LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 21 December 1915, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

In the Australian featherweight boxing championoship at Sydney on Saturday, Les Edwards knocked out Jimmy Iliil in the 13th round.

Quite a number of recruits have indicated their willingues to be transferred from the Army Service Corps to the Infantry.

Wool is coming in very' freely ;n Taranaki (says the Waitara Mail), and there is every' prospect of uv unusually good season.

A silk shirt is very nice for wear during the hot weather. See Stanley Peyton’s stock from 8/0.

Very largo consignments of fat lambs are now leaving the Peilding railway' station daily Stock generally' are in excellent condition, feed being superabundant.—Star

Mr John Canghey r ’s salary' as Assistant Director of Education will be £650 per annum. His first work will be the preparation of a scheme of classification of teachers.

Luminous Dial Wrist Watches with patent cover protectors—fine stock at Bond’s, Watchmaker, Taihape.

“Am I a shirker?” “Am I sheltering behind petticoats?” These trite questions are posted in a conspicuous place in the office of the Kegistrar of Marriages in a town not 100 miles from Wanganui.

The body of the wife of Henry Payne, formerly a railway' guard, was found in a watercourse at Masterton on Sunday morning. It is presumed she fell in while in a fit, as she had been under treatment for dizziness.

Gold watches, necklets, muff chains, bangles, in new and beautiful designs. H. D. Bond, Taihape.

A meeting of Midhurst dairy factory' shareholders discussed the question of cheese or butter making, anc eventually' decided to continue the mai'fufacture of butter. It waes further decided to contribute 1 per cent, of the output (estimated at £700) to the Patriotic Fund.

A huge shipment of 3.200 tons of paper for newspaper printing arrived at Wellington on Saturday afternoon by the cargo steamer Werribee from Poell River, British Columbia. This is the largest consignment that has ever arrived by one vessel in Australasia. Presents for the Boys in Camp. Large selection at Bond ’s jewellery and watchmaking establishment, Taihape, The seasons’ greetings are conveyed from the Feilding Star to iho Taihape Times staff in a triumph of typography, The Star’s good wishes are sincerely reciprocated, and we congratulate that journal on the excellent emanation from its jobbing department. Special line of made to measure trousers. Best of worsteds, cuff bottoms, beautifully cut, from 12/6 to 18/6. At Stanley Peyton’s. Mr. R. Moore, at present agent for the Loan and Mercantile Company at Mangaweka, has been appointed Eangitikei buyer (out of a large number of applicants) for the "Wanganui Meat Freezing Company, in place of Mr. R. Mcßeath, who has enlisted and is going into camp next month. The company has also appointed Mr. R. White to the position of buyer for the Walmarino and Taihape district. Large assortment of brooches, be„ Aiful designs. Bond, Jeweller, Taihape. About 200 men employed on a large vessel lying at Auckland struck on Saturday morning for an extra two shillings a day all round, claiming that as the vessel was to carry certain troops she was virtually a transport, and they were entitled to transport" rates. The strike continued till t*ie afternoon, causing much inconvenience, and then it ended by the sapping company concerned agreeing to comply with the men’s demands. Splendid line of summer singlets at 1/6. Very cool and comfortable; at Stanley Peyton’s. One good instance of the peculiar methods of the Education Department is shown in connection with the new boundaries of the Taranaki and Wanganui Education Districts. The former, with nearly half again as big a district as formerly, will have the some number of Board members reduced from nine to six, while Wanganui, with a reduction of about a seventh m the size of its district, will have the number of members increased from nine to ten. SHARE AND r S absolutely is the 1 Baking Powder. Purest, strongest; and CHEAPEST. SHARLAND’S is bound to rise. Get it from your grocer.

The Peilding Star says:—Again the Defence Department sends to this journal a mesage of mystery' ordering us not to publish in our columns “any particulars whatever” regarding the sailing route of a certain New Zealand liner. Immediately' after receiving tliis memo. —sent to all editors in the Dominion —we happened to pick' up a copy of an Auckland paper, and therein was set in cold and bold print details concerning that very ship! How often will the Defence authorities lock the door after the steed has escaped —how much longer will they go on warning inland papers whilst city' (seaport) journals give away r information by the column*

■ln a letter to a friend in Wellington, Lieutenant D. McCurdy', who *s assistant-director of army postal services in Alexandria, describes the field post offices as holes dug in the hillside. “'ln Alexandria,” he says. “I have a large building for a post office. There are four rooms, and I have a staff of 33 non-commissioned officers and men, and they' have to work very' hard to keep the work up-to-date. The post office works well, but there are lots of complaints at times. They' are usually caused by the men not sending word that they have been transferred from one hospital to another. ’ ’