LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 24 January 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A girl for the drapery department is requited by Messrs. W. J. White and Sons, Taihapp. Second Lieutenant E. A. Tuke, M.M., of Taihape, is returning to New Zealand by Draft 211, which arrives in Lyttv'ton on Tuesday next. The Wellington Farmers' Meat Co. is considering the question of providing homes for its employees at tlib Waingawa freezing works, near Masterton. Tiro .steamer Wiltshire, with 43 New Zealand officers and 600 men on board arrived at Fremantle last week. The officers 'and men had taken part in the Palestine campaign.

The Anzacs who are are marrying in Britain average 300 a month, an increase of 40 p>er d:nt, since the armistice (stated a cable message to the Sydney Sun last week.) The Australians who have married in Britain now numW.>r 7515.

Representatives of t the New Zealand Moderate League are holding a .vrics of meetings (throughout the North Island, placing the views of the Moderate Party before the electors with reference to the forthcoming lit'ensing referendum. We understand a visit will be paid to Taihape at an earlv date.

All persons having claims against the estate of the late Miss R. O. C. Ncal, of Taihape, are requested to rend'jr the same on trie official form to the agent of the Public Trustee at Taihape on or before Friday, March 28th, 1919. All moneys due to the estate are also to be paid to the same official. An advertisement giving further particulars appears in our advertising columns.

Captain T. E. Y. Seddon, M.P., speaks with groat 'enthusiasm of the splendid work done in America byLord Eeading, who,, he said, was just the right man for the position of British Ambasador at Washington at the time. Captain Seddon hoard Lord Eeading speak at a banquet tendered to the Ambassador by the New York Bar Association. His Lordship made a very fine impression upon the New York lawyers.

An alarming story that has been published by a eon temporary regarding an alleged outbreak of influenza on board a transport conveying the Forty-First Reinforcements. is not supported in any respee-t by official information (says the Dominion.) Tho Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Mounted Reinforcements left together, and there is no evident) that mi outbreak of influenza occurred on their transport. Letters that have been received from soldiers who worb aboard the boat make no mention of such an outbreak.

1 Latest additions to . tl|j Telephone Exchange are: F. Smith (Ford Garage) No. 208; A. R. Munro (private residence) No. 123. Messrs. Ward and Co. will hold a j sale at their Tui Street mart to-mor- j mor afternoon, when a quantity of cor- j rugated iron, spouting, etc., j and a quantity of household furniture, j farm and garden produce, fruit, and j sundries will be auctioned. A Hawera business man states that domestic glas, that is, tumblers and other like articles, are still hardening in price, thfe latest advices showing an increase in quotations. It will be of interest to know that the British manufacturers 'of glassware give a preference to business houses in Australasia of 25 per cent, as a set-off against the high--.. freights ruling. America also pays anoife for this class of goods than Australasia. The ' generally opinion that the price of British drapery and clothing manufactures will fall rapidly is not borne out by recent advices from London. One of thfe principal firms in Canterbury a cablegram this week from its London house reporting an increase of 100 per cent on tickings, and a further cable message staged:— "Prides all departments continue very firm; no reductions likely many months: linens further advanced."

A youth named William Willis, of Queen Street, Hastings, had a very narrow escape from suddten death on Monday morning.. The boy was driving a horse and cart over the Lyndon Eoad crossing when thte horse was struck by the engine of the Wellington mail train, which was running late. The engine broke til's horse's shoulder and carried It and thb conveyance across th'e road to the clattfe-stop, where the boy was thrown out and the animal left helpless. They boy, who was suffering from shock and from a blow on the head, was taken to a hospital, where his condition is stated to be improved. - '.'"•/>-•"■

A 'scheme for the whole of th'o Dominion in connection with the Peace cerebrations is now under the consideration of the Cabinet. Thj) Minister for Internal Affairs (the Hon. G. W. Eussell) statfed that the Government has already informed all local governing bodies that they will have to arrange for celebrations in accordance with their Own views as to the most effective means of impressing the greatness of . the event on the minds ,of the rising generation; but while doing this, thb Government proposes to formulate a series ef suggestions which will be forwarded to local authorities for their consideration Tba rm'rr/osa ite to ensure that as far as practicable a uniform scheme will be carried out.

Tire officers of the Moana, which arrived at Wellington from San Francisco, state that when the vessel arrived at the Californian port th'ei& had been an almost complete 'abatement of thto influenza epidemic. During the vessel's six days' stay at fchajt port, 'how'eve*, fchore Was a fresh outbreak, and many new cases were reported. The compulsory wearing of masks in the streets had Ween discontinued when the Moana was theite and business was back to normal. Every effort was being made to suppress the ntow outbreak. When the Moana was en route to San Francisco she called at Papeete. The epidemic had b.xm raging at the Tahitian port for ten days, during which GOO deaths had occurred there. On the return trip the (epidemic was found to have abated, but a few sporadic eases were being treated.