LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 7, 10 January 1916, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

The monthly meeting of the Wanganui Education Board Avill he held on Friday next.

Bananas have been selling in Auckland at 2/6 to -1/ per box, against 15/ for >the last shipment.

. A crop of about one j and-a-half acres of standing oats is advertised for sale. .'Prospective buyers should apply at once.

A lost silA-er and gold brooch is ad \ T ertised fox; in another, column.

A smart youth to learn the drapery trade is AA-anted by Messrs. A. W, Gardner and Co.

A Board of Medical Officers consisting cf Dr. B'arnett (cbaumian) and Drs. Sinclair and Peltham, is to sit in Taihapeiin connection with tAvel\'e returned Avounded soldiers belonging to this district.

Captain Johnson, ex-harbourmaster at Wellington, has received a cablegram from his'son, Lieutenant W. H. Johnson, of the 6th Howitzer Buttery, sth Reinforcements, stating that the battery has returned to Egypt from Gallipoli. Buy a Special Box Suit at Peyton's with an unbreakable front.- Hundreds to choose from from 45/-. The Amsterdam newspaper Tyd states that one of its Belgian Avar correspondents, named Kamper, Avho has sent his paper various revelations which Avere disagreeable to the Germans, has uoav been incarcerated in one of the forts at Liege. General Ivan off, who is conducting the operations of the Russian armies against Leopold of Bavaria in the ProA r ince of Volhynia, has received a j conxmunication from Ferdinand of J Bulgaria saying he will be a renegade and a traitor if he does not at once relinquish his Russian command and return to his native land. He has replied in \mgorons terms denouncing Ferdinand for his perfidy. Six young ladies 4 have been engaged on the Christchurch staff of the Bank' of Ncav Zealaxxd (says the Lyttelton Times’ and arc doing work Avhich formerly Avas done by men who liaA-e gone to the front. It is expected that the bank will soon - have about 50 lady clerks employed in its branches throughout Ncav Zealand. At Cambridge a young Maori natu ed Honi. Mango Avas Sentenced to one one month’s imprisonment for ■ assaulting his grandmother by hitting her on the head with a club Avhile he was under the influence of liquor. ■ The ManaAvatiT Racing Csub paid £3,741 18/6 to the Government totalisator tax on its recent summer meetjug-

Horses seem to be going a-begging in Clutha nowadays (says the Leader). At a horse sale last week there appeared to be more sellers than buyers, and most of the animals offered were "passed in.” One seller, who did not get a bid for his hack, told a small boy he could have the horse for nothing if he took it away. The boy had no hesitation about accepting the gift.

Soft felt hats for men at Stanley Peyton’s from 3/11.

Despite the contradiction of the German papers that the Kaiser has a private deposit of a million at the. Bank of England, it is by no means certain that they are right. The Kaiser is a secret in his investments as in everything else. He is accounted one of the richest men in Europe. His Civil List two years ago amounted to £900,000 per annum, and his personal/ forutne was valued at nine millions sterling.

.• The Pukeokahu Annual Picnic is to be held on January 22ud (Anniversary Bay). This year the settlers have decided to devote the profitsitu th-a Wounded, Soldiers’ Fund. This annual function is. maintained >}’ a0 > rations from Pukcokalrn settlors it is regarded as a purely social affair • Everybody is invited and everything is free of any charge. Under the ciieumstances there should be an exeeJ lout attendance.

\ report on tire activity of t... Ecysters at Whaknmwa >tunag lo- ** ■ w states- Voluitu gave bi discembci starts. plavs, always accompanied In ' Price of Wales’ Feathers and th. Cauldron. WaikohcMki gave eig displays sonic of which were shell o!ms. ‘ kereru and Papakura Geysers wer e much as usual. In the 101^ for .Tunc, last the probability ’ displays by Pohutu for the year w . dispUjs by when the report mentioned. loh tU ’ . the <>93rd was written, nas grMng display, all of which wen lig?it, except 62. rnUke other baking powders, online -> Pom' UITAND’S Pare and bare <-.om pound costs no moire than before bI ; ”;