LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 5 July 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There was a light fall of snow at Huntly about 11 o'clock yesterday

morning.

Snow has fallen around Mauriceville and Carterton says the Wairarapa Times.)

According to the London correspondent of the Australasian, there are now 50,000 military nurses serving with the British armies

A tragedy was reported from Waverley on Sunday, a man named O'Reilly, who was recently called Up for military service and classed C2, being found with his throat cut.

"Should a girl marry a man she does not love?" This question and the results of a loveless marriage are answered by Mme. Petrova In her.first Paramount picture, "The'Lrw of the Land" at the Town Hall to-morrow.

The value of boy labour on farms is not held in very high estimation by at least one Marlborough landowner Speaking a. day or two ago on this subject, he remarked: "If you have one boy, you'll get a boy's work; if you have two (boys, you'll get half a boy's work; if you h ave t]iree hoySf you'll get no work at all!"

Cables from Zurich to the American State Department report that the food

situation in Germany is bver-shadow-in* the anxiety caused by the Austrian crisis. In many localities they are reduced only to potatoes.

Messrs. McLaughlan Bros, have a new advertisement in to-day's issue pointing out the advantage of participating in their cash trading scheme. The undoubted savings to be made by so doing are made apparent by a comparison of their cash prices.

Mr W .Spence, notifies in another column the holding of a great sale of millinery, ladies' coats-, and costumes, This is an emphatic clearance in those lines, at prices which cannot be repeated. Our readers' attention is directed to the notification.

It is reported /says tho Grey River Argus) that the £SOO reward offered in connection with the apprehension of Eggers will in all probability he paid over to Thomas Murray, road and bridge contractor, who is supposed to have given to the police the first information that led to Egger's arrest.

'lf the war continues," remarked Bishop Sprott at the Anglican Synod, Wellington, "we shall have further temporary vacanies Th the staff of clery, as, of course, the supply of chaplains to the new reinforcements must bo maintained, and also, alas! the places of those who may bo permanently disabled for active service supplied.' '

"Rings of all kinds," is the caption of a special advertisement by Mr Howens, jeweller, Tailiape, which appears on page six of to-day's issue, to which we direct the attention of those who require rings with reliable stones. Quite a special feature of Mr Howens' business is his repair, department,, which is under his personal supervisor and all work undertaken by him is guaranteed.

America is now producing superTanks which are said to be able to withstand the fire of small artillery and to be equipped with engines of three times the power of the British and French They are to carry a erew of 20 men, • will be able to span 10ft. trenches, are armed with small field guns as well as machineguns, and have a speed which :is rather faster than our machines. ' :

An election petition has been filed with the returning officer in the district of Grey against the return of Mr. Holland. Various grounds are alleged, the principal being large number of persons voteH who did not reside in the Grey district over six monlhs previous to the election. If this allegation is proved, it is within the power of the Electoral Court to declare the petitioner, Mr. T. Coates, elected member for Gry, and there is no need for a fresh election.

Something of the appalling power of submarine mines similar "to those laid by the raider Wolff off the shores of New Zealand was demonstrated at Bridlington, England, recently, when a mine which was washed up by the sea. exploded, against a wall onThe esplanade. As a result of the expio-. sion houses along the sea front were partially wrecked and hundreds of windows shattered. A number of people were cut and bruised, but no one was seriously hurt. Whole terraces of houses near the sea front had their windows blown out, ceilings brought down and doors smashed. One hotel had not a single window left whole. The force of the explosion threw sea water over the housetops in the promenade 300 yards away. People who witnessed the Scarborough bombardment state that the damage at Bridlington seems to ! be greater than that wrought on the sea front at Scarborough. There is not glass enough in the town to replace one-Fenth of that which has been destroyed.