LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 February 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Following the good example set by Ohakune, Raetihi is forming a bowling club, which it is hoped will be in operation at an early date.

A final reminder is given to intending exhibitors that entries for the" Rangitikei A. and P. Show, to be held on February 27, close with the secretary, Mr A. M. Ryan, this evening at 9 o'clock.

Yesterday, at the Wanganui Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Edwards sentenced John Benjamin Clarke to

six (years' imprisonment for arson at Stratford. The evidence disclosed that prisoner was an Australian spieler. Catherine Milne was sentenced to five years' reformative treatment for attempted murder and suicide.

The disconcerting discovery has been made that many of the cargoes which have left Australia, particularly for the East have been filtering through to Germany. In consequence of this leakage, the Federal Governmetn Is now considering the whole question of the exportation of shipments which leave Australia. It is probable that an important decision will be arrived at shortly.

The stoijy goes that Queen Alexandra, on one of her many visits to the wounded soldiers, recently met an abnormal specimen, who, when asked by Her Majesty the usual question whe-; ther he was anxious to get back to the front, made the unusual reply, "No, I'm dashed if I am." But the Queen, whose deafness is growing worse, misapprehended the situation. "Brave Boy!" she rejoined, "that's what they all say."

The attention of intending exhibitors in the vegetable classes at the A. and P. Show on February 27 is particularly directed to the entrance fees. In the Schedule, through a typographical error, the entrance fees are stated to be 2/6 and 4s. This should have been Is and 1/fi.

There is no reason why your furniture should be the duplicate of any other. Individuality in furniture is just as much yours as individuality in dress. If you desire to have any piece of furniture made to your design communicate with the Scoullar Co., Ltd., Lambton Quay, Wellington, and quotations will be furnished you.

Mr. W. Ogle, of Bell Block, has a cow in his milking herd that must surely take some beating as a milker, considering that she is not specially bred,'nor specially fed, being a Jersey Shorthorn cross treated no differently from the rest of the herd (states the Taranaki News). The cow, an aged one, completed twelve months' continuous milking on January 24, during which time she yielded 4 tons 10 cwt 231 b of milk, producing 4731 b of butter fat, and she is still giving 201 b of milk daily with a 4.9 test.

At the To Kuiti Magistrate's Court on Thursday, John Boyd, of Mangapeehi, Charles Kron, of Tc Kuiti, and J. C. Guy, described as of Auckland, convicted of breaches of the licensing law, before Mr, E. Eawson, S.M., and wore each fined £SO. Senior-Sergeant Eccles stated that Boyd had been selling whisky at Mangapeehi, and Kron at To Kuiti. In consequence of information received from Auclcland PoliceConstable Kennedy joined the Main Trunk express at Te Kuiti on Wednesday night and found Guy in possession of SO bottles of whisky.

A sad accident occurred at Paten, on Friday, by which Joyce Hemingway, third daughter of Mr. E # F. Hemingway (proprietor of the Patea Press) lost her life. It appears thar. the deceased, in company with other girls, was bathing in the Patea river, when she and another girl get out of their depth, and as the tide was Tuning out fast, they were swept away. Joyce Hemingway's companion was rescued, but the former was not seen again. The deceased was 13 years of age. Her body has not yet been recovered.

Evidently. Canada will not stand any nonsense with so : called "naturalised aliens." A recent message from Ottawa stated that D. E. L. Hanselman, a German-Canadian, of Ontario, who works as a doctor by day and a munition worker by night, was arrested by the police on a charge of treason. It is alleged that Hanselman, who is of German descent, although born in Canada, plugged shells so that they would explode when put in the gun. The method is said to be to bore holes in a finished shell with a drill, and ' then plug with explosives, thus causing a premature explosion—the object being to kill the gun crew.

A number of inquiries concerning the pay oilmen in the Main Body who had returned to New Zealand for business or family reasons, was considered at a recent meeting of the Executive. It was felt that since the holiday for the Main Body men had been cancelled, it was desirable that leave to return to New Zealand should be as generous as possible. It was also pointed out ; that those able to secure "leave on these conditions were relatively fortunate compared with the men still on active service. The Executive therefore decided not to take any further steps.

The Defence Expenditure Commission continued its enquiry at Auckland yesterday. The evidence was purely formal, and rather uninteresting. Evidence as to the wastage of food at Featherston camp by Q.M.S. Black, who said that under the present system there was a great wastage of food. This, he held, could be overcome if a big restaurant were established for feeding the men In place of the systm now in vogue. The food, he said, was unquestionably good, and there was plenty of it, but although" the men were paraded for mess, there was always a tendency to make* a scramble for tit-bits, with the result that some of the men simply went away and purchased a mea! somewhere else.

Another instance ol the inexplicable ways of-the official mind, which, in the midst of an acute food shortage, forbids the sailor to bring home food to his own family, is disclosed in a letter to a Dunedin resident from a marine engineer belonging to England, who says: "Just a few lines to say I have had to stay at home this vojyage owing to the very serious nines of my wife, and I am writing to let you know that the Food Controller would not allow me to land your box of tinned meats. The sailed yesterday, and the box is safely in charge of the chief steward. I want you to go down and get it when the ship comes to Dunedin. I had a bug of sugar on boar for myself and that has also come back in the ship.".