LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 31 December 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There will bo no publication of the “Taihape Daily Times” to-mor-row (New Year’s Day.) Since the beginning of the war about 09,000 pensions have been granted in Great Britain to the mothers of unmarried soldiers hilled in action, ( on whom they were previously dependent. During, the last few days a whole family of sharemilkers on the old Te Aroha Road about a mile from Paeroa, including an assistant workman, contracted the influenza epidemic. They were milking about one hundred cows. A cable has been received by the Union Company from Sydney stating that the position' regarding the Moeraki and Manuka, which- have been hold up at Sydney for a considerable time, is altered. There is no hope (the massage says) of crews being obtained until after the holidays.

The programme at the King’s Picture Theatre to-night will start at 8.30 o’clock. A Washington message states that it is officially estimated that 10,000 American soldiers have married French girls since the war began. Carpenters are evidently in strong request in Masterton. One local tradesman has been earning as much as 26/ per day for the last six months. The Pukcokahu Rural Delivery, commencing January I, 1919, will close at Taihape on Tuesday and Thursday at 7.30 a.m. Kaweka Road Rural Deli’ «ry once weekly will close at 7.30 a.m. on Saturday. The Seventh Australian Light Horse and the Canterbury Mounted Rifles, the latter comprising 25 officers and 464 men, have arrived at Chanak from Egypt, as’ the Australian section of the British Division of occupation .at the Dardanelles, The Daily Express states that the secret journal “Libre Belgique,” published in Brussels throughout the war, was the work of two brothers named Jourdain, both of whom died on the eve of the armistice. Several men and women were shot and imprisoned for helping to publish the paper, which was printed on various presses which the Germans wore unable to locate. The Jourdains employed two orderlies attached to Genera] von Bissing’s and General Falkenhausen’s staffs to put copies on the Governor’s desk or in his pockets. There were three mishaps, during the racing at Ellerslie on Saturday, but, fortunately, none of them was of a serious character. In the opening event, the Bowen Handicap, Tinker, the rider of Brown Loch, had his foot badly bruised as a result of being knocked on to the rails. In the Summer Cup, Kilrush, the favourite foil as the field left the straight, his rider, L. Morriss, getting off with a slight shaking; and in the Waitemata Handicap, Master Regal came down by the seven furlong post, K. Smith, who had the mount, sustaining a slight concussion.