LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 21 October 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Entries for the Baby Show, held in connection with the Labour Day Deirion.slnit.ions in aid of the Red Cross Copper Trail, close to-morrow night with Sorgcant-Mkjor Forrest, Box 91.

Applications for the position of working foreman to the Taihapo Borough Council are invited to be in the hands of the Town Clerk by October 31st. Conditions attaching to the position may be obtained on application at the Borough offices.

,We learn from Captain McDonnell, Commander of Group 6, that one month's extension leave is granted all men at present under orders to proceed to camp with January, February and March drafts. This means they proceed to camp a month later than ordered. Any man now under orders to proceed in the November draft will have-his leave extended to the second week in January 1919, provided he applies to the Commander of Group G, Palmerston North, before the 26th October. This applies to "Fit A" mon

•An advertiser wants to purchase a second-hand piano for cash.

Holders of.tickets books in the Copper Trail Art Union are notified that ticket butts must be returned at once. No 'ticket, the butt of which is outatanding will be allowed to participate in the drawing.

There will bo a full-programme rehearsal of the Grand Revue in the Town Hall to-night. All performers are requested to be present. On Wednesday evening there will be a fulldress rehearsal, at which the attendance Of everyone is imperative.

A slight fall of snow took place in Taihape on Saturday afternoon. The fall was much heavier up the line, snow laying to a depth of two or three inehes at Ohakurie, while lat Taurangarere and Hihitahi the ground was covered to a similar depth.

[Ratepayers in the Upper Wangaehu Riding are notified that the General and Special Rates levied by the Wanganui County Council over the late are now payable to the Rangitikei Upper Wangaehu Road Board District Council, High Street, Marton.

Writes a London correspond ;rt: Mr Samuel Gompers, the Labo.ir b-ader of the United States is paying Eaghnd a visit, and adding to the excellent reputation he acquired to his own country. Ho was educat3i at the Jews Free School, Spitalfl?UK London, and has proved himself i very ab'.c, s-:u>e man and a patriot. ,¥e have no Labour leader in England th-it holds any position comparable to his or wields In If his influence.

The naval authorities destroyed the mine which was washed up on the beach near the wreck of the Hydrabad, on Wednesday afternoon. 'The report was distinctly heard in Foxton (says the Herald) and the force of concussion rattled windows and buildings. Many residents mistooTc the explosion for an earthquake. Foxton is distant about eight miles from the spot where the mine was stranded, thus giving some idea of the explosive power of the mine.'

Owing to the omission of a couple of lines in our report of the Borough Council on Saturday, the sense of the report of the Finance, Committee was obscured. The . following is the full text:—"That the Auditor and Controller General be asked for an acknowledgement that the " tag" No. 2 on the Borough balance sheet for 31st March, 1917, was placed thereon in error, and be requested \to remove "tag" No. 3 on the balance, sheet for March, 1918, the Full Court, having

decided that the Department's contention that the loan is illegal is without foundation in law or in fact."

Among the many attractions, and by lo means the least, to be provided in Taihape on Labour Day, will be :-hd dancing events. Already several entries have been received, and judging from present appearances, some very interesting competitions will eventuate In addition to the various competitions, there will be an exhibition of national dancing by Misses Lizzie iand Mollie and Master Frank Reid, of Hunterville, the champions of New Zealand. Entries for the dancing contests will be received by SergeantMa jor Forest up till Saturday next. Any information required will be cheerfully given by Mr Forrest.

A distressing drowning accident occurred at Taruru, Thames, on Friday last. A boy eight years of age, named Wilfred Chas. Collins, and other children got into a dinghy and drifted from the shore. Collins, becoming frightened, left the boat when four chains away, intending to swim for assistance. The rough sea alarmed him, and he returned to the boat Two other boys tried to assist tin into the boat, bit were unab 1 ? i'.i £0 so, and ho fall aw..y innd was drowned. A rescue pactf recovered the 05?fiing boat and its occipintri. a:»i *l" body of the boy Collins was recovered half an hoar later.