LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 59, 9 March 1916, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

The Nelson Jockey Club has granted permission for 20 ladies to attend the race meeting this week to collect in aid of the French Red Cross fund. The Government has taken advantage of Sir Francis Bell’s generous offer of his property at Lowry Bay (Wellington) as a hospital for returned soldiers. There are two largo residences and a cottage cn the property. The financial strain of the war lias so seriously affected the funds of the London Missionary Society that many of it activities will shortly have 1 1 close down. There is a proposal :-.b ready to abandon the Caknita minion...

More than 1000 names have boon received in response to a request for the formation of a Civic Guard for Johannesburg in order to replace members ■ the police force anxious to enlist fo; service against Overman East Africa. In order that members of Fa iliament may have a personal knowledge of the needs of the large area of country up the Wanganui River, the Mangawero Road Board has invited r party of members of Parliament and others to make a tour of inspection. At Stratford last Tuesday a fine line of 500 shorn lambs from Mr G. A. Mar chant’s Stanley Road property realised what is believed to be the record price of 16s 2d per head. This is the more noteworthy as a large percentage of the best ewes wore reserved by Mr. Merchant for his own flock. The Canadian soldier is .paid 4/(5 per day, as compared with 1/ paid to English troops, lOd to Italians, 2jd to French, l|d to Japanese, id to Russians, I}d to Austrians, lid to 1 Turkish, 5:1 a to Germans, 6/ to Australians, and. 5/ to New Zealanders. In a case heard at Hull, in which r Belgian soldier was charged with contravening war regulations by coming ashore without a permit, evidence wargiven by a Danish captain, a Roumanian stoker, and a French engineer. The interpreter was an Italian and one of tho justices a Persian.

Mr. R. S. Abraham stated at the Palmerston Patriotic Society’s meeting the other evening, that while u 1 feuding a stock sale at Bulls, he liar seen members of the Society open ting in that district secure donations of 1,000 fat sheep from farmers present at the sale. If in a small place like Bulls 1,000 sheep cfKikl be secured, IiOAA r many might he got in Palmerston?

A London paper just to hand boxborders in black type in a prominent place in its columns the folloAving query: “If every passenger ship of the Allies carried from 20 to 50 G< rman prisoners 05 hostages, would there be any more submarine murders?’’ Our own reply to the query is an emphatic affirmative. The Hun has no boAvels of eomoasslon. He Avmdd sacrifice 50 members of his oavji family in order to destroy five haled Britishers in such a manner that lie could get advertisement out of Ms act frightfulness.

Newspapers arc tar and away the best mediums for financial advertising, according to Mr. Fred W. EllsAvorth, publicity manager for the Guaranty Trust Company, of Now- York. “The very best advertising mediums are the daily papers. That has been the experience of everybody in our line. An essential in newspaper advertising is honesty. Banks especially cannot afford to mak e statements that are not true.’’ Mr. Ellsworth declared that a newspaper advertisement on one occasion since the beginning of the war brought in deposits amounting to £117,600.

A nation in the melting-pot. That is America. The latest statistics just to hand from the United States hov that the foreign born residents in U.S A. are made up of the following nationalities 876,455 from England, 1,352,155 Irish, 2,501,181 from Germany, 117,236 French, 1,343,070 Italian, 1.602, 752 from Russia, 49,397 from Belgium, 1,174,924 Austrians, 21,451 from Serbia, Bulgaria, and Montenegro, 32,221 European Turks and 59,702 from Asiatic Turkey. And with the Avar Aviping out Europe’s surplus population, AA-hat will U.S. A. do for material for its melt in pot in the immediate future

The lute Mr. Thomas Cawthron left £15,000 towards tho erection of a now hospital in Nelson on the understanding that th e Government would subsidise that amount. The Hospital Board objects to expend Mr. Cawthron’s mom'unless the Government will promise to assist with a subsidy, and it is anxiously waiting to see Avliat Cabinet is prepared to do in the matter. In a letter which he wrote in January the Minister of Public Health expressed the hope that the board would erect the hospital without calling upon Government for any subsidy or at any rate any subsidy until the Avar Avas over.

