LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 23 May 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

"If our brave* sons cannot destroy tho'German' tyranny. I shudder for the future of fhe British working man," said Dr Machamara.

In the list of Auckland youths called up in the recent ballot list appears the name of Henry Butt, who has already given his life in battle.

"Men arc making too great a mess of the world," -said Mrs. Fawcc-tt, at the annual meeting of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies at Chelsea.

The Minister of Defence has receivpch advice, .tha.t the 3.6 th Reinforcements. 37th. .Mounted , .Rifles, and Wireless, troop.-, have..arrived.,at. a port of.call, reporting aU r well.-r, -...;■

' Ftiur hundred ministers' !! 'attending a U.S.A., conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church unanimously adopted amid cheers a resolution demanding the immediate passing of a law providing the death penalty for German :propgag"jindists and /Americans If oxguilty of treason.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, has received cable advice from the head office in London that an interim dividend at the rate of 2i per cent., on account of the year ending June 30th, next has been declared upon the 5 per cent, cumulative preference stock and ordinary stock of the company.

"My husband joined the Kcd Feds a ittle while ago," said the applicant in a separation and maintenance case at the Magistrate's Court in Wellington. "Now he wants the easiest work he can find at the highest possible wages. He is so busy educating himself with a view to becoming a member of Parliament that his wife and child are in his way, and so he told us to leave the house "

Mr. Lindley Jones, who has undertaken the saving of waste paper all over the United Kingdom .for the Paper Commission, has set up agents all over the country. The roughest kind of waste paper, rescued from dustbins, fetches 5s per cwt, and good clean newspapers and books £25 a ton In the city of London alone, £SOO was made in January from waste paper, and the estimates are £7OOO to £BOOO for 1918

"Ho said he would cut his throat and had a razor in his hand. I told it was the best thing he could do, and said I would get him another razor that was upstairs. In the meantime I advised him to go back to bed. He went .outside and presently came back and lay across the bed moaning, but he was only trying to frighten us.'' So said a witness when applying for maintenance from her husband at the Wellington Magi strate ' s Court. "I suppose you were disappointed," said counsel for the defendant, "To tell the truth, I was.disappointed," replied the wife.

Three good bushmen are wanted for sawmills at Dannevirke. Top wages and permanent work is offered. The football match which was to have been played on Saturday has been postponed till a later date owing to the Maoris being unable to get a team together. The Railway Department is inviting applications from youths between 15 and 17 years of age, for positions as cadets in the Railway Department. All information, with forms of application may be had from Mr. Mercer, stationmaster at Taihape, or from any other stationmaster.

"That banks trading in the city be approached to see if they would arrange that during Christmas, New Year and the Easter holidays banks be open for a brief period to receive sealed deposits only." This was :a resolution passed by the Council of the Central Chamber of Commerce in Wellington.

Henry Holland, the Red Fed candidate for the Grey seat, addressed a meeting of about 60 waterside workers on the Greymouth wharf, The Greymouth Star says Ijhe 'fact that only about one-fourth of the watersiders were present is accounted for by the suggestion that the majority of the members of the Union are not in sympathy with tho candidate and went back to work on the vessels in port. Others not working left the building until the meeting was over.

A Bavarian agrarian leader (Dr. Heim), addressing a farmers' league at Munich said that the cattle and other stock had been decimated and the soil exhausted. It would be selfdeception tc believe that the conditions existing before the war would ever return. The rebuilding process would taJke decades. Germany would not be able to export goods which she needed at home. Salvation' lay between free trade and compulsory State control.

The fortnightly Euchre Party in aid of St. Margaret's Church Funds will take place in the Three Stars Theatre to-morrow (Friday) evening. A considerable number of people have signified their intention of being present, in fact, it is likely to be ' the' largest gathering, yet- held. Members of the Church, both ladies and gentlemen, will realise that : that -this large attendance will create a need for better jprovision being made for supper, there-, fore it is hoped that every one j attending will bring ' along a liberal' basket and that those members of the church who cannot attend will be godd enough to send one along'. ' ,; I '■'■'"'