LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 24 November 1915, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

A London cable states that. Consols opened yesterday at 58. Mr. Stanley Peyton, of Taihapo, will sing in the school-room scene in “Mother Goose” Pantomime on Tuesday, November 30th. A general meeting of the Taihape Athletic Club is to be held at the Secretary's office, Gretna Hall on Friday next, 26th instant, at 8 p.m. The business is important.

Pc mo hundreds of applications have been received by tlie Government for the positions on the Board of Trade. The Prime Minister expects the applications will bo classified and dealt with this week.

The Stanley McKay Pantomime Co., which plays here on Tuesday and Wednesday, November 30th and December Ist, was instrumental in raising over £IOOO in Her Majesty’s Theatre, Auckland, quite recently. The entertainment took the form of a mock court, the proceeds going tc the Auckland Patriotic Funds.

WANTED: Everybody to see Burberry Coats, Ladies and Gent’s, just landed at BENNETTS.

The Coronation of the Queen recently elected at the Carnival competitions is to be held, ■with full ceremony, at the Town Hall Abbey, Taihape, on December 6th and 7th. Tickets will bo issued at 4/, 3/, and 2/, with a few reserves at 5/. The plan of the Abbey is now on view at Finch’s Bazaar, where seats may be booked to avoid the inevitable crush.

A scientist who has made a special study of the racial problem in America ’s island dependency, Hawaii, has come to the conclusion that the average Hawaiian-Chinese half-caste was by far the best of the half-breeds. Careful 1 observation showed that this kind combined the cheerful optimistic nature of the former with the honesty and perseverance of the latter. Halfcaste Japs were less reliable.

"The great thing, of course, is want of men, and more men. Any slackening off in recruiting in Australia will have a direct and injurious effect upon the conduct of the war.’’ With these words Brigadier-General McCay, who has been invalided home after months of war at the Dardanelles, summed up the general situation in an interview in Melbourne.

NOTICE TO THE WEALTHY; Silk Burberry Race Coats, high value, high price, but good. See them quickly at BENNETTS.

A movement is afoot in Eeefton fittingly to commemorate the jubilee of the Inangahua goldfields. Eeefton claims to be the first town in the southern sphere to be supplied with electric light. Quartz reefs were first discovered at Eeefton in 1871, and the district has since proved one of the most important in the annals of New Zealand mining. In 1872 Mr. Hawkins pegged off the Golden Hill and Caledonian mines, which for ten years yielded excellent returns. In eight years the Welcome mine paid £IIO.OOO in dividends.

Miss Eva Ashbolt, of Wellington, had a cheque for £SO sent to her for detecting two spies in a London ’bus. One day she particularly noticed the beautiful drosses and stylish appearance of two ladies who sat near her. Miss Ashbolt was struck by the fact that her two fellwo-passengers did not speak to each other. When the conductor came for her fare Miss Ashbolt dropped a coin. As she stooped to pick it up she happened to look at the ladies’ feet, and immediately saw that they were men’s feet. She wrote on a card, with her name and address: "Two suspicious characters inside dressed as ladies —call a policeman,” and she handed this to the conductor. A nearby policeman was called and the “’ladies” wore taken into custody. They proved to be to «pies, for whom the police «.r bee:- vainly aGarchihg for months. garments of cotton and WOOL: The Walking Burberry Coat, di roc: :rCR i Burberry's, £4 15/.

A woman was arrested in Taihape

yesterday afternoon on a charge of bigamy. She was subsequently remanded to Christchurch.

Only a comparatively small shipment of dairy produce was taken by the Tvaikoura, which sailed frem Wclliigton on Saturday afternoon for

London. The shipment, consisted of 10,382 boxes of butter from Wellington. The approximate values of the produce were: Butter £41,500, cheese £37,300.

The gale which was experienced in Canterbury on Friday caused the biggest break in the telegraphic lines to the north of Christchurch that bar been known since the big snowstorm about ten years ago. Fourteen poles were blown down about a mile from B’e. Styx Railway Station, and until the damage could be temporarily re-,, paired, telegrams for the North could proceed only by way of Greymouth

The Hon. AY. D. S. McDonald, Minister for Agriculture, bis private secretary (Mr. K. G. Chamberlain), and the chairman of the Rotorua County Council Mr H. S. W. King) were ascending the Tikilerc Hill- (Rotorua'-, when the car, about to pass a coach, went over the bank, and, after sliding down for a considerable distance had its progress arrested by the undergear being brought up by the ti-tren Fortunately, it did not upset, and the occupants were unhurt. Horses were obtained, and after an hour and half’s work the car was put on the road, and the Minister and his companions resumed their journey.

A Frenchman, who is now residing in Lyttelton, has just received a letter from his relatives in France, in which many interesting items of the oreat war arc given. During the three months of July, August, and September, which was prior to the big Allied offensive, every Frenchman who had served in the trenches was given one week’s furlough, and sent to his home. The letter goes on to say that the morale of the troops is excellent, and all seem to treat the war quite lightly under such trying circumstances. Twenty thousand unwounded German prisoners passed through one village, half of whom were sent to England, and the iomniuder of the number to Algiers, which gives some idea of the numbei of prisoners captured during the big offensive movement.