LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 56, 6 March 1916, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Regulations hav e been gazetted prohibiting speculation in Avar metals in Britain to prevent undue inflation of prices. Ncav Zealand products entered for export last week Aver e valued at £l,039,967, including butter £141,343, cheese £93,688, meat £86,206, avoo! £509,701.

One of the performing seals belonging to Captain Huling, of Wirth’s Circus, died at Taihape. The loss Avill be a severe one to the Captain, avlio has achieved such wonderful results in training seals.

After having served through the South African war, Mr. H. Eidler, a grocer, of Merrow, Surrey, England, who has only one leg wrote to the War Oftice offering his serraces in any useful capacity, and he has now been given a position in the Army Ordnance Corps.

Returns published by the Government Statistician show that during 1915 the Government opened up 1,306,958 acres of land for settlement, and the actual selections were in excess of that figure. This should ha\’e a materi-

effect on the production of the country in the near future, thus assisting to increase our general prosperity.

Professor Kennedy, the newly appointed United States Attache in Australasia, has arrived in Sydney. The object of his mission is to promote trade between America, Australia, and New Zealand. He will, travel through the Commonwealth and the Dominion, and during nest year issue a handbook for the use of United States exporters.

The scarcity of surveyors .and the delays and difficulties that arise in consequence, were emphasised by a statement made by a witness in a Maori land ease in the Supreme Court at Auckland (reports the Herald). It was a common experience, said this gentleman, for persons after obtaining a lease of Maori land, and having it confirmed by the Native Land Board, to have to wait four or five years before they could get the I'and surveyed.

A Xcw Zealander was lecturing some of our Tommies on our ‘national deficiencies, says a Home paper. His language was lurid—lie had been provo'ted thereto by some remarks mad by a British officer on the subject of Australasian lack of discipline. “Anyhow,’’ he yelled in conclusion, “we do know enough to know there is a war on, which is more than you do in your back number of a country. You wiP wake up to it, I reckon, by the time it's finished with, unless we come over and hammer it into your heads. And whatever you do when you win implication in this phrase surely would soothe the wounded amour propre of the slowest-going Briton — “be sure you make the Germans so v' over their beM men to teach you he - to feed, and clothe, and educate your people. It would bo th e best indents' you could wring out of them, and the only one they will be abl l e to pay.”