LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 8 January 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The following tenders have been accepted by the Wanganui Hospital Board: Groceries, McLaughTaiTßros.; bread, J. Milne; meat, S. S. Timbs.

A Jady vrho can ill afford it has lest a purse containing about eight pounds. The finder will be suitably rewarded on returning it to this office.

Private "Mart" McLaughlan, who returned from the front by one of the transports last week, arrived in Taihape by the express last night, and received an extremely hearty welcome from his relations and friends, Avhich is not to be wondered at, considering the exceptional sacrifices •his kin have made during the war.

The worst hailstorm ever experienced in the district passed over Fort Kembla, N.S.W., recently. Considerable damage was done to houses in the town, every one* of which had the windows broken. In one house, which contained 26 windows, 23 were broken, and the hail poured through and damaged the furniture. The hailstones were bigger than ordinary hen eggs. The total damage is estimated at close on 1000. Three of the hailstones which were weighed turned the scale at over lib.

i A Taranaki paper solemnly vouchsafes the accuracy of the following incident:— An unusual incident happened recently in a tf ew Plymouth poul- ; try pen From a pair of bantams a "ice clutch of chicks was hatched. When the chicks were a week old the •hen commenced to lay, and "M a few days a half-dozen eggs were in the nest. Biddy had plenty to do to rear and mother her brood of chicks, and of course could not undertake the hatching of the new batch of eggs. The rooster decided to make a name for himself, and 6n"S morning he took charge of the eggs and began setting them out. For three long- weeks the rooster sat closely and was rewarded for his self-imposed task by proudly walking out of the nest one day with a new clutch of chickens.-During the Period of incubation the rooster became clucky as a broody hen, and every second day came off the eggs for food and water.

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The Educational Institute Confer

ence decided to aPPo int a P aid secre " tary at a salary of £4OO a year.

A big line of rams, some 800, were consigned to Taumarunui last week by Mr E. Short, the well-known breeder' . L! :■•■ -Wi

Miss Lizzie Reid, of Hunterville, won the Blairlogie Cup at Masterton on New Year's Day. The Cup carries with it the Highland dancing championship of New Zealand^

V. Nicholls, Station Street Garage, is advertising in the for sale column on page 1 some real bargains in motor cycles that he has taken from purchases of cars. He has also a Buick car in splendid order at less than half-price. Famous new Overland models are offered at £360 and £"4OS.

It is rumoured (says the Christchurch Sun) that before next general election the Hon. Sir William Fraser will accept a seat on the Legislative Council, leaving the Wakatipu seat in the House to Mr. R. Scott, M.P., whose electorate of Otago Central has been cut out by the Boundaries Commission

The following is taken from the Kansas City "Star:" "The New Zealand troops, wearing field hats just like our own peaked at the top, ana with a red hat-band instead of (U.S. A.) cord, seem to me to possess a certain lithe grace of carriage and distinction of countenance all their own. They, too, are tall slender fellows, without the awkwardness of the Australian or the beef of the English. They remind me of Harvard and Yale track teams done up in khaki. You would think them born aristocrats, from their cleanly chiselled features and well set up forms. I find, too, that others have received the same impression of them." —Dr. Burris A. Jenkins, writing from "Somewhere in France."