LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 22, 27 January 1916, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

It is notified by advertisement that a dance will be held in the Winiata Hall,'on Monday, 31st January. Prices are popular and supper is provided.

Applications are invited for position as representative for leading Insurance Company transacting all kinds of fire and accident business. See advertisement in this issue.

Senator Pearce has refused to sanction the employment of German prisoners in the preparation of settlement farms for returned soldiers in Australia.

Something in the nature of a record (s'ays the "Eketahuna Express") was put up by Mr. Caseby,: of Hukanui, who killed a lamb that tipped the beam at 681 b. The weight is vouched for by settlers who saw the lamb weighed

, The State schools re-open on Tuesday next, February 1. The builders are making most satisfactory progress with the new annexe at the Taihape school, and from present appearances it will be completed in readiness for opening day, if not; then very soon afterwards.

A lady of 65 years sued her husband of 75 years in Auckland the other day for maintenance. They had been married five years, and she had left him twice because, she said, it was a shame for a woman of 68 to be scandalised. The Magistrate refused to make an order.

"Accountants are persons who add up columns of figures—wrongly," remarked counsel in the forgery case at the Magistrate's Court in Christchurch. "Bank tellers, like lawyers, know nothing about accounts," was the retort that came later in the proceedings, from the Government audit inspector.

A writer in the London Times says that the "boom" in furs is so great that the furriers cannot account for it. At recent fur auctions the prices realised were over 50 per cent, more than those of the las.t June sales. •America's extraordinary prosperity has caused her to retain an unusually ; large amount for her own use, and

also to pay almost "any price fo):. par celg from London.

Special Irne of made'to measaro trousers. Best cf worsteds, cuff,'bottoms, beautifully cut, from 12/6 to 18/6. At'Stanley Peyton's.,

No wonder he is worrying about the throne of China! Yuan Shih Kai has 31 living children

A recent Order-in-Council under the Banking Amendment Act, 1914, extends till 30th June next, the period in which the notes of all banks in New Zealand shall be accepted as legal tender.

Mr W. W. Astor, the American millionaire who renounced allegiance to U.S.A., and who figured in the New year Honour List, will take on the title of Baron Astor of Hever Castle in the County of Kent. He is a member of the British House' of Commons.

Overheard in a train at Marton. "How did you do out of your wool this year?" "Better than I expected. Made a clear thousand more than I ever hoped to." The successful one was a young farmer of perhaps 28 years of age.

j The Hon. A. Griffith, Minister of I Pubilic Works in New South Wales, has announced that the Government has removed from the Public Service ! every unnaturalised German, also every naturalised German who is not married to an Australian.

The Hawko's Bay Fruitgrowers' Association approved of a proposal; to send fruit to the various eamps, the troopships, and H.M.S. Philomel. It was o.lso decided "that the Association should, at the' request of orchardists enlisting for active service who should so desire, undertake the ma-n ao-ement of their orchards during their absence by means of sub-com-mittees appointed for the' purpose."

A waterspout burst on the hills to the south of ( Waipahi, Southland, last week, and within three hours the river was running bank high. Trees and fences in the vicinity of the smaller streams were swept away. Stock bridges wer e also carried away. South of the main south road very little rain fefl, and the river was not affected. The Grand Duke Nicholas, who is the Kitchener of Russia, will remain in Petrograd as President of the Advisory Council to conduct the war.

Trooper T. W. McCristal, professed revolutionary socialist and erstwhile leader of the Sydney wharfites, writes urging his old mates to come and help him in the fight. H e has been hit three times. Once in an arbitration case in Sydney he was cross-examined by an unpopular employers' representative. "Did you say that if only you and I were left in the world you would not work for me?" "I did-," replied McCristal. "Why?" "Because you would work for me," was the calm reply- '