LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 2 March 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Entries for the Taihape Cattle Fair are advertised in this issue. "The curse of this Dominion as a result of the practice of exchanging properties is tremendous," stated the Chief Justice in Wellington.

The war bonus payable to teachers for the half-year ending March 31, is,being paid by the Wanganui Education Board with the salaries for February. The total for the district is £2OOO. A Christchurch importer named James Rogers, was fined £5 and £3 8s lid costs at the Magistrate's Court recently for a breach of the Post and Telegraph Act, in having forwarded matches through thte post.

A cable has been received by an

Auckland firm from New York, stating that all steamer sailings from that port had been suspended", and

until further notice only sailing vessels would be available.

In referring to the use of poison gas by the Germans, Captain W. Walker, in a lecture in Dunedin, said that so successfully had the British coped with this death-dealing agency that it was now considered very much a man's own fault if he got gassed."

How to furnish a home tastefully and completely, and at the same time economically is a question that causes a good deal of anxiety. How this may be obviated will bo found in a notification on another page from F. W. Somerville.

The importation of Australian flour into Zealand is prohibited from yesterday. The bakers, who use Australian flour largely throughout the Dominion, say that the result of the prohibition will be bread of very inferior quality and texture.

The Wanganui, Taihape and Karioi natives have, during the past few days, raised in Taihape by entertainments and otherwise, the sum of £l9l. Thirty pounds go to the Y.MC.A. fund and £l6l to the Lady Liverpool Fund. Details -will be published in Monday's issue. The larrikinism which occurs after the Rev_ Howard Elliott's meetings was in evidence at Gisborne last Friday. A car waiting for Mr Elliott was pelted with eggs, and a party of Protestants treated in a similar manner. Some individual heaved a brick through the front window of the -Rev. J. J. Carlisle's residence. The police were quickly on the scene of these three incidents, but the perpetrators had made off

Stories were told last week to the Victorina Premier and the Minister

for Lands to the effect that the rabbits in the Malee, near the New South Wales border were becoming such a pest that a number of settlers had been compelled to leave the district. Rabbits were devouring the crops and

wore even eating the roses and flowering shrubs around -,- the settler's houses. A poisoning week in which the farmer will be asked to join, has been arranged from March 18 to 25.

Tom Mann, in a letter supporting Lord : Leverhulme 's proposal for a uix-hour day at Homo, suggests that immediately on the close of the %-ar the workers should establish a workivcek of oO^hours- —six hours a day for five days a, week, and two Sundays for everybody.' "To advocate an eight hours' day now," says Mr. Mann, "is to be hopelessly in the rear of industrial and social requirements. My programme is five days a week, six hours a day and 20s a day for every day worked."

Guide Upson, who is quartered at the North Egmont hostelry, and who has made over a hundred ascents, describes a remarkable change on' the summit at his latest ascent on Tues day. There are now deep crevasses across the crater, and som e of them appear to be bottomless, affording a wonderful sight. Another new feature is that although the day was misty and there was but little sun, the whole crater was running with streams of water, seeming to indicate heat beneath. The recent earthquake has also disturbed the rocks.