LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 17 August 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Numerous marirages are 'reported from Switzerland between British' prisoners in the internment camps and Swiss girls.

Stocks of tobacco in Auckland arc so short that the wholesale houses arc strictly conserving them by limiting tho quantities sold to customers.

Since the war began the Wellington Farmers' Meat Co., (Waingawa) has expended £150,000 in purchasing land and making additions to buildings and plant.

The total prisoners taken by the British Fourth Army since the morning of August S is now 21,844 and tho French First Army 8,050, totalling 30,344 on the Montdidicr-Albert front.

It is not often that a Chinaman seeks the protection of tho Bankruptcy Court but a almond-eyed son of the Flowery Land, bearing the euphonious name of Kwok Yop Poy, has achieved that distiction.

The camisole presented by Miss Boyne, of Palmerston North, and disposed of by Mrs. S. Peyton, was won by Miss Katie Drummond, the winning ticket being No. 8. The amount realised was £5, and this sum is being given to the Wellington Copper Trail Fund.

In a new advertisement Mr. S. Ladelle advises the people of this district to have their portraits taken in a studio where the light is under proper control, and so avoid hard, unnatural looking pictures which deteriorate with time. For the quality of his portraiture he invites patrons to inspect his show cases, at his studio entrance, next to Bennett's Ltd., in Station St.

Henry Cook, found guilty of robbing Savings Bank officials by snatching bundles of notes from the counters, was sentenced to 10 years' hard labhour. He protested his innocence. One of his exploits was the grabbing of notes to the value of £4OO from the English, Scottish, and Australian Bank on May 31. He then escaped by the aid of confederates two of whom were arrested.

To-night at the Town Hall "Everybody's Orchestra" will pro-ride the incidental music.

Following upon the alleged rupture between Turkey and Germany, it is reportod by a Wairarapa lady that her son cabled from Palestine: "Leaving for England; hostilities suspended." It is to say tlie least, curious, that the censor passed this.

The social and dance of the Old Girls' Hockey Club will bo held on Monday night in Stars, instead of on Thursday, "as originally intended. It is proposed to make this function an essentially "ladies' social.'?--There will be lady doorkeepers, lady Ms. C, and all the offices usually filled by the "mere man" will be taken by members of the gentler sex. The working of this innovation will be watched with interest.

The picture benefit kindly given by Mr. Swedlund, of the Town Hall Pictures, in aid of a soldier's widow, who has three children and is quite unable to do anything towards making a living, is meeting with most liberal support. A large number of tickets have been sold, and as the beneficiary is without furniture and almost without clothing, and as she can scarcely move about, all the money that is raised, and more, will be needed to furnish conditions that will make life bearable.