LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 19 September 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs W. J. White and' Sons announce that their premises will he kept open until 1 o’clock on Thursdays for the convenience of the public.

.The cold snap yesterday culminated in a flight fall of snow during the afternoon and a heavier one at night, though the snow had practically disappeared by 8 o’clock this morning. The fall was much heavier on the hills around the town and in the outlying districts.

“Imagine the Kaiser discussing with Krupp’s workmen four years ago the rights and wrongs of the war! ’’ remarked the Hon. T. Wilford in a reference to the new mood of Wilhelm. ‘ ‘He is not doing it to-day because he has learned anything, but because they have ’’

Tho Acting-Prime Minister (Sir James Allen) stated at Karori, Wellington, on Monday evening that he did not think Second Division men with three children would be balloted for before 1919. ‘‘l hope/' he added “that although several of them may have to go into camp, not one of them will have to leave New Zealand.”

A meeting of ladies 'will be held in the supper room of the Town Hall on Monday, 23rd September, at 8 p.m., to consider matters in connection with the supper arrangements for the com. ing returned soldiers’ ball. As this will probably be tho last ball of the season it is to be hoped the ladies will extend to this occasion their kindly efforts of the past.

Naturally, General Pau, head of the French mission to Australia, was appealed to on arrival in Sydney, for a decision on the debated question of tho pronunciation of the name of the French Generalissimo, Foch. Instantly and decisively he replied “Fosche!” And now (says the “Telegarph”) there will bo nobody rash enough to question the decision of the general so high in the confidence of Foch, or impolite enough to disagree with our guesh

According to a cable received yesterday Bulgarian units have made their appearance as a fighting force on the Western front.

The highest priced calf in the world is a seven-months-old Holstein bull, Champion Sylvia Johanna, which was sold at Milwaukee, U.S.A., for £22,000

At yesterday’s meeting of shareholders in the Taihape Freezing Company, the chairman, Mr. D. S. Gordon, congratulated Mr. Smith, of Papakai Road, of homing greater interest per acre in the Company than any other shareholder.

A grand popular concert will be given in the Taihape Town Hall on Friday, September 27th in aid of the Red Cross Trail Fund. Mrs. Plummer and Mr.- De Latour are the organisers, which is a sufficient guarantee of the excellence of the programme.

The Lincolnshire Agricultural Society’s prize for the labourer who has brought up and placed out the greatest number of children has been won by Henry Newton, of ,Rowston, whose record is 18 children born and 18 placed out at w r ork.

Mr C. H. Poole, member for Auckland West in the New Zealand House of Representatives addressing the Rotary Club, in Canada, ,on reconstruction problems, pleaded for greater consideration for returned soldiers and sailors. They were especially entitled to asist in building up the lands they defended with their lives.

On account of official obliteration marks on the black 1-J stamp not being always readily discernible, particularly at night, the Acting Post-master-General (Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald) has sanctioned a change in the colour of that stamp to chestnut brown. The first issue of the new stamp has already been made. Philatelists will no doubt be interested in the change.

The list of those soldiers in the 40th Reinforcements who died on the transport from the influenza epidemic en route to England has been published. Among the number who died were Private W. J. Hoddle, whose relatives live in Raetihi, and W. A. White who was, we believe, for some, time employed on the local railway : station, and whose wife is at present living in Sydenham.

Here is an extract from the latest speech made by our Defence Minister: “1 hope that within the next few months we shall teach the Germans a lesson by way of reprisals that they will never forget. If they enter on barbarities and force us to adopt reprisals it is not because we have to do so far our own safety. When we enter upon such a course —forced upon ns by their action —I hope we will do it thoroughly, and let them know that if they practise such barbarities we will takq reprisals, and give them a dose of their own medicine —a double dose.”