LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 5 March 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The committee of the social given to Mr Hunt wish to thank Mrs Treadwell for the use of the piano. The following vessels will be within range of wireless to-night. Maori, Mararoa, Monowai, Pateena, Riverina, Zealandia, Essex, and Port Harding.

The Southland News states that crops have made a remarkable growth during the past few weeks, and farmers arc assured of a better promise of winter feed all round.

The construction, of a tunnel 2 miles S chains long will be necessitated in the course of the development of the Mangahao hydro-electric scheme for supplying Wellington, appears to be a formidable undertaking, hut, according to Mr Parry, it will not be so. He states that it will be possible to work from numerous facesi which greatly lessen the magnitude of the work, besides making for speed.

At the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, George Baker, auctioneer, was fined £3, and Abraham Josephs and Orestes Tcrrini &1 each for shoking on premises where foodstuffs were sold by auction.

A Masterton soldier, writing to his mother, states that the section of New Zealand mounted troops to which ho is attached in Palestine have had

all leave stopped, as it is thought they would be required in Eussia.

We notice from the results of the examinations, held at Marton in January last, the names of two Taihape boys, Bernard Daws and Joseph. MeAuliffc, both of whom were successful in passing very creditably their "Intermediate.” Both boys are students of the Sacred Heart College, at Auckland.

T|he largest consignment of wool taken from Wanganui in one bottom will be lifted early by the overseas aftcqnicr Parnwortlf She will jtakc 16,000 bales of wool, this quantity being distributed among freezing coiiipanies and brokers. At an average of £23 per bale, this consignment will bo worth £368,000. Another large consignment of frozen meat has just been lifted from Wanganui by the Matatua. She took 25,000 freight carcases as well as a quantity of tallow, pelts, casein, and preserved meats.

The wanton vandalism and destruction that have become one of Rotorua J s greatest pests need a salutary check, says the Rotorua paper. There is hardly a week that does not record some act of mischief. This is particularly the case on the water front, where boats are damaged, oars stolen and destroyed, and other acts perpe trated that load one to suppose that they are the work of an organised band. The latest act of mischief is to tear oft’ and destroy the covers of the setamer Hamurana’s engines and commit other depredations.

Some wonderfully startling" telegraphic messages are received from the Taihape Telegraphic Office at times. To-day a message came torhand which we are not quite sure about, whether it should he taken as a premonition of disaster or of rejoicing. Mr Lloyd George is made to say at a Welsh dinner that the position of little nations at the Paris Conference was an outstanding feature, but It was necessary to caution them of this dinner. It is not stated ,or inferred what the Paris Conference little nations have, to do with a Welsh dinner, but this is the stuff newspaper have to pay some £2OO a year for.

On Monday night the local Post Office staff and the many friends of Mr V. Hunt tendered him a farewell social and dance, about 40 couples being present. Mr Hunt has been transferred to Hastings, and will be misseo by_ the sporting community, as he is a keen footballer and athlete, as well as an efficient officer. During the evening the postmaster, on behalf of the Post Office staff and Mr Hunt’s friends, in a pleasing speech, presented Mr Hunt with a silver cigarette holder and cigarette case. Mr Hunt suitably rplied. Dancing was carried on til midnight, the music being supplied by Miss Cunnold, Miss Bray,ana Messrs Upchurch, Hamilton, and Gwilliam.

A somewhat seasational escape from custody was made at Painters ton North by a youthful prisoner a few days ago. The lad, win had been sentenced at Auckland to serve a term iat the Weraroa Training Farm,' was being escorted by! a (constable from the railway station to the local police station, and just as the constable was leading him into the station gates the lad, who had evidently been watching his chance, suddenly bolted. He ran along Church street at full speed, and, sighting a bicycle standing against a fence, mounted it and rode off towards the outskirts of the borough. In Boundary road he discarded the cycle for a horse, and when last seen was riding in the direction of Feilding. Up to Thursday morning nothing further (had been heard of the lad’s whereabouts.

During a lecture at Invercargill the other night (states the “Southland News") the Hon. William Earnshaw threw an interesting sidelight on that ajspoct of Parliamentary life which is mentioned by the “unco guid” with a knowing nod and a rueful smile. “In Bellamy's,” he stated, “cither whisky or tea may be pro* cured, and I venture to assert that far cveh’y glasfe of whisky drank there are 50 cups of tea consumed* One man used to say to another, ‘Come and have a glass of whisky,’ now he says,‘Come and have a cup of tea.” It was an absolute lie, he declared, to say that members of the (House were drunkards, for. though some took more liquor than was good for them, he thought that the average- politician drank le*=s than 4he average citiV.en in bther walks bf lifc.- i -( Applause.)

Coloured ankle Stockings in nil shades, 5/6 and 7/11 per pair.—Collinson and Gifford. Ldt.

At the annual conference of the Fire Brigades’ Association in Invertion) the Wellington Municipal Brigade was expelled for altering the association’s medals.

A suit case, marked C. B. Walker, lost on the Taihape railway station platform on sth February last, is advertised for and a substantial rewrrd offered.

A monument to the memory of Nurse Cavil was erected in Brussels within thirteen days of the Germans leaving the city. The base of it, indeed, was laid the day after they went.

The Customs revenute and beer duty received at Wellington during the past month totalled £119,415 7s lOd and £2763 14s 9d respectively, as against £B4, 275 8s lOd and £2333 8s in February of last year. There has been an increase in the beer duty since February, 1918.

The Minister for Defence, {Sir James Allen, be,on advised/ /by cable, in response to an inquiry, that the strength of the New Zealand Forces in Egypt on January Ist was 142 officers ta-nd 3110 other ranks, making a total of 3258.

The Hon. Ar thur Myers, Minister for Customs, stated recently that the amoun of Customs revenue collected throughout the poininkm (for the month of February was £366,789, and the excisjf fccer jfluty £24>|721. The figures for the month, of February, 718, were £257,115 and £19.014 respectively.

Something in the nature of a- record for low prices for sheep was established at the Tinwald yards (between Christchurch and Ashburton last week. One line of over 50 old merino owes realised only 4s 6d per head, and a second pen, comprising about 40 of a similar breed, brought Is 9d each.

Mr A. Duncan, the local Chautauqua secretary, has received a telegram from Mr A. Varney, secretary .to the Wellington Chautauqua com-mittee,.-and who is secretary to the Wellington Y.M.C.A., to the , effect that Sir James Allen, Acting Prime Minister, opened tho, Wellington Chautauqua to crowded houses. The (Ap olios arel a -wonderful Idompany, and Dr. Johnson and the New’ Zealand artists pleased . mightily. Everything we have had; is l good, and the committee is pleasedi and more than satised.

At the Eltham facory where veils are made from lambs’ stomachs there are now about 40,000 going through the drying process. As the season for slaughtering lambs is nearing its close the factory will shortly close down. It is only the Stomachs of young lambs living on a milk diet that are of use for making veils. After drying the stomachs are torn into shreds machinery and by boiling converted into a kind of pulp or jelly. This material takes the place of calves’ rennet, and local users claim that they have had particularly good results from it.