LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 February 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Masterton A. and P. Association has decided not to pass the amusement tax on to the public at its show next week.

Messrs. Quin Bros, Hihitahi, are advertising for tram navvies, bush skiddy, and mill skiddy; good wages arc offered.

A notice from the Public Trustee in regard to James Scanlon, a deceased soldier, of Eangataua, appears in another column.

As will be seen by an advertisement in another column “The Originals’ arc paying a return visit to Taihape on the 19th. The programme and costuming will be entirely new.

The Huntly miners resumed w<~rk on Wednesday morning, after being out for a week. The portij i of the mine in which it was claimed ‘‘ore damp was present has been flooded, and.it is hot coi by ail parties concerned that the .min* is now safe.

It was reported during proceedings at the sitting of the Military Service Board at Auckland that 105 employees of the Auckland Harbour Board are on active service, and the Board is paying, in the,, shape of half-pay service leave to each man an amount aggregating £3900 tier annum.

A daring daylight bank robbery occurred at Sydney on Tuesday. A customer entered the English and Scottish branch bank in Pitt Street and deposited over £3OO on the counter. A man standing alongside him dashed

a bag of flour in the faces of the customer and teller, then seized £IOO in notes, and escaped.

At the meeting held on Tuesday evening to consider band matters there was a fair attendance, and it was unanimously decided to re-form the band. Mr. Hartley was appointed band- ‘ master, and practice is to commence on Sunday. The want of a band has been very keenly felt on various oc- ' casions lately. There is no need for this sta-te of affairs as there arc in town several old players who can assist to push the band along, and it is up to them to do so.

Curious things happened when the cyclone struck Townsville recently. The blow was so fierce at Cleveland Bay, says the "Sydney Sun.’ that it whipped the ocean back, laying' bare the bottom of the sea. Horses, made frantic by the storm, making a dash for the open, galloped on to this firm land. It was only for a moment; the storm took another turn, and the sea came back and engulfed them. After all, the idea of the Children of Israel crossing the Red Sea is not a fable. It only needed a cyclone to enable them to do so.

At the Wanganui Supreme Court on Tuesday, John Clark, travelling auctioneer, was found guilty of setting fire to premises at Stratford. Sentence was deferred. Catherine Milne came up for sentence on charges of attempted suicide and atttempted murder of her child. Mr. Justice Edwards deferred sentence in order to consult with the''other Judges. James Dickson was found guilty of committing an unnatural offence. His Honour said the prisoner was an old hand, and came from Vancouver. He regretted he had not the power to order his deportation. Accused was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.

The Taihapc Red Cross Shop will be re-opened for business, on bebalf of our wounded soldiers and sailors at the front. The Red Cross has a particular claim upon everyone’s notice, and assistance, as it is the first organisation to attend the wounded men as they are brought in from the bat-tle-field. Many settlers have a surplus in their gardens, orchards and fields, that could be converted into surgical atendance, drugs, anaesthetics, and a thousand'one one comforts for our wounded men if settlers would ha good enough to bring them into town. Donations of anything saleable are earnestly appealed for so that the good work may be kept going.

Mr. Robert Semple called at the "Times” office Westport on Wednesday morning, and stated that the strike rumours were absolutely without foundation. The miners had never even considered the matter of a strike and officially he know nothing about any supposed strike. He added that there was nevertheless terrible discontent among miners at the over soaring increase i n the cost of living. It was originally thought the Government was going to make an honourable effort to try and decrease the cost of living but the exact opposite had been the case. In this connection there Avas tremendous discontent permeating the ranks of labour. But if there was anything the miners loathed it was a strike.

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