LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 September 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Women’s’ franchise came into force in New Zealand 25 years ago last Thursday^

The British Red Cross has raised during the four years of the war a sum of £11,000,000.

A very small mail, one bag, dispatched from Wellington on April 23 last for the Civil Post Office Malta, was lost at sea through enemy action.

It is reported that a property in the main street, Hamilton, between Collongwood Street and Garden Place recently changed hands at a figure working out at over £2OO per foot.

An attempt to blow up a machinery plant near Newark U.S.A., was frustrated by the arrest of three men described as Germans. Ono of the prisoners was caught in the igniting a bomb.

Sir Robert Stout (Chief Justice in an address at Carterton said if there was to be any hope for democracy and the future of humanity he war must go on and on until Gcmany was utterly cfeated. Ho emphatically ridiculed the Bolshevik idea of “no indemnity, no annexations, no reparation” which parrot cry was being echoed by some of our own people the so-called pacifists. If this wore to be the adopted principle, then murder, theft rapine and other atrocities were to be condoned and instead of punishing wrongdoing we should shako hands and live amicably with the wrong doers. Those who held these ideas shonld gc to Russia, where they were being so dreadfully put Into action. There was no doubt whatever that part of the German plan was to conquer England as well as France and Eussia, and seize the British colonies. Eeports had actually been made of the mineral and other possibilities of New Zealand.

A young Jersey cow and two heifers, all just upon calving, are offered

for sale by Mr. A. Bennie, Ohutu,

Southland sawmills are now cutting an order of 500,000 ft. of box timber for shipment to the North Island.

To-day is Dominion Day. Only the banks professiohal offices, and the bakers are observing it as a holiday locally.

A meeting of ladies to make arrangements in connection with the forthcoming Returned: Soldiers ’ Ball will be held in the Supper Boom of the Town Hall at 8 olilock this evening. It is to be hoped there will be a good attendance to second the efforts of our returned men to help themselves;

A social and dance is to be held at Bennett’s Siding, in aid of the Red Cross Copper Trail Fund, on next Thursday evening, 26th inst. It is understood this dance is only a preliminary to a much bigger effort, in 'fact merely as a means to collecting a little money wherewith to help in buying materials for the greater event. A splendid evening’s amusement is assured.

Mr Hugh Goldsbury, a member of the well know family in the Wanganui district, handed in his resignation as a teacher, to the Education Board last week. Ho cannot, owing to his conscience, earyr out the Board’s instructions to salute the British flag on the occasion of the school celebrations. Ho wants to give the good old British cheer instead of the military salute. It is just that purely military element that he objects to. He is a member of he Society of Friends. After a lengthy discussion the Board accepted the resign at ion _