LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 March 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

„jLn advertiser wants.to rent two furnished or unfurnished rooms.

'k " slight '"shock of' earthquake was felt at TaEEape at 1.50 this morning. izU ,:/JO'H>f.L>VM

.-, Th e-Fire 0 Brigade turned out yesterday morning- to. what proved to be a alarm.... ;..;; .. ,"'

: A reward will b'e' :; paid to the finder of a dark Wown mare having :a small white blaze down the face; by Mr. C. ft'. Kelly. '■'

'At the Victoria Racing Club's meeting on Saturday, Desert Gold won the Governor's. Plate, of 10U0 uovs., 11 miles. "Wallace Isinglass and Lingle filled second and third places respectively.

Central Otago is experiencing a persistent drought, which is causing anxiety to • pastoralists and orchardists. Intense heat day after has dried up the country which presents a terribly parched appearance.

Mr. P. Webb, member for Grey, who was due in camp last week as a balloted man, has undertaken to enter Trentham this afternoon. Whether this will end the controversy over his conscription is doubtful, as his future attitude is uncertain.

Sentences were anounced at Christchurch on Saturday on three reservists tried by court-martial for failing to attend medical examination, Edward Mortimer Murane was sentenced to two years, John Roberts to eighteen months, and Andrew Kennaway Henderson to nine months, in each case with hard labour.

"I read a letter the other day from a boy of 19 yeras who said he had just come out of the trenches after 49 hours' duty, without a wink of sleep," said Mr f A. H. Hindmafrsh, M.P., at a meeting in Wellington. "Think of that for a boy in his teens; and here we are, comfortably at home and very annoyed if a train that was wanted to take us to the races is taken off." (Applause.)

Among the men leaving for camp from New Plymouth this week were two wearing the Returned Soldiers' Association ba'dge —men who left with an earlier reinforcement and were invalided home as the result of wounds, but who have now recovered and are keen to join their comrades and "see it through." Another of the recruits was the last of seven sons to join the the colours, whilst the father of another was killed in Egpyt some months ago, says the New Plymouth papers.

Excellent value in ladies' handkerchiefs. , Plain lawn hemstitched 3d, 4d, sd/ 6d, 7d, 8d 9d and lOd each.— Collinson and Gifford, Ltd.

Mails for Australia close at Taihape at 6 a.m: on. the 14th MarchMessrs A. W. Gafuner and Co. have a new announcement in to-day's paper. • Nicholls' garage has a first-class Indian motor cycle, practically new, for sale, at a second-hand price. The timetable for the compulsory technical and continuation classes at the Taihape District High appears in another column. |

A Chinaman was fined £25 at the Police Court in Dunedin on Friday for having opium in his possession suitable for smoking.

The Mataroa residents will have charge Of the Bed Cross Shop in Taihape on Wednesday next. There will be good assortment of produce and useful articles for sale.

In the last casualty list issued by the Defence Department appear the names of Corporal C. E. Mclntyre, of Ohakune, and Private M. W. C. Claris, of Taihape, both of whom were wounded in Februar\ r .

The Committee of ladies, in connection with Taihape ."Bed Triangle Day" will meet in the Supper Room of the Town Hall, on Tuesday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. A full attendance is important^

A Maori soldier who returned from the front last week called at the Auckland Defence Office in reference to his pay. , He was greatly surprised and the officials considerably perplexed, when it was found that he had been posted as having been killed in France six months ago.

"Tlie little difficulty which has existed in Cabinet for some time has been amicably settled," said Massey to a pressman at the end of anotner Cabinet meeting on Friday night. The Premier declined to enter into details, but it is understood there will be no change in portfolios. Overlapping responsibilities have been adjusted.

So impressed was R. Sullivan, cr Ohutu, with the good work done by the Taihape Women's Working., Club, in providing contorts for our Doyjs in j the trenches, that .he has handed, vus.ia* donation ot £ 1 for this fund. He has sons in the filing line, and he has just received letters from his boys in; which they acknowledge receipt of comforts which they describe as "just the thing." T . \

In the cargo of the wrecked steamer Mariposa, according to a newk dispatch from the Pacific coast, was a shipment of 200 barrels of "salt salmon." When the accident to the steamer happened it was discovered that these barrels , instead of containing salmon, were full of bottled whisky! The camouflage was carried to the point of insuring the whisky as; salmon but no attempt has been made to collect the insurance money.. •

In concluding an article ! headed "Hollandism or Labour" in the Railway Review in reference to election tactics, "Red Light" writes: "A good many of us, sincere and ardent—but not revolutionary—supporters of the Labour movement, have become tired of the hectoring, quarrelsome policy of a very small clique who have assumed the keeping of the Labour conscience. Independence of thought and action will be stifled and the progressive movement held in one narrow groove, if this mental dictatorship is to be permitted. This kind of trouble, which puts a shattering wedge into the Labour movement in New Zealand, alienates the mofa moderate and sane followers and generally leaves Labour to be voiced by extremists ,has been also experienced in England."

A Londoneer who visited New Zealand as a purchaser of supplies for the British Government was recently arrested in Christchurch by a policeman apparently at the instance of parents of a soldier in London, for whom the stranger had been asked to cable £2O. It was found that the constable had acted in error, and he was reprimanded but not before the visitor had been imprisoned in a police cell. A Christchurch paper adds: The victim of the unfortunate episode, who is now on his way back to England, has been in the habit of keeping a open house for Now Zealanders at Home and entertaining them royally. He now declares that, considering the manner in which he was treated on his first, and and ho hopes his last visit to the Dominion, he will never entertain a New Zealander again. Poor sporting spirit that!