LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 3 October 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of the Taihape Bowling Club will be held in the Pavilion tomorrow night, at 8 o’clock. It is understood that a draft of soldiers .arriving, at Auckland next week, includes the first contingent of Main Body men, on duty furlough, about 45 in number.

“Labour think they could run this country/ ’ said Mr W< J. Mack, at his meeting in Wellington; “but there arc not 20 men in the Labour movement who are fit to run a peanut stall” This is rough, but it is true.

Reports from Trentham and Featherstou Military Camps continue to indicate that the influenza epidemic ,is on the wane. The number of cases admitted to hospital at Trentham is decreasing daily.

An ex-attendant at Porirua Mental Asylum named Hugh Anderson , was yesterday sentenced to a month’s gaoi for assaulting a patient of the institution named James Simpson, who has snice died.

The United States Senate threw out the Bill for conceding to women universal suffrage. Evidently in Amo idea’s fight to make the “world safe for democracy’’.women’s claim are not to be considered.

Orders for dainty, artistic Christmas greeting cards are now being taken at the Taihape Daily Times Printing Office. There are hundreds of samples to choose from, at varying prices. To avoid disappointment orders should be given as early as possible. Name and address printed on all cards.

The Dunedin Presbytery resolved to-day to appoint a deputation to wait on the Acting-Prime Minister and place before him extracts from the Tablet, and to ask whether the Government thinks it necessary to suppress the publication of the Tablet, which had made grave charges against the morality of John Knox.

A telegram receievd from Auckland to-day states that before the Irish concert opened last night the orchestra played a verse of the National Anthem, in which the clergy and audience' joined. Bishop Cleary, who is in charge of the Auckland Diocese, is a broad, liberal-minded Roman Catholic prelate, and having just returned from a visit to Europe, during which time he visited the firing line, knows the true inwardness of the struggle which is being fought by the forces of civilisation against barbarism.

The skating . season opens to-night at the. Three Stars Theatre and a brass band will bo in attendance. Wilfred, the champion boy skater, will give a fancy dress skating , turn. The - sessions will be hold day and nigh.t, particulars of which wdll.be found in another column. A special feature will bo the learners’ session from 6 to 7 nightly. Skating is recognised .as a healthy and invigorating exercise, and all should take up this fascinating sport. The floor a,t the Three Stars is specially, adopted for skating, and a special treat is promised onlookers.

Bishop Clery, last evening, in his address on the war, related how the New Zealand soldier in France is wont to give a fair amount of time to sport. He described how a Maori pioneer 'showed his great', love for stalking a hare by continuing the pursuit amidst groat danger* w-hilc ho(Bishop Cleary) and his friend wore repeatedly'enforced to seek cover. Referring to the habits of rabbits and hares at the front, ho said they were very forlicsome. particularly in No Man’s Land, and repeatedly came right up to the firing line.

The Scarlet Troubadours appeared at the Town Hall last night before a good house. A splendid reception was accorded them, some of the performers having to respond to triple encores. The programme submitted w r as characterised by bright and wiiolesome humour, expounded by artists of no little ability., On the musical side the Troubadours were equal to any and better than most companies that have visited Taihape. The comedy was skilfully woven with musical gems, the whole forming an entertainment that delighted the humorist and satisfied the musical.