LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 5 April 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A sharp shock of earthquake was felt at Taihape at 2 o’clock this morning. A good reward is offered for the return of a fur coat lost in Taihape, probably between Tiki Brewery and Mr. A. James’ residence . The Women’s Working Club Shop will be open to-morrow for the sale of goods to provide funds for purchasing comforts for our boys at the frbnt; Mesdames Gardner and Fookes will be ir charge. * I The Chief Postmaster states that amongst the commodities which are not allowed to be sent to oiir boys through the Post Office are butter, tea, sugar, condensed milk. etc. Full details at any post office. “If a man steals a horse or a sheep he is pretty sure to be sent to gaol if he is caught,” said a northern delegate at the Poultrymen’s Conference in Wellington, “but if he robs a hen roost the whole thing is treated as somewhat of a joke. One man in Auckland lost 200 fowls in one night.”

According to the statement of an Ashburton butcher, the public, at an early date, will be obliged to provide their own wrappers for parcels of meat. The class of paper now used by butchers for wrapping costs £7B per ton, and even then there is no guarantee of regular shipments coming to hand.

The number of Catholic chaplains now serving with his Majesty’s forces Is 618 (says a recent issue of a London paper).. At the beginning of the year the number was 440. In neither case do these figures include the Catholic chaplains attached to the Anzac and Canadian contingents. One hundred and five other priests with the British forces (inclusive of killed, invalided and resigned) have ceased to serve. About 60 are still needed to complete the establishment sanctioned by the War Office.

The War Office has fixed the pries of the British wool clip for 1918 at 60 per cent, above the average for Jun<» and July, 1914. \ A meeting of the Awarua Gun Club will be held in Mr. A. M. Eyan’s office at 8 o’clock to-morrow night. A full attendance of members is requested. At the Tui Street mart, on Saturday afternoon, Messrs Ward and Co. will sell by auction a lot of young poultry, a quantity of second-hand corrugated iron; dovor stoves, fire bricks and a collection of good and desirable furniture. They will also offer the usual fruit in season, pie melons and pickling onions. A farmer who had been settled in the Raetihi district for 30 years, who Ipst almost all he had, including all his buildings and stock, reports that the fire would not be an unmixed evil, as it would put £3 an acre on the value of his land—the burn has been so complete. When grassed again the land would carry far more stock than before the fire.