LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 21 January 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There will be no publication of the Taikapc Daily Times to-morrow (Anniversary Day.)

According to the Berlin press crowds thronged the Zoological Gardens at Christmas, paying Is for the pleasure of seeing a British tank captured at Cambrai.

Dr H. T. J. Thacker, M. P. for Chris'tchurch East, who has been called up in a recent ballot for the Second Division, has successfully appealed. The grounds of his appeal was that having been born on March 20, 1870, he was over military age.

According to a statement issued by Sir James Allen on Saturday, NewZealand casualties to latest date available are as follows: Dead 1.1,080; missing, 226; prisoners, 111; wounded 28,140. Total, 1,614 officers and 37,946 men.

"I am losing 80s a day every time I come -here," stated a waterside worker at the sitting of the Third Wellington Military Service Board. Another watersider stated he had lost 28s by attending the Board.

Mr Leonard Charles Smart, whose

name apepared in the latest list of gazetted defaulting reservists, is a prisoner of war in Germany. He was

a marine engineer on the Otaki, which was ,torpedoed in March last, and since that time has been a prisoner. He has been in fairly regular communication with his relatives in Auckland.

The estimated output of the season by our dairy factories IS,OOO to 20,000 tons of butter and 45,000 tons of cheese The bulk of this produce has again been by the Government on Imperial account, at prices which should be satisfactory to producers. All last season's make of butter is now believed to be exported, and a very considerable quantity of new season's butter has gone already.

Germany is putting 14.3 soldiers into the field for the same amount of money which the United States is paying for a single fighting man, according to calculations of government experts. They said the same general

proportion was true also iof maintaining the armies in the field., or, in other words, 'America must raise'l4. 30 dolalrs where the enemy raises only 1 dollar for the purpose of carrying on the war. The difference was said to be due to the higher pay of United States soldiers and the greater cost of supplies, and the contrast

was used as a text for admonitions that resources alone wop'd not win the war, hut that strict economy was necessary.

The Great Bargain event of the season commences Wednesday, January 23rd, 9 a.m. sharp.—Collinson and Gifford. Ltd.

Homelike board and residence is offered to gentlemen by Mrs Batt, "The Springs," Weka Street, on very moderate terms.

Mr A. Spence's summer clearance sale is now in full swing, and a perusal of his advertisement on another page will prove of interest and profit to those in search of bargains.

It is estimated by one of the most experienced military medical officers in Victoria that quite 50 per cent, of the men who have volunteered but failed to secure enrolment have been rejected on account of flat feet.

A girl again won the international typewriting championship and a £2OO trophy cup at the New York annual business The winner, Miss Margaret Owens, has held the title and trophy for four years. Her new record was 143 words a minute for one hour.

To celebrate their entrance into the second week of Gardner's "Sunny Summer Sale," some particularly enticing bargains are provided by this enterprising firm for the benefit' or t-he public. A few "indicators" are given in their new advertisement today on page 1.

Among the wills which appeared for probate in London in the month of November was that of Sir T. B. Boyden, the well-known Liverpool shipowner, who left real and personal estate to the value of £1,271,354. The will provided for legacies to charitable objects to the munificent sum of £1500! During the same week pro bate was granted in the estate of Mr. E. T. Doxat, chairman and managing director of Dalgcty and Co., Ltd., for £342,945.

A significant fact concerning the Court, of Inquiry which this week concluded its investigations at Christchurch into the charges made by Dr. Thacker regarding the conduct of the Military Medical Board in Canterbury was that at the conclusion of the sittings of the Court Dr. Thacker was

accorded a great reception by crowds

gathered outside. The crowds- cheered Dr. Thacker as he appeared, there being such a demonstration that people in the vicinity were under the impression that peace had been declared.

The people in the Old Country are told every day and all day, and en every conceivable opportunity that they must cut down this and that to save tonnage and economise food, yet in the face of this we find that the authorities allowed to land in England a consignment made up of t-he following "war essentials": GOO rhesus monkeys, three tigers, five leopards, five Indian bearers, one Indian lynx, one fishing cat, two birds of paradise, 200 avadavats, five Indian hornbills, seven barbets, with other odds and ends, value £I7OO.

The story concerns two rival saus-age-makers. Again, they lived on opposite sides of a certain street, and one day one of them placed over his shop the legend: "We sell sausages to the gentry and nobility to the county." The next day, over the way, appeared the sign: "We sell sausages to the gentry and nobility of the whole country." Not to be outdone the rival put up what he regarded as a final statement, "We sell sausages to the King." Next day there appeared over the door of the first sausage-mak-er the simple expression of loyalty, "God save the King."

There are ghouls in New Zealand, as well as in Germany. One variety, says the Taranaki News, is the memoriam card dealer who searches the casualty list daily and sends along immediately a soliciting circular anc: samples of the work done, to the bereaved relatives. We were recently shown one of these circulars. It contained verses of doggerel that would insult the memory of any soldier. Attached was a portrait of some poor soldier whose relatives had succumbed to the importunities of the pushful card vendor. It is too much to expect a display of fine feeling or decency from this class of people, but surely even they could postpone their unwelcome obtrusion until the bereaved ones had little time to recover from their blow.