LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 May 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The first ..Gorman prisoners of war to arrive in the United States were the crew of the submarineUsß, sunk by an American destroyer.

According to inquiries made by the Ministry of Reconstruction, 60 per cent of British soldiers are having their pre-war jobs kept for them.

“I have known the time when no fewer than ten members of the Druids' Prdcr were in Parliament at one 'time," said Bro. R, P. Flanagan, ViceGrand Presdent, at the Excolsor Lodge of Druids’ gathering in Wellington.

Lady Rhondda, at a W.AA.C, recruiting meeting near Swansea, said that only that day she saw a man returning from France after being wounded eight times. It was not right that such men should be sent back.

A German civilian who had been interned and had been embarked for Holland, committed suicide by cutting his throat on board a Dutch steamer in Boston Deeps. He had been in England from his infancy, and protested against beong sent to Germany

The three reservists, Privates J. B McCormack, Percy Gill, and Joseph Morley, who were tried by court-mar-tial and found guilty recently for refusing to parade for medical inspection, have been sentenced to eleven months’ imprisonment.

Private advice has been received in Christchurch that Sergeant Eric Harper, who was a member of the famous All B‘.ack football team, has been killed in action in Palestine, He was a married man, about 37 years of age, and went away with a mounted reinforcement about a year ago.

The London Daily News says: The new British advance in Mesopotamia threatens the more vulnerable heel of the German 's military system. Things are not going too well for Eussia. The fact that Germany wants her prisoners in Eussia back on her own terms throws some light on the state of her man-power problem. Nor is it clear that Germany's effort to Howard " s working to her advantage. Abided to her economic anxieties, Germany has her hands pretty full.

A lost gold bangle, with name “J Maxwell” engraved thereon, is advertised for A reward is offered.

Messrs Gardner and Co. .have an announcement in another column in reference to their winter costumes, smartly styled on favourable fashion lines.

The second of the series of euchre parties in aid of St. Hafgarers Church is to be held in the Three Stars Theatre to-night. Ladies and members of the church are kindly asked not to forget to bring along a basket —not an empty one.

Big movements are imminent regarding the establishment of new industries in Australia' (says the Sydney,,Sun's’ special correspondent in London) Arrangements in connection with certain textiles have almost been completed and British manufacturers in metal, chemical and other important industries are discussing practical schemes.

Mr. Clinton Baddeley, of the local Bank of Australasia staff, and late secretary to the Taihape Swimming Club, leaves for the north by the express to-night. Mr. Baddeley enlisted some little time ago, and is taking e» holiday preparatory to entering camp at the end of this month. Mr. Baddeley has earned great popularity during his sojourn here, and his many friends wish him the best of luck.

It is estimated that we spend onethird of life in bed, at least that is the statement of competent statisticians. We are not disposed to question it any more than the statement that New Zealand blankets are among the best in the world. There is no doubt that an eiderdown quilt and N. 2. blankets make exceptional;;.' warm bed coverings, and it is just these comforts Mr. A. Spence, of Taihape, is now offering to the public at bedrock prices.

‘'There is,” stated the Chronicle, “a growing feeling in Levin that a mlore light should be thrown upon the conditions under which an ever-increasing number of conscientious objectors to military service aro employed on the Central Development Farm, at Weraroa, ” and. now those men ‘‘mostly .lacking nothing, on the physical side, have managed to escape a law that has‘spared neither ‘the last man on the farm’ giof the. ‘absolutely essential’ expert from a hundred industries.”