LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 39, 16 February 1916, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Twenty 4-tooth Romney rams, bred by Mr. J. W. Harding, of Waipukurau, are advertised for sale by Mr. Alex. Young, Waipap'a, Ruanui.

' dogs, answering to the name of Tip ami Sweep, respectively, have been lost by Mr. A. J. Joblm, who will reward the finder.

Two or three assistants are wanted for the 22nd and 23rd Ferbuary to help in the dining room at the Temperance Hotel, Taihape.

Sergeant Harvey, in charge of the Taihape Police Station, leaves here for Otaliuhu, to where he has been transferred, directly after the Rangitikei A. and P. Show on the 23rd February.

Sergeant W. A. Matthews, of the Wanganui Police Force, .has received notice to transfer to Taihape, to take the place of Sergeant Harvey, who is going to Otahuhu.

Mrs. (Dr.) Barnett requires a cook and housemaid, for Palmerston North. about February 21st. Applications should be addressed: Post Office Box 38, Taihape.

It is notified by the Vicar, in another column, that the harvest festival at St. Margaret's Church, Taihape, is to be held on Sunday next, February 20. A service for children will be held at half-past two in the afternoon.

It is notified by advertisement that business houses will close in Taihape at one o'clock on the A. and P. Show day, 23rd inst., and that they will' reopen all day on Thursday, the 24th inst.

There are vague reports in circulation to the effect that the Crown Prince of Germany has been deposed, owing to incompetence, and that he has been assigned the nominal command of an air corps.

It is asserted in Berlin, the King of Greece has empowered M. Gounaris and a special committee to govern Greece under martial law. M._ Gounaris has recommended that military commanders should replace the civil governors. King Constantine refuses to receive, the French Ambassador.

A Melbourne cable states that Lawrence Cohen, secretary of the Victorian Trades and Labour Council, was found, dressed only in a singlet, beneath a window of his hotel, having dropped 15 feet. He succumbed to his injuries. He arrived the previous night from Broken Hill, where he was negotiating a strike settlement.

The "peaceites" who came to Sweden by the steamer chartered by Mr. Henry Ford, of the United States, have opened a conference. Sweeping resolutions condemning the w ! ar have been passed. The conference will meet twice a week, and cabled reports of the proceedings will be sent across to Mr. Ford, who returned to New York.

To such extremes is the British economy campaign being pushed that the suggestion has even been made in the House of Commons that tobacco should be banned. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, however, favours the increased consumption of tobacco in view of the fact that the import duty is at least four times the amount paid away in gold to America for its purchase.

Mr. J. J. Campi notifies in another column that he has commenced business in Taihape as general carrier and forwarding agent, having taken over the business formally conducted by Beattie and Co. Mr. Campi, in asking for a share of public patronage, states that he is prepared to do any class of carting, packing, storing, or removing furniture. Estimates will be given free whenever required. Mr. Campi has had a lengthy experience in his business, having been for a long time with the New Zealand Express Company, Wellington, and with Messrs. Purser and Sons, Wanganui. The price he charges for horse-feeds at his stables is 1/6, stands Gd. All enquiries will receive prompt reply.

"We have a labour parasite to deal with in our line,' said a flaxmiller to a Palmerston "Standard" reporter on Saturday. This individual, continued the miller, was not a worker, but he managed things pretty well without work. For instance, he would arrive at the mill about midday on Saturday, just. ( as the works would be closing down for the week. He would ask to be taken on, and as there was nearly always a vacancy of some sort, he would be engaged. He would receive free board on Saturday afternoon, Sunday, and Monday morning, but when the Whistle sounded for work he was found to be missing. Our informant said he had been a victim on a few occasions, but was now getting wise to Saturday afternoon callers.