LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 2 January 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Big savings on haberdashery. See front page advertisement—Collinson and Gifford, Ltd

The number of deaths registered at Wanganui as arising from the influenza or its complications during November and December total 104.

In another column Mr and Mrs J. Rush thank their many Taihape friends for valuable assistance and kind sympathy in their late trouble and bereavement during the epidemic.

A fire early on Wednesday morning partially destroyed the Premier Picture Theatre at Nhw Brighton. The operation box, including . two projectors, and a quantity of film, were destroyed, and the damage is estimated .at £(>000 Insurance on the building and plant is £2300 in the South British office.

Owing to largely increasing busi ness it has been decided to open :

permanent branch of the Public Trust Office in Taihape early in the Now Year. The first manager is to bo Mr George. Eliffe, who has to his credit a lengthy experience in Public Trust Office business.

English hiardressers have a theory that shaving is one of the industries which will dwindle in post-war days. There are, unhappily, visible proofs to support this view, for discharged soldiers who grow beards and whiskers to hide disfigured scars are steadily increasing in number. To keep them in countenance—an appropriate phrase kindly folk will follow their example, think the hairdressers, and thus an old fashion will be revived.

It was remarked by a speaker at a recent meeting of business men in Melbourne that Dr. Siegfried, of the French Mission, had been much amused when he was told that officials who, before the war, had boon getting £3OO a year had been given charge of new boards or departments at from £IOOO to £ISOO a year. In France the position had been reversed. A man who before the war had earned £3OOO a year had been put into uniform and given control of a department at £330.

London papers feature the arrest of the first Hun murderer to be taken. General von Tesny is now imprisoned in Metz." Belgian officials reporting his atrocities say that 111 persons were publicly shot by his orders at Aclon, and that Ettio and Rossignol were virtually burned to the ground. Three hundred of the residents of these places were shot and 500 untraced. The commission suggests that their systematic destruction may have been ordered by the generals superiors.

Major Beith, better known as ‘Tan Hay,” told some excellent stories in an address at the Overseas Club in England recently. One of the anecdotes was that of a London motCr ’bus crowded with “Tommies” entering Lille in he'early days of the war on their way to Mons. The British soldiers were always so cheerful that the French were prepared for anything. They saw on the side of the ’bus the theatre advertisement, “Potash and Perlmutter,” which ,owing to the general hurry, had not been removed. The French forthwith threw their caps in the air and shouted “Vive la General Potash,” “Vive le General Perlmutter.”

A parcel lost in Taihape, on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, is advertised for and a reward offered. Of special interest to ladies: Millinery discount week at Collinson and Gifford, Ltd. A transport containing about 1000 men will arrive in New Zealand shortly. Among those returning are: J. R. Champion, Taihape; W. Darrah, Taihape; N. Dempsey, Kaitieke; Sergeant Hamill, Taihape; P. H. Stearne, Rangataua; T. Tehuatahi, Raetihi; and L.-Corp. A. Taylor, Utiku. That most popular fixture, the Pukcokahu Annual Picnic, will be held as usual on Anniversary Day, January 22nd. There is no more popular outing in the district, as the large attendance from Taihape and the surrounding district proves. Everything is free and everybody is cordially invited to bo present.