LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 April 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual general meeting of the Taihape District Patriotic Societywill he held on Monday evening.

About 60 chains of wire-fencing is advertised to let by contract —labour only—by Mr. J. c. Collins, Taoroa.

The owner of a leather purse can recover possession by. describing coptents and paying cost pf avdertisement, 1

It was stated in the Thames (London) Police Court recently that an alien boot repairer refused a situation at £6 a week, on the ground that the money was not enough.

A well known ship which was torpedoed in the English Channel recently had a remarkable The torpedo struck the forepart of the vessel. tearing a rent of' 35 feet by 25 feet. The vessel steamed 50 miles to port stern first, the journey taking 15 hours and was safely beached. Most of ivho cargo which was a very valuable one r was. salved. Some of it was damaged.

Benchmen are advertised for by the Taringamutu Totara Sawmililng Company. Free house and school is pro- , idea at the mills.

The owner of half share in a Taihape restaurant, owing to having to attend to more pressing business in another part cf the Dominion, wishes to. sell. The business is said to be a very profitable one.

Tho Second Auckland Military Service Appeal Board sitting at Hamilton received an urgent telegram from tho Defence Department stating that they must get as many men into camp as posible at the earliest date.

The annual meeting of householders for the election of a school committee for the Taihape District High School and Technical School will be held in the schoolroom at 8 o’clock on Monday evening.

In the last casualty list, which contains the names of 85 killed and 87 wounded, appears the names of Private L. C. Richardson. Ohakuhe, killed in action on April 12, and Private E. B. O’Rourke, Ohakune, wounded on March 30.

Since the British set-back in France teh rush of miners to the Cardiff recruiting offices is so great that t. 1 staffs—working night and day—are uanble to cope with it, and have appealed for more clerical assistance to the recruiting officers.

Thursday, 25th lust., is to be observed as 'Anzac Day in Taihape. In another column the Mayor (Mr. A. L. Arrowsmith) notifies, in accordance with the request of the Government/ that a memorial service will be held in the Town Tall at 3 p.m., and he in. vites every one in the community to be present, and to take part.

Heri Tatihana, a single man, working as a bushman, aged about 36, employed at Mr. W. R. Pass’s mill, near Taumarunui, was jacking along a log from skids on to a truck, about 10.30 o’clock on Friday morning, when the end of the log caught the unfortunate man, and broke bis back, death being instantaneous.

Mr. and Mrs. of The Terfaec, Taihape, received- a .cable yesterday stating: that-their. son. Rifleman T, Reardon, /had been wounded oh April 4.and admintted to hospital in France. He is the second son of this family who has been wounded. Another brother is : aTso on active service in Egypt.

No wonder the Prince of Wales is popular with the Tommies. Some time ago, on the Western front, an officer who chanced to meet him just behind the trenches, ventured to suggest that the. German guns had got the range, and that his Royal Highnes should take cover,The Prince only replied that if, he was in danger there were “others at home 7 ’ w"SS could replace him. , r

Members of the Taihape branch of the Ni Z. Farmers’ Union are notifies that the annual general meeting of members wil be held in the secretary’s office, at Taihape, on Wednesday, the 25th lust., at 11 a.m. in the forenoon. All members are urged to be present. A meeting of the committee will be held half an hour before the general meeting, to conduct important routine business.

There is an echo of the Dublin rebellion of Eastertide, 1916, in the report that Captain 1 Bowen-Colthurst has been liberated from Broadmoor and taken to a private hospital for nerve cases. A court-martial in June, 1916, found that officer guilty of the wilful murder of Messrs Sheehy-Skeffington, Patrick Mclntyre, and Thomas Dickson, at Portobello Barracks, Dublin, on April 26, but declared that he was insane at the time.

The Taihape members of the Returned Soldiers’ Association infend holding a social and dance in the Town Hall on Friday. May 3. A splendid evening’s amusement is being arranged. The value bf these functions must be apparent to everyone, as it enables returned men to Seep in touch with one another, and meet their friends in a convivial spirit. We hope the social will, be an unqualified success. Tickets may be obtained from locfll tobacconists and members of the committee. A meeting of Taihape/bandsman is called by the secretary, to take place in the band-room on Monday evening, at 8 o’clock. The purpose of the meeting is to arrange for the band to pay its tribute to the memory of the world-famed, gallant Anzacs, whose storming of the Gallipoli will be "remembered so long as the history of warfare continues. If bandsmen cannot fight they can at least encourage and appreciate the efforts of those who do. A large gathering is re quested.