LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 29, 4 February 1916, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

The 13th Reinforcements are beingcalled upon to go to Palmerston North on Monday instead of Tuesday for the purpose of dental examination.

The soldiers, who returned to New Zealand by the Rotorua, speak very highly of the reception tendered to them by the citizens of Auckland.

Nurse Rogers, who is relieving Nurse Jones, will bff in attendance at the Plunkett Rooms to-morrow afternoon at the usual hour.

Messrs. R. Wilson 'and Co., Ltd., Taihape, notify in their advertisement that they are cash buyers of anyi quantity of coksfoot seed. All seed offering will be weighed and tested on the spot and cash paid therefore on delivery—no argument about weight or sample.

Over 'and over again the annual reports of the Wanganui Education Board have contended that free places granted to proficiency holders should be extended to those who fail to pass conditional upon their taking up a. vocational course, land how the Technical Schools 3 Association is advocating a similar course.

The Salvation Army has freehold properties, in New Zealand which, with additions, are valued at £172,947.

The supply of eggs in Wellington by no means equal' to the demand, and the wholesale price has advanced Id per dozen, to 1/S as from to-day.

It is notified that on and after tomorrow, the sth inst., the Tiki Brewery will close at 1 p.m. on Saturdays, Patrons are asked to note th e change.

At the Taihape Police Court this morning, before Mr. J. P. Aldridge, J.P., three first-offenders were convict-

ed and discharged for drunkenness.

An advertiser requires a line of 2000 strong, healthy lambs, for which cash will be paid on delivery at Taihape. Those who have the lambs for sale should ring up telephone 67 W.

Last evening two troops trains, with the 4th Battalion of th e Rifle Brigade on board, stopped at Taihape. There was a very large gathering of local residents on th e station platform and the soldiers were heartily cheered.

The troops who passed through Taihape on the troop trains last evening were all in the highest spirits. During the short stop here they were well trated by local residents, who supplied food and fruit to a large number.

Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day: Southerly winds, strong to gale prevailing. The weather will probably prov e thick and foggy. Heavy rain is to be expected, with rivers rising, shortly. The barometer has a falling tendency.

The “ prophet” Eua, who has been sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment for sly-grog selling, has retreated to t-h e pa at Maungapohutu, 60 miles back, in the depth of the Urewera Country. Two native constables will go in this week to seek him.

Desipte the notices placed in- conspicuous places by the Government prohibiting dogs from entering the Taihape Domain, three valuable sheep have been worried within the last few days. On e dog has been shot and all others in any way interfering with the sheep on the Domain arc to be destroyed.

A number of wounded men, who returned to Auckland by the Kotorua, were returning to the south by the •'Main Trunk, express which passed through Taihape this morning. Among those on board was Lieutenant Krebs, of Mangaweka, formerly of the staff of the Taihape "Times.” It is understood that Lieutenant Krebs is suffering from a strained heart. Sergeant Thompson, of Feilding, formerly of Taihape, was also on the train.

When tli e first troop train reached Ohingaiti last evening, one of the officers received a message to the effe' that the troops would be supplied with refreshments at Taihape. Immediately on arrival here a number of the men went into the refreshment rdom and helped themselves to soft drinks and sandwiches, with the result that the proprietor, Mr. H. inness, is now wondering where the payment is coming from.

A message from St. Pauls (U.S.A.) states that Mike Gibbons and Young Abeam met on Wednesday night for what was virtually the middleweight championship of the United States, The attendance was enormous. The contest was short, sharp, and decisive. TP A first round was only half-wav through when Gibbons whipped his right hard and clean to the jaw. Ahearn fell in a heap and was counted out. Th e fight lasted 92 seconds. A challenge from Les Darcy to meet the winner for the middleweight championship of the world was read, and the great crowd cheered lustily.

An extraordinary incident occurred at the Hastings Cool Storage Company’s receiving yards on Tuesday, states the “Hawke’s Bay Tribune.” Several conveyances were drawn up in the yard, when one of the horses attached to a trap became restless and bolted. The trap struck a post and overturned, the horse being pinned to the ground by the shafts. Just at this moment a lady, driving a phaeton, came alongside, and strange to relate the horse in the phaeton trembled violently and dropped dead.

Vandals of the worst type still continue their depredations in the Taihape Domain. Within the last few days a lino tree has been deliberately barked in such a way that its life is seriously jeopardised. When these miserable miscreants get sense .enough, if evOr they do, they will realise the part those handsome trees play—as they stand among the steep cliffs of the river, and, perhaps, they will bo able to picture the desolate appearance of the place if they persist in ridding the reserve of its beautiful bush. The Domain Board is determined to punish, with the utmost vigour of the law, anyone that is caught destroying trees, plants, or seats in the reserve.

Asphyxiating gas is to be used in the Argentine for destroying the locusts which plague that country.

At the Tui Street, Mart to-morrow, j Mr. D. J. McLennan will sell a lot j of splendid furniture, as well 'as-the | usual fruit and potatoes. . I

A dairyman who was a competitor in the grade dairy cattle section at the Feilding Show complained that competition had become so keen in these classes that the small man was being ousted altogether by the large breeders who entered their better’ class stock and consequently took the honours. The large breeders should be excluded i competing in these sections in order to giv c the small 1 man a chance.

The Ohiu 1 ?, County Council, in anlother column, invites tenders for roadmaking and fer metal supply and carting contracts. One mile of formation is required on the Waitewhena Road, and 1828 yards of metal are wanted in the same locality. Tenders will close at noon on Tuesday, the 15th February at the County Office, Ohura.

Captain Herbert, of Pahiatua, had a strange expedience when passing through the Manawatu Gorge in hi.? motor-car early on Friday morning. He first of all met an infuriated bull, which he had some difficulty in r?-

ing. Then helmet a cow with a bloken leg, and further along the road another cow rolled down the hill, landing in front of the ear. The thud on the road broke the cotv’s back. ,A reader of the above in a contemporary remarked that the captain seemed to have had "a fair cow” of a time.

The drastic reduction in the hours for the sale of intoxicating liquor m Greater London and some of the neighbouring districts, which had long been foreshadowed in the Times, has been officiaTy announced. The provisions of the new order are practically the same aff these in force in most of the large ports of England, Wales, and Scotland, and in several of the munition areas. The order came into force on November 29. The hour s during which 'alcoholic refreshment can be obtained on licensed piemises on week-days have been cut down to five and a half— namely, from noon to 2.30 p.m„ and from 6.30 to 9.30 pm. On Sundays the hours are from 1 to 3 and 6 to 9.~ The order applies to all clubs and restaurants, a s well as to public hoilses. Elsewhere the beard’s orders are working smoothly and giving excellent results. In London the “no treating” order has Had a beneficial effect, but the further restrictive measures taken had for some time been felt by the authorities to be imperatively , necessary.