LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 12 August 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is notified in Trentham Camp orders that the Trentham Hotel is placed out of bounds for all soldiers.

In India, the average duration of life of the natives is 24 years as against 44 in England.

American soldiers, arc fighting without liquor, which is banned as far as they were concerned right from the camp to the firing line.

According to a cablegram, in addition to General von Planitz, two majorgenerals and sixteen high officers have ben retired as a punishment for the Marne defeat.

As showing the severity of the recent frosts in the Nelson district, one of the ponds in the public gardens has been frozen for three or four days. So far as can bo gathered this is the first time such a thing has happened.

An 18-ycar-old wife, who applied to tho Tottenham (London) magistrate for a summons againsct hex’ husband, for persistent cruelty, said that she earned £7 a week at a munition factory, and had earned £9 a week.

Women who have served on any of the war fronts, either in hospital or in any other units, have the right to ■«ear blue chevrons, in order that tho public may know they have served in overseas forces during the war.

Mr W. D. iLysnar ,of Gisborne, put a request to the Hon. D. H. Guthrie that the Government should have an inquiry made into the cost of woollen and leather goods in New Zealand. Farmers, he received an average 1/2| per lb for wool, but manu. factored skeins were being sold here at 9/6 to 25/ per pound. Hides had not gone up more than 2d per lb on pre-war rates, but men’s boots were anything from 10/ to 20/ a pair extra. Sir James Wilson remarked that ladles who knitted socks for soldiers had informed him that the wool for one pair cost 5/. , The Minister said that these statements would be referred to the Board of Trade for investigation.

A smart boy is wanted for the drapery business by Messrs, Collinson and

Gifford.

A lady’s brown leather bag, lost between the Town Hall and Winiata on Saturday night, is advertised for.

Wo would draw the attention of our readers to the social and dance to be held in the Three Stars to-morrow night.

The heavy frosts experienced on Sunday and this morning were answerable for a number of watcrpipcs bursting in the borough.

Dr. Barnett, late of Taihape, has been transferred to England from France. He expects to return to Now Zealand in September.

All repairs to motor cars and cycles, formerly done at Nicholl’s Garage, next to the King’s Picture Theatre, are being executed at the new premises in the Rink Garage, Tui Street.

Carpenters, plumbers, and bricklayers have written to this office asking of there is any w*ork in their particular- trades in Taihape or neighbourhood.

Owing to pressure on our space through an extra large budget of cable news we have been compelled to hold over several interesting articles.

'A cribbage match takes place tonight in the Fire Brigade Hall—Brigade v. Town. A. keen game may be anticipated, as both teams are confident of their ability to wallop the other.

A cable message received oa Saturday states travellers from. Petrograd state that an incredible terror reigns in Russia. The B'olsheviks have been arresting all suspects, including a thousand officers. During the last few days several hundred were killed. Famine and cholera are claiming masses of victims daily.

{ A serious accident; occurred at Ahu Ahu, up the .Wanganui river, on Fri-! day. A young, man, 'Gordon Randall, a returned soldier, was using a rifla as a walking stick, when it discharged, the bullet entering below the jaw and lodging at the back of the eye. • The accident occurred in rough country, and it took ten hours to got the wounded man to the riverside, a launch bringing him to town. He was taken to the hospital in a very low condition.

An old man living in Otago, who suffered from typhoid mere than 35 years ago, has been proved recently to be an innocent “carrier” and is now in strict isolation. No fewer than four epidemics have been proved to have had their source in him. To all appearances this man is perfectly healthy, and he does not suffer in any way. By bacteriological evidence, however, he is shown to be a “carrier” of typhoid, and it has been communicated from him in the course of his duties in the preparation ,of; food iIV .

' An interesting—and true—fOm'ancc of the war. 'About 20 years ago'W son Was born to a Jewish Rumanian couple living in England; a year later they returned to Rumania. When war broke out (says the Daily News), the boy remembered that he was English born, and expressed his determination to fight for England. He had to overcome all sorts of difficulties and incidentally to walk for three months through Russia, but he joined up in the endj His name—as Gunner Poliak — has just appeared in one of the recent lists as killed.

Had a paying teller in a Melbourne bank not noticed a slight inaccuracy in a mark on a cheque, a forger would have defrauded the bank of nearly £BO A few days ago a man opened an account by paying in a small sum. Later he presented a cheque for £B. The ledger-keeper placed a mark on it and handed it back to the drawer. This man passed the cheque on to the paying teller, who saAV that an alteration had been made after the ledger-keeper, had handled it. The eight had been changd into 80, and a “y” added to the wor “eight, ” The man did not wait to be questioned, and left the banking chamber hurriedly.

In the high country at the Otago Lakes there is every chance of serious losses of sheep (says the Tapanui Courier). Mr. Geo. Edie, of Glencoe Station, Arrowtown, was in Tapanui last week, and states that there the snow was a great depth. On the low country there was over 2ft of snow and up to date it had not been possible to visit the outlying ground. In one instance it was necessary to make a journey of over 100 miles by a roundabout route to accomplish a distance of 20 miles. At Glencoe fowls were frozen on the roosts, and their necks could be broken like dry sticks. At Queenstown the frost was responsible for much damage to the water pipes and taps. A good idea of the cold can be gauged by the fact that housewives found the breakfast eggs frozen, to say nothing of milk, meat, etc., while it has been a common thing to find vases and water jugs split with the frosts. Likewise, business men arrived at their offices to discover the ink frozen hard in the wells.