LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 60, 10 March 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

An active girl is wanted at Spence’s drapery and millinery establishment to learn the trade. At the Tui Street Mart to-morrow, Mr. D. J. McLennan will sell all fruits in season, as well as wheat and potatoes. A cable this morning states that the Kaiser personally bestowed the Order Pour le Merit: tc the captain of the Mo ewe.

An old Maori, reported to be aged 106 years, Ohcnai Wciremu, a resident of Putiki, was found dead at Castlec 1 1 O' on Wednesday relit.

Nearly the whole of the eligible male population of Mauriceville, composed chiefly of Scandinavians, have now enlisted for service abroad. Five sons have gone from one family.

There is a sinister coincidence, sayf the London Observer, about the Gcr man Grown Prince which is not goner ally remembered. He was born on th day of the Phoenix Park murders May 6, 1882, and under extremely u, favourable astrological conditions leading astrolbgists to conclude that : bad end is in store for him.

Inspired with a sense of her duty to wards her country, an Auckland lady presented herself at the recruiting office yesterday, and offered herself fo: active'service as a motor-driver. Arsuch applications cannot be dealt witl by the recruiting authorities, she wr referred to the higher office of the Defence Department. The Eltham Argus says that pots toes arc likely to be dear in New Zen land this winter, as inquiries for then have already been received from NoSouth Wales. It se'ems as thougi everything is likely to be dear. Meais now getting beyond the reach of tinaverage working man’s family, an

very tight times appear to be looming not far ahead.

■ A warning -that th e delay in the do livery of goods is likely to become worse has been received by an Auckland firm frqm a large London house ‘‘ We Jiave to contend with endless de lays and ■ obstacles on the railways,’' the-firm wrote on January IS. “Thshipping ■ situation has beaome really distressing, and each day a new re cord of freights is established.” In tin: Wellington retail clothing trades very good business is reported for last hernial business ' was transacted. The autumn dfhpeVy sales have been successful, and the turnover is considered satisfactory. Th_£ grocery trade is quite up to the usual standard. The printiugotrades-wgre a little quiet during February, in the bookbinding branch of the trade.

Writing from Egypt,, a member of the expeditionary forces urges people here to refraiq, from sending packages by any other method through the post. The writer says he has been in Egypt for six months, and his people in N.Z, have forwarded him parcels by every transport, but not one has come to hand. Like experiences, he says, are common, and it would lx hard to find a man who has received r package sent in this manner.

Eight tun her erses of Infantile paralysis were notified in the Wellington district yesterday, two being in Wellington City. Three cases were notified at Foxton, and the other three were at Croua Downs, Eltham, and Whakamara—in the Hawera district—respectively. The cares reported in Wellington City come from Te Aro and Newtown Flat, and special' precautions are being taken by the Health Department and municipal authorities in this area.

Shortly before 2 a.m. on Tuesday, a middle-aged woman, who appeaTed to be under the influence of liquor, was seen to jump off the breastwork, near the Clyde quay wharf, Wellington, into the -harbour, A Mr. Millshead, who was working on a hulk close by, immediately dived to the rescue, and succeeded in bringing the woman ashore. Mr. Ayson, a member of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, happened to be close at hand, and applied artificial ’ respiration, and the woman quickly recovered. She was afterwards arrested on a charge of drunkenness, and taken to the Lambton qua police station.

A man named Bolton met with a rather sever e accident at Opaea yesterday. Ho was driving a two-horse waggon for Punch Pine in connection with harvesting when the horses bolt-

ed and the conveyance collided with a straining post. Bolton was thrown heavily, breaking an arm and a rib. He was attended to by Dr. Boyd and removed to the Taihapo Hospital.

The secretary of the Tradesmen’s Association notifies, by advertisement that shops in Taihape will remain op’or all day on Thursday, 16th inst.y and will close on Friday (St. Patrick ’f Day) at 2 p.m.

In order to expedite the working of the military pensions scheme, now jointly controlled by the Ministers for Defence and Pensions, it has boon' arranged that all matters connected with war pensions shall be controlled by the Minister for Defence.

Messrs, Dulgety and Go., Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London office, dated 7th inst.:— "'Owing to snow storms, no wool sales were held' to-day. We quote average 64/ costing 40d; greasy crossbreds show a decline of 5 per cent, to 71 per cent, on last sale rates. ’ ’

The late Rev. Mr. Baxter, author of “ Groat Tribulations, or 'Things Coming Upon the Earth,” predicted main things,, over 30 years ago, which never came to pass and are never likely to. but he also prophesied concerning other events which we are all now hoping and believing will be verified. Here arc a few of them most likely to soon come true: —"The 'victory of France over Germany; extention of France to the Rhine; Turkish Empire dried up; Britain giving self-government to Ireland and India; Syria, Turkey, Bulgaria, with Eoumania, to become great-

ly changed.” In present-day high these all seem probable eventualities.’

Cabinet has considered the railwaymen’s request for a shilling a day wa: increase at two meetings this week The difficulty of the position appears to be the impossibility of limiting an;-, such concession only to second division railway men, other manual workers, and low paid clerical employees in the Public Service being pqually affected by the increased cost of commodities The Government is -evidently dispose to meet the railwayman to some extent, because the subject has to be reviewed at a future Cabinet meeting There is a prospect of the railwaymen's representatives being called tr Wellington regarding the method of bringing some portion of the desired concession into operation.

Every ounce of cocoa, every ounce of linseed'oil. lard, unsaponified fats in soap, bogus sardine packages which contain instead of fish ..is potentially gunpowder cf a most dangerous kind. The Carman chemists, who are very adept in the matter, can from cocoa extract* approximately 50 per cent, of fat, and from this fat, and also fron linseed oil, olive oil, or any othci fatty cii, can be extracted 10 per cent, of g’yoenne, and from this glycerine can be manufactured nitro-glycerine. Evorv 100 tons of fat will yield It' tons cf glycerine, which in its tun will yield 2~> tens of" nitro-gKycerine; in short, 20ft tons of cocoa will yield 25 tons cf nitro-glycerine. Every ton of fat or two tons of cocoa (which se'ems to be accounted as of no munition value by the Government) will give the necessary power to tire 2SO 3-inch gas, shrapnel, or high-explosive shells when combined with nitro-cottor in. the correct proportions. Lender Daily Mail.