LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 18 November 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The concrete ship Faith arrived safely at a Gulf port recently. She carried 2,000,000 feet of lumber from California to Chili and 4000 tons'of nitrate from Chili to the United States.

Owing to influenza, the Postmaster notifies the Taihape letter-carrier’s delivery is suspended indefinitely. Letter correspondence may be claimed at the Post Office counter.

The Secretary of the Wanganui Education Board notifies that, owing to influenza, the Department has postponed the Public Service Entranre, Scholarships, Intermediate, and Free Place examinations.

The Moderator of the Presbyterian Church advises that the General Assembly and the annual meeting of The Presbyterian 'Women's Missionary Union which were to have been held at Christchurch next week have now been pystponed until the New Year.

The Pacific Cable Board notifies all United Kingdom and European traffic except Government messages to be diverted to the Eastern until further notice. Canadian and American traffic accepted, but possibly subject to considerable delay.

The Town Clerk notifies that, owing to the prevailing epidemic upsetting business the usual regulation for payment of electric light accounts will not be enforced in the present mouth, that all November accounts will be subject to the usual discount if paid by 20th December.

The fragrant weed is undoubtedly much more popular since the outbreak of the present epidemic. Whether or not tobacco is a preventive from infection may be open to doubt, but faith is .a great factor in all physic, therefore the man who complacently sucks his pipe and feels he is immune from infection is well on the way to bo saved. One thing is certain, smoking is permitted now in many offices where formerly it was barred, and the ladies seem to have a predilection for the cad of the tramcar that is used by smokers.- —Auckland Star.

Captain Hall-Thompson. accompanied by Petty Officer West (of the Philomel) on Wednesday afternoon exploded the German mine found at Wairongomai (Otaki) last week .The spectacle was witnessed by a largo number of people. The explosion was heard several miles off, and at Otaki, a distance of four to five miles, houses fairly shook •and windows rattled. Mr J. A. Knocks carefully made measurements of the hole made by the explosion, and found the circumference was no less than 84 feet, the diameter 23 feet, and the depth 15 feet. Fragments of the casing of the mine were hurled about 800 yards. There was an eager rush for fragments, which will servo as mementoes.

The following is a good method of fumigating a room:—Take about half a shovelful of glowing wood embers (not coal), place in the middle of the room, and sprinkle three or four teaspoonsful of Kerol or Jeycs’ Fluid, or or other good disinfectant over the embers. Dense fumes will arise, filling the room and penetrating all corners. Have all doors and windows stopped, so that every part of the room w r ill be filled with the fumes. Stay in the room and inhale deeply for several minutes. Better still, sleep all night in the fumes; there is no danger of any kind and no 111 effects need be feared. The inhalation fumigates you inside and out, and tends to destroy any germs which may have lodged in the ysstem.

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