LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 41, 18 February 1916, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

The 14th Reinforcements will probably go into camp on 7th March. Mr. D. J. McLennan will sell at the Tui Street Mart, to-morrow, several pigs, some splendid furniture, fruit, and potatoes.

The Sydney Court declared W. J. Chidley, the notorious apostle of "the simple life," insane, and committed him to the hospital for the insane.

Cheap, sound fruit of best leading varieties is offered, carriage paid to Taihape, by Mr. J. H. Harre, of the famous Henderson Orchards. An advertisement appears in this issue.

The annual conference of /ire brigadesmen of the Dominion will be opened on Monday next at Westport. It is expected that there will be an attendance of 150 delegates, including officials

A proposal to run the Auckland City tram during church hours on Sunday evenings was carried at a poll of municipal electors by 0,55. l votes to 3,595. The new service will commence next Sundav.

A sad death is reported from Mount Albert, Auckland. A young lady resident, who was to have been married a few days ago, sickened two days prior to her wedding day, and died of infantile paralysis about the hour arranged for the ceremony. Writing to a friend in Palmerston, a soldier in Egypt states that the men of the Main New Zealand Expeditionary Porco who have survived the fighting on Gallipoli are all to be given six months' furlough in England shortly. After the war, of course!

Nurse Relling, of the Wanganui Hospital, has been appointed matron of the Taihape Hospital. Nurse Relling has been over eight years in the Wanganui institution, and on various occasions during the absence of the matron on sick leave and holiday has been temporarily in charge. It was stated by the Prime Minister at Wellington on Wednesday that a communication had been received from the Imperial Government requesting th e New Zealand Government to prevent any crossbred wools being shippo" to neutral countries, as it is urgently required for Britain and especially for the British Army.

. The Mataroa, Hlhitahi, and, Turangarere members of D Company, 7th Regiment (Territorials) will x>roceed to annual camp at Rangiotu on Monday, the Ist inst., leaving by the 10.10 a.m. train from Taihape. Endeavours are being made to have the train stop at Hihitahl and Mataroa to pick up the men.

Advice received from the Base, Cairo, intimates that the majority of gift goods for distribution to troops at the front arrive packed in cases which are too large, having regard to transport facilities. It has, therefore, been requested that instructions be issued for such goods consigned being packed in cases of suitable size for packing on pack mules through narrow saps, and not to exceed SOlb. in grosw weight.

American film manufacturers are baffled by Japanese psychology, and complain of the difficulty of inventing scenes to amuse the Japanese. Charlie Chaplin bores them, and they sit with the utmost solemnity through pictures that would convulse Western audiences. The Chinese are more easily amused. Stout persons excite their laughter, and accidental immersion in water so pleases t*iem that if a manager gets hold of a film where half a dozen people fall into the water he doubles the charge for admission.

The despatch of Japanese cruisers on foreign service in Indian waters has not (remarked the Japanese Chronicle on the 6th of last month) been kept a secret, though nothing hi s been allowed to leak out concerning the nature of their mission. The general conjecture is that they are to be employed in the task of preventing the smuggling of anus into India, but that is obviously a conclusion drawn from .the recent activities of German exporters of "medicine" from Shanghai to India. There is also the possibility of tli c Tokiwa and Chitose making a demonstration in the Persian Gulf and assisting in the convoying of Sir Eccles Nixon's reinforcements to ' MmfcmJmmm\Mmm\miwmanmmnmntmittMu

One of the greatest combines c,vev ; formed will, shortly be completed in America. The Standard Oil interests are the leading forces at the bad: of the combine, which lias for its object the outrivalling of the United States Steel Corporation.

It is claimed for Dairymaid of Pinehurst, a Guernsey cow owned by W. W. Marsh, of Black Hawk, lowa, U.S.A., that she is earning £2OO a year. She is a world's champion, and has R record of 17,2551bs of milk :\nd 910.671bs of butter-fat a year—and 'the calf she brings each year helps to make up that £2OO.

When an offender in drunkenness was charged at the Palmerston North Police Court the other day. the, police stated that he had 01 convictions recorded against him since November, 189 S. He had paid no less than £■'■ 15/ in fines during the last ten months. four months of which were spent in gaol.

Professor Mackenzie, during an address on "Socialism and Conscription"' at Palmerston North, referred to the unfair way in which taxation is levied in this'country. This was a matter, he said, which demanded the serious attention of the Legislature, to that it would be made more equitable.

and touch on those best able to bear it. "It seems to me," said the professor. 1 , "a monstrous thing that a bachelor, with an income, say. of £I.OOO a year, should have to pay no moire in income tax than a married man, with, say, ten of a family, who is in receipt of the same income." The enthusiasm with which these observations were r" 1 - eived gave evidence that they had the hearty approval of his hep«rers.