LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 15 July 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A portable 10 h.p. engine in good order is advertised for sale by Mr. Seth Smith. • Ohakune.

There are 18 licensed theatres and halls, with a seating capacity of 22,253 in Wellington

Owing to a slip oh the line north of Taumarunui, the Auckland to Wellington express did not reach Taihape until 11 a.m. to-day.

Engine cleaners for the Railway Department arc advertised for, ages between 17 and 18 years Applications will be received by Locomotive Foreman, Taihape.

Father Dore, M,C, found it necessary to undergo an operation in an Auckland hospital. There is every hope the result will be satisfactory. He was a padre at Gallipoli .

As an example of war prices, the Hon. T M, Wilford reported recently that a quantity of linen, drill, and other materials which could have been bought for £I4OO four years ago, cost £3460 today.

It is estimated that the A. H, Turnbull collection of books and M.S,S, bequeathed to New Zealand is worth £50,000, Some of the books arc priceless, for they could not be replaced

"Dollar Days’ ’arc advertised by Collinson and Cunninghame, of Palmerston North. Clearing up after their sale they find so many left-overs that they have been gathered up, and are to be run out at a dollar (4/2) each on the IBlth, I9th and 20th of this month. For further particulars see page 8.

It is interesting to remember in view of the news in to-day’s paper of the death of Field-Marshal von Hindenburg, that in answering querulous compatriots who told him that by May there would be no food in Germany, he is reported .to have said:---'‘My reP ] y is that by April Ist I shall be in Paris. ’ ’

An unusual accident occurred on the "ft oolston tramway line on Monday afternoon. All the elements of a double fatality were present, but, fortunately, neither of the participants was was sitting i n the open, portion of the ear when in some’ unaccountable manner the child (between three and four years old) she was carrying fell out the car at the time going at a fairly high speed. The woman, almost immediately and while the car was still travelling at tlm same speed, got off the car to get the child. Both escaped without being hurt.