LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 55, 4 March 1916, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

It is understood that two cases of infantile paralysis in Taihapc have been reported to the health authorities.

An aerial motor-cycle, with all the latest and best appointments, is advertised for sale in this issue.

A Maori Land Court, presided over by Judge Palmer, is sitting in Taihape, individualising Maori lands.

A boy named Durbridge, when turning the starting handle of a car, had the misfortune to break his arm through the engine back-firing.

Eatepayers are notified by advertisement that all rates in arrears on 20th March, 1916, will be loaded with an additional 10 per cent.

A Press Association telegram states that a child over two years of ago has died of infantile paralysis at Napier. Further donations have been made to the French Eed Cross Fund, including contributing of produce totalling £0 1/9. In cash, Mrs. James gave £1 1/, and Mr Ghas. Fordo, Euanui, £2—totalling £9 2/9. Borough electors are reminded that nominations for two vacant seats on the Borough Council close on Monday next, 6th instant, at noon. Those intending being nominated should lose no time in having their papers filled up.

The Methodist Church Choir -will render special harvest ant-hems and •hymns at tire Harvest Festival Service at the Methodist Church to-mor-row evening. All those who enjoy good sacred music should make an effort to attend the evening service. All seats ar e free; hymn books provided.

The tenderer for the carriage of the Ngawaka mails, Mr. Capill, informs us that his tender lias been accepted, and that ha starts carrying the mails from to-day. Therefore Nagwaka settlers may bo congratulated in having a mail delivered to-day, after being wltnour one from the commencement of the year. At a meeting of the Taihape Medical Board held yesterday, there were present: ' Dr. McDiarmid (president), Drs. Sinclair and Serpell. SergeantMajor Tuckey was present representing Base Records and the Defence Department. ; Corporal H. H. Brooks (Wellington Infantry Battalion), of Ohingaiti, was granted a further 28 days’ leave, and Sapper L. V. Masters (N.Z. Engineers), of Hunterville, was found fit to return to duty.

A WeDington tramcar incident: He hadn’t been seated in the car three minutes when in came a lady, dressed a la mode from the nodding osprey ?n her hat to the tip of her dainty white shoes. She looked demandingly at him, and being a mere man, he rose and offered his seat, though he lived three sections away. As she nestled comfortably down he said "I beg your pardon! ” ‘‘ I did not say anything, ”

said the lady. ”1 beg your pardon, 1 thought you said ‘Thanks.’ ” Then the passengers smiled, and the lady looked something approaching uncomfortable.

Wars sometimes conclude in almost matter-of-fact way, as did the FrancoGerman war of IS7O-71. Bismarck, who had just concluded the terms of peace with France, told his friends, at supper that "at 12 o’clock to-night our' troops and the French will exchange their last shots, and I have agreed that the latter shall tire the last one.” Shortly before midnight Bismarck's guests left him, and waited outside the Hotel de Reservoir, Versailles. Soon they heard a shot from the Germans, and then, after a brief silence, the French fired their last reply. Hardly had the cannons’ echo died away than the tower clock of Versailles struck 12—and the Franco-Gei’-man war was an event of the past.

The text of President Wilson's message to Congress, which has just reached this country, contains some interesting passages on the subject of war and preparedness, which were not contained in the cabled summaries. President. Wilson says: "War has never been a more matter of men and guns. It is a thing of disciplined might. If our citizens are ever to fight effectively upon a summons they must lenow how modern fighting is done, and what to do when the? summons conies to render themselves immediately available and immediately effective. And the Government must be their servant in this matter, must supply them with the training they need to take ear c of themselves, and it. They must be fitted to play the great role in the world, and particularly in this hemisphere, which they are qualified by principle- and by chastened ambition to play. It is with these ideals in mind that the plans of th e Department of War for more adequate national defence were conceived, which will be laid bfore- you, and which I urge you i sanction and put into effect as soon atj they can be properly scrutinised and discussed,' , NO COLD IS NAZOL-PROOFI