LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 26 June 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Awarua Gun. Club will hold its second shoot for the McLennan Cup on. Beban's Hill, on next Thursday, June 27th, at 1.30 p.m.

The sum. of £-500 has been raised in Raetihi and district towards the establishment of a hospital in that township. More money is still to come. The Wanganui Hospital and Charitable 'Aid Board are to be informed of the result of the canvass, and it will be interesting to see what it will do about it.

The High Commissioner's weekly cablegram concerning the London produce markets is to be discontinued, as the Imperial Government controls the prices of produce, and there are no variations, except when the authorities fix a new seal*.

"I regret to say there is a very poor outlook for the teaching profession," said the Hon. J. A Hanan. Minister for Education at PaTßierston North. "It is going to be a dying profession unless something is done to induce boys and girls to join. We will not attain to that position among the nations to which we aspire until we make education our leading industry."

German gas played the major part in the German advance to the Marne. According to reports received by the American War Council, the Germans developed the use of gas to the highest point yet attained. They plastered the back areas to a distance of nine miles with mustard oil shell's, forcing a retirement.

A reminder isg iven to the ladies of Taihape of the meeting in the Fire Brigade Hall this evening at 8 o'clock to make arrangements for providing the supepr for the Returned SoldiersPlain and Fancy Dress Ball, which is to be held next Wednesday. In this r particular sphere the ladies can be of very real assistance to The boys who have returned. .

On acocunt of the Winter Show being held on Wednesday and Thursday, the Fire Brigade's euchre tournament will be held on Friday night.

According to the Gazette de Lausanne, the people in Alsace-Lorraine have been instructed to bury their dead in paper clothes, "the dead having no right to wear clothes."

A resident of Feilding, who has an alien name, in advertising his intention to change his cognomen, says he does so "following the example set by His Majesty the King."

After having served in the printing office of the New Zealand Herald and Weekly News for nearly 54 years, Mr Michael Connolly, for the last 35 years printer of the Wekly News, retired a few days ago from active work

An important meeting of the Taihape Branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union will be held in the offices of the New Zealand Farmers' Distributing Co., Taihape, on Wednesday (Sale Day) 3rd July," at 11 o'clock

Sir James Allen stated yestkrd<s.y morning that, though the shipping position is still unsatisfactory, Mr. Massey hoped to be able to give the Dominion better news by the end of the week

The final rubber in the cribbage torunament between the Returned Soldiers and the Fire Brigade was played last night, and resulted in a win for the Brigade by 15 to 10. There is a probability of a further tournament heing arranged.

"You can't tell a man is married by looking at him," said Mr D. McLaren (a member of the First Wellington Military Service Board) to a reservist, who asked on Wednesday to be transferred to Class C of the Second Division, but had not brought the necessary marriage and birth certificates with him

Messrs Collinson and Gifford, of "The Big Value House," Taihape,, are holding a colossal winter _ sale, which commences on Friday nexi;. , ,Thiß firm is noted f or the sterling values to be obtained at their sales,,and it Is their intention to break all previous records. As there, is bound, to be a rush for the undoubted bargains that will be offered it is advisable to shop early in order to avoid disappointment.

Mr Henry Ford, is having his troubles, like other people, in spite of his wealth. He has just lost a big lawsuit brought by the Dodge Brothers; his son, who had been trained to take over his father's responsibilities in the Ford Motor, Co., has been been "called up" and refused exemption by a local tribunal; and recently he received a letter from the "Sicilian Anarchists' Association" threatening to kill or abduct his baby grandson, the child of Edsel Ford, unless pay 10,000 dollars! ' ■'■ .

A soldier recently returned from active service on alighting from a train at Lyttelton the other day .happened to glance up at one of the arc lamps which are placed at intervals above the station platform, and was astonished to see upon the white enamelled surface of the lamp-shade, in. bold, black letters, the words: "Bayern, reg. trade mark; made" in Germany." Upon further examination he discovered that the other lamp-shades also bore mute testimony to the fact that they had been manufactured in Germany. ~~

Theer was no need this morning to : tell residents in the vicinity of the Town Hall that the Winter Show was about due. At 4 o 'cloelc all the male members of the poultry pens set up a tremendous barTage, every rooster in the hall apparently doing his best to outdo his neighbour. There was the treble note of the bantam down to tho diapason of the Wyandotte, with all gradation of tones between. The chorus was taken up by all the garden variety of roosters in the vicinity, and needless to say there were some early risers among the residents in the neighbourhood. The barrage died down at 7.30.

Wellington tradesmen testify to the change which has come over the financial aspect of trade as between London and the Dominions overseas during the past year. Formerly any wellestaJblished house could secure goods on long credit, always, six, and sometimes as long as eight or nine months. But the shortage of many lines has altered all that. Nowadays, if a London buyer wished to secure a line of goods known to be in short supply he was forced to pay cash. The manufacturer, fully aware of the shortage and consequent absence of competition, could with impunity ask cash for j his goods, as he was aware that if one I buyer refused to pay cash "promptly there were plenty of others ready with the cash.