LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 11, 14 January 1916, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Up to November 30 last no less than £21,445 had been subscribed by the New Zealand Civil Service to the w'ar funds.

Dr. E. J., Dillon considers that the diplomacy of the Allies never did and does not yet understand the minds of Balkan peoples, statesmen and mon-arc-hs—in other words, only , a German diplomatist can descend k>w enough to treat: with them effectively.

The' oil-carrying steamer ,the Baron Cawdor, under charter to the Vacuum Oil Company, arrived in Wellington on Monday with 50,000 cases of oil and about 250 tons of general cargo to discharge. No labour could be. obtained for the work of discharge. Labour is now in good, demand on the waterfront. and oil cargo work is not popular. ,

At the Salvation Army Hall, Tui Street, on Sunday, the Kith, morning and evening, farewell meetings to Captain and Mrs. Elston will be held. They have laboured amongst us for the past five months and are leaving to take up an appointment at Ashhurst. They will be' succeeded by Ensign Sowell and Lieutenant Hill, whose welcome meeting's will be held on Sunday, the' 23rd.

A cake which was despatched by Mrs. M’Narry, of Oamaru, to Private M'Narry, addressed to him in Egypt, travelled a good deal before it reached him (says the Mail). It followed him to the Dardanelles and thence to the hospital) in which he had convalesced in England. He got it six months after it was despatched, whilst visiting a relative in Belfast. The cake was still in nerfeet condition.

A smart youth to learn the hairdressing business is wanted by Mr. E. Loader, hairdresser, Taihape.

Charges are pending against several Oamaru chemists for selling Molendo wine a no-license district, contrary to the provisions of the Licensing Act.

Spurious florins are abroad in Oamaru. One presented to a tradesman by one who had discovered himself a victim passed muster until the nature of the coin was pointed out. The imitation consists of tinfoil over base metal, and looks and rings very much like the real artiek-.

Mr. N. Graham-Tiarding notifies in another column that he will resume teaching on Monday, I7th January. H 0 has a few vacancies for piano and voice production students, subjects upon which Mr. Graham-Harding is admittedly well equipped to teach. His studio is,, opposite the Three Stars Theatre.

The Bishop of Durham, Lord Blythswood, and a committee of clergymen and others, arc working out a scheme to advertise the Bible. They contend that the best way to reach the greatest number of people is by advertising, and that the secular press circulates among the very people they visa to reach.

q-pg Taihape Orchestral Society will meet fer practice on Tuesday night, the 18th inst. The night of meeting has been 'altered as Tuesday is more convenient to some members than Monday. It is rumoured „that a programme of the highest class music is to be put into practice in readiness for giving a benefit concert in aid of the mest deserving of all Taihape’s humane institutions.

There has appeared a now telephone device which renders possible the summoning of a subscriber back to the telephone after ho has been asked to ‘ ‘ hold the wire” while the party at th c other end is looking up some desired information. • The device is in reality a loud-speaking horn. If the subscriber called does not wish to hold the receiver to his ear, he can place 5 over the horn and go about his duties. The calling party’s voice is so amp:fled that he may be heard throughout a room.

“Somewhere in Franco!” A crowd of wounded were waiting for the ambulance when the chaplain cam e along and took all hearts by storm by his first two questions: —“Have we lost many boys? ” “Yes, sir, a great lot. ’* “Did you kill any Germans?” “Heaps, sir; they went through thc mill, I can tell you, far worse than us.” “That’s good,” he said, fervently. You see, he was an Englishman before he was a chaplain.

“An old Servian woman, at least 70 years old, climbed a telegraph pole as cleverly as a cat, and cut the wires before the Germans had time to fire, murmuring: ‘I don’t mind if they shoot me. I am old enough to die-.’ Contrast this (says the London Evening Standard) with the statement made at the meeting of thc Farmers Council:— “Many women refused, to work on the land. . . Mr. S. Kidner said he might as well knock his head against a wall as try to get woman labour on his farm.” Comment ’s needless.

Mrs. Pankhurst, speaking in London, said she had received a letter from Mr. Lloyd George stating that ‘‘arrangements ar e being made that in a il the national factories under the Ministry of Munitions /the standard time rate of wages for women over 1 years of age shall be 20/a week. Wien life women get on to piece work they will earn more. The piece rate «» usually reckoned so that the amount may be- 50 per cent, more than time rate. We are ree.ommen.dmng the adoption of this arrangement m controtted establishments. ”

The 'lighthouse-keeper at Waipapa, near Fortrose, Southland, tells - tte story of an interesting visitor he entertained during eight months umil a short time ago. Regularly each ing a seal clambered over the rockand through the tussocks and vegeta to the foot of the lighthouse, distance of some 200 yards, am t lerc spout the night. The animal was quite tame, and was a source of much, intertto the children. Occasional } over-sleep himself until midwould o\ei bitcy n T)ro . way the tiM r a - t ”°" raft " r strike straight out to s-,a.

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