LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 2 May 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In order to conserve, its paper supply the Christchuroh Sun is issuing no more Saturday sports editions.

The last ballot' hit Woodville hard, as it caught the' 'Mayor, the Town Cleric, a bank official/ a solicitor, and other prominent men."'' ''

The Canterbury Coii'Cg-s '. Board of Governors has'adopted the. recommendations of the Professorial Board that no defaulter underjthe Military Service Act shall be allowed to attend lectures at the college and that in the event of any. student becoming a defaulter his name be posted on the main notice board at the college.

When a lad of, 16 years of. age was charged at, Sputhport,; (England) with stealing £320 .and some jewellery belonging to his mother, it,., was stated that.when arrested at a house in which ho had taken apartments for, a firtnight, he had in his posessipn £317 including £3OO in gold. He was placed on probation for two years.

Taihape picture patrons have a treat in store* on Saturday next, as 'thd proprietor of the King's Theatre has secured the picturisation of Hall Caino's masterpiece "The Manxman," Competent authorities state the novel has lost nothing by being translated into screen form, and that it is the most intensely interesting drama ever projected on the screen.

Major C .J Hamilton, of Gisbornc, was one of the Imperial Mounted Escort to the King at the opening of the British Parliament in February. The whole of the escort, with the exception of the bodyguard, which is drawn from the Life Guards, was composed of overseas troops. The New Zealanders in particular received a very fine reception.

"My wife went out and left the baby. On a particular occasion, hearing a scream, I went from the factory where I was working at the time, into the residential portion of the premises, and found that the pillow, on which the baby had been placed near the fire was in flames." So said a defendant when under cross-examination at the Magistrate's Court, in Welllingtoe. "My wife was always 'boss,' and sacked the girls I engaged to work for me in my factory. On account of my wlfo leaving the child without food, I fed the infant On oranges."

At the present moment (said Sir Joseph Ward) we require to make provision for a further £4,000,000 for war expenditure in England, and by the course he was following the finance of this Dominion at tire other end of the world was being greatly assisted and the country itself was being kept financially strong. We were getting Imperial stock for our investment. which was available for lodging as first-class security if our necessities should at any time require it. At the end of the war, when rc-adjustrnonts of finance took place, the whole of the investments we are making would be a great asset for the Dominion.

The usual weekly false alarm was sung but by the firebells last, night at 11.30. The Fire B'rigade turned out in force, but owing to inconvenience of the hour the attendance of the general public was only moderate. The winner.of the motor car in the Final Battle- Art Union is Mr F. J. Oakley. The fourth prize (a section valued at £200), was won by Miss Bonnie Innes, who has generously handed her prize back to the Patriotic Society to be sold for the benefit of the Sick and Wounded Fund.

The Military Service. "Registration Branch, Wellington, has requested this journal to state that Henri Albert Osmond Durand, of Taihape, whose name appeared in the recent military ballot, had previously volunteered for service with Expeditionary Force, but was rejected as medically unfit.

The Church Army must have suffered severely by the late German offensive, as it had 220 huts very near or in the firing line, all under shellfire. Of the New Zealand Huts those named "Wellington" and "Waipukurau" were particularly prominent. The local appeal of the Church of England Military Affairs Committee for funds, therefore, receives further urgency by recent events. The £50,000 sought in New Zealand will be used for the support of work done in the Anglican Institutes in the Dominion, for the new Institute for Convalescents at Eotorua, for Church Army Huts, among" the New Zealanders in England and at the front, or for any branch of the work for which donors indicate.