LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 February 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A man itold the Shoreditch Tribunal that his wife weighed only six stone, but was “a very good wife otherwise ”

A Northflcet, woman has died in Kent County Asylum, which she entered in 1869. She cost the ratepayer £2OOO (says the Times.)

Cambridge Sanatorium, which was formerly .occupied by consumptive patients from all parts of Now Zealand, is now utilised as a soldiers’ hospital ’and a large proportion of patients, arc men who have been gassed

Any reservist who has been classed C2, and has been subsequently re-ex-amined and ordered to proceed to the Cl, camp, has a right of appeal, but ho should communicate with the Commandant of the N.Z., Defence Forces direct and not -wit]} the Military Service Board.

Ten thousand war substitutes, including 7000 food substitutes, are now in use in Germany, according to official statistics.

The report of the Medical Research Committee, shows that munition girls have had their skins varnished to prevent T.N.T. (high explosive) poisoning, says the London Daily Mail.

The Huntly miners are still out. A meeting was held yesterday, but the date of resumption of work is not yet fixed. The mine is being inspected by Mr. Bennie, the Government inspector.

Another important stage towards the erection of the Wanganui River bridge at. Tauraarunui was taken on Tuesday, when the first pile was driven, after many weeks’ preliminary work in erecting staging, a monster derrick, and accessories.'

The Licpzig “Volks Zeitung” or “People”s Paper” has so far forgotten its respect for the Kaiser as to jump up and remark that Kuhlmann •ex-German Foreign Minister, who is conducting the German Peace manoeuvres at Brest Litovsk is ‘a lying fraud.’ The freedom of the Press seems to still survive in Germany.

Postal packets for prisoners of war in Germany, who have been detached from a parent camp for special services, should bear in the address the name of the parent camp only as the placo of destination.- Any packets bearing the name of a branch or working camp or work place, instead of that of the parent camp, as the destination, will be returned. Packets for prisoners of war in hospital are not affected by this regulation, Packets without fhe names of destinations in the addresses are permissable

Remarkable “nerve” was displayed by Herbert Eagles, aged eleven, in a distressing accident, which befcl him at Lowgarth, Stratford, last Saturday.' when his right hand was cut off through the palm. He coolly picked up the severed member and held it firmly against the bleeding stump for some minutes —innocently imagining that it would stick —before he reported that he had been injured. The surgeon who attended the lad states that the act' probably saved him from bleeding to death.

A booklet just issued by the Discharged Soldiers’ Information Department, states, “At the present time there is a big demand for labour, but the 1 men must be induced to look ahead, for’when the war is over and the labour market becomes crowded, unskilled labourers and men holding temporary jobs will find themselves out of work, but the men who have undertaken a course of training and are qualified tradesmen will have the best chance of holidng their situations.” This does not indicate a pleasant prospect for labour.

A manufacturing, firm at Dewsbury a few days ago received a post card from a German at Lofthousc Prison Camp asking for price lists and patterns of '‘flannels, satins, silks, . etc., suitable for smart pyjamas.” In reply the firm sent him a copy of the following “Solemn Oath” which they have sworn: “To mark our horror and disgust of the methods of Germany since July, 1914, we swear that we will not: (a) knowingly purchase anything made in Germany; (b) transact business with or through a German for five years after peace is declared. So help us God.”

A contemporary has this to say about the Motuihi escapees: Yon Luckner is now penned in on Elpa Island, Lyttelton Harbour, drawing officer’s pay, and with any amount of sparetime. What his little prank cost us in money (not reckoning in our loss of prestige) has not yet been stated, but it will be vastly more than the amount that was saved by the foolish attempt at economy on Motuihi Island. ” It will be news to most people that the Dominion has lost prestige over this “regrettable incident” as the prestige of this country since it has been under the dominance of the National Government and the heel of the military autocracy has been an altogether negligible quantity.

A young German newspaperman who made his escape from, a prison camp in the south of France has been captured after two weeks’ liberty. He was wearing a long black beard and a long cloak like that worn by some of the French religion orders. In his hand he carried a French prayer book, on the fly leaf of which he had written in perfect French that he was a priest on a pilgrimage to Lourdes, and that he had vowed to make the journey on foot and without speaking a word. He then asked that he be given bread to cat and water to drink and lodging at night time. The German had shown this soiled prayer everywhere along his way, and the simpleminded peasants, believing him to be a priest, had fed and sheltered him without suspicion.

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The finder of a lost motor car starting handle is asked to be good enough to leave it at Kelly’s Stables.

Messrs. A. W. Gardner and Co have an announcement on page one with regard to their “ Bargain Bombardment.” A new barrage has been put up, and the public are invited to take advantage of this opportunity.