LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 22 August 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A new four-roomed house with all modern conveniences is offered cheap for quick sale.

Messrs. F. Ward and Co. will sell 300 young blue gum trees at their Saturday’s sale in the Tui Street Mart.

Mr G. J. Jones, an American odu-e-ational authority, can read a baby’s crj in four different tones. He considers it music, not noise.

It is estimated that some millions of pounds worth of motor cars, motor truck, and motor cycles are now laid up in England owing to no petrol being available.

A small parcel of carraway seeds which could have been purchased before the war for 4s, was sold in Ashburton to a representative of a wholesale firm for £3 Bs.

An experiment the development of which will be watched with interest was initiated in Nelson on Friday, says the “Colonist,” when both the picture theatres were filled with audiences of children from all the city schools to witness programmes specially selected and censored for their behoof. The innovation was entirely successful.

The American people are being instructed by their Government of the need for economising cotton by the following statistics: A 12-gun disposes of half a bale of cotton with every shot fired. A machine gun in operation will use up a bale in three months. In a naval battle, like the one of Jutland, from five to six thousand pounds a minute are consumed by each active warship. It takes more than 20,000 bales a year to provide absorbent cotton to staunch and bind the wounds of the injured. One change of apparel in the war represents more than a million bales. The U.S.A. is nowturning a million bales a year into explosives alone.

Shute’s Taihane Labour Exchange is advertising for various sawmill hands, and top wages are offered.

Mr Joseph Sinift, convicted of striking a boy, was sentenced at Salina, Kansas, to pay £1 and to attend- church for ten consecutive Sundays.

In 18 months the Wellington Farmer’s Meat Co., have only been able to ship 230 casks of tallow out of 14,000 casks in stock, owing to the shipping shortage.

Paid i d a day when the war began, then 2td, and afterwards lOd, the French poilu will now receive half-a-crown. Of this amount, 5d will go direct to the soldier and 2s Id to his savings bank.

An English war correspondent, writing of the French Premier, says: — In M. Clemenceau we hero in Paris have ‘ a priceless battle barometer. Every other day France’s grand old man is off to the front, and when he returns one glance at the grizzled face and the jaunty cock of his hat tolls us all w© want to known

The Church of England Military Affairs Committee have just cabled home th© sum of £4,400 for Church Army War work, including the erection of eight new huts at the battlefronts, viz:—“Manawatu,” “Eltham County,” “Te Aroha-Piako,” Taranaki,” “Auckland No. 1,” ‘ ‘ Wairarapa,” “Wanganui Jockey Club,” and ‘ ‘ Levin’ ’ Church Army Huts.

In April, 1917, the Jews of Jaffa wmnt into exile to escape the Turk (says the Express.) With them they carried the sacred Scrolls of the Lawn The exiles have now 7 returned, and. with impressive ceremony, the sacred Scrolls have been restored to their places. It is still true that men of all races recognise that wdicrc the British flag flies there they may be sure of justice and may worship according to their own faiths.

The following ancedote aboiUt the late Father Dore is related by an Auckland, soldier, who served on Gallipoli, in a letter to his mother:—On on© occasion, w r hen most of the Nevr Zealand officers at a certain point had been put out of action, Father Dore, who w r as standing close by, picked up one of the rifles and went into action and fought fearlessly Some days afterwards one of the men said to him: “Father, wdxy don’t you remain in the ranks and lead us?” “No,” Father Dore replied:,, “I cannot,, m3 7 blood was up then, and I was an Irishman, but now r I am a priest.”

The unemployment among returned soldiers in Auckland was further demonstrated on Wednesday morning when in response to a telephone call, a “Star” representative visited a well-known house in the city. This firm had advertised for a man, a returned soldier, or a man over military age. There was a crowd outside, numbering over 30 men, including 16 returned soldiers, and it was stated that the position had been filled. One man stated that he had been out of work for many weeks, while another said that he had come to Auckland from the country having been told that there was plenty of work in the city.

Describing the - attention given to the wounded an* JEVantfe, 'Chaplain Bladin, who has just returned states: Hero there were 10 hospitals, with 30,000 patients, and he could tell countless tales of bravery and suffering ho had seen. The Ncav Zealanders were the envy and admiration of everybody at the front. The Padres made it their business to visit every man in this area every week. As there were only three Padres this was a huge work. They sent cables home for the boys, and comforted the relatives. The boys badly wounded always said to him, “Now, don’t let them think I’m badly hit. TMothcr will only worry.’ ’

It is -well known how dearly an Irishman loves a fight, and ho must have been delighted at a little fracas which occurred at Dungarvan, in Ireland. Pat Whelan, a commandant of volunteers was up before the Court for illegally drilling volunters. The Town Clerk, who was to act officially in Court, refused to take off his hat, which was forcibly removed, amidst much cheering. The magistrate ordered the public to leave the court, which all the Paddies and Micks present decided they wouldn’t do, and challenged the authorities to put them. out. Whereupon the police made a baton charge, several broken heads being the result and once outside the fun became fast and furious. The crowd attacked the courthouse with sticks and stones, which broke all the windows and generally raised Cain, several persons being injured. The magistrates took refuge in their room until order was restored, and the crowd dispersed to count their broken heads and attend to their other Avounds. Altogether it was a “broth of a day.’’

'A bed-sitting room, close to centre of town, is advertised to let. Messrs Bennett, Ltd., are featuring in their new advertisement to-day their stock of high-grade footwear, in a large variety of styles. A very' interesting study in physiognomy will be screened at the King’s to-night in a picture showing the faces of people eminent in different walks of Ufa. A team of footballers left this morning to try conclusions with Raetihi. a team from the Huia Ladies’ Hockey Club also left by the same train for the same destination. At the meeting of the Wanganui Education Board yesterday, the resignation was received of M. A. Logan acting-assistant teacher at the TJtiku School. The Education Department wrote to the Wanganui Education Board with reference to an application for grant from Moawhango, and an application on an amended scale!—for 30 instead of 40 school —is to be made. Aeroplane flights over Christchurch were made on Tuesday, by Sir James Allen, Acting-Premier, and Sir William Fraser, Minister for Public Works. This was Sir William’s first experience of flying, and he afterwards declared he had enjoyed every minute of it, Messrs White and Sons have a new advertisement in this issue giving particulars of some very special bargains being offered at their great bargain sale. Extraordinary value are offeree in ladies’ rainproof coats, and in this line and the others enumerated the prices at which they are to be sold will not be repeated in Taihape for m long time to come. Fourteen Says is the limit in which these offerings can be obtained.