LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 31 December 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There will be no publication of the '' Taihape Daily Times "on Tuesday (New Year's Day).

The fly has made its appearance in some crops of young turnips in the Taihape district, though so far not to any great extent.

Exactly £IOO in notes was found by a young woman In Higft-road, Whetstone, England, and "on taking the money to the police-station she was rewarded by the owner with ss.

The "Waimarino County Call," published at Raetihi, is changing hands, Mr L. H. Fryer, who has been "called up" disposing of his interest to Mr C. C. Nation, of the O-hakune Times.

The new Government bakery a: Marton is now completed. An iceproducing plant is now being installed, and a girls" hostel is being erectd as a home for the girls employed in the Government dining-rooms.

The only attraction in this neighbourhood for to-morrow (New Year's Day) is the great Maori gathering at Opaea. 'All white people are cordially invited by the natives to be present, free of all charge or collection to all such visitors.

A conscientious objector in England recently found himself in the same cell as a man who was doing time for manslaughter. One was gaoled because he killed a man with whom he had been quarrelling, and the other was gaoled for refusmgTo kill men with whom he had no quarrel.

It is estimated that 700,000,000 gallons of petrol could be saved in a year if motorists—in all countries—would avoid waste by stopping the engine when standing still, avoiding leaks, by judicious air adjustment, and the limitation of "excessive pleasure riding.''

A very fine collection of regimenta: badges is on view in Messrs Collinson and Gifford's window, comprising some of the most famous British line regiments, as well as some of the overseas forces. The collection is the work of- 'Private 6. CapiTl, of Taihape. '''■*

Seyen arrests were- made in Auckland on Friday afternoon of men charged with street ■ betting. Those on whom the arrest warrants ~were executed are: Frederick James Kernott, Joseph Rees, Henry Newton, John Weston, William Lane, John Martin, and Edward George Lowe.They were brought before Mr Bart. Kent, J.P., at the Police Court, and remanded on bail till next Thursday.

The following paragraph appearing in the "Daily Mirror" shows that prisoners of war escape in other places besides New Zealand: "Lieut. Otto Thelen made his fourth escape from internment camps recently, but was recaptured. With twenty-one other Hun officers, including Captain von Muller (late commander of the Emden) —a pioneer of modern piracy—he disappeared through a tunnel at Keyworth, near the famous Donnington Hall. Of the twenty-three German officers who escaped, twelve have been re-captured. The German prisoners who escaped from Hanttworth Camp seven weeks ago are still a* large. This means that twelve of the escaped prisoners have been caught j and eleven officer prisoners are still at large, and have been lost for seven , weeks." I

"A Victoria Cross ftas been given to a young submarine commaThler for a deed which shows that of our Navy is still of the very highest," writes Sir Thomas Mackenzie from London. "One day he suddenly sighted two German submarines", "one or which he was smart enough'to sink, and the other was so taken by surprise that the crew surrendered. He then took command of the German submarine ( it might be said that he is an excellent German scholar), transferred the unitofms from the German officers to his own, and set out for Heligoland, and on arrival he sent a wireless, purporting to detail his exploits and the number of British ships he had sunk, and asking for further instructions. He to proceed to a certairi~'clirectioh/accompanied by a German returned home, and received a weTl-ea'rned Victoria Cross."