T. A. Garratt, chemist, has established, at considerable cost, an up-to-date "Soda Fountain. 4 " In all large cities and towns the Soda Fountain is in strong evidence, and its appearance in Taihape is a sure 1 sign of the town's rapid development. The variety of drinks obtainable from the Soda Fountain is marvellous, but in ail probability Mr. Garratt wiJl confine his jtTodnetions for the present chiefly to pure fruit-flavoured beverages. Mr. Garratt advises the thirsty and the inquisitive just to try one of his drinks, which, he says, will put new life into them.

Why pay clearly for Baking Powder when SHARLAND 'S—the best that can be procured—costs less than others? Ask your grocer.