LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 12 April 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The vital statistics for Taihape for the month of March were: Births 19, deaths 3, marriages 3. Strasburg has scored the world’s high price record for food, a large goose having been sold in the mar : ket there for 297 marks (nearly £ls), which was about the pre-war price of a fat ox. The Minister for Defence intends to order the first ballot for Class B of the Second Division next week. The ballotted names will be gazetted on April 23. It is not yet fixed how many will be called up.

All goods left over at the Women’s Working Club’s Shop to-morrow will be sold by auction at 4.30 p.m. The House of Representatives met at 10.30 tjiis morning, but only formal business was transacted. Wainui will have charge of the Red Cross Shop to-morrow, when a comprehensive collection of goods will be submitted for sale. A Kentish dairyman was fined £S 5s and costs recently for selling adulterated milk. His defence was that the cows were suffering from shell shock. The annual general meeting of the Taihape branch of the Pluhket Society will be held in the supper room of the Town Hali on Wednesday evening next at 8 o’clock. Messrs Fullterton-Smith, Miles and Cook, solicitors, Taihape, notify that they have a sum of £2500 for immediate investment on mortgage Tit current rates of interest. A message’ from Washington states that the United States Navy Department has plans for the construction of a long range gun, capable—-by a sub-calibre plan—of carrying a shell 105 miles.

Replying to an interjection by “tfr. G. Witty in the House of Representatives regarding the answering’ of questions, Mr. Massey stated that there was no reason why the session should not close on Friday night.

A man named Christian Dennison, with numerous aliase's and previous convictions, was charged at the Taihape Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, with being an incorrigible rogue. He was convicted and sentenced to 12 months’ hard labour in the Wellington gaol.

At Abraham and Williams’ annual cattle fair, to be held in the Taihape yards on 22nd April, there will be offered some particularly well fjred “lines of Shorthorn two and two anti ahalf year old steers. District graziers and farmers will find these cattle well worthy of attention, more so as the auctioneers strongly recommend them.

Messrs W. J. White and Sons, Taihape, well-known drapers and milliners, have a notice of special interest to ladies in another column. They are showing a special selection of ladies’ and children’s millinery at prices that must effect a quick clearance. A few prices as indications are given in the advertisement, to wihch we direct our readers’ attention.

The shop of the Taihape Womens Working Club will be in'charge of the staff of the Taihape Telephone Exchange on Saturday, and they have provided a collection of goods that should commend itself to the frugal housewife as well as the most fastidious epicure. There will be found turkeys, fowls, rabbits, lamb, mutton, vegetables, fruit, apples, etc. And for those who like their viands cold sauces and pickles have been provided. Sweets and dessert to follow have alsp been thought of, in the shape of jellies, sponges, cakes, bread, etc. To decorate the festive board nothing is more appropriate than flowers, and those have been provided in profusion. The shop will be open at 9 a.m. on Saturday, and to avoid disappointment an early call is recommended.