LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 February 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. G. E Little has a new advt. to : day dealing wholly with suits. His advice is good, but his suits are better. .. , .

“You are a very contented, happy-go-lucky crowd here when you put up with the harbour you’ve got and the railway you have not got.”—Dr. Thacker on Gisborne people.

An English paper to hand tells of a grocer and a tin of jam. By regulations he was supposed to sell the jam at 9Jd. He charged the customer Is Id. The grocer was fined £25, and the asisstaut who actually effected the sale, was fined £5.

A Feilding man who is amongst the called up forces has received a large notice from the Defence Office In Palmerston ordering him to parade on the Showgrounds in Palmerston on February 29! That gives him quite a spell waiting for the next Leap Year.

Messrs'A. W. Gardner and Co. announce that the bombardment of Taihape is progressing in real earnest. The prices of some of the projectiles appear in their advt. on page 1, but a further supply may be obtained on application at the shop.

Shortly before the war began a relative of a New Zealand resident purchased ten shares in a shipping company at Home for £lO each. The company was paying 15 per cent before the war, and during the three years since the dividends have been 20, 25, and 30 per cent, all free of income tax. Recently the lucky investor received a further cheque foi £2OO, with a circular saying that the company had an accumulation of capital, and had decided to distribute ‘part’ of it amongst the shareholders —£20 per share. In a little more than three years the capital invested has been returned threefold, and the investor still holds the shares.

Start the day right! Polish your shoes with TAN-OL the popular shine for tan footwear leather goods and furniture. 4

Tackle coughs and colds by using NAZOL. That’s the sensible, and cheapest way, NAZOL Is penetrating germ-killing—and most economical, 60 doses 1/6. 4

A lost tail lamp off a motor cycle Is advertised for by Mr. V. Nicholls, of the Station Street Garage.

Each soldier, who returns to Mangamairc, in the Forty-mile Bush, receives a purse containing £8 from the settlers of the district.

A sum of £3OOO is for immediate investment on mortgage at current rates .by Messrs. Fullerton-Smith, Miles and Cook, Solicitors, Taihape.

Bargain days at Collinson and Cuninghame’s are advertised for this week. Thousands of left-overs, remnants and oddments, will be cleared out after the firm’s sale just over.

“ The present supply of shipping is so satisfactory that meat is going out of store faster than it is coming in,”

says the Premier. “The space for butter is, however, somewhat more difficult to secure at the moment.”

It is notified that an insurance policy on the life of Charles James O’Brien has been lost and that a new one will be issued by the National Mutual Life Association if no objection is lodged before the 21st February next.

His Grace Archbishop 0 ’Shea conducted the dedication service at St. Joseph’s Convent School at Ohakunc yesterday afternoon. The service was very largely attended, representatives being present from all parts of the district. The Very Rev. Dean Holley and Rev. Father O’Connell, of Wanganui, were also present.

The latest and probably the most authentic account of how the Huns broke through the Italian line which led to the subsequent debacle is now to hand. Opposite the Second Italian Army the Austrians had plated regiments composed largely of Socialists and those utilised the war-weari-ness of the Italians, who had been on this sector for twelve months without being replaced, to convince them that an end of the fighting would come if the soldiers on both sides should refuse to kill each other any' longer. Fraternisation followed, and an 'exchange of promises to do no more shooting < Then the demoralised —and demoralising—Austrians \yere quietly withdrawn, and in their place were put choice German shock troops. These it was that almost unopposed smashed through the Italian lino and began the flanking movement of which results have been 'so disastrous to Italy.