LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 13 February 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A lost gold watch and chain is advertised for. A reward will be given on returning to Mr. A. L. Arrowsmith.

A meeting of those interested in the Chautauqua system will be held in the Town Hall supper room to-morrow night.

It is stated that Mr. William McIntyre, of Millcrton, will contest the Buller seat at the next general election in the Labour interests.

The insurances on Mr. Kirkpatrick’s furniture which was destroyed in the fire on Tuesday morning were £IOO on the furniture and £7O on the piano, not £3OO and £lO5 respectively, as stated in our report. The insurances were in the British Dominions’ Office, for which Messrs. F. Ward and Co. are the district agents.

The Times reminds the small nations who are impatiently emphasising their claims, that the Great Powers crushed ithc oppressor, (and freed them, and that they will naturally direct the conference’s proceedings. These Powers have the largest stake, and will bear the heaviest yvar burdens, The small nations are well represented at the plenary sessions, and will receive full consideration and surety under the League of Nations scheme.

"Only those are fit to live w r ho do not fear to die,” wrote Colonel Roosevelt in the ‘Metropolitan Magazine’ for October, ‘Sand none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life hnd death are parts of tho same great adventure Never yet was worthy adventure worthily carried through by the man who put his personal safety first. Never yet was a country worth living in unless its sons and daughters were of that stern stuff which bade them die for it at need.” .

It is not generally known that Hindcnburg’s wife is \ the gila/nd-i daughter of a Russian Prince, Through her he is the proprietor of an estate on the banks of the Volga. When war broke out the Tsar placed the house and grounds under sequestration but Lonin, who is hand in glove with the Field-Marshal, has restored it to him.

By returning drafts Nos. 213 and 211 about 1100 men will arrive in the Dominion on February 19 and 20. Among those coming home appear the names of W. Brough, Ohakune; S. J. Hanning, Owhango; D. C. Lyttle, Ohakunc; D. S. Livingstone, Taihape; E. A. Oliver, Taihape; H. Pritchard, Mangaweka; Corporal H. J. Reid, Taihape; F. Wallis, Taihape; and J. A. Hex’d, Ohakunc,

For years before the war the Church Army in England conducted a Rest Club for barmaids, with a membership of 5000. This institution has become doubly important since the war, for if one reflects for a moment on© realises the immense importance of such a work. Almost certainly the first place a British soldier makes for when he arrives as a stranger in our cities, is the public-house, for refreshment and fellowship. Very likely the first woman he talks to on landing on our shores is the girl behind) the bar. What a tremendous lot depends on whether-that girl Is a good girl, with a high ideal of life, or a careless pleasure seeker.