LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 February 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A person to clean windows is wanted at Collinson and Gifford's drapery establishment.

The 'Military Medical \Board now visiting Masterton examined 104 men at Woodville and Masterton. Only 26 of them were fit for service.

We remind those interested of the lecture by Mr Deer, in the supperroom of the Town Hall, to-night. The subject of the lecture is "The Science of Building Any Business or Profession."

According to official figures (says the British Workers' National Committee) the purchasing power of a sovereign spent on food is now only 9/11 as compared with 20s in July, 1914.

Shortly after midnight on Saturday the Masterton police paid a surprise visit to the Taucru Hotel. Among those found on the premises were several well known in Masterton. Further developments are expected.

The annual balance-sheet of the New Zealand Insurance. Company discloses a profit for the past year of £119.093. A dividend at 7/6 per share (less 3/6 per share already paid) will be declared, and £40.176 is to be carried forward.

As an example of the excellent work of the French artillery it is stated, and vouched for on unimpeachable authority, that during the attack on the Cheriiin des Dames, one 15 inch gun put five consecutive shots into same hole in one of the caves.

A notice of interest to ladies appears over leader to-day from Miss Fisher, of Christchurch, and Wellington, who is visiting Taihape for a few days, and has brought with her a magnificent range of blouses, lingerie, and costumes for disposal.

At the request of the 'Wanganui County Council some members of the Upper Wangaehu Eoad Board have gone to Wanganui to discuss adjustment of boundaries becoming essential prior to consideration of the merging of ' one body into others.

The Lyttelton Times, the Christchurch Liberal organ, editorially takes Dr. Thackcr to task, and on behalf of a majority of electors of Christchurch East and the people of the city, disavows what it describes as Dr. Thackcr's present erratic campaign in the North Island.

A gigantic sale of drapery, new, up-to-date goods, consisting of everything from towels to ladies' daintest dress goods. This great auction sale is to be held in F. Ward and Company's Tui Street Mart, to-morrow. Ladies are urgently recommended to sec these goods which arc to be sold for whatever they will fatch, and bargains will be the order of the sale.

It is claimed that "Lion Pale Ale" is the choicest product of the brewer's' art, a drink of acknowledged superiority, of natural and pleasing flavour, and wholesome to an extreme. It is difficult to understand why rubbish is drunk while such beer is obtainable at the price of the indifferent stuff.

As showing the value of swimming lessons, a speaker at a Palmerfon meeting stated that he had twice saved his life through having learnt the art. The last occasion was in the Arabian Sea, when a steamer went down only forty yards from land. All the black men were able to swim ashore, while all the white men, with the exception of the speaker were drowned through being unable to swim.

It would seem (says the "Southland Times") that, from one viewpoint at any rate, neutrality is, like honesty, a very good policy. Mr John Macdonald told Saturday'e of the Invcrcargill Farmers' Union that in Uruguay and the Argentine, where cattle were once raised for their hides, growers, are to-day getting, through the American Meat Trust, prices rio-ht up equal to those paid in U.S.A_, Those prices are just double those at present ruling in ISTew Zealand.

It is a serious matter to wrongfully wear the Badge of the Returned Soldiers' Association, as a native named John Rcni found at. the Gisborne Magistrate's Court. He said he picked up the badge at the Te Arai bridge, and had put it on when he came to town. The Magistrate, Mr. W. A. Barton, S.M. warned defendant that he was liable to a fine of £IOO but said he would i n this case impose a fine of £5 to which ho added costs amounting to 19s.

The ease of the returned soldier who, a confirmed sergeant on Gallipoli, was returned wounded, and enlisted again as Q.M.S. but was reduced to °the ranks at Sling canip, has "been takea up by the Auckland branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association. Military Headquarters have met the Association half way, and have replied Jhat the reduction of the Q.M.S., to sergeant and then to private, was an irregularity. The incident has not yet close], but there is every reason to believthat the soldier will be reinstated.