NEWS PROM EVERYWHERE.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 23 August 1916, Page 2

NEWS PROM EVERYWHERE.

The Surrey Newspaper Association has issued a warning that the public will have to pay more for their papers in the near future.

The Devonshire apple crop, which promised to be exceptionally prolific this year, has been considerably reduced in many districts by blight. Other fruit is plentiful. The Westminster Coroner said the other day that since the passing of th c Summer Time Act there had boon a marked decrease in the number of street accidents in Londoip The Bavarian Government has decided on the creation of a now Danube Shipping Company, to be known as the Bavarian Lloyd. The Government has promised a subsidy of £25,000. A w T ar economy tip is suggested by friends of Mr Robert Nowlin, of St. Clairsville, Ohio, who estimates that by wearing whiskers for 33 years Mr. Newlin has saved himself at least £2OO.

The cafe system for public houses — that is, the abolition of bars —as suggested by the Central Control Board, is being tried with groat success at th e Windmill Motel, Crieklcwood. The Nottingham Corporation is making special grants to local bee keepers who, it is estimated, have lost 50 per cent of their stock through the ravages of the Isle of Wight bee disease. At the meetings of the City of London Guardians it was stated that as a result of thc Summer Time Act, 10,000 feet of gas and (16 units of electricity were saved at the City of London Military Hospital, Homcrton, in the first week.

At Newcastle, William Stephenson, manager of the Hawthorn Inn, at rv .Hi Banks, was fined £22, and Geo. Patterson, the license holder, was fined £l3O for offences against (he Central Control Board 'Regulations.

In a desertion case, at Old Street it was stated that the prisoner and his wife and four children had been in n nd out of the workhouse since 1007. The collective period of ehargeability for the family was 21 years, and they had cost the ratepayers £590. A labourer charged at Tower Bridge with neglecting to maintain himself, h.ad been admitted to the workhouse 167 times. Provided with a situation at 25/- per week, he returned to the workhouse two days’ afterwards.

Auditor girls are the latest wartime product. They hunt for the missing penny for balancing the balance sheet as ardently as any man out for a fox chase. And they keep their frocks smart over it!

Don’t' blow sulphur into the mouth in the common belief that it cures throat trouble. It doesn’t cure; it kills. The practice was the cause of a nine-year old girl’s death from asphyxiation at Newport (Mon ) Private Brooks, of the Worcester Regiment, gavti himself up to the Plymouth police, saying that he had murdered a' l schoolgirl of thirteen. The body of Clara Gregory, a schoolgirl, of Alexandra Road, Plymouth, was afterwards found.

Mr Joseph Froggatt of Offer ton, Cheshire, celebrated his 102nd birthday recently. He declares that there is no golden highway to longevity, and that lie has had enough illness to kill all tjhe people' in the village. He has SO descendants, nine grandsons being in the Army.

Some o:i the British Poor Law author ivies are approaching the Real Government Board for permission to supplement old ago pensions by a grant of Is a week. Incroso ina the price of food is the reason assigned. In sentencing u woman to 14 days’ imprisonment for drunkenness, the Magistrate at th e West London Police Court said: ‘‘When people in this district know they may go to prison, there will be a wave, of temperance ”

“Tiki” Stout : s not made to tickle the palate and ruin the stomach, but to strengthen weak constitutions and make strong ones stronger. Now the winter is coming, yem wan. something to fortify you against cob! influenza, pneumonia, etc., and the be.means of doing this is to have a boP : of “Tiki” Stout each night before _>■ ing to bed. “Tiki” Stout is absolv'dly the most strengthening and netbracing tonic you could have. “Tiki” Stout differs from other stouts in this respect: It is not allov, ■ ed to leave the brewery before it is properly matured. No matter, how pressing business may be, the manufacturers of “Tiki” Stout will not allow any but fully matured Stout to go on tinmarket. The result is that when you drink “Tiki” you need not fear- aftereffects.