In the gazetted list of clergy riven licensed to officiate at marriages appears the names of ten Maori member*, of the Ringatu Church. The Ringatu form of religion is (says the Auckland Star) practically th c Hauhau form of worship, of which the high priest ai one time was Te Tvooti, and later the wily Ur ewer a recalcitrant Ena. The scheme of worship is a continuous uplifting of the hands and thc rapid chanting of a mixture of Old and N Testament phrases interlarded with native ideas regarding the Deity. Tir ten men who represent the church have now the right to claim the prefix of reverend to their names.

A bid for the bizarre comes from the Rev. J. Whitcomb Brougher, pas tor of Temple Baptist Church, in Los Angeles, California, who has discovered a new method of courtship, warranted to work satisfactorily if adhered to in all •essentials. First, he would have the girl get her father, brother, or a detective to look up the complete record of the man she desires to marry. Next, the man should go in swimming with his sweetheart—at a pub l beach, of course. When a girli has a complete record of a man’s life, and, he lias seen her haid slicked down and the paint washed off, if they stilj love each other, they can hunt up a minister, for it ; 's all right!

Messrs. Hussey and Ongley, solicitors, notify that they have money for investment on freehold security 'at current rates. A cable this morning advises that Mr. Winston Churchill recants to iho front to-day. A cable from Sydney to-day states there are over 100 eases of infantile paralysis at Manly. fl’he Plunket Nurse Garden Party is to be held at Ru'anui on Saturday, in connection with which, a conveyance will leave Kelly’s stable for Ruanui on Saturday morning at 11.30 a.m. Intending passengers are asked to notify Mr. Kelly not later hfcan Friday. A cable received this morning states that the Rev. Shakespeare, in his presidential address to the National Free Church Council, said the Free Church decline was chiefly the result of narrow denominationalism. Ho did not believe that amalgamation was a remedy, rather favouring federalism on the United States model. The Council" resolved that the United Board prepare a scheme for federation for submission to the Free Church bodies. A Melbourne cable to-day states that a deputation interested in wheat waited on Mr. Pearce and protested against tho Government fixing tho price for local consumption at 4/9. They stated that this lost tho producers £450,000. They got no satisfaction. Speaking at a welcome tendered to him in Sydney by the Highland Society, Colonel Burns,'head of the shipping firm of Burns, Philip and Co. said that if the whole Empire had •‘responded in the same- manner as Scotland, an army of five million mowould have been the result. The export of frozen meat from New Zealand last year, said the Hon. W. MacDonald on Monday, was valued i round figures at a little over £7,000.00. In 1914 it was £5,000,000. Rambling last season was on the average per cent, lower than the previous year The Minister said that he them that probably the beef for export this year would be poorer on the average than last year, because without donh a great deal of stock would have been retained in New Zealand. Prices wore an inducement for breeders to send anything at all away. An idea of the demand for ships is contained in a Melbourne cable received to-day, which stated that at '.ln half-yearly meeting of the Melbourne Steamship Company it was reported' that one of the company’s steamers could have been sold' to oversea buyers at a profit equal to the whole earnings of the company's fleet for six months. It is reported that the famous steamer Anglo-Californian, which put up such a thrilling fight against a German submarine during the earlier part o* the Avar, has been sold to the China rd Line for about £215,000. She was built at Sunderland in 1912, and is of 7,333 tons gross. The shipment of ton thousand crates of cheese from South Taranaki factories. valued at about £50,000, was made last Aveek; but there still remains n---

ten thousand crates in store. The difficulty of securing space on Home boats has been the cause of Uie congestion at various factories and tire seasicn being a record one, supplies have accmulated quickly. Waitotara district still continues, to send away substantial drafts of stock and farm produce, and during February about 500 bales of wool, 9,650 sheep, 150 cattle,, and over 100 calves were forwarded, the approximate value being close on £52,000.

A German soldier’s pay, which the Socialists are vainly 'endeavouring to get increased by 50 per cent., is, roughliy, equivalent to 41 d per day. But out of this he must contribute about lid a day totvards the cost of his dinner. Apart from the dinner, generally some kind of Irish stew,, he gets nothing but black bread and alleged coffee,, so most of the remaining 3d must be expended on additional food. Even the meagre balance-4s not at his free disposal. It is carefully kept in a small bag supended from V neck. This is opened periodically for the inspection of the soldiers’ officers, and if li 0 can be convicted of the least extravagance he Avill be severely punished.