LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 16 January 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The usual monthly meeting of i.lie Borough. Council will be hdu to-morrow night.

Two experienced machine shearers will be open for engagement at the beginning of next week. Particulars may be obtained at this office.

It is stated that an invitation is to be extended to Sir John Findlay, K.C., to contest the Masterton seat at the next genera] election. Sir John is at present the representative of Hawke’s Bay,

There will be a practice of the Taihape Municipal Baud in the bandroom this evening at 8 o’clock. A full attendance of members is requested in view of the visit of the band to Pakcokahu on Wednesday next.

The past few days have been delightfully seasonable in their nature and quite a contrast to what we have been expcricncing i There was a large number of country people in town yesterday, and the weather conditions showed Taihape at its best.

Another draft of returning men is to arrive in New Zealand. This draft numbers 208, and contains the names of the following tor this district:, A, R. Moody, Horopito; P. J. Murphy, Mangawcka; J. R. Peacock, Mangaweka; Quarter-master Sergt. Stodart, Taihape; J. Wilkie, Raetihi

A German family lived in an old farmhouse in Berkshire until a year or so ago When they left an English family took the house and found that the ivy had been allowed to grow to such an extent chat it darkened the rooms. It was stripped off, and then there was revealed to view, half-way up the house, a brass plate with a German eagle engraved on it, and the word “Protection” written on it in German. —“Evening News.”

Referring to the “tabloid” newspapers, due to the shortage of whffe paper in the East, the Japan “Times and Mail/’ weekly edition has the following: “The ‘Fourth Estate,’ which has a wide knowledge of the situation', says: ‘lt appears as though these wild eyed devotees of the half-size newspaper are going to have their way after all. More and more arc newspapers of the tabloid form coming'Tnto being. We have condensed soup, condensed news, milks, and in Germany condensed clothes —so why not condensed newspapers?”

A woman to wash and iron one day 1 a), week, also a waitress at good wages, 1 arc advertised for in this issue

His Worship the Mayor (A. L. Arrowsmith, Esq.), arrived last night by the mail train, after spending a holiday iu the south.

Mr. Mabcn, the newly- appointed electrical and waterworks engineer to the Taihape Borough Council, has arrived in Taihape, and yesterday was being shown round the borough works by Mr. G. Dunn, the acting-engineer.

Mails for the United Kingdom, Honolulu, Fiji, Canada, West Indies, Ecuador, British, French and Dutch Gui ana, South America, Continent of Europe will leave by the Makura, Auckland; sailing uncertain

One of the best known estates in North Auckland, the “Kcmuera Estate,” at Ohaoawai, Eas been purchased by the Government for the settlement of returned soldiers. Stock from this estate have boon consistent prize-winners at the metropolitan and Northern shows. In reference to this ia preliminary sale notice appears in. this issue.

A special unreserved auction sale will be held iu the Tui Street mart on Saturday next, when Messrs. Ward and Co. will sell the complete furniture of a house, consisting of bedsteads, mattresses, duchesse pairs, toilet ware, sideboard, dining and kitchen tables,,, liuoleums, lamps, crockery, culinary and garden utensils, etc. A large consignment of assorted fruit will also be submitted.

The capture of a German machinegun at a heavy loss, “only to find it operated by two women '’about 23 years old,” is described by Sergeant 'Hugh L. Irvine, now in France, in a letter to his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Irvine, of Verona, New Jersey, Sergeant Irvine added that the Americans loften Raptured ' 15 year old boys fighting ia, r.hs German tanks, but this was the first time they had encountered women.

One thousand Victoria Crosses have been awarded since the decoration was instituted by Queen Victoria at the time of the Indian Mutiny, when 182 crosses were awarded. In the Crimean War, 111 Victorian Crosses were won; in the South African War 78, in the Zulu War 23, and in the Afghan War 18. Nearly 200 were awarded in the present war up to September, 1916, and the thousandth on the roll was obtained by Driver Dalziel, an Australian. It is calculated that not more than half the recipients of the honour during the. last four years arc now alive.

Charlie Chaplin, according to American newspapers, has taken to himself a 17-year-old bride, one Mildren Harris, a movie star. The' marriage took place on October 23rd at Los Angelos, but the fact was kept secret' until Chaplin had finished his Liberty Loan campaign. Miss Harris was one of the youngest stars with the Vitagraph Company, whore she appeared in the picture “The Pride of the South.” She is now with the Universal Company. Among her recent pictures are “The Whim,” “The Price of a Good Time,” and “The Man Who Dared God.” She is fond of outdoor sports, and is a musician and dancer. It is not announced whether she will continue with the njovics, hut as last spring Chaplin was said to have received 1,000,000 dollars for the year as the result of producing his comedies with his own money, it is expected that he will be able to keep the family pot boiling.