LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 22 June 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The President of the British Board of Trade reports that the number of 'boxes >of 'matchtes teleaselji for )ihe London area is 4,000,000 per week and for Scotland 2,240,000.

The Wairarapa Freezing Works have practically completed opefaation& for the present season. The quantity of stock slaughtered has been considerably greater, than that of last year. A good deal of the lower grade meat has been canned.

At the meeting of the Borough Council last night Cr. Healey was In a pessimistic mood. Speaking of the cost of living he said board and lodging now was 27/6 per week, and if food and other commodities continued to rise the tariff would be 30s, or even £2 per week.

In desiring to make a present to a friend one is often faced with the difficulty ( of finding something suitable and satisfactory. This difficulty has been surmounted by Mr. H. D. Bond, jeweller, who has an announcement ever leader which will make the selection an easy .natter.

Chicago is to have a shipyard that will turn 45 steel ships, 3500 tons each, for the United States and her allies every year, and other to build 2000 concrete vessels of 2200 tons each. The steel ships will be built by the Chicago Marine Corporation, and the concrete ships by the Foundation Company, one of the largest engineering and contracting concerns in the country, employing 27,000 men.

The dead body of a woman was found yesferday morning washed up under the cliffs near Sumner. Search made resulted in the finding of clothes at the top of the cliffs, where the woman had partly undressed, and had evidently taken a leap of 300 feet, falling on the rocks below. She is believed to be Mrs J. Or. Taylor, aged 44, who left her home at Prebbleton on Tuesday morning to visit a sister in Christchurch.

On Wednesday afternoon a meeting was held at the residence of Mrs. Collins, TaoToa, when a branch of the AVomeC;s Christian Tempter ancc Union was formed, officers being elected as follows: President, Mrs. D. G. Gordon; secretary, Mrs. Collins; treasurer, Mrs Dixon. On Thursday several ladies gathered at Mrs Piatt's Pukeokawa and a branch was organised, Mrs. A. K. Overton, being elected president, Mrs E. Gilbert secretary, and Mrs Piatt trasurer.

Collinson and Cunnlnghame, or Palmerston advertise their mid-winter sale on Thursday, 27. Showroom bargains will be worth while, but reductions elsewhere also make buying advisable. Prices are rising. See page 8.

Mothers attending the A. and P. Show next Wednesday and Thursday are advised that the Plunket Nurse will be at her rooms in the Town Hall —where the show is being held —for their convenience, and where they can obtain hot water any time during both days.

The inclement interfered somewhat with the attendance at St. Margaret's Guild euchre party last night, nevertheless there were twenty-six tables occupied and an enjoyable evening was spent. The ladies' prize was won by Miss Spooner and Mr. McNab securecr the gentleman's prize.

Several South German newspapers raise a cry of alarm over the increase of bigamy in Germany during 1917. They say the many acquittals and the lenient sentences imposed indicate that the authorities are condoning the offence. Among the excuses pleaded by the men accused are loss of memory because of shell shock. Some have gone so far as to declare boldly for the nation's future. A corporal told a Munich court that he got married every time he obtained leave from the trenches, land he believed ho had five wives. Eleven cases were tried in Berlin, seven in Cologne, and five in Munich last December. The deceived woman usually are not willing to prosecute