LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 April 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Splendid clean surface sowing grass seed is offered by Boyd's Seed Agency Dunedin; at from, fivepence to ninepence a pound. A Masterton soldier, writing to his parents says: If yon send me parcels, don't forget to send tea, They are the things most missed. A pound of tea now and again would be invaluable. The annual general meeting of the Pirates' Football Club will be held in the Fire Brigade .Hall this evening, at 7.30/ All interested in football are invited to attend.

A welcome social to two returned Maori soldiers will take place at the Three Stars Theatre this evening. All arrangements are now complete, and a very enjoyable, evening is anticipated. Further particulars are advertised.

A returned soldier advertises for his military pay book, which he lost in Taihapc yesterday.

At the King Theatre there will be special orchestral music, by a full orchestra every "evening this week.

Mr. Matthew Byrne notifies that he is applying to the Upper Wangachu Road Board for a slaughtering license,, for premises at Turangarere.

Robinson Crusoe is to bo screened at the Town Hall to-morrow, Thursday night, and so that all school children may see this popular story picture. Matinee will be held to-mor-row afternoon at 3.30. ,

Ten thousand ordinary pint bottles to hold lemonade and other cordials are advertised for by Mr .J .H. Johnston, cordial factory, Tui Street. One shilling per dozen will be paid on delivery.

The takings at the Red Cross Shop for the month of March constituted a record, no less than £386 18s lOd being received. Bennett's Siding on March 23 brought in £SO ss. Pukeokahu on the 27th netted £ll2. Information has been received by the Minister for Marine (the Hon. T. M. Wilford) that the whole of the 'crew of the (steamer Wairuna, which was sunk by the German raider Wolf, have been saved. According to a contemporary, if half the 40,000 car owners in New Zealand each travel but five miles a day for pleasure, we thus burn a quarter of a million cases of benzine annually. O n Saturday next the Taihapo Women's Working Club's Shop will be in charge of the staff of the Taihape Post Office. Anyone -willing to assist is registered 'to communicate , with Misses Parkes and Shute at the 'Telephone Exchange,

At the Maori welcome to two returned soldiers at the Three Stars to-night both tho Maori soldiers to be honoured will give speeches detailing to some extent their experiences in the fighting line; they will also state their opinions of the fighting from evidence as it appeared to them.

Twenty-fivo wliares, stranded at Bayley's on the West Coast, which were being cut up and boiled down for oil, were swept out to sea by a very high tide last evening, together with all the oil-boiling apparatus. One whale was washed back and deposited a quarter of a mile up the beach.

For lunch hour daily all business is suspended at Collinson and Cunnings name's, Palmerston. During the hour in question (12 to 1) luncheon and light refreshments are served in the firms tearooms upstairs entrance being by main v door, Broadway, only, See advertisement page 6.

A new advertisement appears . on page one of the issue in connection with Loader's Ladies' Halrdressing Parlour, and the Regal Specialities, for which Mr. Loader is the sole representative in Taihape. The high-famed "Regal" dainty beauty products are fully stocked by Mr. Loader.

That the sending of future reinforcements is to be accelerated is shown by the fact that the Dunedin group commander has been requested to call upon /soldiers of the 41st draft to be ready to go into camp during the week commencing April 30, and men of the 42nd draft during the week commencing May 21 This means that the 41st will come forward four weeks earlier than was originally intended, and the 42nd five weeks earlier.

Even the rat is assisting in the prefeent war. This pest is described by an English paper as the worst of all profiteers, owing to its ravages of grain /supplies. In .Frande, however, rat skins have been turned to account for many purposes after having been fanned. The leather is reported to be very soft, and flexible, and the fur, when the skins are properly preserved is stated to resemble musquash, added to which it lasts better than moleskins. One rat exterminator is stated to have killed over six million rats last y»ar.

A posse of military police, an armed guard with fixed bayonets, drawn round a carriage with /shaded windows and curiosity soon drew a crowd to investigate the matter. It was not a draft of German prisoners, as surmised (says the Palmerston Times) but a draft of /soldiers undergoing detention sentences on their way to Wanganui gaol, which has recently been converted into a military prison for this class of offender. "One dose of it will be Sufficient,'' remarked a military official, who recently inspected the place of detention. "They should be amenable to discipline in camp after a visit to Wanganui gaol—it's a ' dismal place." For Children's Hacking Cough at night, Woods' Great Pepermint Cure. 1/6, 2/5. f *y-v£iw\^ : :&y