LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 30 January 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The transport Oxfordshire, which is bringing back a very large number of returning soldiers* 'is ;now expected to arrive at Auckland at noon on Saturday. There arc on board 1175 of all ranks, and of this total 557 belong to the Auckland district.

A meeting will be held at the Defence Office, Taihape, this evening of returned soldiers, territorials, cadets, volunteers, and veterans, to make arrangements for according a military funeral to the late Private JJ. Baglcy, who was found drowned in the Hautapu River this morning. The funeral is to take place to-morrow, and all those who possibly can should attend thei meeting to-night.

A Wairanapa paper states that the death of Mr William Judd, of Masterton, brings back recollections of the days prior to the establishing of the frozen meat industry. Sheep were then at a discount, and thousands of thorn were boiled down for thier tallow. Prime weathers were sold for 6s to 7s per head, and ewSs for 3s and 4s. Mr Judd was selling legs of mutton in Masterton at from 6d to Is apiece.

[Shortly after tfir' 1 express! from Dunedin to Christchurch passed Studholme Junction on Monday, some employees of the Labour Department discovered the body of a niewly-born infant wrapped in paper. On the arrival of the express at Christchurch the police tmade investigations', but without result. Title body of the child was removed to Waimate, where an inquest will be held. The circumstances suggest that the body was dropped from the train.

Numbers of Jugo-Slavs who have failed to respond to the notices calling upon them to undertake Government work, or who have Ibft the work in different parts of the country, are now being interned at Featherston, Others will be similarly dealt with when located. One Jugo-Slav who had failed to register was discovered recently owing to his desire to undertake privately some reclamation work at Stanley Bay. He has now been ordered to report for railway work at Maungaturotc.

The following vessels will probably be within, wireless range to-night;— Maori, Mararoa, Monowai, Moaua, and Manuka.

A smart youth to learn the butchering business is wanted at the Otaihape Farmers’ Meat and Produce Company’s shop in Station Street.

The mail train last night was half an hour late in reaching Taihape. There were a considerable number of soldiers on board who had returned by the troopship Malta.

Upwards of 220 returned soldiers arc undergoing treatment at Rotorua at present. Of these 133 are at tho King George Hospital, and 70 in the Sanatorium, the remainder being outpatients.

All claims against the estate of the late W. Kinkade as owing on the date of his death are requested to be sent to Messrs. Treadwell, Gordon and Brodie, solicitors, Wangaum, on or before February sth.

A suspected case of meningitis was under observation at Wanganui yesterday, and seventeen contacts have been isolated. The “suspect” is a young woman 22 years of age, who was batching with a number of other girls at Castlccliff.

A rather notorious character named Herbert Metfordi came before Messrs. J. P. ,Aldridge and M. M. Carpenter, Justices of the Peace, at the Taihape Court yesterday, charged with being an incorrigible rogue, and was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment in the Wellington prison.

Pheasants are reported to be very numerous in the country districts in the neighbourhood of Tauranga, and have worked havoc amongst many of the crops of maize, pulling the young plants right out of tho ground for the purpose of getting at the grain. In some instances the pheasants’ depredations have compelled farmers to plant their maize crops three times.

At the conclusion of a case heard at the Ashburton Magistrates Court last week, in which the defendant was charged with offensive behaviour in a railway carriage, the Magistrate remarked that there was far too nfuch drinking going on in trains. Travelling so much he saw for himself the extent to which this undesirable practice was being carried out, and in any cases of this kind that came before him he would make the fines very heavy.

Fireworks in the hands' of an adult may be very dangerous; in the hands of a child there is no question about the matter. The Christchurch 'City Council decided at its last meeting that, the Government, through the Minister for Internal Affairs, should approached with the view of bringing down a regulation to prohibit the sale of fireworks under the same restrictions as apply to the safe of firearms and munitions.

A woman walked into a Newport (Monmouthshire) bank recently, and said she wanted to deposit £IOOO. A taxi-cab was outside, and the woman was assisted to carry the> heavy bags into the bank. All the money was in silver, and not a coin was smaller than a florin. The woman and her husbad had “sat up” on the previous night counting the money, which had been kept in a wash-tub-

A peculiar incident occurred at the Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald’s farm a; Whakawhitirau, Matawhero. When the reaper and binder was at work on one of the experimental wheat areas the driver noticed a hawk’s nest with two young birds in it. The machine was then almost over the nest, and as soon as it had been passed the driver went back. Only one bird, and that fully fledged, could be discovered. A search for the other proved unavailing, and the driver, under the belief that he was mistaken in thinking there were tAvo, resumed his work. On the follOAving day, however, one of the harvest hands in stooking thei sheaves felt something move inside, and the missing bird ayus discovered, having been raised by the elevator and then tied up in the sheaf for fully 24 hours. As the hawk is a pest of the farmer "both birds came to an untimely 'end.

The High Commissioner of New Zealand, Sir Thomas Mackenzie has sent the following letter dated October 25, 1918, to Mr E. Sullivan, of Ohutu: —Dear Sir—Although I havie not been able to personally visit all of our lads who have come over to Loudon hospitals as a result of the recent casualties among the New Zealanders in France, I feel sure you will be pleased to receive ia report concerning your son, 49,748 Jno. Sullivan at present, a patient at the New General Hospital,, "Walton-on-Thames. He has been visited by an officer of my department, who found that he is suffering from bullet wound in left arm and knee, with fracture. He was wounded on August 26th, and is now progessing slowly but favourably. I sincerely trust he will soon be completely "restored to health. Yours very truly, Thomas Mackenzie. JB'e judge and jury land give NAZOL a trial. There can be only one verdict ■—'Absolutely competent to cure colds, influenza, bronchitis and nasal catarrh". 3

Conditions of purchase Of freezing companies ’slipe wool on Imperial Gov eminent account have been gazetted under date 25th January, 1919. There are 29 freezing companies mentioned in the schedule. Wool is placed in three classes, “good;” “medium,” and “inferior.” Prices of good range from IOJd to 242 d.