LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 2 November 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A man to asist on farm is offered fifty shillings a week and found. The Telegraph Department advises: "Resume acceptance of full rate and deferred messaes for the United Kingdom via Eastern." "My husband gave, me a week's notice and left me'' said a witness at Willesdeh Police Court (London). The magistrate: "He cannot treat you like a furnished roam.. ,, At Auckland on Tuesday a returned soldier who had violently assaulted a clergyman because he "thought he was Howard Elliott" and had incapacitated a policeman with a beer bottle, was awarded six weeks' imprisonment.

A fine record for war service is held toy the Wanganui East (workshops) section of the local Ambulance Division Out of a strength of sixteen ten had joined the colours and of that number five had made the supreme sacrifice.

The Waikato Times states that holders of rural delivery mail boxes are

meeting with much inconvenience during the bird nest-biulding season. Starlings especially claim jjrior rights over mail matter and often incontinently bundle out letters, etc., on to the roadway.

One of the applicants for the position of working foreman for the Borough Council evidently attaches sffme importance to the pulling power of his personal appearance, as with his testimonials he enclosed a photo of himself. Cr Joblin displayed a cursory interest in the picture, but tTio! not profess to be a physiognomist.

An interesting question which Mr. G. Witty (Riccarton) has given notice to ask the Defence Minister is: "Whether the Defence Commissioner's report contained a clause adversely criticising the services of the Chief of the General Staff; and, if so, by whom or whose authority was the clause or clauses excised from the report?" ~MI Witty'.might go further than this and ask' how much of the original report was omitted from publication.

On Thursday morning a young man named Arthur Parnell lost his life while fording a river a few miles from Raetihi. He was in company with another man, who succeeded in effecting a landing, but Parnell was washed downstream. This ford is only a short distance from where Mr Barton, formerly Clerk of the Court at Auckland and Wanganui, lost his life about 12 months ago. Parnell was employed along with his father managing a property of 6000 acres for Mr. E. Beckett.