LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 28 May 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Ada Reeve Company will pay Taihape a visit, showing in the King’s Theatre on June 6th. Mails close here on Thursday, 30th May, at 6 a.m. for Australia, South Africa, The East, Pago Pago, Samoa, Honolulu. Russia can be. only one of three things—an ally, an enemy, or a neutral. If she is an enemy, Japan has every right, with the assistance of Americans, and even Chinese, to invade Russia, just as the Allies have every right to enter Belgium to drive out the Huh.—Hon. T. M. Wilford.

Professor, Lomonaco, of Rome University, after twelve years of experymenting,; announces that the treatment of tuberculosis by saccharine solutions arrests • the disease ana restores the patient’s organic force. Many . patients, including soldiers in advanced stages of the disease, are progressing favourably under this treatment.

“My experience of Dannevirke is that there is more juvenile crime in this place in proportion- to the population than in any of the big cities. I do not.know where it all comes from, but since I have been coming here—for the last 10 years—seldom a month goes by without some boys and occasionally girls, appearing before me for theft. I cannot explain it, but there it is.” These remarks were uttered by Mr. S. E. McCarthy, S.M., at a sitting of the Juvenile Court in Dannevirke, when half a dozen youths appeared before his Worship on various charges.

The principal damage done by the flood in Masterton was to the premises of the “Wairarapa Age” newspaper, Mr. J. Purchase, tobacconist; Mr. A. T. Dickson, auctioneer; Mrs. Wickens, baker; Messrs Hallenstein Bros., clothiers; Mr. H. T. Wood, chemist; Messrs Allan and Co., grocers; and Messrs Watson and Co. grocers. The total damage is probably about £; The river also broke through the stop bank protecting the public park, and inundated the park and the cemetery, where considerable damage was done. The other rivers in the district, notably the Ruamahanga and the Waingawa, overflowed and submerged the adjacent low-lying country. The loss of stock is not so heavy as was at first supposed, the settlers having been given timely warning.